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What We Do & How You Help

Address
Health
Disparities
AARTH tackles critical health issues like HIV/AIDS, diabetes, hypertension, and mental health that disproportionately affect African American communities. Your involvement helps close these gaps.
Empower
the Faith
Community
AARTH partners with churches to bring culturally relevant health education into trusted spaces, reducing stigma and saving lives.
Honor a
Legacy
Your participation helps continue the legacy of Reginald L. Diggs and Mary Diggs-Hobson—leaders who spoke truth, broke silence, and led with compassion.
Build
Stronger
Communities
Health is community wealth. AARTH strengthens neighborhoods by providing tools and knowledge to support long-term well-being.
Be Part
of the
Solution
Volunteers, partners, and donors work together as changemakers to advance racial and health equity at the grassroots level.

OUR LEADERSHIP PATHWAYS

Community Navigators

Lay Leaders

Volunteers

Community Navigators

Community Navigators are relationship builders, advocates, and connectors. They are rooted in the cultural values and lived experiences of the people they serve.

Their presence ensures that no elder feels forgotten and that every elder has access to support, knowledge, and community.

What Community Navigators Do

• Share health education and event information
• Encourage participation in AARTH programs
• Normalize conversations around aging, wellness, and caregiving
• Connect elders and families to trusted resources
• Serve as a bridge between faith communities and public health systems

Faith Based Partnerships

Faith remains a powerful influence in the lives of many African American elders. By partnering with Black churches and faith based organizations, Community Navigators ensure that outreach is culturally respectful and spiritually affirming.

Lay Leaders

Lay Leaders facilitate evidence based workshops such as:

• Chronic Disease Self Management Program
• Diabetes Self Management Program

These are structured 6 week workshops, 2.5 hours per week, serving groups of 12 to 15 participants living with chronic conditions.

• Leaders co facilitate with another trained leader
• No prior medical knowledge is required
• Training is provided using the Self Management Resource Center curriculum
• Leaders receive a stipend

Volunteers

Volunteers support outreach, events, community engagement, and workshop logistics.

They help:

• Spread awareness
• Welcome participants
• Support event operations
• Strengthen community presence

Volunteers are often the first friendly face someone meets when attending an AARTH program.

When communities have access to the right information, real change happens.

Our resource hub offers culturally relevant tools and education to help

individuals, families, and faith communities move from awareness to action.

Show Me Your Resources

When communities have access to the right information, real change happens.

Our resource hub offers culturally relevant tools and education to help

individuals, families, and faith communities move from awareness to action.

When communities have access to the right information, real change happens.

Our resource hub offers culturally relevant tools and education to help

individuals, families, and faith communities move from awareness to action.

When communities have access to the right information, real change happens.

Our resource hub offers culturally relevant tools and education to help

individuals, families, and faith communities move from awareness to action.

Physical Address

1111 Harvard Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122

Mailing Address

PO Box 428
Renton, WA 98057