Benefit Program

CCMP’s Preventive Medical Benefit Program

DELIVERING EVERY DAY

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Our Benefits

Since 1973, CCMP has addressed the health needs of farm workers, service workers, temporary workers and other low-paid workers. CCMP members have participated in building a comprehensive approach to alleviating the causes of ill health for working people.

For the majority of poor and working people, the enemy of good health is not the lack of access to medical care per se, but the overwhelming odds against which they must battle to maintain housing, safe living and working conditions, nutrition and protection from the elements — let alone timely preventive screening to ward off disease before it takes hold.

CCMP serves as a vehicle for people of principle to take a stand for the elimination of any and all political and economic barriers to good health, including campaigns to defeat laws and governmental policies detrimental to the interests of the low-paid workers and their families.

Including… 

PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION

NON-EMERGENCY DENTAL CARE

PODIATRIC CARE

MEDICAL ADVOCACY

MEDICAL EDUCATION AND INFORMATION SESSIONS

📞 (718) 469-5817

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General Medical Sessions

Volunteer professionals provide free-of-charge consults to low-income workers accompanied by a trained medical advocate to record the follow-up plan and organize donated resources to consummate it while at the same time expanding CCMP’s organizing drive.

Between 36% and 38% of the U.S. population have had to skip or postpone necessary medical care or medications due to cost.
Why is this important?
A volunteer dentist and his assistant perform a dental procedure while a volunteer advocates takes notes.

Non-Emergency Dental Care

Dental professionals volunteer their services in their own practices to deliver preventive and corrective care for benefit recipients. Benefit recipients are accompanied by trained dental advocates to record the follow-up plan directed by the volunteer professional and organize donated resources to consummate it through CCMP’s existing donated resources or newly acquired resources of lab work, specialists or other follow-up care.

40% of adult New Yorkers did not have a preventive dental visit in the last 12 months. Cost is the leading is barrier, while two-thirds of dentists do not accept Medicaid coverage.
Why is this important?
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Medical Education and Information Sessions

CCMP member medical professionals present valuable education on a variety of health topics. Houses of worship, businesses or organizations with low-paid workers make a request to CCMP to learn about specific healthcare topics. CCMP then organizes medical professionals to make an educational presentation to fill the benefit request.

Half of patients leave appointments not understanding their care instructions, yet proper education reduces harm by 15% and hospital admissions by 19%.
Why is this important?
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Medical Advocacy

CCMP volunteers do medical advocacy to expunge medical debt and overcome delays and denials from insurance companies and government programs.

In the U.S., 41% of U.S. adults have medical debt. It is the leading causing of individual bankruptcies.
Why is this important?
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Supplemental Nutrition

A building block of good health and well-being is good nutrition. CCMP organizes and distributes over 1,000 pounds of food per week to low-paid workers and their families.

The average U.S. adult consumes 63 pounds of high fructose corn syrup annually.
Why is this important?

Information and Referral

CCMP volunteers do information and referral to agencies purported to provide assistance with securing electricity, housing, heat and clothing for low-paid worker benefit recipients whose health is put at risk because they are unable to afford these basic life necessities.

Two volunteers work off a list and make phone calls.
Poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., linked to roughly 200,000 deaths annually. Lack of food or shelter, as well as the ability to stay warm or cool in extreme weather, shorten life expectancy.
Why is this important?

Change the Course of Medical History

By joining others of like mind you access the benefit of organization. As a member or volunteer of CCMP, the greatest benefit you will receive is being able to take material action to fight for comprehensive healthcare beyond anything you could achieve as an individual.

VOLUNTEER

As a CCMP volunteer you aid low-paid worker benefit recipients with a free-of-charge Preventive Healthcare Benefit program, learn how to advocate to expunge medical bills and be part of running day-to-day operations.

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JOIN AS A MEMBER

CCMP members commit to taking action consistent with CCMP’s program. Those who join as members participate in and build a comprehensive approach to eliminating the causes of ill health for working people.

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FIND OUR OFFICE

Our office is open 365-days-a-year, mornings to evenings in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Our phones are answered 24/7, always by volunteers. Please call us at (718) 469-5817 to schedule to volunteer

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Celia Bramble, R.N.

— CCMP Board of Directors Member since 2019

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