What We Do

The CHSR Fund defines its activities in terms of four (4) primary impact areas.

  • Promoting Health and Wellness: Building awareness, helping people manage their health challenges and making health services available and affordable for all.
  • Expanding Opportunities: Reaching across barriers - be they based on gender, ethnicity or physical condition - to tap the talents of every person.
  • Developing leaders through educational programs for at-risk youth and community citizens: Supporting the type of community service that gives talented individuals the experience to become future leaders.
  • Embracing Communities: Connecting neighbors to create networks that will address the complex social and environmental challenges we all face.

The CHSR Fund reaches out to promote the efforts of universities, colleges, schools of public health, and community-based programs, such as hospitals and clinics to improve the health of every person through education, research, and policy. Based upon the health belief model that "individuals who believe they can control their health are more likely to engage in healthy habits such as exercise and good nutrition, and to decrease harmful behaviors, such as overeating, smoking, etc., if they are exposed to the information," the CHSR Fund works with the community and various stakeholders to develop solutions to the most pressing health concerns and provides access to the ongoing initiatives of the community!

Established in 2011, the CHSR Fund serves as a local and national resource for our community, schools, colleges, and universities by:

  • Partnering with community-based, clinical and public health programs, to improve the public's health by advancing professional and graduate education, research and service in public health;
  • Developing partnerships with university and non university faculty, governmental, private, professional, corporate, and community agencies to strengthen education, research, and service in accredited schools of public health;
  • Collecting local and national data to identify trends relevant to public health education;
  • Facilitating cooperative initiatives among the schools of public health, such as the developing and supporting research and creation of portable public health curricula; and
  • Encouraging and promoting the development of practice-based training opportunities for students and graduates.

A Board of Directors governs the CHSR Fund.