Florida Community-Engaged Research Alliance (FL-CEAL)

Florida Community-Engaged Research Alliance (FL-CEAL)

The purpose of the study is learn more about ways to help people with non-medical issues that can affect participant health. The study team will examine if Community Health Workers, members of a community who provide basic health and medical care within communities, are more helpful to people with non-medical issues than simple reading materials on how participants can do it themselves.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Individuals living within the target community who do not plan to move out of the community within the next six months
• Having two un-met SDOH needs

Site Specific Inclusion Criteria:

University of Miami/ Healthy Little Havana Inclusion Criteria

• Age 18 and over

Health Choice Network/ Broward Community Health Center/ Genesis Community Health Center Inclusion Criteria

• Age 18 and over

Florida International University Inclusion Criteria -Latina Women Age 18 and over

Mayo Clinic Florida Inclusion Criteria

-Age 21 and over

Florida A&M University/ Mother Care Network Inclusion Criteria

• Female minors between the ages 11-14 years
• Black/African American; Hispanic or Non-Hispanic ethnicity

University of Florida Inclusion Criteria

• Women aged 18 and over
• Pregnant and recently post-partum minority women

Exclusion Criteria:

• Are unable or unwilling to consent
• Plans to move out of the community during the next six months
• Enrollment in a research study addressing Social Determinants Determinants Of Health (SDOH) in the last three years.
• Prisoners