The Community Wellness Project is a non-profit community based healthcare organization
that promotes community wellness through education, prevention, and resources,
with particular regard for diverse cultural and racial minorities who
are under-served and under-represented in the United States and its associate
territories with offices located in the St. Louis, MO and East St. Louis, IL. The Community
Wellness Project addresses the following health disparities affecting those populations:
HIV/AIDS/STDs; Coronary Artery Disease; Substance Abuse; Mental Health
Disorders; Kidney Disease; Diabetes; Obesity; High Blood Pressure, Hypertension;
Lupus and Hepatitis A-F. |
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The Mission of the Community Wellness Project is to promote community wellness through education, prevention, and resources with particular regard for diverse cultural and racial minorities who are under-served and under-represented in the United States and its associated territories with offices located in St. Louis, MO and East St. Louis, Illinois regions.
The Community Wellness Project (CWP) is a not-for-profit
organization that is committed to promoting and increasing
health equity, serving the nations’ disadvantaged,
under-represented, and under-served racial/ethnic minority
populations through the development of multi-faceted programming
designed to address health disparities, prevention services and
wellness education.
also serves as a resource for providing Capacity Building Assistance
(CBA) to community based and AIDS service organizations in the content areas of: Intervention Design, Development, Implementation and
Evaluation. CBA focuses on maintaining and increasing the infrastructural systems and resources necessary to support interventions, and
enhance the abilities of key personnel to plan and implement interventions and activities. Capacity building also focuses on the
development of core competencies, or skills of individuals in both organizations and communities to more effectively deliver HIV
prevention services, and to sustain and support infrastructure for HIV programs.
Representing the Community Wellness
Project are: Dana P. Williams, Eddie Burgos, Calvin Spinks, M.A., Tosha Jasper, Charles Fields, Jr., M.B.A. and Delphia Johnson.
Collectively, these individuals have over eighty years of education, experience and expertise in HIV/AIDS prevention,
treatment, care and prevention case management, evaluation and program planning
and implementation on a local and national level. The staff of the Community
Wellness Project are nationally certified American Red Cross HIV/AIDS Education
and Prevention Instructors and Instructor Trainers, and Missouri and Illinois
certified HIV/AIDS counselors and testers.
