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Causes: Health, Public Health
Mission: To empower the south florida minority communities to develop healthy habits for greater health through awareness, education, guidance and counseling.
Programs: Health education, prevention & promotion, inc. (hepp) was founded in 2012, to empower the south florida minority communities, and to promote the adoption of healthy behaviors through awareness, education, guidance and counseling. Hepp staff has extensive experience working with the uninsured and underinsured individuals from diverse racial and ethnic minority groups in miami-dade and broward county. Hepps goals and objectives are focused on improving quality of life, reducing health disparities, and alleviating the burden of disability and death from diabetes, cancer, heart disease/stroke, and other chronic diseases/illness. To reach its goals, hepp provides culturally and linguistically appropriate education on chronic disease prevention and screening, promoting healthy behaviors and lifestyle changes. In addition hepp staff links community members to low cost or free screening services and provides care coordination to all clients with abnormal results.