The Men’s Health Program at Whittier Street Health Center is an innovative and comprehensive outreach, education screening, and referral program designed to link men to primary health care and support services offered by the center.
The objectives of the program are to provide men’s health education to the general population with a particular emphasis on African-American and Latino men by employing a multifaceted approach to community outreach, fostering community organizing among men, conducting a variety of health screening for men, conducting unique outreach and case management services to pre-released male offenders, providing case management, and identifying and enroll uninsured men for health care coverage.
