Fourth quarter 2016 grant announcement: $3.9 million to further strengthen California’s healthcare safety net and address domestic violence

Value-based care and patient engagement

• California State University, Sacramento, College of Continuing Education ($50,000): To provide logistical support for convening the Let's Get Healthy California Innovation Conference 2017.
• FUSE Corps (125,000): To help the California Health and Human Services Agency Innovation Office create user-centered solutions that improve agency and departmental program outcomes.
• National Association of Community Health Centers ($424,063): To test PRAPARE (Protocol for Responding to and Addressing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences) with community health centers in California as a tool for collecting patient information on social determinants of health, and to develop a roadmap that will support widespread adoption of PRAPARE in the California safety net.
• Nonprofit Finance Fund ($100,000): To support the Nonprofit Finance Fund in conducting strategic outreach to identify clients for the AIM Healthy Fund and in disseminating early learnings on how flexible loan capital can enable community based organizations to expand health services.
• Public Health Institute ( $400,000): To develop and implement a grantmaking and technical assistance strategy that will support at least 10 California communities in advancing toward implementation of Accountable Communities for Health.

DV system / survivor experience

• Center for the Pacific-Asian Family, Inc. ($116,000): To continue strengthening the capacity of grassroots, Asian-Pacific Islander organizations to address domestic violence and to enlist survivors in community-wide efforts to prevent and end domestic violence.
• Inter-Tribal Councin of California, Inc. ($111,000): To continue to strengthen the capacity of tribal and non-tribal agencies to meet the unique needs of tribal survivors and to develop policy strategies that improve domestic violence services for tribal communities.
• Asian Women's Shelter ($86,000) - To pilot, evaluate and scale a multi-lingual access training program that will build the capacity of bilingual domestic violence advocates to serve as effective and empowered interpreters for monolingual survivors of domestic violence.
• Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project ($86,000): To further expand the capacity of domestic violence survivors to lead intervention and prevention efforts among the indigenous immigrant community in Ventura County and to advocate for improved county-level and state-level systems services for indigenous immigrant survivors.
• Impact Justice ($225,000): To provide training and coaching to domestic violence service providers and other community based organizations across California on how to implement restorative justice approaches to preventing and ending domestic violence.
• Asian Women's Shelter ($230,000): To provide training and coaching to domestic violence service providers and other community based organizations across California on how to implement restorative justice approaches to preventing and ending domestic violence.
• PolicyLink ($150,000): To develop policy opportunities and cross-sector partnership in the engagement of boys and men of color in efforts to end domestic violence in communities of color.
• Rainbow Services, Ltd. ($90,653): To evaluate Year 1 of the 2-year California Domestic Violence Housing First Statewide Pilot.
• Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent, Inc. ($100,000): To implement and evaluate the second year of the Echando Pa'lante survivor engagement pilot project, in which DV survivors co-create, deliver and evaluate community-based group projects.

Care integration

• Alemeda County Health Care Services Agency ($150,000): To improve system-level integration of primary and behavioral health care in the California safety net through collaborative action among providers, county agencies, and Medi-Cal managed care plans.
• Health Quality Partners of Southern California ($150,000): To improve system-level integration of primary and behavioral health care in the California safety net through collaborative action among providers, county agencies, and Medi-Cal managed care plans.
• Merced County Department of Public Health ($150,000): To improve system-level integration of primary and behavioral health care in the California safety net through collaborative action among providers, county agencies, and Medi-Cal managed care plans.
• Siskiyou Community Services Council ($149,050): To improve system-level integration of primary and behavioral health care in the California safety net through collaborative action among providers, county agencies, and Medi-Cal managed care plans.
• California Consortium for Urban Indian Health, Inc. ($137,043): To enhance domestic violence and health systems integration and best practices awareness across the California Urban Indian Health Clinic Network to end domestic violence in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
• Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County ($150,000): To support innovative partnerships and new policies that will enable community health centers in Los Angeles County to develop new models for behavioral health integration and whole person care.
• Tides Center ($140,000): To share community-level stories in the California Health Report about how policy and programs impact health and safety issues important to Californians, including care delivery, the future of community clinics, changes in the safety net, behavioral health, and domestic violence.
• University of Southern California ($159,411): To educate and support California health journalists - from mainstream and ethnic media outlets - with the aim of increasing local press coverage of the safety net and healthcare needs of low-income Californians, and thereby informing the broader public and policymakers on these critical issues.
• Ventura County Health Care Agency ($75,000): To improve system-level integration of primary and specialty care in California’s safety net through implementation of eConsult.
• Western Center on Law & Poverty, Inc. ($200,000): To advocate for changes in policy and practice that will support access to person-centered, integrated care for CalWORKS and CalFRESH participants that have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, and mental health and substance use conditions.

Emerging opportunities

• The Commonwealth Club ($50,000): To enhance the public narrative on health and safety by engaging citizens and influencers on timely prevention issues.
• University of Southern California ($149,073): To enhance community voice in journalism by supporting an engagement initiative facilitating collaborations between local communities and the Center for Health Journalism's California fellows.