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Thinking Outside The (Farm) Box
Since 2018 Community Health Councils (CHC) has been serving as the organizational backbone for the Region 2 Best Start Community (a First 5 LA investment). One of the principal tenets of this place-based initiative is to create the type of equitable environments that...
Understanding & Preserving CA’s Network of Community-Based Outreach, Enrollment, Utilization and Retention Services
The purpose of this brief is to provide a snapshot of the status of community-based outreach, enrollment, utilization and retention (OEUR) services in California. This analysis aims to provide health coverage stakeholders, policy makers and implementation partners a...
A Step Toward a Healthier South Los Angeles: Improving Student Food Options Through Healthy Sidewalk Vendor Legalization
This article reports on the results of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) conducted regarding the reconsideration of a ban on sidewalk food vending in Los Angeles, California. The HIA explored the potential impacts that the regulatory change would have on the food...
Oil Drilling in Los Angeles: A Story of Unequal Protections
Community Health Councils found low-income communities of color in the City of Los Angeles have fewer protections from the risks from local oil drilling operations than more affluent, whiter neighborhoods. This includes allowing drilling activities hundreds of feet...
A Snapshot of Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Children’s Health Outreach Initiative (CHOI)
For over a decade, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health Children’s Health Outreach Initiative (CHOI) has contracted with a cadre of community-based, clinic and school entities with funding from First 5 LA to provide Los Angeles County residents with...
Covering Kids and Families Regional Enrollment Meetings Report
Summary of the CKF Regional Enrollment Meetings that included updates on Covered CA, Medi-Cal and Immigration and Health. The report also includes an analysis of the current barriers that CECs face with Medi-Cal and Covered CA and recommendations.
The Need for a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital
Provides background on the need for neonatal care in South Los Angeles and the importance of inclusion at the newly opened South LA hospital.
Jobs, Healthy Communities & Revenue: Keys to Deficit Reduction
The Budget Control Act of 2011 outlined key provisions to reduce the nation’s $14 trillion deficit. The Act calls for billions of dollars in cuts to defense and non-defense programs in FY 2011-2021. Read CHC's principles to guide deficit reduction discussions....
Health as a City of Los Angeles General Plan Policy
Read CHC's critique of the City of Los Angeles General Plan Policy and our exploration of opportunities to amend the General Plan to promote healthy communities. (February 2011)