Alce su Voz

✨ This past weekend, we held a community council meeting at Connie’s Mexico Cafe with our most dedicated and passionate community collaborators and participants! ✨

We had insightful discussions on future challenges and opportunities with our work. We are excited to continue and start new projects to achieve our mission towards improving health equity.

We appreciate the hard work from community health workers!! 👏👏

☀️🦋💕🎖️ Trabajadoras de Salud Comunitaria 🤩🦋💕🎖️

Did you know that covered entities risk losing funding if found to be not in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.?

Our white paper, "Enhancing Infrastructure for Equitable Healthcare Language Access Services in Kansas", offers a set of recommendations to the State of Kansas on steps that can be taken to improve language access services in the healthcare setting and improve compliance.

Read more on how Kansas can improve healthcare language services and care for all patients:

https://alcesuvoz.wichita.edu/2025/02/26/read-our-white-paper/

Citation: Showstack, R., Colcher, D., Loo-Gross, C., Flores, G., Vargas-Bezzubikoff, R., Keene Woods, N., & Youdelman, M. (2025, Feb. 26). Improving Infrastructure for Equitable Healthcare Language Access Services in Kansas: A White Paper. Alce su Voz. https://alcesuvoz.wichita.edu/2025/02/26/read-our-white-paper/

No human being is illegal. We the people means all of us.

Sometimes hope begins with simply being understood, and a simple conversation in someone’s language can make all the difference.

His Helping Hands is looking for bilingual (English–Spanish) volunteers to help us serve more families in our Wichita community

We’re looking for people who love the Lord, care deeply for others, and want to be the hands and feet of Jesus.

Interested in making a difference? Send us a message!

Tomorrow morning, KU Medicine Wichita is hosting a skin cancer screening clinic!

It is free for anyone who attends. Great way to get a skin exam if you do not have a dermatologist!

https://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/campuses/wichita/about/news/news-archive/free-skin-cancer-screening-clinic-returns-to-ku-school-of-medicine-wichita.html

Alce su Voz made an appearance at the inaugural Día del Niño Resource Fair with Kansas Immigration Coalition

It was a wonderful event filled with great care for the community! ❤️ We are grateful for our student leaders, Ren and Jamilid, for sharing about our goals as an organization!