HBI connects resource to need. The economic and cultural divide that exists between the rich and poor of the world has never been greater. Today, millions of lives are in a constant state of struggle. We believe in the power of bringing together resources through the development of coalitions and partnerships. We seek to identify clear mechanisms for connecting resources to needs and building bridges for change. We work to showcase the needs of communities and draw greater media and governmental attention to the plight of the poor and underserved.
The Ines Project for Medically Fragile Children
Through the Ines Project, HBI has built a model program that helps families attain the knowledge and master the skills they need to drive their own futures - To allow them to build their own lives. HBI is seeking to scale the Ines Project to communities around the world in partnership with faith-based, government and civil sector organizations and institutions.
[i]Cappa, Claudia & Petrowski, Nicole & Njelesani, Janet. (2015). Navigating the landscape of child disability measurement: A review of available data collection instruments. ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research / Revue Européenne de Recherche sur le Handicap. 9.
[ii]http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DISABILITY/Resources/Regions/LAC/LACfactsheetSpn.pdf
- Estimates suggest that there are at least 93 million children with disabilities in the world. However, because only 20-30 percent of children with disabilities attend school, the actual figures may be much higher.[i],[ii]
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Through the Ines Project, HBI has built a model program that helps families attain the knowledge and master the skills they need to drive their own futures - To allow them to build their own lives. HBI is seeking to scale the Ines Project to communities around the world in partnership with faith-based, government and civil sector organizations and institutions.
[i]Cappa, Claudia & Petrowski, Nicole & Njelesani, Janet. (2015). Navigating the landscape of child disability measurement: A review of available data collection instruments. ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research / Revue Européenne de Recherche sur le Handicap. 9.
[ii]http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DISABILITY/Resources/Regions/LAC/LACfactsheetSpn.pdf
Emergency Response Together
Medical emergencies occur everyday. In many environments, pre-hospital trained emergency medical responders provide a critical link to hospital-based life saving care. In Peru, the training of pre-hospital emergency medical responders has been isolated to large metropolitan environments and performed by volunteer firefighters without standardized training. Developing and implementing a standardized training curriculum for pre-hospital emergency medical responders is a key pathway for ensuring all citizens have full access to life saving emergency medical care.
A training curriculum has been introduced in the city of Lima to train firefighters in emergency medical responses. The training, based on a standardized and validated United States Agency for International Development (USAID) emergency medical response curriculum, is the only standardized model for training firefighters in Peru in pre-hospital emergency medical response. The Emergency Response Together pilot project will expand the “Lima” Emergency Medical Responder training for all firefighters in Arequipa. Completion of the Emergency Response Together training will allow the firefighters to provide consistent and standardized medical assessment and care for injured members of the public, visitors, other Emergency Responders and municipal workers. In addition, the development and implementation of a standardized train-the-trainer curriculum will allow for scaling of trainings to other geographic areas in the country of Peru.
Working in collaboration, a team of subject matter experts, implementation strategists, emergency medicine specialists, and in-country firefighters will plan, develop and implement a pilot project built to - Train all the firefighters in the Arequipa Department (region) with the same Emergency Responder Training course and standards as provided in Lima Training course; Plan, implement and evaluate an initial training to be conducted under the auspices of a training consortium made up of Health Bridges International and New York City Long Island Jewish/Northwell Emergency Department, and Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) in partnership with the Compania de Bomberos Arequipa; and, Plan, implement and evaluate a train-the-trainer curriculum. Subsequent trainings will be conducted by local fire department certified Emergency Medical Responder instructors as accredited by the Bomberos Arequipa.
Medical emergencies occur everyday. In many environments, pre-hospital trained emergency medical responders provide a critical link to hospital-based life saving care. In Peru, the training of pre-hospital emergency medical responders has been isolated to large metropolitan environments and performed by volunteer firefighters without standardized training. Developing and implementing a standardized training curriculum for pre-hospital emergency medical responders is a key pathway for ensuring all citizens have full access to life saving emergency medical care.
A training curriculum has been introduced in the city of Lima to train firefighters in emergency medical responses. The training, based on a standardized and validated United States Agency for International Development (USAID) emergency medical response curriculum, is the only standardized model for training firefighters in Peru in pre-hospital emergency medical response. The Emergency Response Together pilot project will expand the “Lima” Emergency Medical Responder training for all firefighters in Arequipa. Completion of the Emergency Response Together training will allow the firefighters to provide consistent and standardized medical assessment and care for injured members of the public, visitors, other Emergency Responders and municipal workers. In addition, the development and implementation of a standardized train-the-trainer curriculum will allow for scaling of trainings to other geographic areas in the country of Peru.
Working in collaboration, a team of subject matter experts, implementation strategists, emergency medicine specialists, and in-country firefighters will plan, develop and implement a pilot project built to - Train all the firefighters in the Arequipa Department (region) with the same Emergency Responder Training course and standards as provided in Lima Training course; Plan, implement and evaluate an initial training to be conducted under the auspices of a training consortium made up of Health Bridges International and New York City Long Island Jewish/Northwell Emergency Department, and Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) in partnership with the Compania de Bomberos Arequipa; and, Plan, implement and evaluate a train-the-trainer curriculum. Subsequent trainings will be conducted by local fire department certified Emergency Medical Responder instructors as accredited by the Bomberos Arequipa.
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Research
HBI is fully committed to demonstrating the effectiveness of our projects. To this end, we assure formative evaluation plans for all of our work. Evaluating the impact and documenting the effectiveness of all our activities. We work in collaboration with researchers from a broad range of academic institutions to prepare the methods and structures that best evaluate our programs and projects. We've partnered on a wide variety of research projects including:
HBI is fully committed to demonstrating the effectiveness of our projects. To this end, we assure formative evaluation plans for all of our work. Evaluating the impact and documenting the effectiveness of all our activities. We work in collaboration with researchers from a broad range of academic institutions to prepare the methods and structures that best evaluate our programs and projects. We've partnered on a wide variety of research projects including:
- Ines Project for Medically Fragile Children: A collaborative project working to develop a care advocacy model for assisting families living in extreme poverty in the pueblos jovenes of Lima, Peru in better accessing and utilizing health care services for medically fragile children. The project is under phase I study to demonstrate suitability for scaling to other communities and countries. We are working in partnership with evaluators from Yale University.
- Community Assessment of Healthcare Resources and Experiences (CARE): Community based research studies (four in total) in partnership with the University of North Carolina (Wilmington) to assess healthcare access, utilization, and satisfaction in a peri-urban and rural communities around Peru.
- Service Learning Research Study: A mixed methods participatory research study in collaboration with Linfield College School of Nursing to explore how service learning that involves American and Peruvian nursing students working together during a Jan term service learning course will influence their perceptions of what it means to be a nurse and their future career choices for the purpose of enhancing cross-cultural nursing education. The study represents a collaboration between HBI, Linfield College School of Nursing (Portland, OR) and Universidad Católica de Santa Maria (Arequipa, Peru).
- Street Youth Serving Organizations in Lima, Perú: A community based survey project was to collect information on the organizations working with marginalized and abandoned youth toward the creation of an ongoing forum for communication between Lima-wide health and social service organizations that assist youth abandoned to the streets or experiencing homelessness in order to better scale service delivery and to work together to solve common problems. The project was facilitated in collaboration with a undergraduate student intern from the University of Michigan.
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