HERC

Our pro­grams are tai­lored for all ages, reach­ing out to those who have a health prob­lem as well as fam­ily, friends, and inter­ested vol­un­teer interns.  

 HERC incor­po­rates Com­mu­nity First involve­ment. The pro­grams are designed to edu­cate res­i­dents about the envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions influ­enc­ing their health.

Asthma Pro­grams

Breath­ing Counts — An asthma pro­gram pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion, edu­ca­tion, train­ing and refer­rals per­ti­nent to asthma man­age­ment. »>

School Based Project - Teach­ing asthma man­age­ment to chil­dren who have been diag­nosed with asthma or have asthma-like symp­toms. »>

Open Air­ways Curriculum

Adult work­shops asthma man­age­ment for asth­mat­ics & par­ents of asth­mat­ics »>

Children’s Asthma Day Camp »>

Home Assess­ments »> 

And HERC does more…

The Well­ness Cen­ter & The Food Pantry @ Alice Griffith

The Well­ness Cen­ter is about your whole health and being.

Reduce stress, relieve pain, boost your immune sys­tem, tai chi & qi gong, nutri­tion & healthy cook­ing, acupunc­ture, herbal med­i­cine.  »>

Resource Cen­ter Tours

The Cen­ter is stocked with lit­er­a­ture, books, inter­net access.

The chil­dren can get infor­ma­tion & edu­ca­tion on asthma management.

Avail­able with advance notice »>

 Women’s Health

HERC pro­motes aware­ness of breast can­cer (all work done vol­un­tar­ily) and addresses other women’s issues through its women’s empow­er­ment sup­port group and spon­sor­ship of the annual African Amer­i­can Breast Can­cer Conference.

Pre­sen­ta­tions

Pre­sen­ta­tions are made to com­mu­nity orga­ni­za­tions, local busi­ness branches, col­leges, schools,and church groups on asthma, breast and cer­vi­cal, can­cer. »>

Com­mu­nity Meet­ings at the Resource Center

The Resource Cen­ter is avail­able for com­mu­nity groups on health issues .
The Cen­ter holds about twenty peo­ple. Five days’ notice is required to use the Resource Cen­ter. »>