The We Grow Together! Coalition believes that relationships are the foundation of a healthy community system.

Our model for a healthy community system is a network of empowered relationships guided by fair and transparent policies. In our model, this network of relationships is centered in physical locations called Community Health Hubs (CHHs), where people can gather to access resources, engage in healthy activities, learn skills, and spend meaningful time with one another. CHHs are place-based and community driven which means that choices, vision, and leadership all happen at the neighborhood community level.

 

Through Community Health Hubs we promote strong relationships between:

  • We need clean air, clean water and healthy soil for communities to be sustainable for future generations. At CHHs, we grow awareness and advocate for these concerns.

  • Organizing CHHs is a powerful way to eliminate the barriers to having nutritious food. Food access barriers include financial, physical, knowledge, and cultural barriers. Community members come together to obtain, share, learn, and advocate for nutritional food.

  • All of the resources available at a CHH - physical, educational, health-promoting, and social - work together to enhance each individual's experience of a healthy, meaningful, and fulfilling life.

  • A sense of belonging to a community motivates us to commit time and energy towards the vision of a healthy, sustainable future. Our relationships with one another are guided by the principles of diversity, sustainability, inclusiveness, empowerment, resourcefulness, justice and consensus.

The Community Health Hub model is easily adaptable to different locations, circumstances, and communities. It is resilient in response to change, and it is empowering by supporting people in meaningfully addressing important issues. It allows people to participate and gain benefits at whatever level of involvement is comfortable for them.

 

We invite you to come learn and experience the possibilities with us!

We had a great time Loving the Boot for the Keep Louisiana Beautiful Neighborhood Cleanup last Saturday! We covered 3.5 miles and collected 22 bags of trash! #lovetheboot #keeplouisianabeautiful
This event celebrating delicious and nutritious greens is free and open to the public. This year’s highlighted greens will be Spinach, Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli! Come out to the Highland Garden across from Noel Methodist Church in Shrevepo
Join us OCTOBER 2ND from 11:00AM - 1:00PM at our campus on Martha Street in Stoner Hill! We’ll be celebrating the season with music, snacks, games, and even offering health screenings! The LA Watershed Protectors will be doing their hit present
Reminder: RRCCG’s monthly meeting is this evening!
“The first time you do a thing is always exciting”. - Agatha Christie Alberta Davis at the St. Rest Baptist Church Community Garden.
RRCCG supports community-driven, fair food access. When our neighbors in Stoner Hill - a neighborhood deemed a food desert - reflected on the old days when truck farmers came to sell their goods directly to neighborhoods, they were inspired to start
Meeting Time Change: Our community garden action group, Red River Coalition of Community Gardeners, is now meeting the FIRST MONDAY of each month at 4:30PM on the WGT Campus. That’s tonight! 🌱
Part of the We Grow Together! Coalition’s mission is to support the development of Community Health Hubs. One aspect of a Community Health Hub is to provide health and nutrition education. Nursing students from NSU School of Nursing came to the
Part of the We Grow Together! Coalition’s mission is to support the development of Community Health Hubs. This diagram shows the theoretical model we use as a guide for this place-based, community driven effort. Our Martha Street Campus is a wo
Happy Earth Day!
Support the efforts of the We Grow Together! Coalition by donating to RRCCG during Give for Good, now through May 4th! Follow the link in our bio to give.