
The YMCA Community Health Strategies team follows the Community Health Worker (CHW) Model. YMCA Community Health Workers are passionate and trusted members of their communities, and serve as a trusted community advocate and frontline grassroots public health liaison who empowers individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through outreach, community education, informal counseling, and social support with a culturally competent lens. The Y model hires, trains, and empowers lay leaders who are a trusted member of and/or has an unusually close understanding of the community served and identifies with the social, economic and health challenges of the community served. This relationship is key to ensuring equity for all aspects of the Community Health Strategies scope of work.
B.I.R.D CAMPAIGN Breaking Inequalities & Racial Disparities
Soaring Above What Holds Us Back DID YOU KNOW?… Join the Village Of Allapattah YMCA as we recognize the Racial and Ethnic Inequalities within Broward County and Miami-Dade County during the month of April. Learn the facts on why minority populations (Black, Latinx, Asian) have historically received disadvantages in health, finances, and life resources. Learn how you can create change for yourself and your family. Learn about programs and resources The Y offers year-round. Enter our B.I.R.D. raffle during the month of April for a chance to win 1 of 3 amazing gift baskets! Visit the Village of Allapattah YMCA Family Center to enter the raffle.
Community Health Strategies Directors
Community Health Strategies Directors oversee and manage CHWs, Program Planning and Community Engagements
• Emilia Solano, District Executive Director
• Kaydean Brown, Associate Executive Director
• Shamile Louis, Director of Health Navigation
• Whitney Wolfgang, Director of Community Health
• Marketa Knight, Healthy Living Director
• Rick Ward, Director of Community Health and Hospital Partnerships
• Allyssa Gonzalez, Membership and Community Outreach Director
• Sandra Delgado, Communications and Reporting Manager
• Sharon Hughes, Family Services Program Director
• Jonai Perry, Community Outreach Program Director
CHW Staff
Staff that deliver services to the communities we serve directly on a one-to-one basis or in a group setting.
• Aysha Abdullah, Community Health Worker
• Angela Bartholomew, Community Health Worker
• Emerode Barthelemy, Community Health Worker
• Victoria Bennett, Community Health Worker
• Mary Brown-Russell, Community Health Worker
• Evelyn Chacin, Community Health Worker
• Orlando De La Mota, Community Health Worker
• Dominique Duval, Community Health Worker
• Deanne Edman, Community Health Worker
• Maria Grady, Community Health Worker
• Evelyn Grooms, Community Health Worker
• Aimee Guzman, Community Health Worker
• Mattie Hanna, Community Health Worker
• Michelle Johnson, Community Health Worker
• Marlene Lewis, Community Health Worker
• Dorothy Mote-Thomas, Community Health Worker
• Ana Lucia Ortega, Community Health Worker
• Aaron Pierre, Community Health Worker
• Salmon Raja, Community Health Worker
• Paola Sarda, Community Health Worker
• Anthony Young, Community Health Worker
CHW TRAININGS
• Motivational Interviewing
• CDSMP/DSMP/MOB
• HIPPA
• Advocacy
• Adult and Child Mental Health FIRST AID
• Racial Equity
• Health Equity
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Ready to gain the knowledge and tools to improve your health? Click here for a full list of upcoming Diabetes Self-Management, Living Healthy and Matter of Balance workshops in English, Spanish and Creole.


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