Better Access Community Healthcare (BACH) Better Access Community Health Care Goes "Out to Lunch" to Empower Local Residents to Eliminate Barriers to Healthcare. (PRweb) April 6, 2005 -- Better Access Community Health Care. Researchers theorize that families who share regular meals together are more likely to be successful. happy and healthy. Assuming that this is also true for communities, the Better Access community Healthcare (BACH) program is attempting to launch a grassroots effort to form an understanding of how the citizens of Pointe Coupee access or struggle to access their health care needs. Consultants for New Beginnings, Inc., the contractor hired by the BACH program to assist in accomplishing this mission, is implementing an experiment, Out to Lunch As the contracted Navigator social Worker, consultants for new Beginnings, Inc. will be responsible for assisting Pointe Coupee residents with obtaining appropriate levels of health care services and coordinating other community resources for their individual health care needs. Social workers with new Beginnings will focus on navigating processes to insure user access and on planning the navigation of processes for the center. New Beginnings staff believes that to best determine needs and options, it is imperative to provide a safe comfortable environment and to start where each person is. What better vehicle to quide this process than a meeting over lunch? Why Lunch? In this busy fast paced society it is often difficult to plan or squeeze in one more obligation. Yet, everyone should take a little break during the day for lunch. Forming relationships and exchanging information that is mutually valuable can maximize the time spent during the break. The Goal. To understand the barriers to health care and to build relationships that will foster the promotion of a healthy community. The Objective. To gather data about: (1) the complex and diverse health needs of the parish (2) the resources available and required to meet those needs (3) accessibility to resources Who? Anyone who is interested in sharing information that will assist in reaching our goal can schedule a lunch meeting with a representative from New Beginnings. How? Call the (225) 638-9750 and request a date for an OUT TO LUNCH meeting. Where? The meeting place will be either a workplace or community gathering center as determined by the caller and the social worker. When? Lunch dates will be scheduled on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays. What? bring your own lunch, anything goes-sandwiches, fast food, leftovers, etc. The important thing is getting together, building relationships and sharing information, the lunch is just the means to an end. Aletha Moore Consultants for New Beginnings, Inc. (www.newbeginnings.org) (225) 638-9750 Client Services provided by Cajun Web Creations (www.cajunwebcreations.com) web site promotion services. Help us get the word out! You can reprint this complete article and must include this footnote. Thank You. Private Reply to Lonnie Ellerbee | 
