To educate a diverse health care workforce through community-based partnerships, to improve health services to District of Columbia residents

• Develop and support the community-based, interdisciplinary training
  of health professional students, particularly in the District.
• Provide continuing education and other services that improve the
  quality of community-based health care.
• Recruit underrepresented minority and disadvantaged students into
  the health professions through a wide variety of programs targeting elementary through high school students.
• Facilitate and support practitioners, facilities, and community-based organizations in addressing critical local health issues in a timely and efficient manner.