CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has partnered with three local health providers in an effort to improve the mental health and heart health of underserved communities in Detroit and Chicago.

The partnerships form the CVS Health Community Equity Alliance, the healthcare conglomerate said on Monday. The alliance seeks to bring CVS Health funding and insights in addition to local expertise and know-how to bear on community health disparities.

“These collaborations will help us deliver on our health equity strategy and commitment to making health care accessible for everyone,” Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, vice president and chief health equity officer for CVS Health, said in a news release.

Specifically, the alliance focuses on growing community health worker workforces and improving connections between communities and institutions that address mental health and heart health.

CVS Health selected Nashville, Tennessee-based Meharry Medical College, Sinai Chicago and Detroit-based Wayne State University as the alliance’s first partners. CVS Health will partner with each on discrete, tailored projects.

Generally, the CVS Health Community Equity Alliance seeks to expand evidence-based interventions that address health disparities and expand access to care, the release states.

In Chicago, Sinai Chicago and CVS Health will focus on the North Lawndale neighborhood. Each organization will provide tailored health and social resources. They will also recruit and train community health workers from the Sinai Chicago Block Leaders program.

In Detroit, CVS Health is partnering with the Wayne State University Center for Health Equity and Community Knowledge in Urban Populations (CHECK-UP). Together, they will assemble other community partners into a coalition that will better “align” community assets that have a bearing on mental health and behavioral health. The Wayne State University partnership will also feature training the existing community health worker workforce.

Meharry Medical College and CVS Health will recruit and train new community health workers. The release doesn’t specify where this effort will feature. It will also offer continuing education for existing community health workers in patient-centered medical homes and partner with medically underserved and rural communities.

“Meharry Medical College and CVS Health are establishing an apprenticeship pathway for community health workers interested in community-based nursing that will strengthen and extend health care services to medically underserved and rural communities in Tennessee,” Pat Matthews-Juarez, senior vice president for strategic initiatives and innovation and professor for Meharry Medical College, said in the release. “This collaboration leverages our mission for improving health outcomes for vulnerable populations, while advancing health equity.”

CVS Health has made mental health a focus of late. Last week, it announced its integrated virtual health platform for certain Aetna health plan members went live.

Its investment arm — CVS Health Ventures — has placed investments with a number of startups. Most recently, it invested in the mental health-focused telehealth Array Behavioral Care.