Welcome to Sound Partners
A Record of Accomplishment in Community Health Care and Media
Sound Partners for Community Health has come to a close after ten years. Though we will not be updating this web site any longer we will continue to make its contents available. There is a wealth of material archived here that will be of use to community health care practitioners and community media makers.
The partnership profiles illustrate the depth and value of the Sound Partners program and the innovativeness of its grantees. Many of the publications, toolkit items, and research article summaries will remain useful, but please note that some links may become out-of-date and will not work.
We will continue to publish our Sound Partners Email Digest every other week. The Digest will contain summaries and links to articles that will interest community media makers and health care practitioners, with an emphasis on immigrant and refugees in the United States.
We plan to launch a new national "New Routes to Community Health" grant program on March 15, 2007 that will expand the Sound Partners model to include all kinds of media making to address the needs of immigrant and refugee populations. We will publish information about this initiative in our Digest, so sign up for our newsletter if you're not a subscriber already!
Local Voicesfeaturing stories, audio and video from our health and media projects across the country.
Featured Partnership:
Listen Up! Challenges for Healthy Living
KGNU, along with the People's Clinic and Spanish-language radio KGRE-AM, aimed to educate and push for change that reduces chronic health problems in low-income families, especially within the Hispanic community. La Vida! Challenges for Healthy Living was a year-long radio series of features and documentaries, real-life radio sagas and call-in programs. Key programs in the series were produced in both English and Spanish and made available for outreach and training on CDs, cassettes, videos, on-line and in print. Outreach demos and training sessions were held in area schools, town halls, support groups and churches.
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