Center for Community Health Education & Research, Inc.

Volunteer Health Education (VHE)
is a prevention and education model with multi levels of interventions. It serves newcomer adult Haitian immigrants living in the greater Boston and beyond. The goal of this program is to provide theory-based, increasingly intensive, linguistically and culturally specific HIV/AIDS, STD and TB prevention to the Haitian community in order to increase their awareness and hopefully decrease the risk of HIV infection. The program intends also to increase the number of people who know their HIV status and improve the health and well being of people living with, and at risk of, HIV. The program contains several interwoven levels. These levels are: (1) group, (2) community, (3) street outreach, and (4) individual.

Volunteer Health Educator (VHE) training classes is a five-week training program that meets on .
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, from 5:30 to 8:30pm.
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CCHER at 617-265-0628  Ext. 237 or E-mail

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Center for Community Health, Education & Research, Inc.  420 Washington Street  Dorchester, MA  02124  617-265-0628