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St. John's Well Child and Family Center |
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Program Funding:
School Readiness, Healthy Births |
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St. John's clinic has grown to become a major nonprofit network of federally qualified health centers (FQHC) and school based clinics throughout downtown, south and northeast Los Angeles. St. John's Well Child and Family Center provides medical, dental, mental health services, case management, health education and social support to more than 100,000 patient visits in south Los Angeles. We operate eleven sites - including five comprehensive community health centers and six school based clinics spanning the breadth of downtown and south central Los Angeles and Compton. In addition, St. John's operates many community health, social service and school readiness programs. These programs are designed to improve birth outcomes and reduce high-risk pregnancies and improve readiness for school among pre-school children and their families. We also provide child care and early childhood development services, parenting workshops, workforce readiness trainings and parent/child literacy projects. Our Mission is to eliminate health disparities and foster community well being by providing and promoting the highest quality care in South Los Angeles. The vision of St. John's Well Child and Family Center is to deliver high-quality primary and preventative medical, dental and mental health services that go beyond the borders of tradition to the uninsured, underserved and economically disadvantaged persons in Los Angeles. We are devoted to instilling the value of well being to our communities, resulting in self-advocacy, self esteem and self sustenance, through innovative and devleopmental programs and collaborative endeavors. 1 323-541-1600
http://www.wellchild.org
Funding For: Healthy Births Initiative/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. Healthy Births Initiative/Heart of the City Best Babies Collaborative St. John's Well Child and Family Center is the lead agency for Heart of the City Best Babies Collaborative (HOTC). The HOTC is comprised of six partners: St. John's; Maternal Child and Health Access; Public Health Foundation Enterprise (PHFE-WIC); Lincoln Heights Alliance for Healthy Families (LAUSD); Clinica Msr. Oscar Romero-California Community Foundation; And White Memorial Medical Center. The mission of the HOTC is to optimize birth outcomes through a value-driven, dynamic community based network of services support and advocacy that is both responsive to and creates a partnership with at-risk women and families that they serve. HOTC serves zip codes 90032, 90033, and 90063. 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.
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. |
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