St. John's Well Child and Family Center

Child and Family Resource and Development Center
The Child and Family Resource and Development Center serves children ages 0 to 5 and families in zip codes 90037 and 90044 in the south/central neighborhood of Los Angeles. Major program activities include 64 new half day pre-school slots, with capacity to assess and work with moderately impaired special needs children in the classrooms, Program for Infant Toddler Caregivers (PITC) system will directly train 40 parenting and pregnant teens each year, establish a new health clinic to be housed at the Child & Family Resource and Development Center, providing free preventive and primary medical and dental services to 400 children ages 0 to 5, including well child visits, lead testing, prenatal counseling and care, immunizations, nutritional counseling and enrollment in public insurance programs, and the Healthy Start Program will be adapted for children ages 0 to 5 with the addition of a school readiness component.

Partnerships for Families
The Partnerships for Families program serves at-risk pregnant women/teens who are suffering from depression or are involved in substance abuse or a domestic violence situation. It also serves DCFS referred families with children 0-5 years old. but have an unfounded/unsubstantiated allegations but not an open DCFS case. Services include case management and linkage to early care and education, and other resources for the entire family as needed; concrete services, and intensive services for domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health assessment and treatment by in-home counselors. Geographic service area is SPA 5.

Harbor Corridor Best Babies Collaborative
The Harbor Corridor BBC's mission is to optimize birth outcomes through a value-driven, dynamic community based network of services that is both responsive to and creates a partnership with the at-risk women and families they serve.  A program of St. John's Well Child and Family Center, the Harbor Corridor BBC will fill a clinical and community need to have the identical Case Management practices at each of their clinics, and will ensure direct  coordination between their clinics and major hospitals.  Focus populations include pregnant and interconception women living below 300% FPL or uninsured, teens, African-American women, women with previous low birth weight or preterm birth,  and women requiring assistance with substance use/abuse and chronic illness. Priority zip code areas include: 90001, 90003, 90006, 90007, 90011, 90015, 90037, 90043, 90044, 90047, 90057, 90062.

St. John's Well Child-Compton
The Child and Family Resource and Development Center will promote and provide school readiness services in the City of Compton. The Compton Unified School District (CUSD) serves a student population, pre-K through 12th grade, of 29,408 students. Over 97.6% (28,702) of the students in this district live in conditions of poverty, 63.7% (18,733) are limited English proficient, and 100% represent minorities. The program will target children ages 0-5 and their caregivers in the communities surrounding eight (8) elementary schools within the two identified zip codes (90021 and 90022). An average of 1,336 culturally, ethnicity and language diverse students are enrolled in Kindergarten each year in the city of Compton.

Services include: parent workshop for a minimum of 15-20 parents of children ages 0-5 on positive discipline strategies; licensed preschool program for 160 children; Lap Read program to 100 children; enrollment and maintenance of 100 children ages 0 to 5 and their families in public health insurance programs, helping to provide a permanent medical home for the child and their family; preventive and primary medical and dental services to children ages 0 to 5 and their families, including well child visits, immunizations, lead testing, prenatal counseling and care, and nutritional counseling. At least 100 children ages 0 to 5 will directly receive health services; resource and referrals at intake to 200 children and their families and provide intensive case management to 75 families.