Programs and Services
Translation and Interpretation Services
The Latino Health Organization offers language services in Spanish for your convenience. We currently provide comprehensive translation and interpretation services for many agencies in the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
We translate written materials like brochures, flyers, and documents. We provide interpreters that work with institutions like the Visiting Nurses Association, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee County Health Programs, and Columbia St. Mary’s. For more information and fees contact us.
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Community Projects
AIDS Initiative Project
This project is supported by the City of Milwaukee Community Development Block Grant program. This project is designed to provide group level intervention to heterosexual men and women in the Latino community.
The project also offers its clients HIV testing and counseling through referrals to partnering agencies. For more information on this project call contact us.
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The Smoke Free Milwaukee Project
The Smoke Free Milwaukee Project is an initiative of the Wisconsin Ethnic Network Collaborative (WENC). WENC addresses tobacco control, specifically, clean indoor air, among its priority issues.
It is important that communities of color and the community at-large express its support for clean indoor air because secondhand smoke has dangerous health impacts on the lives of everyone, from triggering asthma attacks to developing lung cancer.
The Latino Health Organization is one of the collaborative agencies of the project that trains and educates the Latino community in Milwaukee on secondhand smoke issues. For more information on this project contact us.
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Latino Community Health Awareness Project
The Latino Community Health Awareness Project (LCHAP) is a project supported in part by the Faye McBeath Foundation. The LCHAP targets the Latino community in the city of Milwaukee’s near south side, zip codes 53204 and 53215.
These areas represent the greatest density of Latino families, not only in the city of Milwaukee, but also in the state of Wisconsin. LCHAP educates Latino families in the city of Milwaukee regarding chronic and communicable health issues affecting their community.
According to a publication of the National Institute of Health, about 650,000 Hispanic Americans suffer from diabetes but they do not know they have it. These workshops and free and open to the general public. For more information on this project contact us.
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Latina Breast Cancer Awareness Project
The Latino Health Organization’s Latina Breast Cancer Awareness Project (LBCAP) focuses on Latina women in the Milwaukee Riverwest Community 53212 zip code.
This project emphasizes the importance on breast cancer screening through education and outreach to Latina women in the Riverwest Community.
The LBCAP Project Coordinator provides bilingual (Spanish-English) individualized education and advocacy services, community workshops, collaboration with parent groups from local schools, referrals to local health care providers for mammograms and other health related issues and work closely with health care providers to come up with strategies to improve outreach efforts. For more information regarding this projects please contact us
