LATINO

HEALTHCARE FORUM
(LHCF)
About Us
The LHCF is focused on
removing racial and ethnic
health disparities. The LHCF
vision is to support a nation free
of disparities in health and
healthcare.
The LHCF proposes a set of
priorities, pragmatic strategies,
and high impact actions to
achieve this vision. The LHCFs
aim is to organize and sustain a
powerful consumer voice to
ensure that all individuals and
communities can influence
healthcare decisions.





Our Goals
1. Support the transformation of
healthcare and build a high-
value healthcare system that
requires insuring the
uninsured, making coverage
more secure for those who
have it, and improve the
quality of care for all.
2. Support the strengthening of
the healthcare infrastructure
and workforce by addressing
the critical shortage medical
personnel including and
community health workers.
3. Advance the health, safety,
and well being for vulnerable
and hard to reach
populations.

Mailing: PO Box 1271 Austin, Texas 78767
Physical: 6601 Felix Ave. Austin, Texas 78741
1-855-373-5423 www.latinohealthcareforum.org

Latino HealthCare Forum
Our Values
Empowerment. Diversity.
Collaboration. Action.


Our Area Of
Focus
Certifications: Community Health Worker Trainer,
Disparities Training Center, HHSD Community
Partner, Cultural and Linguistic Standards
The Latino HealthCare Forum
takes on issues and systemic
problems that stand in the way of
all people gaining access to high
quality, affordable health care
and living healthy.
Our initiatives include:
ACA Insurance
Marketplace outreach and
enrollment
Manantial de Salud
health promotion program
Diabetes Empowerment
and Education Program
Community Health
Worker/Promotores
training program

The issues we address include:
ACA Implementation
Outreach and Enrollment
Medicaid/CHIP
Health Equity
Community Benefit and
Community Engagement
Coverage for the Uninsured
Public Health Funding
Accountability
The Burden of Racial and Ethnic Health
Disparities
The leading health indicators have
demonstrated little improvement in
disparities over the past decade.
Significant racial and ethnic health
disparities continue to permeate the
major dimensions of health care, the
healthcare workforce, population health,
and data collection and research. The
LHCF provides vulnerable populations
access to comprehensive, culturally
competent, quality primary healthcare
services. Cultural and linguistic
competency are the main ingredients in
closing the disparities gap in healthcare.

Secure Your Health
The Latino HealthCare Forum, an Austin based nonprofit, has worked to ensure that
consumers have an organized voice at the table where health decisions are made. Our
health movement, Secure Your Health promotes advocacy by using grassroots organizing,
community worker leadership development, coalition and stakeholder alliances,
communication strategies, policy analysis and advocacy, health promotion campaigns, and
resource development. These organizational capacities are used on behalf of the community
to achieve health impacts through policy advocacy.