WHOLE HEALTH ACCESSIBILITY
Whole and healthy people build healthy families and contribute to thriving communities. Wellness is so much more than the lack of infirmity. Wellness involves the whole of one’s physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being. Over 50% of the issues that patients bring to their primary care physician are psychosocial rather than physical. It is important to note, though one may not be physically sick, they are not necessarily well.
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We want it to be possible for every person in our community to access the resources they need to create whole and healthy lives. We also want it to be more probable that they can do so regardless of their zip code, background, ethnicity, ability, or social status. To accomplish this, we are partnering with others across sectors to ensure the equitable implementation of these resources.
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We are looking for ways to help improve outcomes while lowering costs and exploring ways to block the poverty's effects on wellness. We are promoting a community where wellness is a consideration in every decision, where healthcare services meet the needs of the whole person, and root causes of the problems patients are experiencing are addressed.
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Every person should have the type of care and support they need in the way they need it when they need it.
Integrated Solutions for Youth Recovery and Resiliency
Integrated Solutions for Youth Recovery and Resiliency was a pilot partnership between Parkview Legacy Foundation and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire bringing together the three best practice models of on-site emotional and behavioral wellness services, one to one mentoring, and the integrated anti-poverty platform toward the recovery and resiliency of youth mentally and emotionally impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic. This project was funded as a community benefit project recipient by the US Congress as put forth by the 41st District representative, Mark Takano. As a result, over 1000 individuals were trained in our anti-poverty platform, 105 agency representatives received certifications as peer trainers, dozens of organizations were provided with organizational assessments allowing them to improve client lifecycles to the benefit of those impacted by generational poverty, 110 at highly “at risk” youth were connected with life-changing mentors, and struggling families and kids were provided with 100’s of hours of free psychological counseling!
Adverse Childhood Experiences Mitigation and Prevention
Within the context of the Inland Empire Children’s Cabinet Health and Wellness Working Group, we are helping to foster and implement a comprehensive community wide strategy to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and mitigate their long-term effects on people and the community. Learn more here:
https://inlandempirecommunitycollaborative.org/childrens-cabinet/#health
CalAIM Connections
The state program, California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM), is a much needed and welcomed reform positioned to revolutionize how Medi-Cal resources are used to address social determinants of health including work within our focus areas. This said, there is still a lot of work to be done in order to ensure that Health Plans and practitioners have the connections they need will community based organizations, that the civic infrastructure is in place to facilitate and support the work needed, and that care is provided with the level of cultural competence required to ensure the outcomes we all desire to see in people’s lives and wellness rather than only the outputs of referrals and services without transformational change. This work must be seamlessly coupled with work addressing systemic obstacles and barriers affecting wellness within our communities. We are currently researching and exploring ways that we can help facilitate the successful implementation of the promising applications for which CalAIM can provide toward increasing the equitable probability of wellness for everyone in our community. More to come soon!
Things we are interested in...
Parkview Legacy Foundation is especially interested in efforts that significantly increase access to culturally empathetic and quality healthcare and, especially, preventative investments in personal and public health and well-being. Examples include, but are not limited to efforts that increase the number of healthcare providers across all ethnicities and cultures in our region, expand empathy for those impacted by generational poverty amongst current healthcare providers, significantly deepen public wherewithal to invest proactively into personal physical, mental, and behavioral well-being, advance policy changes leading to sustainable long term-solutions, and creatively multi-solve across several of the vital conditions for thriving communities.
