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Our
CURE
(Center
for Urban
Research and
Empowerment) programs
involve innovative partnerships and collaborations with community
agencies and other faith-based organizations. By intelligently
leveraging our collective resources, we can create and distribute
services that offer unparalleled quality, service, and value to our
target communities. CURE addresses health issues, the challenges of
inner city neighborhoods and the multi-faceted needs of those in
crisis in our community
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Each program under
CURE is customizable and can be configured to meet a wide
variety of community needs:
1 - Immediate Needs – needs relevant to housing/shelter, food, or
personal care
2 - Intermediate Needs – needs beyond housing/shelter, food, and
personal care. E.g. Counseling, Transportation, Internet Access,
furniture or moving assistance, etc. based on available resources.
3 - Long-term Needs – needs beyond intermediate, including but
not limited to job training, adopt-a-family or adopt-a-person
efforts that provide families and individuals support on a long-term
basis that addresses emotional, spiritual, financial, child-care,
and other needs in the same way that an extended family helps its
members.
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The
vision for
CURE is to address the wide-ranging health issues,
particularly those affecting the African American community.
CURE has adopted a holistic
approach to disease, drug, alcohol use, and crime prevention that
encompasses physical, spiritual and emotional well-being.
Partnerships with both private and federal agencies enable
CURE to support health and
wholeness efforts in urban communities through three programs:
 Health
Initiative
HIP
NIP Neighborhood Involvement
Reaching out to
underserved and disadvantaged persons, and helping them make needed
transitions from dependency (welfarism) to true sufficiency via
one-to-one relationships and group activities that connect them with
life skills and services. Results are evident in their subsequent
ability to thrive and help others make similar life changes that
lead to sufficiency...
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 Connecting
our community’s underserved and disadvantaged persons with critical
information and training relevant to health issues, health care
services, health professions, and health care access.
HIP represents partnerships with various schools and
divisions of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, local
churches, schools, and health care agencies ...
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Providing long-term,
proactive, faith based crisis/disaster management, which involves
interactive community partnerships with more than 40 faith based
organizations (e.g. churches, ministerial groups, community and
emergency service agencies) working together in a coordinated,
cooperative, collaborative way to effectively aid those affected by
disaster...
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