Our Mission
HealthConnect One (HC One), formerly Chicago Health Connection, is a nationally recognized nonprofit training and technical assistance agency that uses innovative, community-based approaches to support direct-service providers in promoting the health of mothers, infants, and families. The organization trains community health workers, develops community-based initiatives, and mobilizes diverse stakeholders to build for policies and programs that improve maternal and child health.
Since 1986, HC One has trained thousands of parents, community health workers and direct service providers to promote breastfeeding, provide pregnancy and birthing support, and prevent infant mortality, with significant documented results. In addition, HC One assists organizations in developing and implementing innovative, research-based initiatives that directly impact health disparities, including breastfeeding peer counselor and community-based doula programs.
Our Approach
Our focus is on collaborative work with grassroots maternal and child health and social service providers. We train community health workers, or lay health promoters, who make a personal commitment to improving the health of their own community. We assist organizations in developing programs that use the power of peer support, incorporating trained community health workers into paid positions in outreach, health education and community health advocacy programs. We also mobilize diverse stakeholders to build for policies and programs that improve maternal and child health in some of the most distressed communities in the country.
By supporting and challenging lay workers to find their own voice and training them to share vital health information with others who have little access to resources, HC One helps community residents to share their skills close to home.
By providing training and technical assistance to frontline community organizations, we help them tap the powerful resources that already exist in their neighborhoods.
Therefore, the work we do helps to transform communities over time.
Office Move
HealthConnect One moved offices on August 31, 2009! We are now located at:
1436 West Randolph Street, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60607
Our new office has on-site training facilities, access to the Green and Pink Line trains and the Ashland bus, and plenty of room to grow. We look forward to greeting you in our new space.
