Peer Education & Support
The most powerful change begins within the community. AARTH believes that peer-led workshops are essential to advancing health equity because they are rooted in lived experience, trust, and shared understanding. When information comes from people who reflect the community they serve, it becomes more relatable, easier to apply, and more likely to create lasting change.
Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshops (CDSMP)
Peer-guided sessions focused on managing conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, and other chronic illnesses through practical, everyday strategies.
Diabetes Self-Management Workshops (DSMP)
Supportive, peer-led learning focused on blood sugar management, nutrition, and building healthy routines.
Peer Education & Support
The most powerful change begins within the community. AARTH believes lived experience, trusted relationships, and grassroots leadership are essential to advancing health equity. Through Peer Education & Support, Community Navigators, Lay Leaders, and Volunteers help build a culturally grounded, people powered movement for wellness.
Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshops (CDSMP)
Peer-guided sessions focused on managing conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, and other chronic illnesses through practical, everyday strategies.
Diabetes Self-Management Workshops (DSMP)
Supportive, peer-led learning focused on blood sugar management, nutrition, and building healthy routines.
Peer support works because it is built on:
Trust
Shared identity
Cultural understanding
Mutual respect
In communities of color, medical mistrust and stigma can prevent people from seeking care. Peer led programs provide an accessible, culturally grounded entry point into health education, prevention, and long term wellness.
Peer education builds:
• Confidence
• Health literacy
• Community trust
• Leadership within the community
When leadership comes from within the community, health information is more trusted and more effective.
AARTH’s peer model ensures that health outreach is not imposed from the outside but grown from within. It honors culture, faith, lived experience, and shared understanding.
This is how sustainable change happens.
Our workshops are held in private, supportive settings to ensure participants feel safe, comfortable, and respected while learning and sharing. While these sessions are not publicly accessible, we invite you to explore our resources to learn more and access helpful information at your own pace.
Physical Address
1111 Harvard Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Mailing Address
PO Box 428
Renton, WA 98057
Phone
1-206-850-2070
