Help us build strong health ministries

Join with other African American congregations working with EPICC to reduce health disparities.

Engaging Partners in Caring Communities (EPICC) is seeking congregations to join research on building stronger health ministries.

Strengthen your health ministry.

Understand your congregation’s strength.

Build a team to promote the health of your congregants.

Why?

African Americans have higher rates of a high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and early death.*

*www.CDC.gov

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

How to Participate?

Form a team that will work together.

Select an evidence-based health promotion program for your FBO.

Complete an online survey to identify congregational strengths & challenges.

Get feedback from the EPICC team of health experts.

The EPICC Benefits

Opportunities to participate in other activities to build your church’s health ministry.

Your congregation will receive a stipend as an honorarium for the time and effort involved in participating in this project. The amount of the honorarium will be based on the number of months your congregation participated in the EPICC Project.