Care For the Homeless (CFH) has been selected as an Advocacy Center of Excellence (ACE) from the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).

Advocacy Center of Excellence

ACEs are organizations that have established a commitment to advocacy through consistent calls-to-action, training, education and social media engagement. Additionally, these organizations are actively involved with federal and state policy issues that affect community health centers and their consumers.

We received Bronze Status this year. To do so, we accomplished the following goals:

• Create an advocacy action plan.
• Incorporate policy and advocacy as a standing agenda item at CFH Board meetings.
• Pass a Board resolution on advocacy.
• Register 50% of CFH staff and Board members as health center advocates.
• Participate in events during National Health Center week. These include a voter registration drive and participation in the Providers of Health Care for the Homeless event. In 2019, we recognized Dr. Mark Makiling as the CFH “Health Care Champion.”
• Host at least one elected official at our health center. We hosted Council Member Antonio Reynoso at Peter Jay Sharp on August 4^th, 2019. In addition, on November 7^th, 2019, Council Member Rafael Espinal and NY State Senator Roxanne Persaud joined us for a ribbon cutting at 91 Junius Street.
• Engage our audience on social media. Follow us on Twitter! @CFHNYC

We’re grateful to the NACHC for recognizing our efforts and look forward to pursuing Silver Status in the coming year.

Learn More About the ACE Program