We envision a healthy, resilient and empowered community where people are connected and build up each other.
We engage with individual’s families and like minded organization/institutions to deliver comprehensive health services and programs that enhance on all round and empowered healthy communities.
Urban art for Hope has adopted a system, socio-economic empowerment for healthier and socio-economically empowered communities. All our staff work through our inter-disciplinary teams to address the Socio-Economic determinant’s of health of our target populations.
UAFH values inform how we win our programs, interact with our target population and work together. Here is a list of the values that guide us :-
• We believe that health is a resource for energy life and not just the absence of illness.
• We believe that the health of our target population is determined by peace, Shelter, Education, Income, Food, Environment, social Justice, Equity & and Access to Meaningful Health Care Services.
• We believe that in order to reach a state of complete physical, mental & Social well-being we all must be given the chance to realize our dreams meet our needs and cope up with the change of our target populations environment.
• We believe that health promotion takes place at the individual & community levels and we endeavors to work with those to acknowledge and to increase their health and the health of their community.
• We believe that the health of the community is maximized through partnerships with individuals, communities and like minded institutions, which combines their skills, knowledge and overall life experience/expertise/input.
• We believe that our programs and services should be responsive in meeting the needs of our target population.
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over & improve their health. To reach a state of complete physical mental & social wellbeing, an individual or must be able to identify of realize aspirations to satisfy needs and change on cope with the environment. Health is therefore see as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health a positive concept emphasizing social & personal resources as well as physical capabilities. There health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy lifestyle to wellbeing.
The fundamental conditions and resources for health are peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice & equity. Improvement these basic prerequisites.
Good health is a major resource for social, economic and personal development &an important dimension of quality of life. Political, economic, social, cultural, environment, behavioral & biological factors can all favor health or be harmful to it.
Health promotional action aims at a marking these conditions favorable through advocacy for health.
Health promotion focuses on achieving equity in health. Health promotion action aims at reducing differences in current health status & ensuring equal opportunities resources to enable all people to achieve their fullest health potential. This included a secure foundation in a supportive environment, access to information, life skills & opportunities for making healthy choices. People cannot achieve their fullest health potential unless they are able to take control of those things which determine their health. This must apply equally on all genders.
The prerequisite s & respected for health cannot be ensure by the health sector alone. More important, health promotion demands coordinated action by all the like minded parties involve: by government, by health & other social economic sectors, by nongovernmental and voluntary organization, by local authorities, by industry and by the media. All round life individuals, families and communities are involved. Professional and social groups and health personnel the major responsibilities to mediate between differing interests in the society for the pursuit of health.
Health promotion strategies and programs should be adapted to the local needs and possibilities of individual’s counties and regions to take into account differing social, cultural and economic systems.
As urban at for Hope the values and principles that white us are:-
We commit to continuous improvement in the quality of services and programs with all efforts oriented to meet the specific needs of our target population being served.
We design services and programs to reduce health disparities and inequalities.
We also advocate for healthier public policy and against unfair practices that harm people health.
We partner with community members to build safe and caring communities where everyone in our target population feels a sense of belonging.
Urban at for Hope strive to improve the wellbeing and health of our target population within our catchment area.
We analyze the needs of our diverse population groups and develop action plan to handle them.
We work with community members to develop solutions that support healthy living that’s through civic engagement campaigns that enable the community members to actively participate in public policy decision making, affordable housing and community income generating projects i.e in line to the SDG of the UN.
Driven and Based on determinants of health. For instance, in serving people facing SOCIO-Economic challenges. We provide additional support like transit tickets to the various health facilities in getting health appointments, counseling on how to secure employment on access to additional social services and peer support groups. We also advocate for healthier public policies that enable our target population to access a healthy environment and afford other basic necessities of life.
Our professional teams comprise of members in interprosessional terms extending beyond clinical providers to include health promotes social workers, outreach and community development workers. The respective teams collaborate with a wide range of primary code providers as well as other parts of the health and social service system.
Urban Art for Hope recognizes many populations and well- being.as such we ensure our staff undergo capacity building on issues of anti-oppression and culturally safe practices.
Our priority is in providing appropriate access to everyone, no matter who they are or where they live. Accessibility requires breaking down all social, cultural, linguistics, physical, social, economic, legal and geographic barriers that prevent people from accessing health services. On the other hand community governance also ensures we are accountable to the communities and their founders. In addition we develop and apply reporting indicators so founders can track their performance with respect to effectiveness and efficiency.
Through wide range of engagement processes, we constantly reorient services to meet communities changing needs. This approach is strengthening by another defining feature of the model, community governance. Community members set the strategic direction of the organization serving them.
Offered in partnership with private health facilities, and government health facilities which provides birth control counseling, Sexually, Transmitted Infections (STI) testing, pregnancy counseling and referrals.
The facilities are offered weekly at each of our 3 locations: –
Partnering government and private Health Facilities
Walk-ins and same day appointments available
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