Multipliers Training Health Promoters

As part of our mission of promoting and implementing individual and collective development, Centro San Bonifacio continues offering the tools needed for a better life through trainings and group presentations focused on consciousness and health. Having served the immigrant community of West Town, Logan Square, Humboldt Park and Hermosa for the last 17 years, our work is now reaching the Belmont and Cragin neighborhood as well.

In 2008 the Multipliers Program offered a total of four Health Promoter courses. Two were taught in our local neighborhood – one at Pulaski School and the other here at CSB. Reflecting the growing need and demand for this kind of training, two additional courses were offered in other parts of Chicagoland this year as well.
In June a course was given at Casa Michoacan in Pilsen, focusing on the prevention of prostate cancer and on HIV. Sponsored by local civic clubs of Michoacán, Zacatecas and Jalisco, nineteen community members completed this course and received certificates.

Another course, sponsored by West Alliance, was offered in West Chicago. Nine participants completed this course and received certificates. Another Health Promoter Training was completed at the North Shore Health Center in Highland Park as well, an area where both the Hispanic population and the demand for health information are on the rise.