SHIELDS for Families has worked to empower and advocate for families in South Los Angeles for more than 30 years. The organization engaged PHS to conduct a community needs assessment to further uplift voices of clients, community members, and collaborators. Our needs assessment successfully supported the design and roll-out of South LA’s first certified community behavioral health clinic.
Read MoreHealing-centered care is essential to achieving health equity, a core value and impact area for PHS. Health care providers often seek our support in exploring what constitutes culturally-relevant care in the communities they serve and designing responsive programs. With our partners at Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital, PHS applied human-centered design to the development and pilot of an OB/GYN medical education curriculum to support healing-centered care. Credit for mural in photo: East Los Skyscrapers
Read MorePHS is proud to have co-authored with The Children’s Partnership and First 5 Center for Children’s Policy a report and policy brief describing the array of community-based programs in California that support the social and emotional health of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Read MoreValley Care Community Consortium, Tarzana Treatment Centers, and Center for Living and Learning sought to improve care coordination for their clients by using a social determinants of health (SDoH) platform to support referral and communication. While the initiative was community-led, the providers partnered with PHS, who served as a process facilitator. PHS in turn designed and facilitated a six-phase process for choosing and piloting a SDoH platform.
Read MoreThe magnitude of the housing crisis underscores the need for more efficient and equitable coordination of health services. In response to a Los Angeles City Council motion on this issue, PHS was commissioned by Home For Good of United Way of Greater Los Angeles and Los Angeles City Administrative Office to conduct a rapid-response landscape analysis.
Read MorePHS led research and evaluation that demonstrated how interventions to support relationship-building and organizational culture are essential to primary care and mental health integration. This implementation research was done in collaboration with colleagues at John’s Hopkins University, Nationwide Children Hospital, and American Academy of Pediatrics. It was part of Dr. King’s doctoral research at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with her advisor, pediatrician and child psychiatrist Dr. Larry Wissow.
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