Our Vision
Through Esperanza we declare a need for alignment of what is essential for a thriving and vibrant Latinx/e community. Nuestra Cultura de Salud asserts the importance of building hope, esperanza, and targeted interventions to improve the long-term health of our Latinx/e community in Dane County and beyond.
Esperanza programming includes:
- Approaching the provision of psychological services through interdisciplinary, anti-racist and decolonization frameworks
- Providing linguistically, culturally, and situationally appropriate training for Spanish-speaking mental health providers in Madison and Dane County
- Developing research and innovation to serve the Latinx/e community
- Conducting “Momentos de Esperanza” mental health literacy campaign
- Promoting Latinx/e Leadership development that stimulates youth and adult voice and activism
- Facilitating wellness of Centro Hispano and community-based staff
- Implementing transformative evaluation of community programming
- Building bridges across systems in the city, county, and state
- Advocating with and for the Latinx/e community
See a list of current projects and Our Work // Vea una lista de nuestros proyectos y Nuestro Trabajo.
Our Frameworks
We have adopted multiple guiding frameworks that inspire how and where we see our work including Adames & Chávez-Dueñas (2019) No Health Without Mental Health & Systemic Change, Healthy People 2020, and the WHO Social Determinants of Health Conceptual Framework (2010):
