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STORIES, IDEAS AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM OUR HEALTH GRANTMAKING
WINTER 2004-05
Local Leaders Work Towards
Healthier Communities
rganizations throughout California
are equipping low-income
community members with the
skills needed to identify and
remedy some of their own most pressing health
problems. From the farmworker camps of
Monterey County to urban Pacoima in the San
Fernando Valley, community residents are
leading the fight to tackle environmental health
hazards and learning how to tap into resources
that meet their health needs. In the process,
these individuals—who work either on a paid or
volunteer basis—are discovering new sources of
strength and fulfillment in their daily lives.
“Involving local community members in
advocacy efforts not only sharpens their
leadership abilities, but it also leaves a team of
motivated individuals who will be able to
respond to new health issues as they emerge,”
said Gary L. Yates, president and CEO of The
California Wellness Foundation (TCWF).
“Investing in these community leaders has
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Training for
Health Careers . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Medicare Information
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Health Care for
Homeless Women . . . . . . . . . .7
How To Apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Grants Listing . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Staff Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
What's New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Recruiting and training leaders among California's farmworkers has
led to improved housing and working conditions.
TCWF Awards Programs Honor California
Nonprofit Leaders and Legislators
Read more about the California Peace Prize awardees, the recipients
of TCWF's first Public Policy Leadership Award and the Foundation's
Sabbatical Program on page 18.
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proved to be a powerful way to assist communities in
effecting lasting changes.”
TCWF has provided grants to help organizations
seek out, train and encourage local residents to help
themselves—with the assistance of local agencies and
educational institutions. The following are three
examples of community health empowerment
in action.
CCA's promotores offer
preventive health education
to hundreds of families
each year.
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Farmworkers
Address Their
Housing Conditions
The Salinas-based Center
for Community Advocacy
(CCA) is using a three-year,
$135,000 TCWF grant to
support two related programs
in Monterey and Santa Cruz
counties: tenant organizing,
based on a model developed in
Juarez, Mexico, and outreach
by peer-to-peer, site-based
promotores de salud (community health workers).
“We were founded 16 years
ago with the mission of
helping farmworkers improve
the conditions of their housing
by training them in what they
could do to make it happen,”
said Juan Uranga, CCA
executive director. “We go
to housing sites—we used to knock on doors;
nowadays we get invited—and we make a
presentation on the rights and obligations of being
a tenant and of being a landlord. At the end of the
presentation, we ask the people if they want to use
what they just learned to improve their housing.”
Research has shown that poor housing and
related environmental health hazards can adversely
affect community health. Serious problems at the
labor camps and trailer parks where farmworkers
live include overflowing sewage, exposed electrical
wiring, rotting flooring, broken appliances and lead
paint, which is associated with neurodevelopmental
problems in young children.
CCA trainers teach tenants how to form a
committee of their peers, identify a leader and
inventory the conditions of each participating unit.
When the trainers feel the committee is ready to take
action, CCA generates a letter to the landlord, listing
the defects the tenants want repaired.
“We make only one request of the landlord—
that he or she negotiate with the committee regarding the repairs and what priority they should have,”
said Uranga.
If a landlord refuses to negotiate, the tenant
committee is trained in a series of escalating actions,
which may include a demonstration or a press
conference. The ultimate action is rent withholding,
authorized by law for California Civil Code
violations. Tenants pay the withheld rent into a
special CCA account.
“That’s what gives them economic leverage that
brings landlords in to negotiate,” said Uranga.
The farmworker leaders are also the prime
movers of the promotores de salud program. Trained
by a public health nurse in preventive health care,
they return to the housing sites to present workshops
on various health issues. Twelve promotores are
already serving 500 families annually. Uranga said he
hopes to reach large groups of farmworkers more
efficiently by doing outreach at job sites, with the
growers’ permission.
“The unique thing is that the promotores do
this work on top of their day jobs, so they are still
very much affected by health issues unique to
farmworkers,” said Fatima Angeles, TCWF program
director. “Over the years, the program slowly creates
a network of trained health advocates. Even if they
stop volunteering, they will continue to be health
advocates for themselves and their families.”
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Neighbors Learn Together
A three-year, $100,000 TCWF grant to Oaklandbased Transformation Through Education and
Mutual Support (TEAMS) is enabling the formation
of volunteer groups dedicated to improving the
health of their low-income communities. To date,
the Support Action Team program encompasses five
Northern California counties: Alameda, Contra
Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Solano.
“The idea is to create a peer-supported learning
environment for people to gain self-confidence
individually and as a group, and learn by doing
things together,” said Henry Izumizaki, president of
TEAMS. “We really emphasize self-help—figuring
out what you can do for yourself.”
The organization typically conducts from 75 to
120 interviews in a community to locate “resident
leaders,” people who are consistently relied upon for
help and advice. Each leader recruits a team of five to
10 neighbors who establish a trusting environment
by sharing personal stories.
TEAMS helps community members establish
goals, as distinguished from hopes and dreams, and
to learn how to create action plans. The core group
of leaders meets weekly with Izumizaki or TEAMS
Executive Director Judith Rosenberg for problemsolving sessions. Five years after the program was
founded, the teams have spawned their own teams
— “a mushrooming effect,” said Izumizaki.
The projects are as diverse as the people who
conceive them.
A senior citizen team in Concord, working with
local paramedics, came up with the idea of a “Vial of
Life” — a magnetized metal tube that contains a
senior’s medical history and list of prescription
drugs. The tube attaches to the refrigerator for easy
access in case of medical emergency.
Another group transformed their local mobile
health unit, initially set up to offer immunizations.
The residents decided that other health services were
more important: family dental care and physicals for
their children, enabling them to compete in school
sports. And rather than parking the unit in a shopping
center that crossed rival gang turf, the group suggested
moving the van to several safe locations, including
schools and a senior center. The reconfigured mobile
program proved so successful that the health
department now routinely
consults with residents.
“What’s really great about a
program like TEAMS is that
there are certain basic issues in
people’s lives that can have
really simple solutions,” said
Sandra Martínez, TCWF
program director. “The program
lets people realize that they can
actually make changes in their
communities. People stay
invested in whatever issue
they’re working with because it
touches them deeply.”
Eliminating Lead
Poisoning
Pacoima Beautiful is using a
three-year, $135,000 TCWF
grant to help the overwhelmingly
Latino population of Pacoima
learn how to identify and
address environmental health
hazards. Most homes in the
three-mile-square community were built before
the 1978 federal law banning lead paint. A heavily
trafficked freeway interchange, a railroad line, an airport and several toxic chemical release sites contribute
to the high level of indoor allergens and pollutants
that put community members’ health at risk.
“It started in 1999 with five women volunteers
from the community, three of whom are now
employees,” said Marlene Grossman, executive
director of Pacoima Beautiful. “They held cleanup
Local resident leaders in Pacoima
raise knowledge and awareness
about the health impacts of lead.
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Programs Target Housing Conditions and Other
Health Issues
Children are at particular risk for
lead poisoning.
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days every weekend and empowered residents to
articulate their issues and get resources from the
city. After a couple of years, we realized we were just
dealing with the tip of the iceberg, and we began to
look at the serious environmental problems.”
That’s when Pacoima
Beautiful began to partner
with faculty and students
from California State
University, Northridge. For
example, environmental
and occupational health
department faculty member
John Schillinger advised the
group to add questions
about lead poisoning to a
21-neighborhood survey
on the proper disposal
of hazardous trash.
He explained that
Pacoima is a lead “hot
zone”— a geographical
area with a high number
of risk indicators for lead
poisoning. More than 5,000
children are at risk for lead
poisoning in Pacoima, with
children under six especially
vulnerable to learning
disabilities, hyperactivity
and other effects of exposure to lead-based
paint dust.
The County Department of Health and the Lead
Prevention Unit of the City Housing Department
provided access to public health nurses and epidemiologists. They helped Pacoima Beautiful create
a home inspection program, now known as Safer
Homes for a Healthy Community, that also focuses
on asthma triggers, mold, proper cleaning methods
and other home health issues. By December 2004,
more than 300 homes will have been tested for lead;
as of October 2004, 33
homes had been remediated.
At the heart of the
program are the five
promotores (health educators) recruited and trained
by Pacoima Beautiful, each
of whom receives a salary
and health benefits. The
women visit local homes to check windowsills and
doorsills for dust, which typically contains lead paint
particles.
As they help their community, the promotores
are gaining useful skills, including the math ability
needed to convert dust samples into micrograms per
square foot for lab analysis. One woman, who spoke
only in a whisper when she arrived, is now a proficient
public speaker in both Spanish and English. The
promotores have also trained 15 volunteers to help
with paperwork and Internet research.
“One of the best things Pacoima Beautiful does is
provide opportunities for local residents to become
involved in the health of their community,” said
TCWF’s Angeles. “The families, some of whom are
undocumented, are less fearful if the people coming
to educate them speak their language and come
from similar backgrounds.”
Information about the organizations in this
article can be found at:
Center for Community Advocacy
(831) 753-2324
Transformation Through Education
and Mutual Support
www.4teams.org
Pacoima Beautiful
www.pacoimabeautiful.org
Grantees
In Focus
Diversity in the Health Professions
Advocacy Group Connects Working Poor to
Careers in the Health Professions
taying healthy is no easy feat for the
working poor residents of Los Angeles
County’s communities of color. Many
are employed in retail and servicesector jobs that neither pay a living wage nor provide
health benefits or opportunities for advancement.
Often lacking health insurance and access to
preventive health measures, these residents rely
heavily on emergency rooms as their primary source
of care, burdening an already overtaxed public
health system.
At the same time, the region is facing a serious
shortage of trained, culturally competent health
professionals. Research has shown that a more
diverse health workforce can improve access to
health care services for underserved minority
populations, since minority providers typically
provide more care for the poor and uninsured and
practice in more areas with shortages of providers.
To address this issue, organizations such as
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy
Education (SCOPE) are mobilizing community
residents and waging public policy campaigns. In
December 2002, TCWF awarded SCOPE a twoyear, $100,000 grant to support The Community
Initiative for Health Care and Jobs, a project to
address public policies that will connect underserved
communities to careers in the health professions.
“We believe that people most affected by poverty
and unemployment should be in the forefront of
changing their conditions,” said Lalee Vicedo,
SCOPE development director. “We organize
low-income and communities of color to build
power in order to collectively effect change. With
this campaign, we address the lack of livable-wage
jobs and access to health care, which are critical
issues identified by the community, and seek
long-term and permanent solutions that will benefit
large numbers of residents.”
Targeting low-income residents in three
communities in Los Angeles that are predominantly
Latino and African-American, the campaign
provides training for entrance into the health
workforce, offers career paths in a growth industry,
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and works to increase the capacity of underserved
communities to achieve solutions that address the
health and job issues of people of color. SCOPE’s
leadership development programs strive to demystify
these issues by exposing the economic or policy
decisions behind them, and they involve participants
in developing solutions that will positively impact
their community. Over time, these communities
build an expanded base of social activists.
This work includes the
Health Care Career Training
Ladder Program, a
comprehensive training and
placement program that
propels low-income residents
into health care careers that
offer livable wages. More than
200 graduates have gone on
to such jobs as licensed vocational nurses, certified nursing
assistants, registered nurses,
medical coders, in-home
health support aides and
medical and lab assistants.
Additionally, SCOPE is mobilizing residents,
community-based organizations, educational
institutions, unions, employers and public
agency and industry/training experts. For example,
the organization was asked to join a local task force
that gathers and analyzes research for the county’s
Workforce Investment Board and makes recommendations for training and supportive services.
This participation ensures a community-based
perspective and analysis in policy decision making.
“Organizations like SCOPE provide a vital health
service to underserved communities in Los Angeles
County,” said Saba Brelvi, TCWF program director.
“By providing health care career training and
building grassroots organizing and leadership skills,
they are helping low-wage residents gain access to
preventive health care and higher wage jobs while
working collectively to affect policies that improve
their health and wellness.”
For more information, please visit www.scopela.org.
Many health care careers offer lowincome Californians a living wage.
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Grantees
In Focus
Healthy Aging
Building the Capacity of Health Advocates
Leads to Better Information for Seniors
igh-profile changes to the Medicare
program, such as the new prescription
drug discount card, receive lots of
attention. But many other policy
changes to this complex federal program are implemented throughout the year—with little fanfare—
that address benefits and coverage, Medicare HMOs
and supplemental programs.
Since each change impacts
communities in diverse ways,
TCWF grantee California
Health Advocates (CHA)
works to ensure that timely
and accurate information is
readily available.
In March 2003, TCWF
awarded CHA a three-year
grant of $150,000 to establish
a centralized office in
Sacramento to sustain the
provision of Medicare
education and advocacy
services to its statewide
network of agencies. These
local agencies, called HICAPs
(Health Insurance and
Counseling Advocacy
Programs), are staffed by
volunteers who respond to
telephone inquiries and offer face-to-face counseling
about the Medicare program for beneficiaries and
their families.
“With our new office, CHA is better equipped
to provide our training and support,” said Clare
Smith, CHA president and CEO. “We have hired an
office manager and are improving our computer
and telephone systems. We are also working to
standardize our training materials and are looking at
setting up some web-based resources for HICAP
volunteers to access.”
Bonnie Burns, CHA’s training and policy
specialist, is an expert on the program. She has
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Volunteers are key to CHA's
mission of communicating
Medicare policy changes.
developed training modules on a variety of topics
and regularly updates them when policy changes are
announced. She leads training sessions around the
state that translate complicated bureaucratic policy
language into understandable, practical information
to help HICAP volunteers provide accurate local
information to seniors in their communities.
“I am so impressed with the HICAP volunteers,
many of whom are retirees,” Smith said. “They
become students of insurance and are very
conscientious about having the right information
available. When the government announces changes
with no advance notice, they go way beyond the call
to get up-to-speed on developments.”
The HICAP volunteers are a valuable asset for
California seniors. Although the Medicare program
operates a toll-free telephone information line to
answer questions, it’s primarily an automated
system with complicated menu options, presenting
obstacles for many seniors. The HICAP volunteers,
on the other hand, can answer specific questions
about which zip codes are served by different
Medicare HMOs or about local pharmacies.
“For seniors and their families who are
concerned with navigating the health care system
and making good health care choices, CHA’s
education and advocacy services are critical,” said
Pauline Daniels, TCWF program director. “Building
this organization’s capacity to provide information
and training will lead to better health outcomes for
California’s seniors.”
Looking to the future, CHA hopes to be better
able to serve all Medicare beneficiaries by providing
training materials in languages other than English
and by helping HICAPs improve their capacity to
respond to these inquiries. CHA also hopes to build
a broader coalition of organizations that serve
Medicare beneficiaries to help overcome what is
currently a fragmented system of information
and support.
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For more information, please visit cahealthadvocates.org or www.calmedicare.org.
Grantees
In Focus
Women’s Health
Homeless Women Access Health Services
Through Comprehensive Case Management
onoma County is traditionally
regarded as an economic stronghold of
the tourism and wine industries, but its
affluent image belies the hardships
confronted by its most impoverished residents.
With affordable housing at a premium, the region
faces a growing problem with homelessness and its
associated negative health implications.
Among the population of homeless women in
the region, many suffer from chronic pain, heart
disease, respiratory ailments, obesity, substance
abuse and a variety of mental health issues. Other
health problems include chronic stress associated
with domestic violence, sexual assault or prolonged
homelessness.
To address these problems, Community Action
Partnership of Sonoma County (CAP Sonoma)
offers a variety of community-based prevention
efforts, early intervention and intensive treatment
programs. In June 2002, TCWF awarded the
organization a three-year, $90,000 grant for a health
screening and case management program for
homeless women.
“It is our belief that everyone, regardless of
income level, deserves access to quality health care,
safe and affordable housing and the resources
necessary to achieve economic and social stability,”
said Karen Oswald, CAP Sonoma grants officer.
“Therefore, we advocate for an enhanced quality of
life for all Sonoma County residents while focusing
our services in those areas with the highest concentrations of minority and poverty-level households.”
These homeless, single women, many of whom
are over the age of 50, are improving their health
with CAP Sonoma’s “Wellness for Women”
program, which includes case management,
disease prevention and health/wellness education,
therapeutic services, and client information management and analysis. In the past two years, the agency
has assessed and prepared health care plans for more
than 300 homeless women, addressing issues
ranging from physical and mental health needs to
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housing plans, chemical dependency, job training
and employment, legal situations and human services advocacy.
As part of the “Wellness for Women” program,
uninsured clients are introduced to local providers
and coached in the application processes for various
county health services. Those who actively choose to
participate in the program receive comprehensive
case management;
continued health
care planning; health
education; and advocacy after placement
in emergency, transitional or permanent
housing.
CAP Sonoma
broke ground on a
new shelter this fall,
expanding its
emergency shelter for
homeless women to
include a new 24-bed
facility. This will
enable the organization to offer longer stays,
increasing the likelihood that clients can move from
the cycle of homelessness into transitional housing.
Others have moved from transitional housing into
permanent housing with full-time jobs.
“Transient populations often have a difficult
time navigating their way through the public health
system to access much-needed health services,” said
Saba Brelvi, TCWF program director. “Providing
single women with comprehensive case management
makes a world of difference in improving the health
and wellness of this vulnerable population.”
CAP Sonoma's case managers
help homeless women to address
chronic health conditions.
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For more information, please visit www.scpeo.org.
How
To Apply
he Foundation prioritizes eight issues
for funding and responds to timely issues
or special projects outside the funding
priorities. We encourage requests for
core operating support, but requests for
project funding are also welcome. Core operating
support can be used to help underwrite the regular,
ongoing health promotion and disease prevention
activities of your organization. Such funds can also be
used to strengthen organizational infrastructure
through activities such as providing salaries for key
administrative staff, covering operating expenses,
engaging in strategic planning or facilitating board
development. Each issue is described below.
Healthy Aging
Diversity in the
Health Professions
Mental Health
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Grants that address the issue of diversity in
the health professions are commonly given to
organizations that provide pipeline programs,
scholarships, mentoring programs, internships
and fellowships that support and advance career
opportunities for people of color in the health
professions, including allied health and public
health professions. Organizations that support
people of color in the health professions through
strategic partnerships, leadership development,
continuing education and networking activities
are also eligible for funding. In addition, the
Foundation funds organizations that educate
policymakers about public and institutional policies
that promote diversity in the health professions.
Environmental Health
Grants that address the issue of environmental
health are commonly given to organizations that
provide environmental health education and awareness
activities, community organizing to promote
environmental health, screening and testing for
environmental health exposure, leadership
development, and partnerships between public health
departments and community-based health programs
to improve environmental health. The Foundation
also funds efforts to inform policymakers and advocate
for policies that could improve environmental health
among underserved populations.
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Grants that address the issue of healthy aging are
commonly given to organizations that provide
clinical preventive services, leadership development,
recreation programs, food and nutrition services,
consumer education, adult immunizations, family
caregiving and chronic disease management. Also
funded are organizations that support relationships
between youth and older adults through activities such
as intergenerational volunteering and mentoring. In
addition, the Foundation funds agencies that educate
policymakers about issues such as prescription drugs,
family caregiving, employment, elder abuse and
appropriate and affordable housing for the elderly.
Grants that address the issue of mental health
are commonly given to organizations that provide
primary and secondary prevention services for older
teens transitioning to adulthood, with a focus on
those in foster care, the juvenile justice system and
runaway/homeless youth. Services for other
underserved populations, such as homeless adults
and immigrants, are funded as well. In addition,
the Foundation funds organizations that provide
leadership development programs for mental health
professionals, increase public awareness of mental
health issues and advocate for policies that promote
mental health.
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention
Grants that address the issue of teenage
pregnancy prevention are commonly given to
organizations that provide outreach activities for
reproductive health care, comprehensive sexuality
education, access to contraception, education and
counseling about contraception, comprehensive
programs for pregnant teens, peer counseling
programs and male involvement programs. An
emphasis is placed on funding organizations that
work with high-risk, sexually active, underserved teen
populations. The Foundation also provides grants to
organizations that provide leadership development
activities for reproductive health care workers and to
organizations that inform policymakers and opinion
leaders about effective policies and programs to
prevent teen pregnancy. At this time, no letters of
interest addressing this issue will be accepted. For
future updates, please visit our website at www.tcwf.org.
How
To Apply
Violence Prevention
Special Projects
Grants that address the issue of violence prevention
are commonly made to organizations that provide
mentoring programs for youth, community-based
conflict resolution programs, peer mediation,
after-school programs, school-based violence
prevention programs and domestic violence prevention
among vulnerable groups. Grants are also made to
organizations that provide leadership development
activities to strengthen the field of violence prevention.
In addition, the Foundation funds organizations that
inform policymakers and advocate for public policies
that increase resources for programs that prevent
violence against youth and that reduce injury and death
by firearms.
Each year, the Foundation sets aside a pool of dollars
to respond in a timely fashion to opportunities that fit
our mission but are outside the eight funding priorities.
Of particular interest are proposals to help California
communities deal effectively with the health impact of
the shift of federal responsibilities for health and human
services to state and local levels. The Foundation has
made grants to support and strengthen safety net
providers of preventive care, to help low-income
consumers understand and navigate changes in the
health care system, and to inform public decisionmaking through policy analysis and advocacy.
Women’s Health
Grants that address the issue of women’s health
are commonly given to organizations that provide
clinical services, screenings, prenatal care, mobile
health care, self-help groups, community health
education and related services. Priority is given to
organizations that create welcoming environments
for women and girls in underserved communities.
The Foundation also funds organizations that involve
women in leadership development, policy advocacy
and community mobilization around women’s
health issues.
Work and Health
Grants that address the issue of work and health
are commonly given to organizations that increase
workers’ access to preventive health care, help prevent
workplace injuries and illnesses and provide worksite
health promotion programs. Organizations that
provide technology training to help low-income youth
obtain employment and its corresponding health
benefits are also funded. In addition, the Foundation
funds organizations that provide leadership
development programs focused on the health of
workers. Organizations that educate policymakers
about the connections between work and health and
promote policies that would improve the health of
low-income workers are funded as well.
Application Process
To present The California Wellness Foundation
with a grant request, an organization should first write a
one- to two-page letter of interest that describes the
organization’s mission and activities, the region and
population(s) served, how the funds will be used and
the total funds requested from the Foundation. If
requesting project funding, please include project goals,
leadership and duration. Your letter will be processed
most accurately if you clearly designate the TCWF
health issue funding priority through which you want
your request considered. No application form is
needed, and formal proposals are not accepted at this
preliminary stage.
Foundation staff will review letters of interest on an
ongoing basis and notify prospective applicants of the
results normally within three to four months. Those
encouraged to submit a proposal will receive further
guidance at that time.
Eligibility Criteria
With rare exception, the Foundation funds
nonprofit organizations that are exempt under Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are deemed
as “not a private foundation” under Section 509(a).
The Foundation also funds government agencies.
Grants are not generally awarded for annual
fund drives, building campaigns, major equipment or
biomedical research. Activities that exclusively benefit
the members of sectarian or religious organizations are
not considered. We do not provide international
funding or fund organizations that are located outside
the United States.
Letters of interest should be directed to: Director of Grants Management,
The California Wellness Foundation, 6320 Canoga Avenue, Suite 1700, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
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Selected Grants
Awarded March-September
2004
TCWF's Board of Directors approved the following
grants in support of the Foundation's mission of
improving the health of the people of California
and to further its four goals: addressing the health
needs of underserved communities, supporting
and strengthening nonprofit organizations,
recognizing and encouraging leaders, and
informing the development of public policies.
For current application guidelines, please see the
preceding How To Apply pages.
A HOME WITHIN INC.
San Francisco, CA
$120,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue
providing pro bono mental health counseling
services to foster children and youth in
Alameda, San Francisco and Sonoma Counties.
ACCESS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL
SERVICES
San Francisco, CA
To provide mental health counseling services
for low- and moderate-income individuals in
San Francisco.
ADULT DAY SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY
Huntington Beach, CA
For core operating support to continue to
provide services, support and education to
seniors and families affected by Alzheimer’s
disease or dementia.
THE AJA PROJECT
San Diego, CA
To continue to provide a photography-based
therapeutic storytelling program as a mental
health strategy for refugee youth in San Diego.
ALAMEDA COUNTY HOSPITAL
AUTHORITY/ALAMEDA COUNTY MEDICAL
CENTER OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AFFAIRS
Oakland, CA
$90,000 over two years
To support the East Bay Association for the
Recruitment of Minority Safety Net Physicians
to increase the number of underrepresented
minorities who choose to complete residency
training and practice in the Bay Area.
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ALTA BATES SUMMIT FOUNDATION/ETHNIC
HEALTH INSTITUTE
Berkeley, CA
For core operating support for the Ethnic Health
Institute to continue to provide health screenings
and education for underserved, uninsured and
underinsured Alameda County residents.
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS
Sacramento, CA
To expand food stamp participation among
working people, particularly those accessing the
Food Banks’ emergency food network
statewide.
CALIFORNIA CENTER
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF
SACRAMENTO EMIGRANT TRAILS
Sacramento, CA
For core operating support to continue lung
health and environmental health education
and advocacy efforts in El Dorado, Placer,
Sacramento and Yolo Counties.
AMERICAN YOUTH WORK CENTER
Washington, DC
To continue the California distribution of Youth
Today, a newspaper targeting health and human
service organizations.
ASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE
CENTER INC.
Santa Ana, CA
provide health promotion programs and an
osteoporosis education campaign for Chinese
American women.
ASIAN LAW CAUCUS, INC.
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support to sustain the provision of workplace health and safety education,
public policy advocacy and legal services to
low-wage immigrant workers and their families.
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEGAL CENTER
OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA/CALIFORNIA
IMMIGRANT WELFARE COLLABORATIVE
Los Angeles, CA
For core operating support of the California
Immigrant Welfare Collaborative to preserve
and expand health and human service programs
that serve immigrants in California.
Sacramento, CA
To support the Policy Leadership Program on
School Health, a statewide youth advocacy
effort to increase support for, and access to,
school health services.
CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
ADVOCACY
Davis, CA
For core operating support to strengthen
capacity to advocate for improved access to
chronic disease prevention and treatment
programs in low-income communities, and to
build organizational infrastructure.
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY, OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH HAZARD ASSESSMENT
Sacramento, CA
To support the Border Environmental Health
Program to provide environmental health
training to health providers and community
leaders along the border with Baja California.
CALIFORNIA FOOD POLICY ADVOCATES, INC.
San Francisco, CA
advocate and strengthen state and local policies
that increase access to the Food Stamp Program
by Californians.
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Sacramento, CA
$25,000 over nine months
To support the 12th Annual Cultural
Competence and Mental Health Summit held
in Anaheim in October 2004.
BARRIO STATION
CALIFORNIA NETWORK OF MENTAL
HEALTH CLIENTS
San Diego, CA
For core operating support to enhance
organizational capacity to strengthen violence
prevention programs for at-risk Latino and
African-American youth in San Diego.
Sacramento, CA
providing training and technical assistance to
empower mental health consumer leaders
throughout the state of California.
LINDA BILLEY-SEVEDGE
CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE
ASSOCIATION/ORAL HEALTH ACCESS
INITIATIVE
Santa Maria, CA
$25,000 over one year
For the 2004 Champions of Health Professions
Diversity Award to recognize and acknowledge
individuals who have made substantial
contributions to the diversity of California’s
health professions.
Sacramento, CA
For support to advocate for policies that
improve access to oral health services for
low-income Californians.
THE CALIFORNIA WORKS FOUNDATION
CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE RIGHTS
Oakland, CA
To support a statewide health care education,
training and alliance-building program to
increase workers’ access to affordable and
high-quality health care and to garner public
support for policies that improve health for
low-wage workers.
Los Angeles, CA
For core operating support to continue health
education, counseling and legal service
programs for Medicare beneficiaries and policy
advocacy activities in Los Angeles County.
CALIFORNIA YOUTH CONNECTIONS
San Francisco, CA
educate and inform the public and policymakers
about strategies for improving mental health
and transition services for foster youth.
CALIFORNIANS FOR JUSTICE
EDUCATION FUND
Oakland, CA
For core operating support to continue the
Student Health and Wellness campaign to hold
school districts accountable for facility cleanliness standards and to strengthen infrastructure.
THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY
Santa Ana, CA
provide an after-school youth program for
at-risk Cambodian and Latino youth in Santa
Ana as a violence prevention strategy.
ZELENNE CÁRDENAS
Covina, CA
For the 2004 California Peace Prize, which
acknowledges the past violence prevention
activities of this individual working to address
the root causes of violence in her community.
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE/WESTSIDE
RESIDENTS FOR CLEAN AIR NOW
San Bernardino, CA
For core operating support for Westside
Residents for Clean Air Now, to continue
environmental health education and advocacy
to improve air quality and eliminate environmental hazards in western San Bernardino.
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE/
CALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support for the California
Partnership to continue and expand advocacy
efforts to improve health policies that affect
low-wage workers.
COMMUNITY BRIDGES/WATSONVILLE
LAW CENTER
Watsonville, CA
For core operating support for the Agricultural
Workers’ Health Access Project, which seeks to
decrease farmworker injury and illness and to
increase access to health care.
CENTRAL VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.
Sacramento, CA
For core operating support to strengthen the
network’s infrastructure and sustain the
provision of primary and preventive health
services by member clinics.
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES/
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES,
DIVISION OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE
Los Angeles, CA
To implement a mental health internship program targeting homeless, runaway, immigrant
and other underserved youth in Los Angeles.
COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE OF
PASADENA
Pasadena, CA
For core operating support to sustain the
services to the uninsured and low-income
residents of the greater San Gabriel Valley.
COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC OLE
Napa, CA
services to uninsured and low-income residents
of Napa County.
THE CHRYSALIS CENTER
Santa Monica, CA
To support the Workplace Health and Safety
Program.
CITY OF SACRAMENTO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Sacramento, CA
To support a program to prevent injuries due to
falls among adults 65 and older in Sacramento
County.
CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE/BERGER
INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY, WORK, AND
CHILDREN
Claremont, CA
To investigate the impact of California’s new
Paid Family Leave Act, to engage in a media
campaign to inform California’s low-wage
workers of the availability and benefits of paid
family leave, and to provide data to policymakers
about health outcomes.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS/CALIFORNIA
ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ALLIANCE
El Segundo, CA
For core operating support for the California
Environmental Rights Alliance to continue to
advocate for policies that improve
environmental health and justice.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS/WOMEN AND
YOUTH SUPPORTING EACH OTHER
Los Angeles, CA
For core operating support to sustain
college-based mentoring and health education
after-school programs in nine middle schools in
low-income communities in California.
COMPASSPOINT NONPROFIT SERVICES
San Francisco, CA
To provide logistics support for TCWF’s annual
conference on violence prevention.
COALITION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH
CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
provision of environmental health education
and comprehensive asthma services to
low-income families in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, CA
To support the development and implementation of an after-school leadership development
and violence prevention program for high
school students in South Los Angeles.
COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY AND
TRAFFICKING
COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
provision of intensive case management services
to improve the overall health and well-being of
women and girls trafficked for forced labor to
Los Angeles.
Washington, DC
To support the Building Strong and Ethical
Foundations: Doing It Right project, to develop
new guiding principles and governance
standards and increase professional development
in and for foundations in California.
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CRYSTAL STAIRS, INC.
FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION
Los Angeles, CA
provide outreach and health promotion/
education for underserved older women and
kinship caregivers in South Los Angeles.
Beverly Hills, CA
To develop leadership and increase advocacy
skills among young women attending
community college in California as a health
promotion strategy.
DONALD P. MCCULLUM YOUTH COURT, INC.
FILIPINOS FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, INC.
Oakland, CA
operate an alternative sentencing program as a
violence prevention strategy for first-time youth
offenders in Alameda County.
Oakland, CA
To support the Healthcare After Lay-Offs
project, which provides health education and
health program enrollment services for laid-off
airport screeners and their families in Oakland.
DOWNTOWN WOMEN’S CENTER
FIRST PLACE FUND FOR YOUTH
Los Angeles, CA
provide health education, health screenings and
case management to older, formerly homeless
women with mental illness in Los Angeles.
Oakland, CA
For core operating support to address the
mental health and supportive housing needs of
youth emancipating from the foster care system.
KATHERINE A. FLORES
DRIVE BY AGONY
Lynwood, CA
educating youth about violence prevention and
to support victims of gun violence in Lynwood,
Compton, Long Beach, Watts and South Los
Angeles.
EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN
AND FAMILIES
Fresno, CA
health professions.
FOOTHILL-DE ANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
FOUNDATION/DE ANZA COLLEGE
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support to sustain health
programs for older kinship caregivers.
Cupertino, CA
To develop health-related English as a Second
Language classes for health care professionals
and students in Santa Clara County.
EL DORADO WOMENS INFORMATION
CENTER
FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA REGIONAL
HEALTH AUTHORITY, INC.
Placerville, CA
violence prevention program at middle schools
throughout El Dorado County.
Goleta, CA
To support the planning and development
of a health insurance program for uninsured
children in Santa Barbara County.
ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA RESEARCH
& POLICY CENTER, INC.
FRESNO CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS
Los Angeles, CA
educate the public and policymakers about
the health effects of toxics and to advocate for
policies that reduce their use.
FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC.
Washington, DC
To continue to educate California federal and
state policymakers, opinion leaders and health
advocacy organizations about the impact of
proposed Medicaid policies on access to care
for low-income Californians.
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Fresno, CA
To develop a mental health advocacy and
counseling program for incoming Hmong
refugees in Fresno.
FRESNO METROPOLITAN MINISTRY
Fresno, CA
To educate community members on air
pollution and its health effects and to organize
advocacy efforts that address environmental
health issues in Fresno.
GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY
Garden Grove, CA
For support to conduct a needs assessment and
develop a resource guide to foster healthy aging
among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
seniors.
PATRICIA GIGGANS
Los Angeles, CA
the root causes of violence in her community.
GIRLS AFTER SCHOOL ACADEMY
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support to continue an
after-school program for girls in the Sunnydale
public housing development in San Francisco as
a violence prevention strategy.
GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY/ENVIRONMENTAL
LAW AND JUSTICE CLINIC
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support for the
Environmental Law and Justice Clinic to sustain
the provision of technical and legal support of
organizations that seek to eliminate toxic
pollutants in minority communities in the Bay
Area as a disease prevention strategy.
GOLDEN VALLEY HEALTH CENTER
Merced, CA
For core operating support to sustain the provision of preventive and primary care, counseling
services, as well as dental services to the working
poor in Merced and Stanislaus Counties.
PRISCILLA GONZALEZ
Fair Oaks, CA
health professions.
GROUP HEALTH COOPERATIVE OF
PUGET SOUND
Seattle, WA
To evaluate the sustainability of three
TCWF-funded initiatives (the Health
Improvement Initiative, the Work and Health
Initiative, and the Children and Youth
Community Health Initiative) three years after
TCWF funding for them ended.
HEALTHY OAKLAND
INSTITUTE ON AGING
KINGSBURG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
Oakland, CA
To provide health information, prevention,
screening and case management services for the
African-American community in Oakland.
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support to sustain a
comprehensive elder abuse prevention program
in San Francisco.
HISPANAS ORGANIZED FOR POLITICAL
EQUALITY - CALIFORNIA
INTERAMERICAN COLLEGE
Kingsburg, CA
For core operating support to sustain the Rural
Health Clinic to provide primary and preventive
health services to the uninsured and lowincome residents of Kingsburg and the
surrounding rural communities in the San
Joaquin Valley.
Los Angeles, CA
train California Latina leaders and mobilize
members to advocate for programs and policies
that increase access to quality health care.
HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS, INC.
San Francisco, CA
providing counseling services to homeless and
runaway youth in San Francisco.
National City, CA
To develop a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
program for bilingual students and nurses
trained outside the United States.
INTERFAITH COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT
RIGHTS
San Francisco, CA
the capacity of religious and immigrant
communities to advocate for state and local
policies that protect and increase access to health
care for immigrants.
I.E. COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
San Francisco, CA
$101,000 over nine months
To produce a statewide videoconference to
inform policymakers and opinion leaders about
the state of youth violence and the need for
public investment in youth violence prevention
programs.
IDYLLWILD HELP CENTER
Idyllwild, CA
For core operating support for the health care
assistance program to provide vouchers for
health care services for low-income individuals
residing in mountain communities in Riverside
County.
ISLA VISTA YOUTH PROJECT, INC.
Goleta, CA
To continue providing bilingual counseling and
case management in Isla Vista, Goleta and Santa
Barbara.
JOHN MUIR-MT. DIABLO COMMUNITY
HEALTH FUND
Walnut Creek, CA
For core operating support to sustain the healthy
aging initiative to expand the role of nonprofit
agencies to meet the needs of older adults in
Contra Costa County.
JUMA VENTURES
IMPERIAL COUNTY OFFICE OF
EDUCATION/MIGRANT EDUCATION
PROGRAM
El Centro, CA
For core operating support for the Migrant
Education Program, which provides dental services to migrant farmworkers and their families
in the southeastern desert region of the state.
INDIAN DISPUTE RESOLUTION SERVICES, INC.
Sacramento, CA
To support the creation of an advocacy
association to ensure that counties in
Northern California are in compliance with
federal legislation affecting Native American
youth in foster care.
INLAND COUNTIES HEALTH SYSTEMS
AGENCY
Riverside, CA
To expand Por La Vida, a lay health worker
program that educates Latinas in the San
Bernardino County community of Adelanto
about cardiovascular disease and breast and
cervical cancer.
San Francisco, CA
provision of health education to youth workers
in San Francisco.
JUSTICE NOW
Oakland, CA
For core operating support to improve the
health and wellness of women prisoners in
California by expanding their access to health
information and treatment.
KALUSUGAN COMMUNITY SERVICES
National City, CA
provision of preventive health services to the
Filipino community in National City.
KERN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Bakersfield, CA
To support a regranting project providing
funding to promote the health of low-income
and underserved residents of rural Kern County.
KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES
OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles, CA
provision of health services for Korean
immigrant workers in Los Angeles.
LABOR’S COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY
San Diego, CA
To support the Healthy LINK program,
which prepares San Diego’s underemployed
multiethnic citizens to meet rapidly changing
health care workforce needs.
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support to sustain and
expand the Assertive Community Treatment
initiative to provide mental health services to
homeless and runaway youth in San Francisco.
LEGAL AID SOCIETY-EMPLOYMENT LAW
CENTER
San Francisco, CA
To support the Paid Family Leave Outreach
Collaborative to educate working Californians
and service providers on the new paid family
leave benefits as a health promotion strategy.
LEGAL COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support to continue legal
policy research and analysis, educational
outreach and advocacy efforts to prevent gun
violence in California.
LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Sacramento, CA
For core operating support to sustain legal
assistance on health-related matters for
underserved seniors statewide.
LOS ANGELES MISSION, INC./LOS ANGELES
MISSION CLINIC
Los Angeles, CA
provision of health care services to underserved
homeless individuals in the Skid Row area of
Los Angeles.
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M F PLACE INC.
OMEGA BOYS CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO
PEOPLE REACHING OUT, INC.
Hollywood, CA
For core operating support for Healthy Friends,
a health promotion and health care access
program for homeless and high-risk youth in
Los Angeles.
San Francisco, CA
provide an after-school program that integrates
academic enrichment, conflict resolution and
mentoring for youth in San Francisco as a
violence prevention strategy.
Sacramento, CA
To support the expansion of an after-school
peer education violence prevention program for
at-risk youth in the Sacramento area.
ONE 2 ONE MENTORS
PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK NORTH
AMERICA REGIONAL CENTER/CALIFORNIANS
FOR PESTICIDE REFORM
Victorville, CA
providing educational workshops and
mentoring services to at-risk youth in
Victorville, Apple Valley, Adelanto and
Hesperia as a violence prevention strategy.
San Francisco, CA
project, Californians for Pesticide Reform, to
educate the public and policymakers on the
harmful health effects of pesticides and promote
the use of sustainable pest control solutions.
ANTHONY ORTIZ
PIONEER HOME HEALTH CARE, INC.
San Jose, CA
the root causes of violence in his community.
Bishop, CA
provision of home health care for older adults
living in the underserved communities of the
Eastern Sierra in Inyo and Mono Counties.
PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES
IN DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT,
AND SECURITY
PLANNED PARENTHOOD - ORANGE AND SAN
BERNARDINO COUNTIES, INC.
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH ACCESS
Los Angeles, CA
advocacy efforts to preserve and improve state
and Los Angeles County health care programs
for low-income families, and to strengthen
organizational infrastructure.
MEDICAL EDUCATION COOPERATION
WITH CUBA
Atlanta, GA
To establish the Faculty Community Health
Leadership Program in South Los Angeles.
MERCED COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
Merced, CA
To expand the health careers education and
internship program at two high schools that
serve low-income minority youth in Merced
County.
MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER
San Francisco, CA
provide community-based, culturally relevant
primary care health services to low-income
uninsured and underinsured individuals in San
Francisco.
MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND/SAN
FRANCISCO HUMAN SERVICES NETWORK
San Francisco, CA
For support to expand efforts to foster effective
public policies that preserve and strengthen San
Francisco’s community-based health and
human services.
NATIONAL SENIOR CITIZENS LAW CENTER
Los Angeles, CA
For core operating support to sustain
long-term care advocacy programs.
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE
COUNCIL, INC.
New York, NY
research, advocacy and education efforts to
improve environmental health in California.
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Oakland, CA
For core operating support to continue efforts to
reduce environmental pollution, build local
leadership and provide environmental health
education in North Richmond and West
Oakland.
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE/NEW CALIFORNIA
MEDIA
San Francisco, CA
To conduct polls on key health issues facing
California’s ethnic communities.
PACOIMA BEAUTIFUL
Pacoima, CA
to educate and empower residents to address
environmental health hazards in and around
Pacoima homes in the Northeast San
Fernando Valley.
Orange, CA
organizational infrastructure within San
Bernardino County by developing local
relationships with community organizations
and donors as a health promotion strategy.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SAN DIEGO AND
RIVERSIDE COUNTIES
San Diego, CA
Promotores Pro Salud program, which provides
health education and clinic services to migrant
farmworkers and their families in the Coachella
Valley.
PREVENTION INSTITUTE
Oakland, CA
To support the development of a countywide
violence prevention strategy for Alameda
County.
PASADENA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION LTD
PROTEUS, INC.
Pasadena, CA
For core operating support to sustain health
promotion and case management services for
seniors in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los
Angeles County.
Visalia, CA
To provide prevention education on pesticide
safety and heat stress to farmworkers in the
Central Valley.
PUBLIC ALLIES, INC.
PASADENA-FOOTHILL VALLEY YWCA
Pasadena, CA
For core operating support to sustain an
after-school violence prevention program
serving at-risk girls in Pasadena and Altadena.
Los Angeles, CA
To provide leadership development activities
and internships for program participants in
health service projects and organizations.
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE/CENTER FOR
CIVIC PARTNERSHIPS
Sacramento, CA
$1,000,000 over two years and four months
To implement a technical support program
for TCWF grantees that enhances their
organizational development through
one-on-one technical assistance, consultant
services and conferences.
CIVIC PARTNERSHIPS
Sacramento, CA
To develop and disseminate a planning brief for
policymakers who make decisions and resource
allocations that impact the health and quality of
life of seniors.
COLLABORATIVE PLANNING
Sacramento, CA
To provide logistics support for TCWF’s annual
state health advocates retreat.
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE/REGIONAL
ASTHMA MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION
INITIATIVE
Oakland, CA
For core operating support for the Regional
Asthma Management and Prevention Initiative
to continue to organize and facilitate asthma
prevention efforts and serve as a clearinghouse
of information for asthma coalitions.
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE/WOMEN’S
HEALTH COLLABORATIVE
Oakland, CA
To create a plan for the utilization of emerging
technology to strengthen community leaders in
women’s health in California.
RAND CORPORATION
Santa Monica, CA
To conduct research on mental health service
models for youth and disseminate results to service
providers, policymakers and other stakeholders.
REDWOOD CHILDREN’S SERVICES, INC.
Ukiah, CA
For core operating support to enhance
organizational capacity to improve mental
health service delivery for foster care youth in
Lake and Mendocino Counties.
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY/CENTER FOR SOCIAL
SERVICES RESEARCH
CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY/SAN FRANCISCO BAY
AREA HEALTH PROFESSIONS PARTNERSHIP
INITIATIVE
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
SAN FRANCISCO/UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
SAN FRANCISCO, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Berkeley, CA
To increase interest in the health professions
and the ability to pursue training in health
professions schools among high school students
in the Bay Area.
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support for the
postbaccalaureate program, which assists
California students from disadvantaged
backgrounds in gaining admittance to
medical school.
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY/UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
REGIONAL CONGREGATIONS &
NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS
TRAINING CENTER
Berkeley, CA
To support a program to identify and provide
technical assistance to senior volunteers
working in healthy aging.
Los Angeles, CA
To develop a framework for a coordinated
response to the public health challenges of
prisoner re-entry in Los Angeles County.
CALIFORNIA, DAVIS/CONSORTIUM OF
STUDENT-RUN CLINICS
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH
FOUNDATION
Sacramento, CA
For core operating support for the Consortium
of Student-Run Clinics to continue to provide
preventive health services at five clinics in
Sacramento.
CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES/CENTER FOR THE
STUDY OF LATINO HEALTH AND CULTURE
Los Angeles, CA
To develop and lead courses about Latino
health and the health professions for disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students
at five community colleges in California.
CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO/NEW
GENERATION HEALTH CENTER
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support for New Generation
Health Center, a reproductive health clinic for
high-risk teens and young women in San
Francisco.
CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO/UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, SCHOOL
OF DENTISTRY
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support for the Dental
Career Program to provide disadvantaged
and minority students in the Bay Area with
academic enrichment, career exposure and
preparation for dental school.
Riverside, CA
To provide pediatric dental care services for
low-income children in Riverside County.
SACRAMENTO LOAVES AND FISHES
Sacramento, CA
providing treatment and shelter services for
chronically homeless and mentally ill women
in Sacramento.
SAGE PROJECT, INC.
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support to maintain services
to girls and women who have been victims of
trafficking and sexual exploitation and violence
in the Bay Area.
SALUD PARA LA GENTE, INC.
Watsonville, CA
services to the uninsured and low-income
residents of the Pajaro Valley in Santa Cruz
and North Monterey Counties.
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
FOUNDATION, INC./MARIAN WRIGHT
EDELMAN INSTITUTE
San Francisco, CA
To prepare underrepresented minority nurses
in San Francisco for acceptance into doctoral
programs in nursing.
Berkeley, CA
To support the development of a plan for a
longitudinal research study following older
adolescents to adulthood in California’s
publicly funded mental health services.
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SANTA ANITA FAMILY YMCA
Monrovia, CA
provide specialized health and fitness services
for low-income older adults living in the San
Gabriel Valley.
SANTA CRUZ BARRIOS UNIDOS, INC.
Santa Cruz, CA
For core operating support to continue youth
violence prevention programming for Latino
youth in Santa Cruz County.
SAVE OUR YOUTH
Costa Mesa, CA
providing an after-school program for at-risk
Latino youth in Costa Mesa as a violence
prevention strategy.
SCAN HEALTH PLAN
Long Beach, CA
$75,000 over one year and six months
To support a community-based services
intervention for former senior inmates in Los
Angeles County as a health promotion strategy.
SILICON VALLEY TOXICS COALITION
San Jose, CA
provision of environmental health education
and leadership development to low-income
Latino residents in San Jose.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY/STANFORD
UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
Stanford, CA
To conduct primary research to identify
factors contributing to the disproportionate
loss of interest in premedical studies among
underrepresented minority students at two
California universities.
STOCKTON INTERFAITH SPONSORING
COMMITTEE, INC.
Stockton, CA
For core operating support to strengthen organizational capacity to mobilize the community
to maintain and expand access to health care
services for low-income families in Stockton.
TIDES CENTER/PEOPLE ORGANIZING TO
DEMAND ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC
RIGHTS
San Francisco, CA
For core operating support for People
Organizing to Demand Environmental and
Economic Rights to continue to organize and
advocate for environmental health and justice
in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood.
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TIDES CENTER/THE WOMEN’S COMMUNITY
CLINIC
San Francisco, CA
provision of free sexual and reproductive health
care to uninsured women in San Francisco.
TULARE COUNTY HISPANIC COMMISSION ON
ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE SERVICES, INC.
VICTOR VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Victorville, CA
To expand the health sciences offerings at
Victor Valley College and to increase the
recruitment of students of color in San
Bernardino County.
WALNUT AVENUE WOMEN’S CENTER
Visalia, CA
For core operating support for Angela’s
House, a perinatal and postpartum residential
substance abuse program for Latinas and their
children in Tulare County.
Santa Cruz, CA
To continue the ABC/African-American Health
Group of the Central Coast, which provides
health education, outreach, and advocacy
training to African-American women in Santa
Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties.
UNCOMMON GOOD
WESTERN CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY
Claremont, CA
To help community clinics in Los Angeles
maintain and increase staff diversity by
providing educational debt repayment
assistance to minority physicians.
Los Angeles, CA
To support the monitoring of Los Angeles
County’s mental health compliance in
implementing court-ordered foster care system
reforms.
UNIVERSITY MUSLIM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
INC.
WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER
Los Angeles, CA
provision of health care services to underserved
residents in South Los Angeles.
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC/UNIVERSITY OF
THE PACIFIC, SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over one year and six months
To provide preventive oral health care services
to reduce dental disease in individuals with
disabilities.
UNSTRUNG BOW SPIRITUAL RETREAT AND
COMPASSIONATE MISSION MINISTRIES
Fresno, CA
To strengthen and expand a faith-based,
grassroots organizing project in the Central
Valley to improve access to health services for
low-income families in Fresno and Tulare
Counties.
URBAN HABITAT
Oakland, CA
To support a leadership development program
that trains community leaders on the core
connections between health outcomes and
environmental factors.
Santa Monica, CA
Community Health Advocate program, which
works to prevent preterm labor among Latina
clients in Los Angeles.
WINTERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION, INC.
Winters, CA
For core operating support to continue to provide direct preventive health services to underserved populations in southwest Yolo County.
WOMEN’S CANCER ADVOCACY, RESOURCES
AND EDUCATION
Santa Cruz, CA
internal capacity to provide free services to
women living with cancer in Santa Cruz
County.
THE WOMEN’S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA
San Francisco, CA
To support the Women’s Policy Institute to
increase the number of community-based
women leaders informing public policy that
impacts the health of women and girls in
California.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
URDC HUMAN SERVICES CORPORATION
Pasadena, CA
To provide health services to low-income
women and girls in Pasadena, Altadena and the
west San Gabriel Valley.
To support activities of the Global Interpersonal
Violence Prevention Alliance including an
international conference in California in 2005.
Staff
Profile
Danilo Torres,
Executive Assistant
anilo Torres is the executive assistant to
TCWF’s vice president of programs,
Cristina M. Regalado. In this role, his
primary responsibilities are maintaining
the calendar and scheduling meetings for the
program department, making travel arrangements,
and compiling data related to the Foundation’s
grantmaking.
Torres has helped develop a number of new
management tools that enable the program
department to operate smoothly and coordinate its
activities with other TCWF departments. In
addition, he serves on the Foundation’s Human
Resources Committee, which reviews and makes
recommendations for changes in benefits, office
policies, performance plan, employee awards and
social activities.
When the executive assistant position at TCWF
became available last year, Torres learned about it
from a friend who was familiar with the
Foundation’s work.
“I looked at the Foundation’s website and was
attracted by its socially responsible mission,” Torres
said. “At the end of the day, I appreciate knowing
that we’re helping people and that we can show a
measurable, positive impact. I also appreciate the
fact that TCWF acknowledges the importance of
self-care.”
Torres was raised in Long Beach, south of Los
Angeles. He attended UCLA, where he earned a
bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s
in urban planning. To complete the degree, he
worked on a group project called LAMAP (Los
Angeles Manufacturing Action Project) that
conducted strategic research in partnership with
organized labor on dollars that were spent
constructing the Alameda Corridor, a major
public works effort designed to ease the movement
of cargo from the Port of Los Angeles to inland
distribution hubs.
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“At the end of the day,I appreciate knowing
that we’re helping people and that we can
show a measurable,positive impact.I also
appreciate the fact that TCWF acknowledges
the importance of self-care.”
Prior to joining TCWF, he worked for the M.
Gordon Publishing Group, a company that
specializes in books about financial markets.
Torres, an avid softball player, lives with his
girlfriend of many years in the San Fernando Valley
community of Tujunga. He serves on the board of
directors of the UCLA Pilipino Alumni Association
and, especially during election seasons, volunteers for
a number of political campaigns.
Looking ahead 20 years, Torres has his sights set
on a political career.
“I think serving in an elected office would be a
great challenge,” Torres said. “You need listening
skills as well as the ability to mediate and weigh
different options to make good judgments—all the
while under the microscope of public scrutiny.”
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What’s
New
Zelenne L. Cárdenas
Rev. Anthony Ortiz
Patricia Giggans
Community Leaders Receive TCWF’s 12th Annual California Peace Prize
Zelenne L. Cárdenas of Los Angeles, Patricia Giggans of Los Angeles, and the Rev. Anthony Ortiz of San Jose,
received TCWF’s 2004 California Peace Prize at a luncheon in Los Angeles on December 3, 2004. The
honorees each received a cash award of $25,000 for their violence prevention work. To learn more about the
California Peace Prize honorees, visit www.tcwf.org.
Dede Alpert
John Burton
Bruce McPherson
John Vasconcellos
Departing Legislators Receive TCWF’s First Public Policy Leadership Awards
At an August 3, 2004 awards ceremony in Sacramento, TCWF presented its inaugural Public Policy
Leadership Award to four members of the California State Senate who have influenced millions of lives by
advancing public policies that promote the health of Californians. The honorees were Sen. Dede Alpert,
President Pro Tem John Burton, Sen. Bruce McPherson and Sen. John Vasconcellos. The Public Policy
Leadership Award recognizes termed-out legislators who have championed public policies that promote the
health of underserved Californians. Additional information about the award and these honorees can be
found at www.tcwf.org.
TCWF Sabbatical Program Rewards Nonprofit Executives
Six California nonprofit health-sector executives were recognized by TCWF’s Sabbatical Program on October
25, 2004. From left to right: Barbara Mitchell of Monterey; Dian Harrision of San Francisco; Jane Garcia of
Oakland; Rick Mesa of Desert Hot Springs; Debra Oto-Kent of West Sacramento; and Bernita Walker of Los
Angeles. TCWF’s Sabbatical Program was created to improve the long-term effectiveness of health-service
nonprofits by providing their executives with the rest they need to continue to pursue their organizations’
missions. The program provides $30,000 grants to organizations to cover their leaders’ salaries and expenses
during the sabbaticals, which last a minimum of three months. Additional information about the Sabbatical
Program and its recipients is available at www.tcwf.org.
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What’s
New
Media Partnerships Build Links
Between Journalists and TCWF
Grantees
In a media partnership with New California Media
(NCM), TCWF sponsored a September 24, 2004
workshop titled “How CBOs Get Their Stories Out:
Enlisting Ethnic Media’s Advocacy Voice.” Teresa
Alvarado of the Fresno Consumer Center, a TCWF
grantee, was a panelist. The workshop was part of
NCM’s annual EXPO that features exhibit booths
and workshops representing print, TV, radio and
online ethnic media from the Inland Empire and
the Central Valley.
At the California Chicano News Media
Association’s conference in October 2004, Ed Cueto
from TCWF grantee Bienestar Human Services,
served on a panel with Los Angeles-area journalists
to discuss how to cover sensitive health issues such
as HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancy. The panelists
addressed the need for communities of color to be
open about these issues and how best to get sources
to discuss them.
New Book Co-Edited by TCWF
VP of Communications
Published by the Los Angeles Times, “Frank del
Olmo: Commentaries on His Times” commemorates the 33-year career of the newspaper’s late
associate editor. Del Olmo, who died unexpectedly
in February 2004, was the
husband of Magdalena
Beltrán-del Olmo, TCWF’s
vice president of communications. The book presents
90 of his most memorable
columns on immigration,
autism, education, politics
and other key issues. The
book can be ordered online at
www.latimes.com/FrankdelOlmo. Proceeds will
benefit the Frank del Olmo Memorial Scholarship
Fund established by the California Chicano News
Media Association and the Times.
TCWF Board Members Honored
Luz A. Vega-Marquis was selected as one of the 100
Most Influential Hispanics in the country by
Hispanic Business magazine in October. The
magazine acknowledged her foundation portfolio
management and grantmaking at the Marguerite
Casey Foundation of which she is president and CEO.
Barbara C. Staggers, M.D., received the 2004 San
Francisco Foundation Award in September 2004.
The $10,000 award recognizes an individual who has
demonstrated commitment to improving human
relations in the Bay Area. The Foundation cited
Staggers for her dedication to improving
adolescent health care through community- and
school-based care and for serving as an outstanding
role model for youth pursuing careers in health care.
Former Board of Directors member Kenneth Kizer
received the Institute of Medicine’s 2004 Gustav O.
Lienhard Award for the advancement of personal
health services. Kizer was recognized for his
dedication and commitment to military personnel,
as demonstrated by his transformation of the veterans
health care system to a model of patient safety
innovation and performance-based quality care.
Luz A. Vega-Marquis
Barbara C. Staggers, M.D.
Kudos
Gary L. Yates, TCWF president and CEO, is one of
25 nonprofit and philanthropic leaders appointed to
a national panel that will make recommendations to
the U.S. Congress to improve the oversight and
governance of charitable organizations. The “Panel
on the Nonprofit Sector,” created by the Independent
Sector, will examine existing mechanisms for selfregulation and oversight and then compile a report.
TCWF Communications Officer Julio Marcial has
been elected to the steering committee of the
Southern California Chapter of Hispanics in
Philanthropy. Marcial will chair the group’s
communications subcommittee.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Leonard
Edwards, a 1996 TCWF California Peace Prize
honoree, has received the 2004 William H. Rehnquist
Award for Judicial Excellence from the National
Center for State Courts. The award was presented at
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a November ceremony at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. It is given annually to a state
court judge who “exemplifies the highest level of judicial
excellence, integrity, fairness and professional ethics.”
Brian Contreras, a 2001 TCWF California Peace Prize
honoree, was recently named a distinguished fellow by
California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB), for
community and public service. The award is the highest
nonacademic recognition granted by CSUMB for service
to the community and the university. Contreras is the
founder and executive director of Second Chance Family
& Youth Services.
Staff Updates
TCWF recognizes Julie Malcolm, senior accounting
assistant, for five years of service to the Foundation.
TCWF welcomes new staff: Christine Cordero, program
assistant; Adriane Gamble, administrative assistant; Abby
Harris, office services coordinator; Taryn Lee, human
resources manager; Adriana Godoy Leiss, executive
assistant; and Randy Marcial, office clerk.
THE CALIFORNIA WELLNESS FOUNDATION is an independent,
private foundation, created in 1992, whose mission is to improve the health
of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness
education and disease prevention. The Foundation’s goals are:
■ to address the particular health needs of traditionally underserved
populations, including low-income individuals, people of color, youth
and residents of rural areas;
■ to support and strengthen nonprofit organizations that seek to improve the
health of underserved populations;
■ to recognize and encourage leaders who are working to increase health and
wellness within their communities; and
■ to inform the development of public policies that promote wellness and
enhance access to preventive health care.
For more information or to be added to the mailing list, please call or write
the Foundation, or visit our website at www.tcwf.org.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Douglas X. Patiño, Ph.D., Chair
Stewart Kwoh, J.D., Vice Chair
Gary L. Yates, President and CEO
David S. Barlow
Ezra C. Davidson, Jr., M.D.
Elizabeth M. Gomez
Barbara S. Marshall, R.N.
Earl G. Mink
Peggy Saika
Barbara C. Staggers, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.
Luz A. Vega-Marquis
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TCWF Portfolio
VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS: Magdalena Beltrán-del Olmo
EDITOR: David Littlefield
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Cecilia Laiché
WRITERS: Cathy Curtis (cover story); David Littlefield (pp. 6, 17-20);
Charlie Padow (pp. 5,7).
DESIGNER: Mark Quon
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Robert Pacheco (pp. 1-5, 8-9, 18 top, 19 top);
Jean Weisinger (pp. 6-7, 18 bottom).
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