¡Bienvenide!
Esperanza mobilizes hope by nurturing and growing the potential of our Latinx/e community through:
- Increasing access to culturally appropriate mental health services with training and intervention.
- Strengthening family-centered community programming that addresses the social determinants of health.
Nuestra cultura de salud views health through a holistic framework that seeks to address the physical, psychological, social, environmental, political and cultural factors that influence wellness.
Esperanza’s inception was funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program and will continue at Centro Hispano of Dane County. Visit our Centro Esperanza website for updates on upcoming offerings!
Mission:
Support community wellbeing through community mental wellness programming and structural change.
Vision:
A Dane County Latinx/e community that is strengthened by systems that support Esperanza (hope) as necessary for good health.
Esperanza Highlights:
- Ana Paula Soares from Despertar del Camino Sagrado discusses the impact of psychedelic research and relationship with ancestral wisdom on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), listen to The Ethics of Medicalizing Psychedelics!
- Esperanza received a UW-Madison Morgridge Center Community-based Learning Course Development Grant to support the NEW Esperanza Community-engaged Mental Health Justice Research with Latines undergraduate/graduate course! For more info on Esperanza courses, go to: https://esperanza.wisc.edu/coursework/
- Dr. Ramirez Stege, Director of the Esperanza Certificate, received the Extra-Mile Award from The Rainbow Project this past September, 2023. This award acknowledges community leaders who have demonstrated exceptional advocacy to support local children and families.
- Centro Hispano’s Esperanza program brings holistic framework to mental health: Madison 365 story by Rodlyn-mae Banting Apr 12, 2022
*This website was created with help from an American Psychological Association (APA) Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training in Psychology II (CEMRRAT2) Task Force Award.