About – Healthy DC & Me

About The Coalition

Healthy DC & Me Leadership Coalition
is a core of mission driven, community-based organizations and professionals with a vested interest in helping to eradicate economic, educational, and healthcare disparities across racial, ethnic, and socio-economic divides.

The Coalition provides virtual, and community-based case management, outreach, programming, and resource linkage for matters involving mental health, trauma, housing instability, as well as unmet social determinant needs.

Coalition members are proud to sponsor the creation of an essential, and “historic”, “community-first”, “Level II”, stand-alone, emergency, trauma, and wellness center, in Southeast, Washington, DC. The Coalition believes that the intersection of the present day healthcare, educational, and economic divides, require oversight and governance that will transcend political, and social status implications to assure that humanity among the least of us prevails.

The Mayor’s proposed new hospital at St. Elizabeth, (RE: B23-0777–New Hospital at St. Elizabeth’s Act of 2020), is a resemblance of yesterday’s failures & will force the District’s taxpayers to accept more of the same inadequate governing on matters involving their well-being. African Americans are the largest population in the District to succumb to COVID-19 conditions at approximately 50.3% and climbing. D.C. citizens are depressed & managing high levels of anxiety daily. Professional empathies & trauma informed sensitivities are vastly needed.

The Healthy D.C. & Me Leadership Coalition are seeking adequate and accountable appropriations of resources on behalf of our deserving citizens residing in the District of Columbia and surrounding areas who are living without comprehensive community healthcare & mental wellness solutions daily. Our most vulnerable citizens need to be rescued from cycles of low standards and low expectations. The Mayor’s project is insulting & needs more work; thus our coalition is planning to successfully introduce & to build the Capital City (Level II) Emergency Trauma & Wellness Center.

The CCETCWC project will be managed and operated by our coalition’s board appointed professionals & organizational affiliates. African Americans are six (6) times more likely to die in the District of Columbia than our White citizens. Enough is enough. The statistics are evident.

The Mayor’s project does not provide a strong adaptation of principles and practices that will genuinely, deliberately and immediately raise the standards of care for our Black citizens, so that they are equal to that of our Caucasian citizens across the District and especially in low-income communities.

Racism is a mental health crisis that must be addressed across the nation, and in the Nation’s Capital. Our coalition members are a team of dedicated organizations and professionals committed to doing so.

Healthy DC & Me Leadership Coalition is a core of mission driven, community-based organizations and professionals with a vested interest in helping to eradicate economic, educational, and healthcare disparities across racial, ethnic, and socio-economic divides.

The Coalition provides virtual, and community-based case management, outreach, programming, and resource linkage for matters involving mental health, trauma, housing instability, as well as unmet social determinant needs.

Coalition members are proud to sponsor the creation of an essential, and “historic”, “community-first”, “Level II”, stand-alone, emergency, trauma, and wellness center, in Southeast, Washington, DC. The Coalition believes that the intersection of the present day healthcare, educational, and economic divides, require oversight and governance that will transcend political, and social status implications to assure that humanity among the least of us prevails.

The Healthy D.C. & Me Leadership Coalition are seeking adequate and accountable appropriations of resources on behalf of our deserving citizens residingin the District of Columbia and surrounding areas who are living without comprehensive community healthcare & mental wellness solutions daily. Our most vulnerable citizens need to be rescued from cycles of low standards and low expectations. The Mayor’s project is insulting & needs more work; thus our coalition is planning to successfully introduce & to build the Capital City (Level II) Emergency Trauma & Wellness Center project.

The CCETCWC project will be managed and operated by our coalition’s board appointed professionals & organizational affiliates.

African Americans are six (6) times more likely to die in the District of Columbia than our White citizens. Enough is enough. The statistics are evident. The Mayor’s project does not provide a strong adaptation of principles and practices that will genuinely, deliberately and immediately raise the standards of care for our Black citizens, so that they are equal to that of our Caucasian citizens across the District and especially in low-income communities.

The District currently has four (4) Level I trauma centers located “West” of the Anacostia river where healthcare disparities are seemingly obsolete, and access to resources are more abundantly made available. Racism is a mental health crisis that must be addressed across the nation, and in the Nation’s Capital. Our coalition members are a team of dedicated organizations and professionals committed to doing so.

Mission

Deliver higher standards of living, economics, education, and healthcare for families and individuals of mental health, marginalized populations, and those with life-sustaining needs.

Objective

To introduce comprehensive, root cause systems of care, programming, and education on the community level as a foundational aid in addressing violent, unhealthy, “cycle” repeating, systemic failures and stigma-associated behaviors.