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
Mayor Adams To Declare NYC a “Choose Healthy Life City” at Gracie Mansion Clergy Breakfast and Mayoral Roundtable
Celebrating Choose Healthy Life’s Two-Year Anniversary of Administering COVID-19 Vaccinations/Testing through its Black Churches and the Launch of its Community Wellness Program featuring Wellness Wednesdays and the Blueprint for Wellness. [...]
Choose Healthy Life Mourns the Passing of Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III
Choose Healthy Life, its founder Debra Fraser-Howze, co-chair Rev. Al Sharpton and members of the National Black Clergy Health Leadership Council mourn the loss of Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts [...]
Hope and Healing for Today’s Black Health Crisis
“Hope and Healing for Today’s Black Health Crisis” aired live on the Word Network to millions of homes on September 21st. Hosted by the Detroit Association of Black Organizations and [...]
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
