Economic Stability
Recognizing the connection between people’s finances (income, cost of living and socioeconomic status) and their health, California’s hospitals have developed innovative community-based programs and activities that address key issues such as poverty, food insecurity, housing instability and homelessness, vocational training, and employment and income.
POVERTY
Bay Area Regional Help Desk Consortium: Increasing the effectiveness of local clinic-based social screening and assistance programs by offering a regional approach to help desk implementation. |
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Meet Each Need With Dignity (MEND): San Fernando Valley social service agency that works to relieve the effects of poverty by providing basic human needs, as well as tools to achieve self-reliance through job skills training, computer classes, English as a Second Language classes, and youth enrichment. Undergraduates Tackle Health Inequity in the Emergency Room: Screening patients and connecting them to local resources through the Stanford Health Advocacy and Research in the Emergency Department, or SHARED. |
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FOOD INSECURITY
Excelsior Community Food Pantry: Distributing free groceries to San Francisco families — a partnership of Jewish Home San Francisco and Mission Bay Community Church, in collaboration with the San Francisco – Marin Food Bank and the Excelsior community. |
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FISH Food Pantry: Providing an emergency food pantry and case management services serving Los Angeles County. |
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Hospital Awards Grants to Expand Access to Healthy Food: Through $1.2 million in grants from Kaiser Permanente, supporting a range of programs to increase access to healthy food, provide nutrition education and develop healthy food policies that will benefit an estimated 14.5 million people. |
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Hospital Donates to Local Food Banks: Enabling local food banks to serve healthy meals to those in need through a donation of more than $250,000 from Sutter Health. |
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Mobile Fresh Program: Distributing fresh produce to Tracy and Mountain House area residents who wouldn’t otherwise have access to fruits and vegetables. |
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HOUSING INSTABILITY AND HOMELESSNESS
COACH for Kids and Their Families: Mobile medical units providing no-cost health and social services to underserved communities across 28 zip codes in Los Angeles. |
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Community Care Navigator Program: Connecting Fullerton’s homeless patients to resources, including outpatient medical care, transportation, social security, sobriety programs, mental health services or housing, food and other needs. Holy Cross Center for Women: Offering daytime shelter, counseling and referral services, education and skills training, clothing, laundry and shower facilities, social activities and youth summer programs in Fresno. |
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Holy Cross Clinic: Providing meals, socials services, temporary shelter, and free medical and dental services to the poor and homeless in Fresno. |
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Homeless Adolescent and Young Adult Wellness Clinic: Delivering free comprehensive medical care, psychological counseling, case management and health education services for runaway and homeless youth in the Los Angeles area. |
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Homeless Community Care Navigation Program: Connecting homeless patients in the emergency department at St. Jude’s Medical Center in Fullerton to outpatient medical care and a variety of social services. |
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Homeless Navigation Program: Connects patients to community resources, freeing up the emergency department for acute care needs and helping homeless patients get on the path to stable, secure housing and improved well-being. |
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Homeless Recuperative Care Program: Giving homeless individuals in San Joaquin County a safe place to complete their medical recovery after being released from a hospital. |
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Interim Care Program: Providing temporary respite and recovery for homeless patients in the Sacramento area who are healthy enough to be discharged from a hospital, but have no housing alternative. |
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Medical Respite Center: Offering medical respites services for the homeless Monterey County. |
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Mobile Clinic: Mobile health clinic serving the homeless population in Monterey County. |
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Rescue Mission Project: Addressing the critical needs of homeless individuals in San Diego who are newly released from the hospital yet still requiring medical attention. |
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Restoration House: Providing transitional housing for vulnerable members of the Clearlake community. |
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Street Nurse Program: Supplying on-demand care to the medically fragile homeless population in Sacramento. |
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Ukiah Street Medicine Program: Bringing health care to homeless individuals in the Ukiah area through a street medicine program. |
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VOCATIONAL TRAINING/EMPLOYMENT AND INCOME
A-Visions Vocational Training Program: Helping people receiving mental health treatment in the San Diego area with vocational training, potentially leading to a greater level of independence. |
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Bridge to Employment Program: Inspiring youth ages 14-18 from disadvantaged communities in the San Diego area to stay in school, excel academically and elevate their career aspirations. |
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Careers in Health and Mentorship Program: Helping young adults in Los Angeles gain practical experience for entry-level careers in health administration. |
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FACES for the Future: Preparing at-risk high school students from City Heights in San Diego for careers that offer livable wages and upward mobility. |
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KP Launch: Diversifying the Future of Health Care: Offering young adults a variety of paid internship opportunities in Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland headquarters and medical offices across Northern California. |
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Youth Employment and Development Program: Offering high school students in Southern California an opportunity to access invaluable mentoring and hospital work experience while earning wages that can help them pay for college. |
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