Purpose:

• To develop a network of health experts
• To provide grantees and identified community based organizations the opportunity to increase their skills in the mastery of public health and health education
• To provide education training

Expectations:

Educational training to small groups by experts in field of public health will increase knowledge and awareness to effect change in the target groups attitudes regarding health care issues in minority populations.

Goals:

• Increase knowledge and awareness of health issues impacting racial and ethnic populations among the target audience
• Increase the mastery of public health, health education and skills to organizations, in order that they can provide effective training to targeted groups
• To provide tools to organizations, teams, and groups to enhance their infrastructure in order to services and improve capacity building for addressing minority health
• Increase community awareness about health disparities and the emerging issues of health disparities
• Increase leaderships' knowledge regarding cultural and linguistic competency health services
• Provide research and other critical health care/issues information.