Floyd Hodoh on LinkedIn: On June 11th-12th, 2024, My Community Cares Parent Cafe held a two-day… (2024)

The Department of Children and Family Services’ Baton Rouge Region hosted their monthly Community Collaborative meeting on Tuesday, June 18th , at the CVS Workforce Innovation and Training Center/Community Resource Center (WITC/CRC). Community stakeholders and organizations working with foster parents discussed the needs of foster families in our region.This was an opportunity for organizations to connect and network with community partners, learn what’s needed, explore how you can be part of the solution, help build a supportive network, and create a brighter tomorrow for Louisiana children. Foster caregivers provide safe, caring homes for children and youth until they can be reunited with their families, when possible. Are you ready to BE THERE for a child or teen who needs a home? Copy and paste the link to register. https://lnkd.in/eZMeZpcE . The WITC/CRC is located at 5353 Essen Lane, suite 150, inside the Essen Centre, is designed to build CVS's talent pipeline and raise the community's skill set and allow Aetna Medicaid customers and other community members to access on-site health assessments, resources, and education.

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This past weekend Aetna Better Health of Louisiana partnered with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's office to hold the first "Bags 2 School Event" at Living Faith Christian Center. I would like to thank Cpl. Brandon of the EBR SHeriff's Office and our community partners who helped make this a successful event. I would also like to thank our greek organizations of the Divine 9 who assisted in this endeavor.

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The Department of Children and Family Services’ Baton Rouge Region hosted their monthly Community Collaborative meeting on Tuesday, June 18th , at the CVS Workforce Innovation and Training Center/Community Resource Center (WITC/CRC). Community stakeholders and organizations working with foster parents discussed the needs of foster families in our region.This was an opportunity for organizations to connect and network with community partners, learn what’s needed, explore how you can be part of the solution, help build a supportive network, and create a brighter tomorrow for Louisiana children. Foster caregivers provide safe, caring homes for children and youth until they can be reunited with their families, when possible. Are you ready to BE THERE for a child or teen who needs a home? Copy and paste the link to register. https://lnkd.in/eZMeZpcE . The WITC/CRC is located at 5353 Essen Lane, suite 150, inside the Essen Centre, is designed to build CVS's talent pipeline and raise the community's skill set and allow Aetna Medicaid customers and other community members to access on-site health assessments, resources, and education.

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Today, the CVS/Aetna Workforce Innovation and Training Center/Community Resource Center (WITC/CRC) hosted a Cooking Demonstration from Eva Davis, Nutrition and Community Health Agent from LSU Agriculture Center East Baton Rouge Parish. Eva led us in preparing healthy chicken and vegetable quesadillas and demonstrated ways to modify quesadillas for different types of vegetarian diets. She also talked about consuming whole grains instead refined grains, the consumption of more fruits and vegetables in your daily diets, plus reducing the consumption of sodium "salt" in their foods. Our next Cooking Demo is June 28 at 10:00 AM. Eva will grace us with her presence again on July 26 at 10:00 AM.

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Invited by my good friend Blaine Grimes to join and attend the Louisiana Jumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. I attended my first meeting on April 23, 2024, at the Louisiana Bankers Association building on Bankers Avenue. It was a pleasure to hear from EBR Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome as we celebrated National Financial Literacy Month. The EBR Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome and Governor Jeff Landry proclaimed April Financial Literacy Month in the State of Louisiana. Get ready Baton Rouge and Louisianans, The Jumpstart Coalition is here.

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BATON ROUGE, LA, APRIL 25, 2024 — CVS Health® (NYSE:CVS) today announced the opening of a new workforce development and community resource center designed to help the Baton Rouge community overcome employment barriers and increase access to local health care services.Located at 5353 Essen Lane, the facility includes aWorkforce Innovation & Talent Center (WITC), which offers comprehensive career skills training and job placement that includes a CVS Pharmacy® mock store, simulated pharmacy environment and authentic, hands-on externships at local CVS Pharmacy locations. It also includes a new Community Resource Center (CRC) supported by Aetna Better Health of Louisiana, a CVS Health company. The CRC provides the public, Aetna Medicaid members and workforce program participants onsite health needs assessments and education, help with navigating their health benefits, access to computers and state-of-the-art teleconferencing, CPR and first aid training and connections to a local network of care providers. “With the combined resources of CVS Health and Aetna and our network of community partners, we are uniquely positioned to help the people of Baton Rouge access the career skills training and the health and wellness services they need to overcome barriers to employment, stay healthy and motivated and ultimately succeed in their careers.”

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A first-of-its-kind community resource center and workforce training facility, complete with a mock CVS Pharmacy, is now open in Baton Rouge. The Workforce Innovation and Talent Center is designed to help young people, people with disabilities, ex-military, and people in need of more job training overcome employment barriers while increasing access to health care sources. The WITC is designed to build CVS's talent pipeline and raise the community's skill set.The center features a 900-square-foot mock pharmacy, consultation rooms for telehealth visits, workstations for Aetna employees, a multipurpose room, an executive conference room, computer stations, and huddle rooms. Plans are to offer a variety of community services, including financial literacy classes, cooking demos, health education & information, CPR & First Aid Training, resume writing, interview skills, and a vending machine for personal and family needs. A major partner will be Big Buddy/Mayor’s Youth Workforce Experience. The new center will allow Aetna to help more people in Baton Rouge. CVS plans to work with multiple partners to train workers, including Goodwill Industries, Baton Rouge Community College, Job Corps, and Fortis College.

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