Winchester Heights – A Model for Community Empowerment
Our new documentary chronicles SEAHEC’s work over the past decade to create a community health worker driven rural development model. By helping communities build key infrastructure and organizational capacity, we can lower barriers to creating a safe and healthy community for families in low-income, rural communities. Our model, developed through our Healthy Farms Program, can be adapted by other rural communities that lack public health supporting infrastructure. We have made a short version, about 5 minutes, and full version is about 20 minutes.
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Full Version (20 minutes)
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Winchester Heights Community Center Gains Visibility with Google Maps
The new community center at Winchester Heights can now be found on Google Maps.
Winchester Heights Communty Center Inauguration Announced
The Southeast Arizona Area Health Education Center, Inc. (SEAHEC) and partners announce inauguration of a new community center for the colonia of Winchester Heights, near Willcox in Cochise County Arizona. The inauguration ceremony for the Winchester Heights Community Center and “We Heart Children” Children’s Memorial Park will be held at the new community center at 5815 W. Cameron Dr. Willcox, AZ 85643 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Saturday, August 18th.
FRONTERA Students Aid Winchester Heights Community Center/Playground Construction
On June 18th, SEAHEC hosted 11 students from the UA FRONTERA program. Students visited Winchester Heights where they helped complete community center construction.
Vitalyst Health Foundation to Fund Winchester Playground Equipment
The Vitalyst Health Foundation has awarded funding to SEAHEC that will provide playground equipment for the I "Heart" Children Burris Memorial Park, which will become the playground for the Winchester Community Center. SEAHEC is helping the community of Winchester Heights build a community center and playground to help the community gain the organizational capacity needed to improve local public health outcomes.
Breaking Ground: Winchester Heights Community Center
Winchester Heights community members, Construction Project Manager, SEAHEC Director & visiting students On January 18, SEAHEC, Winchester Heights LEARN MORE
Winchester Heights Community Center Construction Progressing
Residents of the Winchester Heights Colonia (WHC) in northern Cochise County, Arizona will soon have a long awaited community center, thanks to SEAHEC and community partners. Residents of this isolated rural community in northern Cochise County, Arizona have long awaited infrastructure improvements that impact their health and safety. Thanks to SEAHEC and community partners, that dream is becoming a reality. The community center construction project is one of the most tangible results of SEAHEC's Healthy Farms, Healthy Communities Program founded in 2009. Since launching Cochise County's first farm based community health worker team in 2013, SEAHEC has worked with local residents to identify and address glaring health disparities in this isolated rural community.
SEAHEC Secures Funding for Winchester Heights Community Center
In December, the Legacy Foundation awarded SEAHEC funding to support construction of a public meeting space and recreation area in Winchester Heights, a farm worker community of roughly 700, 14 miles north of Willcox Arizona.