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.

Awarded funding by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration Services to implement Partnership for Success Prevention Project. Evidence-based Framework What Works in School will be utilized to deliver the program. In the early stages of the project, more than 350 youths have been positively impacted by the project.