Participants learn about topics such as nutrition, hygiene, mental health, reproductive health, physical health and adaptation of ethnic food to meet their current caloric needs. Following training, health promoters provide 12 hours of health education within their own ethnic communities each month and meet monthly for three hours of continuing education where they share stories, discuss community concerns and learn new information. The goals of the Health Promoters Program are: train women to be community health educators; provide health promoters with the resources to be liaisons between their ethnic communities and the health care system; and strengthen women's leadership abilities.