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LOUISIANA CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY TO CELEBRATE FIVE YEARS WITH LIGHT UP THE NIGHT FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE GALA
The Louisiana Center for Health Equity will celebrate its five-year anniversary with its Light Up the Night for a Brighter Future gala. Louisiana State. Rep. Ted James will host the event, which will be held from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, August 15 at the LSU Hilltop Arboretum. The center will highlight its progress in advocating for a healthier population and access to high-quality healthcare for all Louisiana citizens over the previous five years during the celebration.
BATON ROUGE (July 6, 2015) – The Louisiana Center for Health Equity (LCHE) has worked to address the increasing disparities in health and healthcare statewide for the past five years. To celebrate the progress and strides the organization has made, it will host its signature gala, Light Up the Night for a Brighter Future. Louisiana State. Rep. Ted James will host the celebration, which will be held from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, August 15 at the LSU Hilltop Arboretum.
The Center, founded in 2010 by President Alma C. Stewart, works to address the increasing disparities in health and health care across the state. The organization also represents the interest of health equity by promoting the elimination of health disparities caused by poverty, lack of access to quality health care and unhealthy environmental conditions with a focus on wellness and community health.
“We are overjoyed to celebrate this momentous occasion,” Stewart said. “We will highlight our successes over the past five years, and we look forward to working with internal and external partners statewide to continue to do the good work of ensuring the citizens of our great state have equal access to high-quality healthcare, and healthful living.”
As a testament to the great capacity the organization has to galvanize people at the state and grassroots levels to advance opportunities for healthier people, communities, as well as favorable health conditions where people live, learn, work and play, LCHE was appointed during the most recent session to two statewide taskforces to study healthcare services and delivery systems.
LCHE will convene a study committee to evaluate and make recommendations concerning the state’s system of healthcare, and a task force to make recommendations related to health services delivery and financing in the Baton Rouge area. In addition, the organization will serve as a collaborator with several other organizations to establish baseline data on access to health care in Louisiana and make recommendations concerning health system reforms that emphasize prevention and wellness.
State Rep. James, who serves district 101, is a natural choice to host the celebration. He is an avid supporter of LCHE and its initiatives, and was appointed by Gov. Bobby Jindal to the Louisiana Commission on AIDS, HIV and Hepatitis C.
“I fully believe in the work being done by the Louisiana Center for Health Equity,” James said. “I am honored to be a part of their five-year celebration, and I look forward to partnering with the organization in the future to ensure healthcare equity for all Louisiana residents.”
Tickets for Light Up the Night for a Brighter Future cost $100. Sponsorship opportunities are available. Sponsorship investment opportunities start at $400. To purchase tickets, or to learn more about sponsorship opportunities, visit lahealthequity.org.
For media inquires, or to make plans to attend Light up the Night for a Brighter Future, please contact Ashley Northington by phone at 1.855.809.6697 or by email at info@denorbrands.com.
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ABOUT LOUISIANA CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY
Louisiana Center for Health Equity is a statewide non-partisan, non-profit IRS 501 (c)(3) tax exempt, organization that addresses the increasing health disparities across Louisiana. LCHE serves as a catalyst for raising awareness and addressing health disparities through multi-sector collaboration with academia, private and non-profit organizations, healthcare organizations, government entities and others. Their main priorities are to access healthcare and closing the insurance coverage gap with Medicaid expansion funding, family economic security including establishing a state-wide livable wage and expanding EITC, Youth Violence Prevention using a public health approach and education reforms to end the school-to-prison pipeline/push-out trends which disproportionately affects African-American youth.
LOUISIANA CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY HIGHLIGHTS
Over the past two years, LCHE organized the Campaign for Healthcare for Everyone – Louisiana, a broad diverse group of organizations and individuals fighting for expanded access to healthcare for ALL Louisianans. The Campaign is leading policy advocacy and grassroots efforts to close the coverage gap by allowing low income, mostly working, adults to obtain healthcare insurance through federal Medicaid funds as authorized by the Affordable Care Act.
Starting in 2011, LCHE convened the Together We Are More Adolescent Health Collaborative, a community effort using a public health approach that implemented the inaugural Youth Peace Olympics (YPO) in 2014 and the 2015 YPO is underway to promote a holistic approach to healthy living and to help curb youth violence in Baton Rouge.
For four years, LCHE has hosted the Women’s Retreat: Celebrating Wellness and Culture to educate women on access to quality healthcare and the Affordable Care Act, with a special feature on various health topics such as heart health, nutrition and physical fitness, and HIV/AIDS prevention.
For five years, LCHE has hosted the Your Community Health is Wealth Fair, a community-wide fair that brings together valuable resources coupled with entertainment in North Baton Rouge along with health education, health screenings and testing to raise awareness about health disparities and to promote wellness.
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