One person dies every30 seconds from
heart disease. That’s over 2,600 people every single
day.
The program offers:
- Prevention;
- Blood Pressure Screenings;
- Referrals;
- Follow-up; and
- Workshops
To make an appointment, please call 954.315.4530
Fax: 954.763.8567
Health - T.O.P.W.A.PROGRAM Targeted Outreach for Pregnant Women Act
FREE pregnancy services
Available in English,
Spanish, and Creole
- Baby showers
- Assistance in obtaining medical
insurance
- Prenatal care and education
- Case management
services, as needed
- Free Confidential HIV test
- Parenting
classes, on-site or in-home
- Nutrition classes
- Translation
assistance
- Personal advocacy
- Service monitoring
- Referral
Follow-up
- Free gift for Referrals
Are you pregnant and
in need of assistance?
Please call TOPWA Specialists at 954.315.4530.
Health - Substance Abuse Prevention Program
Are you a
parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13?
Do you live
or work in Broward County?
If you do...then this family management program
is for you!
Guiding Good Choices is a risk-focused program
initiative that provides parents of adolescents with the necessary
tools to continue to raise their children free of drugs and
alcohol associated problems.
3075 W. Oakland Park Blvd.
Ste. 205
Oakland Park
33311
954.315.4530 phone
954.763.8567 fax
PROGRAM TOPICS:
The Guiding
Good Choices Program consists of five topic areas covering
a wide range of areas.
- Getting Started - How to prevent drug abuse in your family. Introductory
part of program that allows all involved to become familiar
with each other, as well as the trainers.
- Setting Guidelines - Developing healthy beliefs and clear standards. Establishing
a Family Policy on drug use and to develop clear guidelines
and expectations for behavior.
- Avoiding Trouble - How
to say no to drugs. This session encourages a complete review
on how to teach your child solid refusal skills without the
loss of friendship.
- Managing Conflict - How to control
and express your anger. This session deals with the identification
of ways to relax and teaches the importance of managing family
conflict. It also demonstrates how to express anger constructively.
- Involving
Everyone - How to strengthen family bonds. This final session,
we review the entire program and address the child’s
participation in the family decision-making processes.
For an appointment, please call MDEI
at 954.315.4530.
Consortium Agencies:
Memorial Hospital/SBHD 954.985.7000
ext238MDEINC 954.315.4530
New Direction Institute, Inc. 954.748.8444
School Board of Broward Cty 754.321.2568
Church of Brotherly Love 954.425.0397
Funded by the Department of Children and Families.
Economics - FREE INCOME TAX SERVICE
Minority Development & Empowerment, Inc. will offer free income tax servicesand free e-filing for low-income residents
in Broward County
January through April between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
May through
December, Wednesdays - by appointment only.
There will be no
charge to clients who qualify for this service.
All appointments
held at MDEI offices
To make an appointment, please call 954.315.4530
Fax: 954.763.8567
Health - Free Confidential HIV Testing.
- African-Americans
- Haitians
- Latinos
- Men/Women/Teenagers
- Injecting
Drug Users
- Pregnant Women
The Minority AIDS Initiative, MAI, Outreach program identifies individuals with
the HIV/AIDS virus who are not receiving care or any medical treatment. We also
provide free male and female condoms.
MDEI case managers provide
the following:
- referrals to medical treatment;
- referrals
to food programs;
- referrals to housing; and
- free bus
passes
The program offers assistance in accessing case
management and Medicaid services. We also offer hospital escort
and translationservices as part of this program. No health insurance?
No problem! We can help you.
For more information, please call 954.315.4530
Health - Video Opportunities for Innovative Condom
Education and Safer Sex
VOICES
The goals of VOICES are to increase the awareness of
the risk of obtaining and transmitting HIV and other STDs.
These diseases endanger not only your health but also the
health of your partners and loved ones.
7 Messages about changing risky behavior
- Everyone who is sexually active is vulnerable
to HIV infection and other STDs, as are their partners and
loved ones.
- Safer Sex, including correct and consistent condom
use, will help to prevent HIV infection.
- Using condoms correctly
is easy, “you can do it.”
- Different kinds of condoms
are available to meet your needs: “You have options
to choose from.”
- ”Condoms don’t have to ruin
the mood.”
- Getting
your partner to use condoms is possible with good negotiation
skills: “you can do it.”
- Condoms are acceptable
to men and women of diverse backgrounds and cultures and in different kinds of relationships.
If you want to know more about how to use a condom
properly or for a free confidential HIV test, please call us to
attend one of our VOICES sessions at 954.315.4530.
