Access To Racial and Cultural Health Institute

Awarded funding by PROCEED, Inc for second year as Core Partner for national COVID-19 community education project PODER en SALUD. ARCH target population was Hispanic youts ages 13 - 30. ARCH reached over 27,000 individuals territory-wide. Developed community capacity building strategies to address low vaccination rate among Hispanic teens ages 15 - 17. ARCH is the only organization in the Virgin Islands conducting targeted COVID-19 prevention and vaccine awareness to Hispanics youths and their families. Created prevention products specifically targeting sub-populations within the Hispanic population. This work was funded by a subgrant from PROCEED, Inc. Elizabeth, NJ supported through 2,300,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control Prevention.