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Health Workers Get Lessons in Empathy

Milwaukee AHEC creates Community Health Workers Training Program. //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee A guest speaker discusses racial stereotypes during a class in the Community Health Workers Training Program, which teaches trainees to bring health education and expertise to the communities they serve. Photo provided by Azure’De Williams. Po Too knows what it’s like to come to America for the first time. She’s experienced the struggles of adjusting to a language barrier, a different culture and unfamiliar surroundings. Too, 28, first came to Wisconsin 14 years ago. She and her family fled Burma, now Myanmar, and spent years in a refugee camp before she found herself in Milwaukee.

How one program teaches understanding and empathy to community health workers

Po Too knows what it’s like to come to America for the first time.  She’s experienced the struggles of adjusting to a language barrier, a different culture and unfamiliar surroundings.  Too, 28, first came to Wisconsin 14 years ago. She and her family fled Burma, now Myanmar, and spent years in a refugee camp before she found herself in Milwaukee. Now, Too spends her time working to help refugees as a bilingual community health worker for Advocate Aurora, serving the Karen community in southeastern Wisconsin. Karen refers to a group of people from a specific region in Burma.   “I believe I can be a voice for them,” Too said. 

Plats and Parcels: Riverwest Hostel Becoming Cooperative Housing Facility

Plus: Wisconsin Center District sells debt for expansion. By Jeramey Jannene - Dec 13th, 2020 04:16 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Cream City Hostel. Photo by Jeramey Jannene. The COVID-19 pandemic decimated travel across the globe, and Milwaukee’s first hostel was not immune to the effects. Cream City Hostel closed its doors earlier this year amidst the travel slowdown. But the building at 500 E. Center St. didn’t go dark. Bader Philanthropies is backing a new cooperative housing model built from the hostel’s infrastructure. The organization is providing a low-interest $450,000 loan to support the building’s conversion and retire existing debt. Milwaukee Area Cohousing is providing support on the conversion.

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