The Institute for Leadership Education, Advancement, and Development, Inc.
is a community-based nonprofit school that works to improve local quality of life
by helping to strengthen citizens as effective community leaders. Quality
of life factors must include the total health of residents.

I-LEAD seeks to improve neighborhood quality of life in Pennsylvania by
working with community leaders to develop and hone strong local leadership. 

I-LEAD Community Health Goals

We at I-LEAD see a region where all have health equity. The I-LEAD team is grateful for the opportunity to expand its overall vision to include community health work related to special populations and access in medically-underserved communities.

In addition to I-LEAD's overarching goals, I-LEAD Community Health seeks to help grass-roots leaders:

	Build and practice health advocacy skills at the individual, family and community levels;
	Increase understanding of disease and prevention;
	Improve their knowledge of how public health systems function;
	Develop skills needed to impact health policy; and
	Increase knowledge of available resources, program models and program development tools.

I-LEAD Community Health also seeks to impact systems positively by:

	Facilitating linkages to entities and coordinating resources needed by medically-underserved populations;
	Fostering and speeding the translation of research as it relates to medically-underserved populations into public health practice; and
	Building bridges between medically-underserved populations and those whose decisions impact their quality of life.

I-LEAD Community Health continuously strives to live out the Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health developed by the Public Health Leadership Society (PHLS). PHLS is an alumni society for graduates of the CDC National Public Health Leadership Institute.

I-LEAD Community Health Team

President
David Castro, JD

Director of Community Health Services
Miriam E. Lavandier, MA