Results To Date
Impact on the Community (as of March 01, 2022)
Success measured by community engagement, testing and vaccination events, and those tested and/or vaccinated
Key Milestone: Addressing Health Equity in the Black Community
Establishment of the National Black Clergy Health Leadership Council – Quest Diagnostics provides support as founding partner
Choose Healthy Life Launches with its First National Conclave – Medical Advisory Board introduced
Regional launches in NYC, Detroit, Newark, Atlanta and DC – 50 churches onboarded
Visits from First Lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris
HRSA Funding – $9.9 Million – only faith-based organization to receive funding to expand vaccination efforts
Additional HRSA funding of $1 million
HRSA initiative implementation – 120 Churches and 13 states
Recent Highlights
Day of Hope and Healing
Choose Healthy Life, in collaboration with the Ad Council, the COVID Collaborative, the Black Coalition Against COVID-19 and Values Partnership - hosted a "Day of Hope and Healing" at the [...]
Newark church celebrates COVID-19 resiliency with ‘Day of Hope and Healing’
See the full article here
Newark Mayor Baraka Recognizes Choose Healthy Life for its Major Role in the Success
Newark Mayor Baraka Recognizes Choose Healthy Life for its Major Role in the Success of the City’s COVID-19 Vaccination Effort Newark named the nation’s first Choose Healthy City Mayor Declares [...]
Impact on the Community – CHL Conclave – Nov. 2021
“Your model of establishing in each church a full-time public health navigator … trained and charged with providing access to COVID-19 testing and vaccinations in the immediate short-term while addressing other health disparities in the long term … is a sustainable, scalable, and transferable approach to address public health disparities and inequities in the Black community … it will serve us well far beyond the pandemic.”
– Dr. Rochelle Walensky, CDC Director, remarks at the Choose Healthy Life Conclave on Nov. 19, 2021
