Health Work Group

Lower San Antonio Collaborative
October 20, 2004
3:00-4:30 pm
La Clinica de La Raza

Next Meeting – Wednesday November 10 - 3:30-5:00pm

Decisions/Agreements/Next Steps:

• Health Eating, Active Communities Grant: To be involved, contact Samantha Blackburn at (510) 879-2953.
• Small Grants: Porthira Chhim from Cambodian Community Development announced that they are looking for LSAC members to nominate residents for the small grants committee. He will send out the vision statement. Please send nominees to him at Porthira@yahoo.com -- November 1 st is the deadline for nominees.
• Next Year’s Funding: Mara will set up a meeting for the work group to discuss next year’s grant opportunities with Fred.
• Joint Committee: Francell will serve as the main representative and Mapi will serve as the alternate.
• Facilitation Training: We were able to come to agreement that one representative should be someone from La Clinica. The other is still undecided.
• 2005 Work Plan: Joy and Francell will work with Mara to develop the work plan. They will meet on Monday Nov. 1 st at 3:00pm .
• Next Meeting: We decided to meet on the second Wednesday of the month and we are going back to 3:30pm as a start time.
  

Attendees:

Samantha Blackburn, Roosevelt Village Health Center
Ruben Briones, Office of Alameda County Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker
Porthira Chhim , Cambodian Community Development Inc.
Kristen Graser , La Clinica de La Raza
Mara Guccione , Urban Strategies Council
Francell Haskins , Alameda County Department of Public Health
Sean Kirkpatrick , Asian Pacific Psychological Services
Sandra Padilla , Urban Strategies Council
Joy Ramos, La Clinica de La Raza
Mapi Tudela, La Clinica de La Raza

Announcements:

• Active Living By Design – Who are the appropriate contacts within the community health clinics in LSA neighborhood? Suggestion to contact Renata Feinberg, who coordinates La Clinica-LSA, at rfeinberg@laclinica.org
• EBAYC is applying for a health-related grant from Cal Endowment, with the public health department, OUSD. The grant will be awarded to five out of the twelve communities invited to apply. The grant is due by Nov. 30 th and it begins in March or April. Its called the “Health Eating, Active Communities grant and is looking at policy-level and environmental change, specifically at obesity and type II diabetes prevention. They are four year grants and it is up to $250K per year for the CBO, $125K per year for public health department and OUSD. To be involved with this grant, contact Samantha.
• Porthira announced that they are looking for LSAC members to nominate residents for the small grants committee. He will send out the vision statement. Please send nominees to him at Porthira@yahoo.com -- November 1 st is the deadline for nominees.
   

Promotoras Update:

• Kristen reported that 18 Promotoras had completed the training and graduated in September. They are currently doing a diabetes training as a follow-up. The next step is to design an action plan with the Promotoras around diabetes as well as with a broader view. They use a MAC ( model of community action) that has a popular education framework. The action plan will be defined in the next couple of weeks.
• Kristen also explained their vision for the “Train the Trainer” series for early next year. She explained that it would involve a mix of people who could be trained to train others in the model.
• La Clinica would like to meet with Fred to discuss next year’s grant possibilities, either granting to La Clinica or other CBOs. For sustainability, it makes sense to link to Cambodian Community Development and other small CBOs. It was suggested that the work group be a part of the meeting with Fred. Also, the idea of including a mini-grant process where CBOs can apply for the train the trainer piece was mentioned.
  

LSAC Updates

1. Choose interim representative for Planning Committee

• The group decided that Francell will serve as the main representative and Mapi will serve as the alternate.
• There was discussion about brining safety back as a focus of this work group.
• There was also a question raised about tobacco research projects coming up. APPEAL has one in Oakland . Prevention Research Center ?

• We were able to come to agreement that one representative should be someone from La Clinica. The other will probably be either Sean or Francell.

3. Begin preparation of 2005 Work Plans and Implementation Check List

• Joy and Francell will work with Mara to develop the work plan. They will meet on Monday Nov. 1 st at 3:00pm .
• Sean suggested that we hold a community forum to inform the work plans. Mara suggested trying to do this during the upcoming FES and 23 rd Ave resident convenings.

Next Steps

• We decided to meet on the second Wednesday of the month and we are going back to 3:30pm as a start time, so the next meeting will be on Wednesday November 10, 3:30-5:00pm .