DHTI Community Wellness

Our Healthcare Career Pathways program builds a pipeline of culturally competent and linguistically diverse healthcare workers. We help immigrants pursue healthcare careers by offering FREE career coaching and knowledge-based training referrals with our school partners, navigation support, work-readiness workshops, and internship and job placement opportunities.

Our Community Wellness program promotes healthy communities by supporting marginalized Middle-Eastern and North African communities gain access to mental health services and social service referrals. We host community events, psycho-education and cultural workshops, and provide social service referrals and preventive & early intervention mental health services.

Collectively through our various programs and projects, DHTI has served over 1500 immigrants, refugees, and asylees from over 68 countries, representing over 42 languages. DHTI is a trusted community organization with a diverse staff who reflect the languages, cultures, and experiences of our underserved immigrant and marginalized communities. All staff members identify as people of color, 90% identify as refugees or immigrants themselves, and collectively we speak over 10 languages and dialects, such as, Burmese, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Pashto, Persian (Dari and Farsi), Punjabi, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese.