Health Education and Prevention & Well-Being Program

Health Outreach

LACM assists outreach on key issues in health awareness, access and prevention, placing a strong emphasis on living chemically free, participating in multi-agency collaborations to create healthy communities, and women's health.

Key issues for the Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota health programs include:

Chemical health and alcohol, tobacco and narcotics prevention education.

The SEACHIP program to provide insurance to uninsured children.

Hepatitis B awareness and education.

Women's Health and Breast Cancer Awareness

The Lao Assistance Center has worked with community members to provide transportation, assistance and interpretation with medical professionals and at-risk refugees to ensure adequate human needs are met with dignity and cultural relevance.

Health Education & Well-Being Program

"Promoting healthier lifestyles through education, engagement, and empowerment"

The Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota actively participates in Cervical and Breast Cancer as well as Heart Disease educational programs, educating Lao women and their family members of the risks and prevention.

The Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota encourages women over the age of forty (40) to regularly screen for breast cancer by advocating for women. They set up appointments, arrange health insurance papers and even provide interpretation and transportation to the screen sites.

For more information about our Cervical and Breast Cancer and Heart Disease programs, please contact:

Chongchith Saengsudham
Health Prevention & Cancer Education Program Manager

Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota

503 Irving Avenue North, Suite 100

Minneapolis, MN 55405

Chongchith@laocenter.org

Phone: 612-374-4967

Fax: 612-312-1150

Voice mail: 612-767-8902

Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota and Northwest Hennepin Human Service Council ended three (3) years of the Southeast Asians Living Chemically Free Program on September 31st, 2011. The program worked closely with the Lao community (both adults and youth) to deal with chemical health issues (alcohol, tobacco and other drugs). Our goal was to work with Lao families to promote healthier lifestyles through education, engagement, and empowerment, attempting to create a open and safe dialog through a supportive system of friends, families, and community members. We provided culturally-sensitive leadership-building and educational support sessions to address chemical health, mental health, and other health-related concerns that impact the local community. Despite the end of the program, the Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota will continue to work with the community on various issues through our networks, although we will not be providing direct service to referrals, we will be referring clients to various other agencies certified in mental health, chemical health and alcohol and tobacco experience.