CORE El Centro, which opened in 2002, provides natural healing and wellness services to thousands of low-income residents.
Forum surfaces ongoing controversy over prime cause of lead poisoning in Milwaukee
Representatives of the Milwaukee Health Department and advocacy groups continued to disagree on the main source of lead poisoning at a League of Women Voters forum intended to call attention to the issue.
UMedics trainers teach urban first aid for gunshot victims
Martine Caverl and Amika Tendaji, co-founders of the Chicago-based UMedics, brought their workshop to Milwaukee to teach participants how to keep a gunshot victim alive until help arrives.
Benedict Center calls human trafficking ‘public health’ issue
During the Benedict Center’s recent Women and Justice Conference, panelists posited that human trafficking is a public health issue, since it affects not only individuals but communities.
Health fair at Pete’s Fruit Market provides information on disease prevention
Pete’s Fruit Market’s first health fair at its Bronzeville location offered attendees resources to prevent and treat lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
Camp Umoja balances fun, discipline to create future leaders
Camp Umoja is a free six-week summer program that aims to put children in kindergarten through high school on a path to success.
Canvassers go door to door to warn Amani residents about lead dangers
Members of the Milwaukee Nutrition & Lead Task Force are knocking on every door in the Amani neighborhood this summer to educate the community about lead.
Advocates, aldermen decry lack of progress in correcting failures of lead poisoning prevention program
The Freshwater for Life Action Coalition is awaiting a response from District Attorney John Chisholm on its call for a formal investigation into the city’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, while aldermen criticize lack of urgency on the issue.
Bike group offers ‘fellowship and fitness’ for women of color
Black Girls Do Bike Milwaukee is encouraging women of color to start biking.
Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers offers free bicycles on South Side
Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers held a recent Bike Day, giving away more than 200 free bikes. The event was held to encourage safer bike-riding practices.
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