Health Promotion

Eliminating Tobacco

The Eliminating Tobacco Health Related Disparities among the AAPI Communities of Colorado will enable STEPP to achieve its goal of reducing tobacco related health disparities among AAPIs. This is accomplished by maintaining the AAPI Tobacco Advisory Board as it transitions from an advisory board to a broader based coalition. The   project expands its base through community education to other AAPI serving organizations, and provides technical assistance to STEPP funded programs can engage the community.  The coalition is trained in policy issues and specific tobacco control programs/strategies, and participates in focus groups to inform media sources of negative ads targeting AAPIs.

The Colorado Asian QuitLine is Here for You.

When you’re ready to quit, help is just a phone call away.

Cantonese and Mandarin: 1-800- 838-8917

Korean: 1-800-556-5564

Vietnamese: 1-800-778-8440

The Community Health Information and Screening Program

The Community Health Information and Screening Program will utilize community evidence based strategies to overcome health disparities for Asian and Pacific Islander in the prevention of cancer, cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. The priority areas that will be addressed are access to prevention, screening, and health care services, and health disparities awareness and education campaigns. Through its programs, APDC has identified several factors as obstacles to health screening and health education for AAPIs, including language barriers, lack of health insurance, inability to use medical systems in the U.S., as well as inadequate knowledge and attitudes of risk factor management. Therefore, this program will ensure cultural and linguistically related health care barriers issues are reduced by using a non-traditional community setting which will enable us to eliminate organizations, systematic, clinical biases and hidden assumptions.  This program also will emphasize promoting healthy behavior among the AAPI population by providing culturally and linguistically sensitive health screening and health education in non-traditional community settings that improves participant-health provider communication and relationships.    In addition to screenings APDC has learned in our previous programs that when the AAPI participants received their blood test results, it is important that they come to educational sessions that are related to interpretation of the blood test findings. Therefore, in this program, we will provide education first, perform blood screening tests and other screenings, and then give education about managing cardiovascular and pulmonary disease risk factors, and cancer prevention in additional to interpreting their test results as a group and individually. In addition, within our clinic, the project is intended to prevent or ameliorate the impact of cardiovascular disease in a vulnerable uninsured or underinsured, culturally and linguistically isolated Asian American and Pacific Islanders including mental health issues by providing information, health information, navigation, and health screening.

Contact: Lourdes Yun

Elmira @ 303.365.2959  x109

Latest Info About Health Promotion

• Free Blood Screening at 9 Health Fair April 3, 2012

  APDC will again offer free blood chemistry screening to Asian Pacific Islanders (18 years and older) at two 9Health Fair sites this year. It is first come, first serve so please try to get to the sites early. Also, we ask you to fast for at least 12...

• APDC in 9 Health Fair March 3, 2011

  APDC has been working closely with 9 Health Fair providing free blood screening for API communities and we have been featured in 9HealthFair's newsletter. Please click here to read the full newsletter. In a special partnership with 9 HealthFair, AP...

• 9 Health Fair – Get your health checked for FREE this weekend! November 2, 2010

      I FEEL FINE, BUT DO I HAVE A MEDICAL PROBLEM???   Screening may find out that you have a medical problem BEFORE you have symptoms! This way, you can take care of your health and avoid future suffering. In addition, treatment is usually eas...

• More Free Mammograms!! October 25, 2010

  If you missed the free mammogram at APDC, there are two more coming up! Fri. Dec. 3, 2010 Where: St. Joeseph's Exempla Mobile Mammogram Van @ Asian Pacific Development Center - 1544 Elmira St. Aurora, CO When: 8:30am - 12pm and 1pm - 3:30pm F...

• APDC @ Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, Southeastern Colorado Affiliate October 1, 2010

    The 16th Annual Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Southeastern Colorado Affliate took place on September 12, 2010 at the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO.The Race had over 8,000 attendees and participants and raised over $550,000, ...