Trained health educators, community health workers, case managers, and patient navigators work directly with individuals and families in their own communities.
Focused on health equity and culturally responsive services delivered by diverse staff.
We fulfill our mission through a unique combination of work that targets individuals and families, as well as the environment in which we live, work, and learn. Our goals are to reduce risk for injury and prevent disease, to help those living with chronic conditions successfully manage their health and to promote wellness.
Trained health educators, community health workers, case managers, and patient navigators work directly with individuals and families in their own communities.
In-person and virtual training, technical assistance, curriculum development, academic-community partnerships, and other services can help to strengthen organizations.
Support with development and implementation of policies and practices can enable healthy behaviors.
Focuses on improving the quality of life of individuals and communities.
Read moreFocuses on diabetes prevention and chronic disease prevention.
Read moreFocuses on youth advocacy for smoking cessation, anti-gun violence, and opioid-use prevention.
Read moreFocusing on tobacco cessation and use prevention.
Read moreFocuses on providing community and family-based support services.
Read moreEvidence Based Home Visiting Services
SafeCare Augmented for Family Empowerment (SAFE) is a behavioral parenting program that promotes healthy child development through positive parent-child interactions, informed caregiver response to illness and injury, and the creation of a safe home environment. The SafeCare curriculum is delivered in the home or virtually by trained and certified providers who work with families and caregivers in three target areas: (1) parent-infant/child interaction skills, (2) health care skills, and (3) home safety. Each module consists of six 60–90-minute sessions for a total of 18-20 weeks of service delivery. Health Promotion Council is an accredited site and uses this evidence-based model to support parents to provide enriching and nurturing environments for their children for years to come.
Home Visiting for Children with and without Special Healthcare Needs
Technology Assisted Children’s Home Program (TACHP) provides non-medical home visiting services to children ages 0-22 with special healthcare needs that involve the use of medical technology equipment. This program serves families across Eastern Pennsylvania, including those in Philadelphia. Families receive individualized case management, education, and other supportive services to better care for their children with special needs. For more information contact Erin Johnson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or LaMia Shaw at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Medical Home Community Team (MHCT) provides social services and healthcare coordination and health advocacy to families referred by pediatric medical homes in Philadelphia. MHCT provides care coordination, health education, home visits, and referrals to medical, mental and developmental health resources, as well as linkages to community resources. For more information contact Shakira Gore at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Community to Home (C2H) serves families and their newly-diagnosed children in the South Central region of Pennsylvania. The overarching goal of CTH is to improve health outcomes for children and youth with special healthcare needs by strengthening the capacity of caregivers and their families. CTH provides care coordination and helps caregivers to build knowledge, skills, and capacity to more successfully overcome daily obstacles. For more information contact Grace Egun at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Focus on Fathers (FOF) provides parenting, case management, and employment navigation services to fathers and other male caregivers in Philadelphia. Fathers ages 18 and older who have at least one child ages 24 or younger are eligible for Focus on Fathers. For more information click here for the Focus on Fathers website or contact Larry Woody at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Relationship Education in the Mix (REMix) provides healthy relationship and co-parenting classes to couples and co-parents in Philadelphia. Any parent living in Philadelphia can participate. For more information contact Larry Woody at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Nekeisha Purnell at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Community-Based Patient Navigation
Navigating, Educating, and Supporting Together (NEST) focuses on improving healthcare access among the Latinx community in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties through community-based outreach, education, and navigation services in order to reduce breast and cervical cancer disparities. Anyone born with breasts and/or a cervix is eligible for NEST services.
Family Planning Access Navigator (FPAN) connects individuals to family planning services available through Title X funding. Family planning includes pregnancy testing, contraceptives, STI screening and treatment, fertility counseling, and education about each of these topics. Any person who can get pregnant or get someone else pregnant is eligible for FPAN services.
The Eastern Pennsylvania Special Needs Association (EPSNA) at HPC is a network of home health professionals, medical providers, medical assistance insurance providers, social service providers, educational and medical professionals, legal advocates, policy planners and representatives from various local and state government service agencies, and caregivers of technology assisted (TA) and medically complex children. Offered quarterly, meetings will provide a forum for education and discussion about issues related to care; each meeting will provide education and presentations that meet the needs of the represented professions and parents. Contact LaMia Shaw at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Education (SNAP-Ed): Health Promotion Council is a Pennsylvania Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education provider, a program that supports evidence-based nutrition education and obesity prevention interventions and projects for persons eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program through complementary direct education, multi-level interventions, and community and public health approaches to improve nutrition. The focus of the program is: 1) to improve the likelihood that persons eligible for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will make healthy food choices within a limited budget and choose physically active lifestyles; and, 2) to help the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education target audience limit risk factors to prevent or postpone the onset of disease by establishing healthier eating habits and being more physically active. Health Promotion Council services are delivered at a variety of school-age and adult settings.
Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Approaches such as multi-level interventions and community and public health approaches are implemented, in addition to individual or group-based nutrition education, to deliver effective, evidence-based nutrition education and obesity prevention programming. Health Promotion Council implements policy, systems, and environmental change initiatives across various settings to promote healthy behaviors by making the healthy choice the easy choice.
Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): The federal Child and Adult Care Food Program provides nutritious meals to children and adults in emergency housing, childcare, adult care, and other settings throughout the United States. Funded by the Philadelphia Office of Homeless Services, Health Promotion Council offers specialized training and technical assistance to seven Philadelphia family emergency housing shelters to improve the planning, preparation and serving of nutritious meals for shelter residents.
Breastfeeding Friendly Shelter Initiative: funded through SNAP-Ed, this program seeks to identify family shelter breastfeeding champions, train champions and designated staff to support implementation of the Breastfeeding Friendly Shelter Initiative policy and the development of informational materials and technical assistance modules to support project sustainability.
Farm to School Garden of Eatin’ Project with PHMC’s Fairwold Academy: The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Farm to School program aims to address inequities in access to therapy garden activities and improve access to local foods for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). HPC implements the Garden of Eatin’ Project for special education students ages 5 to 21 attending Fairwold Academy. The Garden of Eatin’ Project expands the existing garden infrastructure to create an edible teaching garden, integrating agriculture and nutrition education The program also provides Harvest Tasting Events and Take-Home Harvest Days to improve fresh produce consumption and agricultural/nutritional knowledge among Fairwold students.
Cities Changing Diabetes: Activate! Advocates for Diabetes Prevention: In collaboration with HPC’s Advocacy Institute, Cities Changing Diabetes program is designed to empower Philadelphia youth aged 13-17 years old, to understand the risk factors for type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes that exist in their homes, schools, and communities, the local policies that impact their health, and how they can work within their communities to make sustainable health changes.
Additional Partnerships: The Nutrition and Active Living Department has additional nutrition education and technical assistance projects with a number of partners.