Dupage Health Coalition believes access to affordable health care is an essential human need, allowing everyone in our community to be healthy enough to work, care for their families and live life with a little less worry.The Development and Communications VISTA will increase capacity by creating culturally sensitive strategies to support funders, clients, and advocates; Focusing on developing sustainable approaches that can be adopted by DHC staff at the end of service all outputs will help alleviate damaging consequences of poverty and aid DHC efforts to reduce health insecurity of low- income DuPage County residents. All efforts will be grounded in best practice research and data analysis, garnering additional resources that both support and enhance current procedures; Ultimately increasing community driven fundraising that supports DHC’s mission to open doors to high-quality, affordable healthcare for our low income neighbors. Activities will expand community knowledge and increase the scale, reach, and effectiveness of DHC’s communications strategies thus increasing health security for low-income DuPage residents which otherwise puts everyone at risk as lack of high-quality affordable healthcare can both trap people in systemic poverty and risk lives that could otherwise be saved.

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