PP4H Mission Statement:
To build capacity to address racial, health, and economic inequities through partnerships while leveraging community assets and wisdom. Who We Are:
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What PP4H Does
Vision:
A thriving, safe, healthy, and inclusive community built on love. Values: Youth inclusion, community assets, trust and integrity, balanced power, unity and diversity, and safety. Leadership Goals: We transform communities by improving health and economic growth through:
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How PP4H is Organized:
PP4H uses groups called Hubs to organize areas of interest
Representing community organizations and residents, members align with one or more PP4H Hub to advance policy, systems and/or environmental changes for a collective impact to improve community health and economic growth.
PP4H uses groups called Hubs to organize areas of interest
Representing community organizations and residents, members align with one or more PP4H Hub to advance policy, systems and/or environmental changes for a collective impact to improve community health and economic growth.
- Hubs include: Economic Justice and Community Leadership Academy; Food Justice; Elementary School Wellness; High School Wellness; Community Wellness Hub; and Tobacco-Free Living.
- Hubs meet on a regular basis to implement objectives
- Members assemble at quarterly PP4H meetings to share accomplishments, strategies, lessons learned and resources
- PP4H provides administrative and technical support to build on strengths and resources of the community through liaisons who are community members.
Our Hubs:
Economic Justice and Community Leadership Academy
The Community Leadership Academy (CLA) offers residents with lived experience the opportunity to develop their leadership skills and learn innovative strategies for sustainable community transformation and economic development.
Community Wellness
The Community Wellness Hub is advancing racial equity by creating opportunities through the first community-owned and operated space to incubate, develop and support social enterprises and small businesses for talented African American and Latinx Maywood residents. A collaboration of community partners and residents, the Wellness Hub will create a pathway for sustainable, systems change by supporting individuals’ career mobility, resident leadership, and seeding entrepreneurial opportunities. The Hub’s businesses, programs, services, and arts activities will be grounded in PP4H’s deep commitment to shared power where residents are integral leaders in co-designing and building an inclusive thriving economy.
Video describing the School Wellness Active Recess program in D89 schools.
Elementary School Wellness, District 89 The Elementary School Wellness Hub sponsors and promotes activities and programs that support families to live healthier lifestyles.
Video Featuring D209's Proviso East HS School-Based Health Center
Produced by the Illinois Terrorism Task Force: Mental Health & School Violence The Proviso School-based Health Clinic provides help coping with stress from school, family, relationships or other causes. |
Food Justice
The Food Justice Hub supports and strengthens the local food system through urban gardening, farm stands, and Veggie Rx, and increases the supply of and demand for fresh, locally grown, high quality produce. Cultivates health equity and community economic business development.
Tobacco-Free Living
The Tobacco-Free Living Hub partners with the community to take a stand against tobacco and reduce tobacco use, exposure to secondhand smoke, and the poor health outcomes associated with tobacco use.
High School Wellness, District 209 The High School Wellness Hub is developing strategies to improve student health and wellness at the District’s three high schools.
Video describing Proviso East High School's School-Based Health Center and what it can do for students and their families.
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Our People:
Lena Hatchett is co-founder, Executive Lead of PP4H and Director of Community and University Partnerships at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine. The PP4H movement values shared leadership and power and her research discovers community solutions to advance food justice. Through support from Trinity Health Systems, Institute for Health Care Improvement and 100 Million Healthier Lives, Dr. Hatchett has made local and national impact on racial and economic equity.
Mary Mora is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist at Loyola University Chicago. She works with the Proviso Partners for Health (PP4H) and focuses on food access and community health and wellness in Maywood, IL, as well as the surrounding communities. Born and raised in the Proviso Township, Mary has a close connection to this community.
Deniene Willis is the leader of PP4H's Community Leadership Academy and Founder of Trustycup Productions. The Academy focuses on leadership, collaboration, economic development and provides information and access to a national network change experts. Non-for-Profit Trustycup Production’s mission is to use the performing arts as a catalyst to develop leadership skills principles, and values in and among residents and youth.
Ann Andreoni is the co-leader of the Elementary Education Hub for PP4H who enjoys finding ways for students and families to “make the healthy choice the easy choice” through simple changes in policy, systems and environments. Her efforts to create Active Recess spaces on school playgrounds support her strong belief that physical activity should be an enjoyable part of a healthy lifestyle.
Ann is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Professor in the Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing who received her professional undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Contact at: [email protected] |
Susanne Schnell is Program Director of PP4H. She provides strategic direction working with coalition Hub leaders to co-design and implement policy, systems, and environment approaches that advance health equity and equitable economic development. Susanne brings a background in community economic development and urban design, public-private partnerships, and social impact investment strategies to strengthen healthy communities. She also brings expertise in human centered design as the former director of a social impact design center in Chicago. She is based at Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago. Contact Susanne at [email protected]
John ‘Jack' Hertenstein Perez is the project coordinator for Proviso Partners for Health (PP4H), where he coordinates and co-leads food justice and evaluation capacity building efforts with community residents, local institutions, and community-based organizations. He also facilitates work between PP4H’s various hubs and initiatives.
Jack received his Master of Public Heath from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and is passionate about the potential community-owned agriculture has in building local community power and ensuring healthy foods are accessible and available. Contact Jack at [email protected] 
Christopher Epps works in support of the Veggie RX program along with mentoring others in the Windy City Harvest corps program. A big believer that we are what we eat, Chris supports the Food Justice movement and is currently working on creating Sustainable Solutions with PP4H. He can be reached at [email protected]
Megan Wanzo is an Oncology Clinical Trial Manager at Bristol-Myers Squibb and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy, in St. Louis Missouri. Megan is a doctoral candidate in Bioethics and Health Policy at Loyola University Chicago.
Megan has held positions at various healthcare organizations in southern Illinois. Most recent, she was on the Ethics committee and acted as the ethics consultant for Southern Illinois Healthcare. There she performed Ethics consultations, reviewed policies, and created and staffed a 24/7 Ethics call service during the pandemic. Megan has a passion for rural healthcare and improving equity and access for underserved populations. |