What is the Iowa Community HUB?
CHPcommunity is a local nonprofit organization managing the Iowa Community HUB that is made up of a network of partners coming together to support evidence-based health promotion programs and services in Iowa.
What is the Iowa Community HUB?
The Iowa Community HUB (HUB) is a nonprofit community care hub (CCH) working with network partners to connect Iowans with meaningful evidence-based programs with a focus on reducing health disparities for priority populations experiencing greater obstacles to health.
A CCH supports their network through centralizing administrative functions and operational infrastructure. CCHs provide the needed infrastructure for CBOs within the network to expand and sustain their programming and participate in contracting with healthcare organizations. A CCH has trusted relationships with and understands the capacities of the CBOs and health care organizations in their network and fosters cross-sector collaborations best capable to address a spectrum of health-related social needs. A CCH operationalizes lived experience keeping at-risk populations from falling through the cracks.
Clinic to Community Partnerships
The HUB provides healthcare partners a system to extend beyond the walls of the clinic for community integration, making community-clinical linkages integral to promoting health and reducing disease and disability.
Health Equity Priority
Much of the gap between the level of healthcare spending and positive health outcomes can be attributed to our difficulty identifying and serving at-risk populations. The HUB builds a network of partners for community-based solutions to advance health equity by making it a shared vision and value.
Community Engagement and Inclusion
The HUB has built community task forces around Falls Prevention, “Eat Well” (nutrition), “Move More” (physical activity) and “Feel Better” (mental health) focus areas made up of over 60+ organizations across multiple industries and sectors and a community engagement model that reaches into the neighborhoods and includes people with disabilities.
Support for Evidence-based Programs
An evidence-based approach to chronic disease prevention and control can significantly reduce the burden of chronic diseases. They are based on research and provide documented health benefits, so individuals can be confident they work.
HUB Navigation
Our HUB Navigators are key to addressing barriers in accessing evidence-based health promotion programs and services. HUB Navigators function to elevate the voices of people from at-risk populations and help build effective partnerships between communities and health care organizations to better serve individuals with complex social needs.
Sustainable Framework to Advance Health Initiatives
The HUB joins community partners in bringing a sustainable framework to local, regional, and statewide health initiatives that address important health issues facing our communities. The HUB can help identify and/or leverage funding from additional federal, state, local, and private organizations.
Iowa Community HUB Information
Iowa Community HUB
Join HUB Advisory Group
HUB DEI Advisory Task Force
Data Safety and Monitoring Board
Implementation & Translational Research Subcommittee
Community Care Hub Subcommittee
ISU Translational Research Partner
Using translational science as a foundation for the HUB supports community-based organizations across the state with the delivery of EBPs at a scale needed to impact public health. It also has the potential to allow researchers to study implementation processes and program sustainability so that continual optimization and enhanced implementation of EBPs through the HUB occurs. The ISU U-TuRN team leads our translational research efforts.
Become an Umbrella HUB DPP Subsidiary
A HUB subsidiary organization can share the HUB’s CDC recognition status; operate as one Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) supplier; receive reporting, claims, and administrative support; and pursue sustainability to achieve scale. Healthcare payers benefit by gaining access to a network of CDC-recognized organizations through a single contract with the HUB, rather than having to execute discrete contracts with multiple CDC-recognized organizations.
Our Team
Trina Radske-Suchan, PT, CSCS
President/CEO
Trina Radske-Suchan
President/CEO
Trina received her Master in Physical Therapy from the University of Iowa and has dedicated her career to promoting and advocating for healthy lifestyles to reduce the severity of disease and disability on individuals and society. Trina has been leading statewide health initiatives addressing chronic disease, health disparities, and in promoting fall prevention in aging populations as the Co-Chair of the Iowa Falls Prevention Coalition. Trina’s expertise as a physical therapist was essential in the development of the first YMCA-hospital partnership nationally that created the YMCA Healthy Living Center (Y-HLC) in Clive, Iowa employing and administering physical therapy and medically-integrated programs and services. As the Y-HLC Medical Program Executive from 2009-2017, she led the medically-integrated efforts reaching over 1,160 referring providers. Y-HLC membership peaked at 8,300 members and nearly half of the membership population was driven by a medical referral.
Today, CHPcommunity helps build environments where clinic and community come together to fight chronic disease by executing community-based strategies that proactively link and support clinical services. CHPcommunity leads the design, development, and management of the Iowa Community HUB to support the expansion and sustainability of evidence-based chronic disease and health promotion programs in Iowa.
Renee Allard, BA
HUB Administrator
Renee Allard
HUB Administrator
Adria Huseth, RD, LD, CPT
Nutrition and Wellness Coordinator
Adria Huseth
Nutrition and Wellness Outreach Coordinator
Adria Huseth is a registered, licensed Dietitian and Personal Trainer. Adria coordinates the Eat Well Task Force activities for the Community Health + Wellness Initiative which involves projects supporting food rescue and local food pantries, community gardens, community nutrition education, and community partnership development. Adria is committed to CHPcommunity’s holistic approach to improving health and wellness in her community.
Adria is the former manager of Nutrition Communications and Research for the National Pork Board where she managed human nutrition research & communications and education outreach for ten years. Before joining the National Board in 2010, Huseth worked for the government nutrition education program WIC (Women, Infants and Children) in Central Iowa. Adria graduated from Iowa State University in 2008 after she completed the Didactic Program in Dietetics and joined Florida Hospital for her 10-month CADE dietetic internship. She also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing from the University of Iowa in 2004 and her personal training certificate from National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) in May of 2016. Adria has her Certificate of Training in Adult Weight Management and has completed the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Program.
Adria is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics including the Food and Culinary Professionals, Public Health and Community Nutrition and Dietitians in Business and Communications DPG’s. She is also a member of the Iowa Dietetic Association and Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy.
Adria is passionate about helping others live a healthful lifestyle from the inside out while staying abreast of current human nutrition research. She resides in Urbandale, Iowa where you can find her encouraging her family to try new healthy dishes she is whipping up in her kitchen! In her spare time, she is an avid sports enthusiast where she enjoys training for half marathons, triathlons and enjoys running the trails around her neighborhood with her two children Jack and Charlotte.
Rita Chulu
HUB Navigator
Rita Chulu
HUB Navigator
Rita graduated from Grandview University in the spring of 2020 with a BA dual-degree in Human Services and Psychology and a certificate in Industrial Organizational Psychology. Rita has received her Community Health Worker certification through Iowa Chronic Care Consortium. With her experience in the Human Services & Psychology fields and current position within the HUB, Rita aspires to earn a Masters degree in the future. As a HUB Navigator, Rita will work with referred individuals and our program partners to support and help deliver excellent health and wellness resource connections statewide.
Jocelyn Kroef
HUB Navigator
Jocelyn Kroef
HUB Navigator
Jocelyn Kroef is a graduate of ISU with a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and a minor in Women’s Studies. Currently, she is wrapping up her Master’s in Clinical Counseling. Fluent in English and Spanish, with a working knowledge of Portuguese, Jocelyn’s linguistic versatility enhances her ability to connect with diverse communities. Her professional journey connects her passion for mental health with holistic wellness. Alongside her academic pursuits, Jocelyn is on the verge of completing her Integrative Nutrition Coaching certificate, expanding her expertise in fostering health and wellbeing.
In her role as a HUB Navigator, Jocelyn focuses on collaborating with care teams, engaging with the community, and connecting individuals to community programs and resources.
Lisa RN
HUB Navigator
Lisa RN
HUB Navigator
Mary LaBarre, PT, DPT, ATRIC
Health Coach - Medical Speciality
Mary LaBarre, PT, DPT, ATRIC
Health Coach – Medical Specialty
Our Board of Directors
Thank you for your leadership!
Kari Sullivan
Treasurer/President
Kari Sullivan
Treasurer
Kari has worked as a dynamic sales and operational leader with strong executive management strategies and GL operations for 20 years. She has a deep understanding of credit, service and consumer lending. She has spent her career building strategic plans, maximizing and adjusting based on data analytics and business intelligence. Kari has collaborated extensively with other community leaders and key business partners to activate company mission and community outreach efforts.
Kari now proudly owns Valley West Uniforms and loves to serve the medical community in and around the Des Moines area. Her husband Jeff and Kari have 3 children, Jevin 19, Graedan 17 and Fayth 13 who keep them busy by traveling and coaching basketball.
Dr. Jen Groos
Clinical Advisor
Dr. Jennifer Groos
Clinical Advisor
Dr. Groos is a board-certified pediatrician with 16 years of experience. She earned her medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed a pediatrics residency at University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital in Madison, WI.
While at Blank Children’s Hospital, she founded the Healthy Kids Program before joining Primary Health Care at the BEC clinic this summer. Dr. Groos is active in community and legislative advocacy about topics related to healthy eating and active living. She currently serves as Lead Faculty for the National Childhood Obesity in Primary Care (COPC) Quality Improvement project led by the American Academy of Pediatrics Institute on Healthy Childhood Weight (IHCW). Dr. Groos also leads the 5-2-1-0 Health Care Program in Iowa. She serves as the co-chair for the COACH network (childhood obesity advisor) for the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Obesity. She is a past-president of the Iowa Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, chair of the chapter committee on legislation, and founder and chair of the chapter committee on obesity. In 2018, she received the Iowa Medical Society Physician Community Service Award for her statewide child health promotion work.
Sheila Treu
Board Member
Sheila Treu
Board Member
Sheila currently serves as Living Faith’s Business Manager in Clive, IA. Sheila joined the Living Faith staff team with over 20 years of nonprofit management experience. Before joining Living Faith Lutheran Church, Sheila enjoyed a career with the YMCA of Greater Des Moines and Wellspring Book and Bible of Clive.
Prior to starting her nonprofit career, Sheila received her design and merchandising education in Milwaukee, WI. Born out of a desire to embrace her creativity and education Sheila started Treuly Refined, LLC in 2017. With a focus on partnering with home owners to showcase their homes through home styling for optimum sale price or everyday living. Sheila enjoy’s running this client based business along side her current Business Manager role.
Serving as a CHP Community Board member fulfills Sheila’s passion for partnering with individuals and community organizations to ensure all individuals have the opportunity learn, grow, and thrive; creating their own vision for healthy living for a strong, connected community.
Sheila and her husband, Keith have been married over 30 years. With a growing family of three now-married children, Sheila focuses her time on serving the communities both here in the Des Moines area and in Elkader, IA, where she enjoys spending time on the river with family and friends.
Sarah Wigen
Board Member
Sarah Wigen
Board Member
Sarah spent several years at the YMCA Healthy Living Center coaching and training members, volunteers, and staff. She often worked with people going through life-changing journeys of extreme weight loss, cancer diagnoses, grief, and more. She was recruited to the YMCA Supportive Housing Campus where she built, led, and managed an entirely new department: Community Engagement. It grew exponentially as she added two staff members and hundreds of volunteers. This spurred a growing donor base that propelled new programming for residents, which Sarah called “promises of home.” Sarah managed the social media presence, volunteer recognition, and donor stewardship programming.
Sarah is now the Chief Purpose Officer of Greater Des Moines Supportive Housing, a new community nonprofit. Their model offers housing stability through safe and affordable apartments, integrative resources, and a community of belonging for people experiencing extremely low income, homelessness, or unforeseen housing barriers.