Transforming Health Through Community-Based Care

King Enterprises partners with churches, health systems, and local leaders to deliver trusted, accessible care for all.

Program Partners

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Purple banner for The Lord's Church at 5010 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21215.
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Community Partners

Logo for Liberty Grace Church of God featuring a circular design with the words 'Where spiritual growth, health, and education work together' around the circle and the church's name in the center.
Logo of Mount Pleasant Development Corporation featuring three stylized figures holding hands in a semi-circle, with the organization name below.
Logo of the Baltimore City Health Department Senior Center in Sandtown Winchester, with icons for reading, exercise, food, and nutrition.
Johns Hopkins University logo with shield emblem and text
A shield with a blue border featuring a soldier with a shield on the left, a cross with white fabric in the background, and the word "SHELTER" with smaller text below on a brown background.
Baltimore City Health Department Zeta Senior Center logo with icons of a book, microphone, apple, and utensils.
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EngAGE with Heart

Community-Based Chronic Disease Care

Vision: A world in which chronic diseases and their related consequences to individual health, family and caregiver well-being, and economic strain are no longer a burden on society.

Care Pathways:

  • Health Access: On-site screenings, treatment, and education across multiple conditions with University of Maryland

  • Community Health Ambassadors: More outreach, care navigation, and advocacy

  • Hospital Linkage: Connect Johns Hopkins University patients with community support

  • Food Program: Larger food markets, nutrition education, food justice training

  • Partner Integration: Unified efforts across health, academic, and food organizations

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Program Partners

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Safeway logo with black text and a red and white emblem.
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Immunizations

Keeping Our Communities Safe and Strong

Vision: Empower trusted faith-based organizations to lead equitable, community-centered vaccination efforts that:

  • Close health disparity gaps

  • Build lasting trust between healthcare providers and underserved communities

  • Bring science to sanctuaries—delivering public health education and services where people feel safe

How the Program Works:

Community-Led Approach: Partner with faith leaders and medical experts to lead discussion about vaccines in community-centered faith locations.

Guiding Principles: 

  • Compassion: Understand history of vaccine hesitancy and listen first

  • Communication: Co-create outreach plans with local leaders

  • Compensation: Respect and pay trusted messengers for their time and influence

  • Convenience: Make vaccines accessible, sustainable, and community-based

Program Impact:

  • 75+ sites established with 300+ community partners

  • Flu vaccine rates rose by 15% city-wide

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Health & Research Partner

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Health Screenings

Care Access Future of Medicine Community Health Screening Program

Health & Research for a Better Future 
Future of Medicine program makes free advanced health screenings, health education and services, and research study opportunities available to communities around the globe. Health screenings are free and do not require insurance. 

Screening tests available:

  • Lp(a) – a lesser known heart risk

  • Brain health (Alzheimer’s disease risk)

  • Liver

  • Cholesterol

  • Kidney function

  • Blood sugar

In the Liberty Grace Church of God kitchen, Catherine King of King Enterprises Group LLC teaches students about the importance of healthy eating.

Program Partners

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Food as Medicine

Healing and Preventing Disease Through Food

Vision: To reduce diabetes-related health inequities by transforming how underserved communities in Baltimore access and engage with healthy food—using churches as hubs of trust, care, and education.

How the Program Works:

A holistic approach integrating: 

  • Healthy, culturally relevant meals

  • Diabetes and nutrition education

  • Access to medical screenings

Trusted Community-Based Delivery

  • Events hosted at Liberty Grace Church and partner churches across the city 

Key Components: 

  • 10 Sunday Events: cooking demos with shared recipes, health talks, and free health screenings

  • Healthy Food Markets: Discounted produce available at each event

  • On-site Care: Diabetes-related screenings (primary care, podiatry, ophthalmology)

  • Community Health Ambassadors (CHAs):  Local leaders trained to provide navigation, outreach, and support for SNAP/WIC enrollment

Scrabble tiles spelling 'MENTAL HEALTH' with a green leaf on white background.

Program Partner

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Mental Health & Drug Rehabilitation

Healing minds, rebuilding lives, and restoring communities with compassion and trust.

Vision: To transform community health by delivering innovative, trauma-informed and evidence-based care through trusted faith-based institutions. This approach bridges gaps in mental health and opioid care, reduces stigma, and fosters healing and resilience across generations in Baltimore.

How the Program Works:

Rooted in Faith-Based Institutions

Trusted, discreet, and stigma free spaces that are already active in community health.

Services Provided: 

Participants receive a tailored mix of trauma-informed, evidence-based care, including:

  • Mental health assessments and trauma-informed screenings

  • SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment)

  • Navigation and referrals to behavioral health, community, and social services

  • Psychoeducational workshops and peer-led support groups

  • Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), therapy, and crisis intervention

  • NARCAN® training and distribution

  • Ongoing follow-up and care coordination

“80% of people who work with our program (EngAGE with Heart) are more trusting of healthcare.”

— Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland