Welcome to PHMC’s celebration of health centers! In honor of National Health Center week, August 9 to 15, this issue begins by focusing on the impact of PHMC’s network of five health centers that collectively serve communities from Northeast Philadelphia to Chester County, provide broad-based primary care, offer specialized services for Philadelphia’s homeless population and HIV/AIDS patients, co-locate with housing developments, and bring health care to people where they work.

Announcements from PHMC.

National Nursing Centers Consortium will present its 8th annual conference, Nurse-Managed Health Centers: Disruptive Innovations for Comprehensive Caret.

Shawana Mitchell, Environmental Health & Safety Programs coordinator for PHMC affiliate National Nursing Centers Consortium, knew where to go when she learned that her 15-year-old niece was pregnant.

Across from the new Please Touch Museum in West Philadelphia stands one of the city’s only substance abuse treatment facilities that allows women to enroll with their children.

On July 1, Best Nest became PHMC’s newest affiliate.

PHMC’s Forensic Services component encompasses a group of programs designed to put substance users into treatment rather than prison. Programs ranging from DUI Treatment Court and Drug Treatment Court to Domestic Violence Court and Juvenile Treatment Court are helping hundreds of Philadelphians escape the prison cycle. DIRECTIONS sat down with vice president of forensic services Deborah Schlater and director of operations Amy Augustine to learn more about the programs.

As the economy affects more and more people, affordable, accessible health care continues to be one of the foremost topics on consumers’ minds.

School Partnership Offers Academic and Health Resources

Every day, thousands of Philadelphia youth throughout the city can receive academic tutoring, college preparation assistance, healthy snacks and extracurricular activities through Out-of-School Time (OST), a city initiative that offers after-school and summer programs to more than 20,000 Philadelphia youth and their families..

Research & Evaluation for the
Business Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise

Now, more than ever, funders want to see a nonprofit with programs that deliver clear, measurable results. But it can be hard for a nonprofit to decide which outcomes in a program are most relevant and how to improve the capacity to collect, analyze and present outcome data to key stakeholders.

Many parents and children view the beginning of the school year as a fresh start. It also offers a great time to catch up on children’s routine health examinations to ensure they start the new school year on the right foot. PHMC’s Community Health Data Base has fresh data from the 2008 Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) Household Health Survey examining routine childhood screenings.