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Coming Home to Stay Program
San Diego, CA
Coming Home to Stay was created by a collaborative network of local funders and engages service providers, ex-offenders and criminal justice agencies to promote successful community reintegration for individuals recently released from incarceration. A distinctive approach includes the immediate "welcome home meeting," enabling the provider Resource Team to work with participants to create and implement a personal life plan, linking the individual with health and social services. Transition Advocates and trained peer mentors provide 24/7 support for the first 72 hours post release followed by 18 months of case management and support to facilitate a more successful reentry to the community.
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211 Developmental Screening Project
San Gabriel, CA
Parents who call the Los Angeles county 211 hotline regarding emergency shelter, medical resources or other information are offered a subsequent free, over-the-phone, child development screening by a trained Parenting Support Specialist. Using a validated, evidence-based developmental screening tool to survey parents of children ages birth to 8, the call center staff then follows up with the family to ensure they are connected to any needed community-based early intervention services. Lessons learned may make such screening a routine 211 service in LA and a national model.
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Heal the Streets
Oakland, CA
Heal the Streets creates a ten-month fellowship program to train young adults of color (ages 15-18) to develop and promote smart policy solutions that decrease violence and increase opportunities in Oakland, CA. They use a network of community leaders as mentors and a curriculum that supports personal development of leadership qualities and teaches research, reporting and advocacy skills. These young people will learn to lead outcomes-based advocacy projects that will inform local and statewide violence prevention strategies. Through this project, tomorrow's leaders will learn how to collaborate with ally organizations to create real change in their neighborhoods.
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Project HEALTH: Harnessing Education, Advocacy & Leadership for Transgender Health
San Francisco, CA
In partnership with the Transgender Law Center, a neighborhood clinic with well-established services for transgender people will grow a network of health professionals who provide culturally sensitive and medically competent care, empower community representatives to advocate for better health care and help ensure the implementation of new state policy that guarantees public and private coverage for transgender individuals. The project will establish a formal clinical rotation in transgender health for medical students and offer training for staff at selected clinics and for physician assistant and nursing students.
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Family Acceptance Project
San Francisco, CA
According to compelling new research, when a young person self-identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) the acceptance of parents or caregivers is critical to the child's wellbeing. LGBT adolescents who are rejected by their families are at higher risk for serious mental health concerns including depression, suicide, and substance abuse and at higher risk for victimization at home, school and in community settings. In partnership with San Francisco General Hospital, project leaders will develop new culturally appropriate family education materials and interventions to increase family support for LGBT youth, especially among ethnically diverse families.
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Westside Infant-Family Network (WIN)
Culver City, CA
From ages 0-3, a child's secure relationship with the primary caregiver helps develop the emotional health that predicts later success in life. But poverty, homelessness, recent immigration and violence can impair family dynamics. This six-agency collaborative offers mental health care for young children and their families. Building on their relationships with local families, staff at a food pantry, childcare center, health clinic and other partner agencies are cross-trained to recognize mental health concerns. The network employs culturally sensitive therapists and psychiatrists to treat families at home or on-site at each agency.
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Homeboy MHETAS Project
Los Angeles, CA
Metas are goals in Spanish and the ambitious goals of the Homeboys MHETAS (Mental Health and Treatment Assistance Services) Project support youth and young adults transitioning out of gangs in Los Angeles County, CA. Homeboys Industries is a community-based, ''gang-neutral'' organization that draws gang members hoping to create a new life through job training, employment and free tattoo removal. An established mental health provider assigns Licensed Clinical Social Workers to work on-site at Homeboys offering individual therapy, family and marriage counseling, and treatment for trauma and substance abuse.
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Critical Mass Health Conductors' Initiative
Oakland, CA
This initiative attempts to reverse the disproportionate growth of diabetes, heart disease and hypertension among African Americans by creating a new social norm of healthy lifestyles. Deeply rooted in pride in being African American, this initiative uses the Underground Railroad as a metaphor for personal responsibility and the courage to change. Health Conductors are trained to travel a journey of lifestyle changes leading from ill health to wellness. They commit to improving their own health behaviors and to encouraging their families and friends to do so.
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LGBT Senior Health Project: Aging as Ourselves
San Diego, CA
Many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) seniors remain a hidden and marginalized population who face significant barriers to culturally sensitive health care. These issues were raised by the Alliance Health Foundation, the California Endowment and the San Diego Human Dignity Foundation-strong funding partners who convened local agencies to address the needs of elderly LGBT residents. The resulting collaboration of mainstream and LGBT providers builds on each agency's expertise to create a network of culturally responsive health and social services. Eldercare organizations will enhance staff awareness of the concerns of LGBT clients when offering case management and referrals. Community groups will become more familiar with techniques to support LGBT seniors in their own homes.
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Let's Be Healthy!
San Rafael, CA
Let's Be Healthy! is a collaborative effort of the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Newcomers Health Program and Bay Area Community Resources, the project's sponsoring agency. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are prevalent among San Francisco's growing number of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Building on a successful smoking-cessation program for Russian-speaking newcomers, Boo-gdee-am Sta-ro-wvee!/Let's Be Healthy! will employ outreach workers called pomoshniks to educate the community about healthy behaviors and disease prevention. Best-practice curricula on self-care will be customized and translated into Russian for those with chronic illnesses. Goals include improved self-management of chronic conditions, increased evidence of healthy behaviors and entree of pomoshniks into the health professions to further diversify the provider workforce.
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Healthy Transitions Project
Oakland, CA
When 18-year-olds ''age out'' of foster care many find themselves without housing, income, adult support or any preparation for independent living. Often raised in unstable home environments, abused, with multiple placements in the course of distressed lives, these vulnerable young adults are at high risk for unsafe living conditions, unemployment and addictive disorders. This new national model employs Youth Advocates who work individually with these older teens as mentors and case managers to help address their housing, health, education and employment needs. A core objective is to teach the youth how to obtain MediCal benefits, find health care providers and take responsibility for their own health. Special attention is paid to domestic violence prevention, reproductive health, and nutrition.
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Caught in the Crossfire, Los Angeles
Oakland, CA
This peer intervention program aims to reduce the rate of traumatic injury and homicide that results from cycles of retaliation in neighborhoods known for gang activity and a high rate of violent crime among adolescents. Within 24 hours of hospitalization, violently injured youth and their families are visited by young adults who have themselves sustained violent injuries. This Youth ALIVE! project proved successful in Oakland, CA and now will be replicated in a low-income area of south Los Angeles. Youth who accept the program receive ongoing intensive services for one year including counseling and assistance with job training and placement, court hearings, school and housing.
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Wolfe Center
Napa, CA
A one-stop comprehensive outpatient, day treatment program for substance abusing Napa County youth and their families; based on a hybrid model that combines the best of proven adolescent substance abuse treatment with a youth development methodology.
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Community Health Action Initiative - 'CHAI'
Artesia, CA
This initiative will provide culturally and linguistically competent outreach, case management, and health education to underserved, low-income persons of South Asian origin in Southern California to promote basic health care and healthy lifestyle choices.
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Clinica de Tolosa Dental Project
San Luis Obispo, CA
Clinica de Tolosa Dental Clinic will be a four-chair full-service clinic offering dental care and oral health services for children and adolescents from low-income families, as well as emergency dental care for low-income adults. The clinic capacity will be a minimum of 3,600 patients/visits per year. Follow-up contacts to each dental appointment, dental health education and a school-based dental screening program will also be part of the project. Additional goals include expanding cultural competency of staff, increasing diversity among health workers and building community capacity.
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Project ESSEA
La Jolla, CA
To build an effective and culturally competent behavioral health system for San Diego's East African communities, collaborating with faith-based organizations, existing systems and community representatives.
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Achieving Cancer Control Together (ACCT): Chinese and Koreans in Orange County, California
Irvine, CA
Decrease the incidence of, and early mortality from, breast, cervical, colorectal and stomach cancers in the Chinese and Korean communities through increased access to no or low cost screenings and follow-up services. Launch aggressive community education and training for low-income, linguistically isolated Chinese and Korean men and women in the county.
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Injecting Drug Users Health Project
San Diego, CA
Provide medical care, field-based and prevention case management and other harm reduction strategies to IDU's, their partners, and adult family members.
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Teen Intervention and Prevention Program - TIPP
San Francisco, CA
Provide adolescent-appropriate domestic violence counseling, support, and advocacy for battered and at-risk teens and their children/siblings.
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Jail Outreach Project (JOP)
San Francisco, CA
JOP staff will provide weekly outreach to the county jail and build a bridge for women exiting the system to existing community services (shelter, food. treatment programs, support, health care). The goal is to develop a trusting bond with incarcerated women at a time when they are motivated to make a change. The outcome will be women choosing healthy lifestyles and avoiding recidivism.
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Oral Health Care for the Homeless in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Will develop a program to assure access to oral health care for homeless men, women and children in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, by offering outreach, education and clinical treatment at a new clinic at the Union Rescue Mission.
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Living in a Non-Violent Community (LINC)
San Francisco, CA
LINC is a multidisciplinary system to prevent child exposure to domestic violence (DV) and to reduce the harmful effects of exposure to DV through culturally conscious education of children, parent, teachers, health care providers and child care providers, and crisis intervention and therapy for children and families experiencing DV.
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Pathways: Latino Health Initiative
Larkspur, CA
Pathways to Health will create new perinatal and adolescent services and implement new substance abuse prevention for mono-lingual immigrants.
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Nuestro Canto De Salud Diabetes Project
Burlingame, CA
Program to reduce the incidence of diabetes among Latino adults.
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Children's Assault Treatment Services (C.A.T.S)
Van Nuys, CA
The Children's Assault Treatment Service program (CATS) is located in the San Fernando Valley, comprised of nearly 1.8 million residents. CATS is the only 24 hour-a-day, 7 day-a-week program in the San Fernando Valley and is dedicated to Children's Assault issues of prevention, treatment, and counseling. The CATS program provides compassionate, skilled treatment to children, ages 0-18 years, who have been traumatized by physical and/or sexual abuse.
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Students Run L.A. Wellness & Substance Abuse Prevention
Reseda, CA
A marathon training program for at-risk youth to build resiliency and learn goal-setting skills. The mission of Students Run L.A. is to challenge at-risk secondary students to experience the benefits of goal-setting, character development, adult mentoring and improved health by providing them with a truly life-changing experience: the training for and completion of the City of Los Angeles Marathon.
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Nuestra Esperanza, Latino Multi Service Center
Napa, CA
This initiative will offer drug and alcohol abuse treatment services through an existing family-centered community organization serving the Latino population of Napa County.
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Improving the System of Care for Latinos with Diabetes & Heart Disease in Orange County
Santa Ana, CA
To develop a program within the Latino community of Orange County to improve the system of services for people with chronic, complex conditions; specifically individuals with diabetes and heart-related conditions. A tiered approach will be used to provide information concerning health problems, and assist in building skills to manage problems and connect to resources in the community.
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Outreach and case management services to homeless pregnant women living in San Francisco.
San Francisco, CA
To provide outreach and case management services to homeless pregnant women living in San Francisco. Services include individual psychosocial counseling, peer support groups, medical assessment and referral, substance abuse counseling and referral for both residential and outpatient treatment, assistance with finding permanent housing, and assistance enrolling in various income and benefit programs. Additionally, the project trains formerly homeless women as Community Health Workers. These women go back into the community and contact difficult to reach clients offering them urgently needed services, education and support.
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