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The Foundation’s Grant Making in Four Groups:
Grants for Access to Health Services
Cover California Kids. To support the goal of health insurance for all children in the state by engaging private and public sectors, nonprofits and parents.
Premiums for Healthy Kids Program. To provide full medical, dental and vision coverage to children ineligible for Medi-Cal or Healthy Families in Santa Clara County. This is the successful model and precursor to “Cover California Kids.”
Health Consumer Alliance. To expand health services to low-income Californians via a consortium of nine health centers in 13 counties that provide data analysis, advocacy, training and assistance in health law matters.
Access to Health Care Through Supportive Housing. To provide housing, with services for mental and physical health, and employment for the chronically homeless. Primary Health Care Enhancement Program. To enhance primary care services in Greater Los Angeles through health education, benefits counseling, and by developing information technology capacity among medical clinics.
Medicaid/Medi-Cal Issues for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System. To assure that all wards of the state receive appropriate health and education services.
Integrated Mental Health and Primary Care. To increase access to behavioral health care by strengthening the capacity of primary care providers in clinics in Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta and Nevada counties.
Grants to Eliminate the Disparities in Health and Strengthen Communities to Become Healthy Places to Live
Healthy Eating, Active Communities. To help tackle the obesity epidemic by making the external environment more conducive to healthy eating and physical activity.
Agricultural Workers Health Initiative. To provide access to health services to farm workers and to encourage farm owner compliance with federal and state laws on worker safety. Nurture leadership among farm workers for advocacy.
Prisoner Reentry Employment Program. To improve reintegration of newly released inmates in San Diego County through case management, mental health counseling, and referrals to health, housing and employment services.
United Indian Health Services “Health Village.” To support the construction of a “health village” (Potawat Village) that incorporates traditional Native American Indian values into health services and programs.
California Fluoridation Implementation Initiative. To improve oral health of residents in 13 rural and urban cities by delivering fluoridation to their water system.
Community Action to Fight Asthma. To develop programs and policies to reduce asthma triggers in housing, schools, recreational centers and outdoors.
Community Fighting Back. To improve community health by organizing community residents, and to mitigate the impacts of drugs and violence in South Los Angeles.
Grants for Culturally Competent Health Care Systems
Dental Pipeline: California Initiative. To increase enrollment of minority and low-income students in dental schools, and to improve access for the underserved.
Language Access Advocacy Project. To improve communication in health care settings via bilingual staff, interpreters, telephone language lines and videoconferencing.
Special Programs
The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship Program. To better prepare and train practicing health care journalists to cover health care issues through regional workshops held in Sacramento, San Francisco, Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego.
For details of these grants and other information, please contact The California Endowment at 800.449.4149 and ask for our Media Relations Department. Please also visit us at http://www.calendow.org/.
The California Endowment is the largest health care foundation in the state, with more than $4 billion in assets. The Endowment has awarded more than 8,900 grants totaling more than $1.7 billion.*
*As of February 28, 2007
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