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4 Girls Health
4 Girls Health was created to help girls (ages 10-16) learn about health, growing up, and issues they may face. It focuses on health topics that girls are concerned about and helps motivate them to choose healthy behaviors by using positive, supportive, and non-threatening messages.

Activating Resources for Community Health Promotion (ARCH)
Activating Resources for Community Health Promotion is a collaborative effort to create mechanisms to bridge primary care with community resources to promote healthy lifestyles. This website can help connect you to resources for living a healthier lifestyle.

American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. The mission of the organization is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

American Lung Association
The American Lung Association is the oldest voluntary health organization in the United States, with a National Office and constituent and affiliate associations around the country. The American Lung Association has many programs and strategies for fighting lung disease.

Care Alliance
Neighborhood Family Practice collaborates with Care Alliance. Care Alliance is a non-profit Community Health Center whose mission is to provide high-quality health care and related services to people who need them most, regardless of their ability to pay, in a manner that is cost-effective and that empowers people to improve their quality of life.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships.

Cleveland Department of Public Health (CDPH)
The Cleveland Department of Public Health works to ensure the health and well-being of Cleveland residents by providing health promotion information and education, primary care services including immunizations, substance abuse treatment and counseling programs, regulation of air quality, lead poisoning prevention programs, environmental inspections, and complaint investigations.

Dash Diet

"DASH" stands for "Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension," a clinical study that tested the effects of nutrients in food on blood pressure. Study results indicated that elevated blood pressures were reduced by an eating plan that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and lowfat dairy foods and is low in saturated fat, total fat, and cholesterol.

El Barrio
El Barrio's mission is to bring about the full participation of Hispanics in the Greater Cleveland Community. To achieve this mission El Barrio is working to promote self-sufficiency through education, skills training, and job placement.

Familydoctor.org
Familydoctor.org provides health information for the whole family. It is operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), a national medical organization representing more than 94,300 family physicians, family practice residents and medical students. All of the information on this website has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the AAFP.

Healthfinder
Healthfinder is an award-winning Federal Website for consumers, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies. Since 1997, Healthfinder has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the internet.

MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is a goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Health professionals and consumers alike depend on it for information that is authoritative and up to date.

National Alliance for Hispanic Health
The National Alliance for Hispanic Health (the Alliance) is the Nation's oldest and largest network of Hispanic health and human services providers. Alliance members deliver quality services to over 12 million people annually.

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses. It is dedicated to the eradication of mental illnesses and to the improvement of the quality of life of all whose lives are affected by these diseases.

National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
The National Association of Community Health Centers is the national trade association serving and representing the interests of America's community health centers.

National Capital Poison Center
The National Capital Poison Center, founded in 1980, is an independent, private, not-for-profit organization affiliated with The George Washington University Medical Center. The mission of the Poison Center is to prevent poisonings, save lives, and limit injury from poisoning. In addition to saving lives, the Center decreases health care costs of poisoning cases.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. It is one of the agencies of the Public Health Services which, in turn, is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)
The National Women's Health Information Center provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's health information resources. This website was created to provide free, reliable health information for women everywhere.

NetWellness

NetWelness, a consumer health website, has provided high quality content for over 10 years. The site is evaluated by professional healthcare faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University and Ohio State University.

Ohio Primary Care Association (OPCA)
The Ohio Primary Care Association (OPCA) is an organization of non-profit community-based primary health care centers. Its fundamental purpose is to ensure equal access to health care for all Ohioans. OPCA is dedicated to the promotion of high-quality, family-oriented, culturally competent health care with a special focus on Ohioans living in medically-underserved areas.

Recovery Resources
Recovery Resources helps individuals regain control of their lives. Their prevention, education and treatment programs for mental health, alcoholism and drug addiction provide families and individuals with support and counseling services that help revitalize families and create happy, healthy individuals.

Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN)
The mission of Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN) is to work for comprehensive health care for all in the U.S. through the activation, strengthening, engagement and coordination of local and state-based multi-constituency Health Care Justice coalitions.


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