The Wellness Access and Education program provides individuals and their families with access to health care services and coverage through Family Health Insurance and access to health education through Community Health Promotion. Servicing Santa Clara County and northern San Benito County, our bilingual and bicultural staff are well prepared and positioned to impact the health behaviors and practices of individuals, groups, and community members through the delivery of culturally and literacy-relevant health activities and interventions.

Wellness Access and Education is composed of three parts:

• Family Health Insurance
• Community Health Promotion
• Better Choices, Better Health - Chronic Disease Self Management Program

Family Health Insurance

The Family Health Insurance initiative provides access to health care for uninsured children in Santa Clara County by enrolling them in available no-cost and low-cost insurance programs that comprehensively covers health, dental and vision care. Since 2001, our program has assisted over 30,000 children receive or continue to receive health insurance coverage. By reaching children and their families early, this program is intended to prevent more serious and costly health-related problems from occurring later.  Our Enrollment Specialists are bicultural and bilingual and are trained to be culturally sensitive and proficient.

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Family Health Insurance
1400 Parkmoor Ave., Suite 230
San Jose, CA 95126
Phone: 408.961.9893
Fax: 408.961.9856
Email: FamilyHealthInsurance@healthtrust.org

Community Health Promotion
Through a variety of grass-roots community programming activities, our Health Educators and Lay Health Workers (Promotores) make lasting relationships deep within Santa Clara County's diverse communities. They provide care management, important health education, referral services, and a bridge to the local health care system. Focusing on underserved communities, we work to improve access to, and awareness of, health and wellness education and services.

Promotores de Salud or Lay Health Workers are public health professionals, community leaders, or volunteers who provide a variety of services related to health promotion and education.  These volunteers come from and are a part of the communities in which they serve. As a result, Promotores understand what is important to the community, they communicate in the language of the people they serve, and incorporate culturally competent practices to best serve the community. It's a community action model that empowers individuals to improve the health of their friends, family and neighborhood.

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Community Health Promotion
1400 Parkmoor Ave., Suite 230
San Jose, CA 95126
Phone: 408.961.9858
Fax: 408.961.9869
Email: THTHealthEducation@healthtrust.org

Better Choices, Better Health
Chronic Disease Self Management Program

The Health Trust Chronic Disease Self Management Program (CDSMP) is a six session, peer-taught health education workshop for persons with chronic conditions and diabetes. The goals of the program are to:

• Help individuals take day-to-day responsibility for their care
• Increase skills necessary for individuals to manage their disease and work effectively with their health care professionals

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Chronic Disease Self Management Program
1400 Parkmoor Ave., Suite 230
San Jose, CA 95126
Phone: 408.961.9858
Erika Zuniga
erikaz@healthtrust.org