FAMILY &
COMMUNITY
WELL-BEING
Empowering clients to live healthy, self-sufficient, and fulfilling lives through physical and mental wellness programs, strong healthcare partnerships, and advancing intergenerational well-being.
By the Numbers
Healthy Communities
To create sustainable health programming that fosters awareness, educates and supports the health and wellness of our Latino and immigrant community.
Health and WELLness Strategies
Healthy Communities promotes well-being through education, health services, and community events in partnership with local healthcare organizations.
The program enriches community health by offering culturally appropriate education, enrichment activities, and on-site health services.
Programming Includes
Healthy Communities offers a range of services and educational opportunities designed to promote prevention, wellness, and access to care, including:
- Health screenings
- Vaccine clinics
- CPR and First Aid Training
- Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
- Bienvenido Mental Wellness Program
- Free mammogram screenings
- Annual Women’s Health Conference
Additional Health and Wellness Strategies
Community system support and referrals equips community members with the knowledge and skills required to navigate key systems and foster their connection to the community.
- Access to legal consultations through partnerships with CIRA, Dornan Law Team, and Carlson & Blakeman, LLP
- Direct 1-1 Support: brief translation and/or interpretation of documents
- Referral Support: Connects to community resources including to health care, government services, legal support, housing, food pantries, and education. Referrals are made through the Unite U.S. referral system, partner networks, and our Spanish-focused Community Directory.
- Direct support and referral services are strategically integrated across our programs to provide wrap-around support for participating families
Bilingual Reading Prime time
In partnership with Nebraska Humanities, Prime Time provides an opportunity for families to spend time together reading books, discussing stories, and engaging with other families in the community.
Cultivate Wellness
Providing clients with the skills, training, and resources to grow fresh produce, fostering food security, self-sufficiency, healthy living, and stronger community connections through home gardening.
cuLTIVATE Wellness Strategies
Cultivate Wellness is a free at-home gardening and health program that empowers families to grow fresh, culturally relevant produce while improving access to affordable, healthy food.
Through hands-on training and weekly home visits, staff support low-income households with garden development, health education, service referrals, and personalized guidance that promotes healthier lifestyles and long-term resilience.
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Siembra Salud Internship program
Siembra Salud interns support Cultivate Wellness by delivering health education, leading hands-on gardening activities, and helping maintain the LCM Health & Innovation Garden while gaining real-world public health experience.
Siembra Nebraska provides high school and college students to hands-on internships across diverse fields through five specialized branches, cultivating leadership, professional growth, and career readiness. Interns are matched with local organizations aligned with their career goals and gain real-world experience through professional development workshops, job shadowing, and meaningful projects that prepare them for long-term success.
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LCM Health and Innovation Garden
Managed by the Cultivate Wellness program, the LCM Health and Innovation garden is a vibrant hub where hands-on learning, sustainable agriculture, and community connection come together.
In the fall of 2024, the Latino Center of the Midlands unveiled the Health and Innovation garden at the Dorothy Patach Natural Environmental Area. Under the dedicated care of Latino Center Cultivate Wellness staff, interns, Cultivate Wellness family participants, and dedicated volunteers, the garden has blossomed into a thriving hub of activity.
Together, have transformed this space into a place of learning, connection, and nourishment, where individuals of all ages can experience the joy of growing food and fostering a deeper understanding of the natural environment.
The garden also serves as a vital source of accessible, healthy produce for families in our community. We believe that access to fresh, nutritious food is fundamental to community well-being, and the garden plays a crucial role in strengthening food security for the families we serve.
If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the garden, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the Latino Center.
Thanks to you all, I knew where to plant my garden. That’s where we began and since then, everything has been perfect about this gardening project.
Blanca Santacruz
Siembra Salud has a lot of benefits for our families, especially those with little resources.
Julia Santiago de Ortiz
