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The purpose of New Routes to Community Health is to improve the health of new US immigrants and refugees using locally-focused media. This national program supports 8 local partnerships made up of immigrant organizations, media production centers, and established community institutions. Working together, New Routes grantees will make radio shows, produce videos, publish newsletters and Web-based media, creating content that gives voice to immigrants, enabling them to exchange valuable information with one another and with their receiving communities.
The New Routes National Program Office (NPO) is a virtual office with members in the D.C. area, Madison, Wisconsin, and California. Our sole function is to help each local program succeed, through national training conferences, grantee site visits and on-going communication via phone, e-mail and the New Routes Web site. The Web site also acts as a hub for information exchange, connecting New Routes grantees to others who are doing similar work.
We welcome the participation of like-minded individuals and organizations. Please register and become part of our online community. If you have a suggestion for making the project better, please let us know.
Colleagues from MasComm Associates and the Benton Foundation make up the NPO. New Routes is funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) through its Vulnerable Populations portfolio. RWJF supports promising new ideas that address health and health care problems that intersect with social factors, like poverty, race, education, and housing. Locally focused media—particularly as informed and used by new immigrants—has emerged at the forefront of these promising practices.
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Our work in the New Routes national program office is to help our grantees improve the health of immigrants in their communities, using media as the tool to do it. Read More
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