Program areas at Asian American Center of Frederick
Health literacy and access to health services - aacf improves the lives of Frederick county's residents, especially immigrants and minorities, by improving access to healthcare services, resources, and information through its diverse and multi-lingual team of certified community health workers. By doing so, aacf brings equity and positively impacts social determinants of health (non-medical factors that influence health outcomes) for underrepresented communities, improving their overall quality of Life.
Workforce development - aacf is an accredited community health worker (chw) training and apprenticeship Center in the state of Maryland. Chws are frontline public health workers with a strong understanding of the communities they serve. By creating this diverse and multilingual workforce, aacf provides opportunities for the immigrant and minority residents to make positive changes in socioeconomic inequities of their communities, while increasing culturally and linguistically competent public health workforce.
Family support services - aacf offers comprehensive, family centered, community-based preventive programs for parents, caregivers and their children, ages birth to four. Through family support services, aacf promotes the full development and wellbeing of children, enhances the quality of parent and child interactions, and serves as the link to services for overall parent and family self-sufficiency and sustainability.
Language resource and community health services - aacf provides interpretation and community health worker services to local businesses that are looking to improve customer satisfaction and to extend their services to foreign born and limited english proficiency clientele.