The following post was created by ChatGPT as a response to my request to explain how promotoras are key to understanding caring for communities at the Women’s Intercultural Center in Anthony, New Mexico.
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In Anthony, care doesn’t start with programs or offices.
It starts with people who know one another.The Women’s Intercultural Center has been part of this community for many years. Its work grows out of daily life along the border—families balancing health, work, school, language, and paperwork all at once.
WIC doesn’t try to stand out.
It tries to stay connected.
HOW THE WORK HAPPENS
Much of what happens at WIC moves through promotoras—trusted community members who already have relationships with families.
They listen.
They check in.
They help people make sense of systems that can feel confusing or overwhelming.Alongside this, WIC offers learning opportunities, workforce support, and shared spaces where people can gather, talk, and learn in the languages they use every day.
TODAY
Today, WIC is still showing up.There are classes and community gatherings. There is practical help when it’s needed—food, clothing, guidance, connection. The work continues quietly, shaped by what families are facing right now.
The Women’s Intercultural Center reminds us that care is built through relationships, through promotoras who are trusted, and through people who keep showing up for one another—day after day.
Excellent catch; this supports the idea of using non professionals in the healthcare “stack” to accomplish various needs otherwise not addressed adequately. (or affordably).
The Promotoras Model of upgrading healthcare in communities where extra help is needed also works pretty much anywhere healthcare is used.
Maybe the communities look different in different economic areas, but even on the nicer side of the tracks, there are many seniors who need extra help, many career couples who need extra help etc…. many kids with special needs…etc etc….and who are probably best served by people from those communities who understand which solutions might work best for that group’s needs.
BTW, “Promotoras” also shows up as a positive tool in the healthcare toolbox…. during LLM searches for “best practices in healthcare worldwide.”
Admin note: Continuing exploration of what LLMs can do reveals that it can go deeper and broader if guided and directed to do so. The core value of LLM research is the quality of the details it can “resolve” in a response.
It seems to do that better when it is asked to take what it had done, and then go deeper and broader with its next response. Using LLMs capability of writing dynamic queries that can then be pasted into the query window is one way to get much deeper and broader response.
Presumably there’s a bottom to this process where better and broader details can no longer be “found”…but as agentic AI continues to evolve there’s some hope for “new knowledge” being developed by AI.