About Us: Model

Our Model

The key to our success is the dynamic interplay of three strategies:

• Listen: Through community-based, participatory research we discover the needs of our community. We learn about the size and shape of our Latino population and what people feel they need to be well and to succeed.

• Respond: With knowledge gained in the community we develop and evaluate services and share them with other researchers and community providers. We recognize that partnership and cooperation are the keys to improving the health and social well-being of everybody.

• Advocate: Our Latino Policy Institute seeks to eliminate health disparities by changing systems and social conditions that ultimately will be responsible for improving health and well-being.

Alone, each of these strategies is effective. Together they are powerful. Our record of success inspires the trust of our community. That trust – confianza – enables our success.