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Improve access to providers
Expand access to non-clinical community health services by integrating community health workers, peer support specialists, peer recovery coaches, and health navigators across healthcare and community settings to address social drivers of health, improve care coordination, strengthen care transitions, reduce barriers to care, and connect individuals and families with resources that support long-term health and well-being.
Through collaboration among healthcare providers, community-based organizations, social service agencies, and public health partners, establish sustainable pathways that improve access to supportive services, advance health equity, increase patient engagement, and ensure individuals receive coordinated, culturally responsive support that meets their health and social needs.
Outcome 1
Increase % of social needs met for community residents and Beacon patients.
Outcome 2 & 3
Decrease hospital readmission rates for vulnerable populations.
Decrease ED visits for vulnerable populations.
Outcome 4
Improvement in maternal and infant health outcomes (high blood pressure, pre eclampsia, maternal mental health) in historically underserved populations.
Community Partners
Community partners within this priority represent a wide range of programming aimed at improving the health of mothers and their children. Below is a list of our current partners with details on the programming they offer.
- Provide League Cycling Instructor training that allows newly trained instructors to teach bicycle safety to all ages, enabling both youth and adults to feel
- The Center for the Homeless Dining Services Program is an essential service we provide for the men, women and children living at the Center.
- La Casa de Amistad strives to find ways to help youth succeed, families develop, and communities strengthen through educational activities and advocacy programs that
- Michiana VegEDU educates the community, specifically at-risk communities, on the health benefits of a plant-based diet through educational lectures, cooking demonstrations, and displays by
- The Healthy Hearts program uses lectures and hands-on activities during six weeks of sessions. The program aims to prevent childhood obesity by empowering students
- Unity Gardens’ Health Over Hunger Youth Program uses food and gardening activities to attract neighborhood children to their garden in South Bend. Each summer,
- The HEAL program aims to decrease chronic diseases in the community by empowering residents of Upper Room Recovery Community to select, prepare, and eat
Beacon Community Impact Programs
In addition to our externally funded community partners, Beacon Community Impact provides the following programming within our Healthy Body Priority:
- ACHIEVE! is an Elementary PE Curriculum for grades K-5 offers a standards-based, sequential approach that emphasizes both skill development and physical fitness. Lessons are
- Dame tu Mano es un programa en Español enfocado en la prevención y detección temprana de enfermedades a través de la educación. Dame tu
- 574.647.2100 or 574.647.2175 Women, Infants and Children programs provides supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding postpartum
