The W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved initiative is a group of community-based demonstration projects launched in 1998 to combat barriers to care and dedicated to finding real-life ways to provide greater access to quality health care to the underserved and uninsured people in America.

Despite shrinking budgets, rising costs, and bureaucratic red tape, Community Voices programs are influencing the policy debate within their states. Community Voices: Health Matters chronicles the remarkable accomplishments of eight Community Voices "learning laboratories" that took on the challenge of improving and assuring health care for the underserved in their communities.

Community Voices offers a compilation of the innovative health care concepts and programs implemented within these eight communities that are making inroads to creating a policy blueprint for the nation.

Community Voices offers a realistic design for ensuring well-being for the millions of health care-challenged citizens in our nation.