Outreach & Education at One Community Health

One Community Health's commitment to outreach and education goes back to our roots. Committed to social justice, we've always believed in caring for anyone in our community. It's part of our mission to build connections with people where they are, in their lives, at that moment—and then inspire them to make positive choices and changes to support their health and wellness. Contact us anytime:

Clinic main number: 541.386.6380

Speak to an outreach community health worker: 541.512.7922

Outreach email address: outreach@onecommunityhealth.org

Chronic disease management
Exercise education/fitness groups
Diabetes screening/education
Referrals for additional health care, including behavioral health
Harvest share
Information about other community resources

For over three decades, we have been providing critical health and nutrition education as well as important medical screenings to migrant farmworkers and families at our health centers and in orchards during harvest time. Aside from migrant farmworker outreach, we offer a number of programs in the community and at our health center locations.

Since 1988, One Community Health (OCH) has been recognized nationally for its innovative health promotion programs. We don't just do migrant farmworker outreach but a whole host of programs offered throughout the community and at our health center locations.

Today, these programs are run by our Preventative Health Team. This team includes certified community health workers, registered nurses and a team leader who oversees this program. Together, these team members strive to help patients, families and communities at large get the health care and education they need. These staff members are also bilingual (Spanish/English) and bi-cultural, which helps to bridge cultural and language gaps between contemporary medical/nursing care and the lives of low-income, often uninsured patients.

Expectant mothers receiving care at OCH are eligible to participate in our perinatal program, which provides prenatal and postpartum care, support, and education. A certified community health worker in this program will develop a close relationship with an expectant mother. The community health worker educates the mother on the importance of regular prenatal checkups, arranges for lab work, assists the doctor with routine OB appointments, and can visit the new mother in the hospital and at home to make sure she is recovering from childbirth and to offer infant care and breastfeeding support.
Our Salud program (available in Hood River and The Dalles) provides education and support to patients living with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. Salud community health workers are part of the medical care team, making sure patients receive the specialized education needed to manage chronic illness. Among other things, we offer support in regard to proper nutrition, exercise, and stress management. We may also refer patients to resources when appropriate.
Our certified Community Health Workers organize seasonal cherry and pear harvest camp visits in Wasco, Hood River, and Klickitat counties. Camp visit activities include food distributions, information about community resources, weight management education, diabetes prevention education, and diabetes and hypertension screenings. Farmworkers can be referred to OCH if more specific care is needed.
At the typical camp, we see approximately 50 people—but sometimes more. Words cannot describe the joy we feel when our outreach efforts positively influence lives. It's not uncommon for the same migrant farmworkers to return to our region to pick fruit every summer. When they make their way to visit us and share how their health has improved thanks to care and services, it's powerful. Their testimony shows us why providing outreach matters. And it proves these programs work. Learn more HERE.