Profile: Colorado Council of Black Nurses

Colorado Council of Black Nurses (CCBN)

Mission

The Colorado Council of Black Nurses, Inc. has existed as a local non-profit health education and prevention intervention unit for 40 years. Our mission is to provide black and African American people with the tools to obtain high level health care.

Our strength is tenacious because we come from a long line of forerunners whose shoulders were strong enough to bring forth generations of dedicated black nurses, such as Mary Mahoney (the first black nurse in Colorado). 

Goals

We recommend the kind of care that they should expect from medical providers. We provide advocacy and health promoting opportunities so that our people may obtain the highest quality of medical and illness preventive services. The self-determining workshops we offer is our overarching goal.  It determines our leadership among health care providers. We are the continuing education center around health promotion in the black community.

Today we are group of committed black men and women who work in various institutions throughout the state with the common goal of making the health status of black people higher and of lowering their risks of illness and death. We teach healthy lifestyles as if our very lives depended upon it. We pride ourselves in getting the health behavior messages out.

We encourage any individuals of color in the field of nursing or that interested in entering nursing to attend our meetings.  We hold our meetings the third Saturday of every month at the Urban League of Metropolitan Denver 10am - 12pm (except July and August). 

For more information, visit our website at www.coloradoblacknurses.org.