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Health Outreach Partners https://outreach-partners.org/blog-post/a-new-year-rooted-in-partnership-and-community-from-executive-director-cynthia-selmi/ Export date: Wed Jan 21 10:09:47 2026 / +0000 GMT |
A New Year Rooted in Partnership and Community From Executive Director, Cynthia Selmi As we welcome 2026, on behalf of the Health Outreach Partners Board of Directors and staff, I want to wish our partners, collaborators, friends, and supporters a very Happy New Year. Looking back on the past year, I am filled with gratitude for what we have accomplished together. In a time of ongoing change, intense challenge, and uncertainty across our health care and nonprofit sectors, HOP remained grounded in what has always guided our work, relationships, community wisdom, and collaboration. Over the last year, our team continued to support community health centers and partners nationwide through our relevant and engaging trainings, both virtual and in-person. We presented at conference workshops, provided individual support for health centers and primary care associations to sharpen their operations and programs, and published many resources with the goal to serve and strengthen care in communities across the country. We deepened our work alongside agricultural worker communities, advanced inclusive health efforts with and for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and continued to lift up the voices of outreach workers, CHWs, promotores, and community members whose lived experience shapes better systems of care. As we step into 2026, HOP is leaning even more intentionally into partnership. The year ahead is filled with opportunities to collaborate, learn together, and amplify our collective impact. Many of the key projects we have planned are in collaboration with partners. I truly believe we are stronger together. We will need to strengthen our commitment to one another as we face changes in our funding and prepare to address the changes to Medicaid, as a result of the passage of H.R1. Those changes have the potential to devastate our communities. Through collaboration, HOP can support health centers through this transition, with patient care as our guiding light. We kick off 2026 with our second e-learning series, Pathways to Inclusion: Advancing Health Access for the IDD Community, to train health care providers to better serve individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, building on a strong foundation created through community listening and co-design. In February, I'm excited to present at NACHC's Policy & Issues Forum, in collaboration with our partners from the Farmworker Health Network, in a panel discussion on Emerging Issues in Health Care Access for Agricultural Workers. I hope to see you there. This spring, HOP will partner, once again, with the National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) to plan the Spring Agricultural Worker Health Symposium in New Orleans on April 15, bringing partners together to share strategies, innovation, and community-centered solutions. We will also co-host a webinar with our longtime partners at Migrant Clinicians Network as part of our maternal and child health work, titled Understanding Congenital Syphilis in Newborns, an important and timely conversation grounded in prevention, equity, and care. Each of these efforts reflects what we believe most strongly: progress happens when we work together. In 2026, HOP will continue to lean into our partners, listening closely, collaborating deeply, and showing up alongside communities to strengthen access, dignity, and health equity. I remain profoundly grateful for the HOP team, who remained focused during a difficult year. They never lost their sense of humor, dedication to the mission, or quest for the perfect pastry. ☺ Thank you also to our partners across the country, and the communities who trust us to walk with them. Thank you for being part of this work and for helping make the year ahead one of shared purpose. With gratitude and hope for 2026, Cynthia Selmi Executive Director Health Outreach Partners P.S. As the New Year begins, I invite you to consider making a tax-deductible gift 1 to Health Outreach Partners. Your support helps sustain community-led trainings, strengthen outreach and enabling services, and ensure we can continue showing up alongside the communities we serve. Thank you for being part of this work. |
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