Health Equity

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ACER's Health Equity work seeks to close the health disparities within our community by addressing the social determinants of health. Through partnerships and engagement with community members, our team aims to address the issues that result in unfairly detrimental health outcomes for BIPOC communities within the Northwestern suburbs.

At ACER, our primary focus is to organize our community to advocate for addressing social determinants of health and reduce health disparities in our community.

The Immigrant Memory Collaborative

The Immigrant Memory Collaborative is a community-university partnership between ACER and researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

This collaborative includes two projects so far: The African Immigrant Memory Loss Project and The African Immigrant Dementia Education Projects (AIDEP). AIDEP project builds on the results of the African Immigrant Memory Loss Project.

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Health On the go

The Health on the Go (HOTG) initiative is an effort to create a better-coordinated ecosystem of public health players to improve access to needed services. The HOTG collaborative consists of Brooklyn Park City, Brooklyn Center City, Hennepin County Public Health, BCCS Health Resource Centre, ACER, COPAL, CAPI, and Siengkane Lao.

Modeled after the successful “Rec on the Go'' program, the crux of the HOTG efforts is to develop mobile clinics where critical healthcare services such as immunization clinics, screening services, youth-specific dental check-ups, dental kits, testing kits, health education, etc are brought to community spaces.

The HOTG initiatives were developed with holistic care in mind, creating a hub for essential resources such as culturally specific food, rental assistance, eviction prevention, transportation assistance (free metro cards), winter supplies, back-to-school supplies, etc.

After the pilot phase of the project, ACER carried out the role of convener and facilitator to develop a Community of Practice to improve the coordination of services among the cities, county, and community organizations while increasing the ability of vulnerable individuals and households to find resources and improve their health outcomes.

For questions or collaboration, contact: asasikumar@acerinc.org.