It's My House and I Live Here TOO!!!

Speakers

Florence Adegoke, CHW-C, CHWAM Board Member

Florence is a Quality Analyst/Health Advocate Coordinator/Program Manager at University Health Truman Medical Center, Kansas City. She has been in Public Health for over 30 years.

Florence works with the Social Determinants of Health Team at TMC in screening patients for social needs and providing resources to those who screen positive.

Florence is currently an Adjunct Faculty at Metropolitan Community College, Institute for Workforce Innovation for the Community Health Worker course. She was part of the team that developed the Community Health Worker Course. She has been an instructor of the course since 2012. She is a member of the Kansas City Regional Community Health Worker Collaborative and serves on the Executive and Capacity Building Committees. She also serves on the Community Health Worker Association of Missouri Board.

Florence serves on the Board of Agape Pamoja, a not for profit organization in the Kansas City area that works with Congolese refugees in the metro area. She volunteers with Fishes and Loaves, an organization that feeds street institutionalized homeless people in the downtown Kansas City.

Florence earned a Bachelor of Science in Zoology in 1984, from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria. Master of Public Health in 1993, from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and Master of Health Services Administration from the University of Kansas in 2009.

Session Description

Community Health Workers usually live, work, and play in the communities where they work. The members of the community know and trust them. They have a good working knowledge of the community and the networks in the community. This presentation will be highlight how social determinants of health affect Community Health Workers, just as it affects members of the communities that they serve. It is my house and I live here too!