Mission
To provide marginalized communities with state-of-the-art information, consultation, and direct services designed to address issues related to substance abuse, and other medical and mental health issues.
Vision
Our overall goal is to guide members of marginalized and disenfranchised communities toward taking ownership of their health and becoming proactive in accessing treatments which are healthy, sustainable, and client-centered.
About the DLCF
The Dorothy Lee Coverson Foundation (DLCF) is a nonprofit organization that improves the health and well-being of young African-Americans and Latinx community members by modifying behaviors. DLCF utilizes a multipronged approach, teaching skills like dieting and exercise, weight management, preventative care, illness management and sexual health and responsibility.
DLCF was founded in 2013. Over the next three years, we will work in Atlanta and Las Vegas to dramatically improve the well-being and healthcare of African-Americans and Latinx individuals in part by focusing on areas identified by the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having substantial and disproportionately larger prevalence among African-Americans and people of color.
These areas include maternal and infant health, teen pregnancy, smoking and tobacco use, HIV/AIDS, asthma, nutrition, obesity, high cholesterol and more. DLCF will incentivize – through scholarships and other methods – at-risk minority populations to participate in events designed to educate and empower them.
DLCF will host community events, facilitate training sessions, conduct focus groups and provide stipends to students who demonstrate the willingness, motivation and ability to change their attitudes and behaviors about their well-being, and take active roles in improving health-related outcomes for their families and communities.
About Dr. Dorothy Lee Coverson
Dr, Dorothy Lee Coverson, PhD, died unexpectedly on April 12, 2012 at her home of Union City, Ga. She was 44. Anative of Hamilton, Ga., she received her BSN from Columbus State University in Columbus, Ga., and her MSN from Troy State University in Phoenix City, Ala. She earn her PhD in nursing and a certificate in women’s studies at Emory in Atlanta. Dr. Coverson completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiology at Emory’s School of Medicine and joined Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine as assistant professor with the Cardiovascular Research Institute and in Community Health and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Coverson belonged to Chi Eta Psi nursing sorority and the National Association for the advancement of Colored People. Her survivors include six brothers and sisters, five nieces and nephews and several grand nieces and nephews.
Importance of Education
At Innovative we understand the importance of an education and it being the foundation of sustained success in an ever growing, technologically advanced society. This is especially true for at-risk youth, many of whom have been cast away to varying degrees by their families, teachers, and all facets of the juvenile justice system. To encourage positive self-transformation, instill self-worth, minimize recidivism and restore hope to these children’s lives, we believe it to be imperative to emphasize education as the gateway to opportunity and a healthy future. Along with our variety of specialized programming geared toward modifying learned behavior, we have partnered with the public school district and now provide secondary schooling that offers both high school diplomas and equivalents. . . .
