Third quarter 2014 grant announcement: $5 million to facilitate new partnerships between domestic violence and healthcare safety net organizations

Health Care and Coverage grants by region

San Francisco Bay Area

  • Alameda County Health Care Services Agency ($100,000): To collect and analyze data on the remaining uninsured population in Alameda County and use the findings to shape health programs and policies to serve them. Central

Central

  • Central Valley Health Network, Inc. ($150,000): To engage Central Valley stakeholders in developing coverage options for the remaining uninsured and share key findings and strategies throughout the region. Statewide

Statewide

  • California Department of Health Care Services ($100,000): To support the Department of Health Care Services in catalyzing innovations in policy and payment through the delivery of a custom-designed, nine-month leadership development program for managers across the department.
  • Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. ($58,011): To identify promising financing and policy solutions at the local and state level that will advance behavioral health integration in the California safety net.
  • California School-Based Health Alliance ($150,000): To identify and test pilot projects that will demonstrate the value of school-based health centers to deliver prevention-oriented healthcare services as part of a larger system of care.
  • California Primary Care Association ($400,000): To support care-delivery transformation in California’s community health centers by promoting policies and practices that support integration, payment reform, and greater patient engagement across the safety net.
  • California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems ($250,742): To strengthen the ability of public healthcare systems to deliver efficient, effective, and coordinated care to meet the new demand for services created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Blue Shield Against Violence grants by region

San Francisco Bay Area

  • Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence ($210,000): To support domestic violence (DV) and healthcare safety net partnerships that address and prevent DV through integrated models of service and system-level improvements.
  • YWCA of Sonoma County ($210,000): To support domestic violence (DV) and healthcare safety net partnerships that address and prevent DV through integrated models of service and system-level improvements.
  • CORA - Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse ($120,000): To disseminate and implement recommendations from San Mateo County's Systemwide Safety Audit that improve victim safety, support effective coordination of services, and resources for domestic violence survivors via a process that engages the voice of victims in the implementation of recommendations.

Central

  • Public Health Institute ($210,000): To support domestic violence (DV) and healthcare safety net partnerships that address and prevent DV through integrated models of service and system-level improvements.
  • Immigrant Legal Resource Center ($350,000): To expand the “Text Informational Portal” campaign to increase access to culturally responsive domestic violence services for Latino/a immigrants in the rural San Joaquin Central Valley.

South

  • Charitable Ventures of Orange County ($1,945,000): To support the implementation, coordination, and evaluation of an unprecedented countywide collaborative between the domestic violence and health care systems in Orange County.

Statewide

  • California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, Inc. ($120,000): To implement Red Women Rising, a strategic initiative to integrate culturally responsive systems of domestic violence services and support at Urban Indian Health Organizations throughout California.
  • Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent, Inc. ($305,000): To implement a statewide expansion and sustainability plan for the “Domestic Violence Information and Referral Center” – a successful web-based system that improves efficiency and ability to locate shelter for survivors in critical need.
  • California Partnership to End Domestic Violence ($221,800): To support alumni of the Strong Field Project Leadership Development Program in planning, piloting, and implementing a Thought Innovation Lab that will serve as an engine for developing strengths-based solutions and innovations to advance the field and the movement to end domestic violence.
  • Women's Foundation of California ($75,000): To support the Women’s Policy Institute to train a team of five women leaders from domestic violence organizations and related fields to shape, advocate for, and implement public policies that benefit survivors and service providers.

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