eMagazine July 2023
OUR PEOPLE, OUR MISSION Global Health eMagazine July 2023 Highlights Among the Letters Reflections Hispanic and Latinx Voices Global Local Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be Our Beautiful Planet Voices of Ugandan Students Nursing Division Congratulations Video of the Month Article of the Month Calendar Global Health Family Photo News Resources Hispanic/Latinx Voices; Stories from our Community Section Editor: Elvis Novas Written by Elvis Novas Advisor for the Dominican Community Center and member of the Board of Directors of Housatonic Habitat for Humanity, Danbury, CT “I am very grateful for the privilege of being selected as editor for the column “Hispanic/Latinx Voices: Stories from our Community ‘’ of the Global Health eMagazine.” My desire for a better community has been the guide to introduce me to community work, specifically in the Hispanic/Latinx community. This experience has allowed me to see and treat people in our community with great human and professional values; men and women who just need a platform to share their stories and amplify the voices of others. Our vision for the column “Hispanic/Latinx Voices: Stories From Our Community” is based on the interest of making our people, culture, values, and points of view known and at the same time motivate our audience to be more interested in our community. With this, we seek greater visibility for our community, the opportunity for our people to expose their talents and abilities to communicate and for others to know our true stories. I encourage you to follow us each month as we feature inspiring stories from our Hispanic/Latinx community in the city of Danbury, Connecticut. Please feel free to send me your ideas or thoughts at enovas@gmail.com. Previous Issues of the eMagazine 18 Hispanic/Latinx continued on next page >>
OUR PEOPLE, OUR MISSION Global Health eMagazine July 2023 Highlights Among the Letters Reflections Hispanic and Latinx Voices Global Local Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be Our Beautiful Planet Voices of Ugandan Students Nursing Division Congratulations Video of the Month Article of the Month Calendar Global Health Family Photo News Resources Elké Calero-Sweeney A Mental Health Professional and a Community Advocate Elké is a Bi-lingual and Bi-cultural Mental Health Clinician who works as a Clinical Social Worker for the State of CT, Coalition Director of Prevention Services with Stand Together Make a Difference - MCCA, Clinical Consultant at LYFE Detention Center, and Adjunct Professor. Elke is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Harambee Youth & Community Center, and the National Organization of Black Girl Health. Elke has 29 years of psycho-educational, counseling, and clinical experience. A graduate from WCSU with a bachelor’s degree in social work, and a master’s degree of Clinical Social Work from Fordham University, she is the first-born indigenous Latina college graduate in her family. Her daughter, Tehya, is the firstborn college graduate on her father’s side of the family. Elke was born in Stamford, CT and is the first-born United States generation from immigrant parents. As a child and youth, Elke’s frequent visits and stays in Peru, where most of her family reside, exposed her to conditions of poverty and femicide, and issues of indigenous rights, which paved the pathway for her work in advocacy, trauma intervention and prevention, and mental health therapy. Elke dedicates her clinical and educational skills to communities that have been economically and socially marginalized and have the least amount of access to culturally responsive treatment, therapy, and education. She focuses on the social determinants of health, complex trauma, substance misuse prevention, and under resourced communities impacted by oppressive systems. She incorporates her cultural indigenous healing practices into her clinical therapeutic skills. Elke gives back into her community by providing advocacy skills and worker’s rights for immigrant communities - specifically day laborers. She also provides pro-bono assessments for Immigrant attorney’s and provides comprehensive sex-education and harm reduction workshops for youth. Elke has been living in the City of Danbury, CT since 1999 and continues to live, work, and volunteer in the city that she loves and cares for, focusing on creating a safer and healthier community. She follows the mission of the Harambee Youth Center “All Together, We Pull Together”, and the mission of her prevention coalition work “Stand Together, Make a Difference”. Previous Issues of the eMagazine 19
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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
<strong>July</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
Highlights<br />
Among the Letters<br />
Reflections<br />
Hispanic and Latinx Voices<br />
Global Local<br />
Art to Remind Us of Who We<br />
Can Be<br />
Our Beautiful Planet<br />
Voices of Ugandan<br />
Students<br />
Nursing Division<br />
Congratulations<br />
Video of the Month<br />
Article of the Month<br />
Calendar<br />
Global Health Family<br />
Photo News<br />
Resources<br />
Hispanic/Latinx Voices;<br />
Stories from<br />
our Community<br />
Section Editor: Elvis Novas<br />
Written by Elvis Novas<br />
Advisor for the Dominican Community Center and<br />
member of the Board of Directors of Housatonic Habitat<br />
for Humanity, Danbury, CT<br />
“I am very grateful for the privilege of being selected<br />
as editor for the column “Hispanic/Latinx Voices:<br />
Stories from our Community ‘’ of the Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong>.”<br />
My desire for a better community has been the guide to introduce me to<br />
community work, specifically in the Hispanic/Latinx community. This experience<br />
has allowed me to see and treat people in our community with great human and<br />
professional values; men and women who just need a platform to share their<br />
stories and amplify the voices of others.<br />
Our vision for the column “Hispanic/Latinx Voices: Stories From Our Community”<br />
is based on the interest of making our people, culture, values, and points of view<br />
known and at the same time motivate our audience to be more interested in our<br />
community.<br />
With this, we seek greater visibility for our community, the opportunity for our<br />
people to expose their talents and abilities to communicate and for others to<br />
know our true stories. I encourage you to follow us each month as we feature<br />
inspiring stories from our Hispanic/Latinx community in the city of Danbury,<br />
Connecticut.<br />
Please feel free to send me your ideas or thoughts at enovas@gmail.com.<br />
Previous Issues of<br />
the <strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
18<br />
Hispanic/Latinx continued on next page >>
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