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SMART Health Harm Reduction Outreach
SMART is excited to be the recipient of a micro-grant from The Harlem Bureau of Neighborhood Health “to protect and promote the East Harlem Community’s rights to realize their full health potential.” Having established ourselves as a reliable and consistent source of health information and education in East Harlem, we are using this grant to launch the SMART Health Harm Reduction Outreach project. Watch Dr. Megha Srivastava’s Intro to Harm Reduction video for an overview of harm reduction as a life-affirming practice, and please visit our SMART Health Harm Reduction page.
SMART is part of the BRAVE Project!
SMART is proud to be part of the Building Resiliency and Vaccine Equity (BRAVE) project, a new Public Health Corp initiative aimed at reducing rates of illness and mortality associated with respiratory infections such as COVID, RSV, and the flu. You can follow our progress here.
SMART Receives NY Health Foundation Grant
SMART is proud to announce that we are a recipient of the NY Health Foundation’s Healthy Food, Healthy Lives: Supporting a More Equitable Food System grant. With support from this grant, we have launched SMART Food for Life, a pilot project that will directly address the health of SMART women clients by linking those with Type 2 Diabetes (or who are pre-diabetic) to: a) nutritional counseling, b) the development of a medically tailored, culturally appropriate food plan, and c) the provision of prescribed food. Follow our progress here!
Previous SMART OUTREACH PROJECTS!
SMART is extremely proud to have been part of the Vaccine Equity Partner Engagement Project (VEPE)! This initiative, led by the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene and the Fund for Public Health in New York City, was designed to increase vaccine equity in communities across NYC that experienced low vaccination rates. SMART was one of a diverse group of community and faith-based organizations selected to offer factual information and engage their communities in conversations about the COVID vaccine. From August 2021 through January 2023, we mobilized small groups of our SMART women and youth to serve as outreach ambassadors and initiate discussions with community members, as well as disseminate targeted messaging we created. We were excited to apply our experience and compassion to the common goal of a safe and healthy future. Check out the VEPE webpage to review our successes!
SMART was also a partner organization of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Monkeypox Virus Awareness & Prevention Partnership (MAPP). We were tasked with deploying proactive outreach and engagement in communities most at risk for Monkeypox Virus (MPV ) infection. The goals of the these activities were to help stem the outbreak and address inequities in health care access and outcomes through 1) raising awareness about the virus and local prevention, testing, and care options that are affirming and non-stigmatizing; and 2) connecting community members to services including vaccination appointments through navigation. Visit our MPV webpage for more information!
Check out our SMART Live! videos.
We hope you will join our online community on Facebook for weekly SMART Tech Talks every Monday at 12:30pm and SMART Live! Culinary Workshops every Thursday at 11am. All are welcome!
We are also offering SMART Live! University classes every Tuesday at 11am via Zoom.
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Learn about COVID and the COVID Vaccine
with Dr. Samuel Merrick, MD, Medical Director,
Center for Special Studies, New York Presbyterian Hospital!
SMART Celebrates 25 Years!
Watch our 25th Anniversary Video!
2023 marked 25 years of SMART’s commitment to our growing community of women! Check out the 25th Anniversary webpage (in progress) to learn about SMART’s vibrant history and evolution through changing times.