Health Education ICI Salud

Health Education Department of Iniciativa

ICI Salud efforts are geared towards promoting healthy lifestyles and community well-being through the disciplines of health education and health promotion. Services offered around the topic of substance abuse problems are directed at Iniciativa Comunitaria’s participants, health professionals and the general community. It seeks to develop supportive learning environments and reflection scenarios from which complementary skills can be cultivated and strengthen the clinical and psychosocial services of the organization’s programs. We reach some 2,250 participants every year.

Víctor E. Reyes, educador en salud de Iniciativa Comunitaria contesta dudas del público participante.

 Services include:

  • Provide individual and group educational interventions to PITIRRE’s participants and their relatives.
  • Offer training and continuing education for health professionals
  • Coordinate and assist in community clinics and health fairs
  • Develop health education and health promotion material

ICI Salud supports innovative health education and health promotion projects such as:

  • Onda Pitirre –Utilizes the radio as a therapeutic intervention to work rehabilitation processes through the sharing of life experiences with other participants. Tune in the Wave.
  • Give Up The Pack Quit Smoking Program: Provides health education and support system to participants and their relatives during the process of quitting smoking.
  • Community Health Promoters Project: Promotes the development of health promotion skills for members of the community to educate and work with health situations in their communities.

Hours of operation – Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Telephone: (787) 338-8383 x. 115, x. 116, x. 123 and x. 136

Email: icisalud@iniciativacomunitaria.org

Physical Address: At Pitirre Program, 2nd floor, Dr. Ramón Ruíz Arnau University Hospital (H.U.R.R.A, by its Spanish acronym) #100 Laurel Avenue, Santa Juanita, Bayamón, PR 00956