Building a Healthy Community

The UPMC Center for Engagement and Inclusion partners to address major health opportunities in our communities. The Center for Engagement and Inclusion's strategy targets two key areas: health and youth. The intent is to invest efforts and resources in a deep and narrow manner to foster greatest impact.

Community Health Partnership Council

The Community Health Partnership Council's mission is to build a healthy region.

The goals of the council include:

• Share data on relevant issues impacting our neighborhoods and act on opportunities in a timely manner.
• Foster positive dialogue and feedback from community partners.
• Create an ongoing communication platform that keeps UPMC and its partners apprised of each other’s programs and actions.
• Provide underserved areas with health literacy content.

Take Charge of Your Health

To reinforce UPMC’s commitment to research, improving health literacy, and overall community health, the Center for Workplace Culture and Community Engagement partners with:

• The University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
• The New Pittsburgh Courier
• The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh

Each month, the Courier publishes an article highlighting pertinent research to the health of our diverse neighborhoods.

View all the Take Charge of Your Health articles.

Youth

Junior Health Care Explorers

Provides students across the Pennsylvania region with a virtual 13-week program to begin their career exploration in the health care industry. Explorers will engage in interactive sessions and panel discussions about a variety of health sciences and information technology topics, learn from Pitt and UPMC professionals, discover new career paths in the health care industry, and make lasting connections along the way.

Reading is FUNdamental (RIF)

A weekly literacy mentoring program that pairs UPMC employees with students from Manchester Charter School (MACS). Employees meet weekly with their paired reading buddies and build literacy skills, a love of reading, and meaningful relationships through conversation, books, and literacy-based activities.