Domestic Violence Support Services Rate Study

Domestic violence (DV) affects an estimated 20% of women in Los Angeles, and people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals carry an even greater burden. DV affects many aspects of a survivor’s life, and survivors often lack sufficient resources and services to seek support. Proper support is vital to empowering survivors to seek justice and protection, to improve their overall wellbeing, and to transition into safe living situations. PHS partnered with LA County Office of Women’s Health (OWH) and High Top HR to conduct a rapid-response study providing a long overdue analysis of the reimbursement model and rates needed to provide crucial DV support services. Together with participating providers and key informants, we helped identify promising reimbursement models for OWH to better serve DV survivors and the agencies who support them.

South Los Angeles Community Needs Assessment

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.

Art of Caring at White Memorial Hospital

Healing-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

United Way Bay Area Sparkpoint Toolkit Pilot Evaluation

SparkPoint Centers are community centers designed to support students and families in achieving academic success and housing and economic stability. PHS and partner Cindy J. Wong Consulting were engaged by United Way Bay Area to complete a participatory evaluation of the SparkPoint Toolkit. The final Toolkit is being used by colleges and universities statewide to support equitable pathways to prosperity for their students.

Project Healing: A Social Determinants of Health Platform for Justice-Involved Persons

Valley 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.

South Los Angeles Critical Dialogue

Understanding community history is vital to responsible stewardship, whether you are an organization seeking to expand your geographic footprint or navigate neighborhood change. Dr. King developed in collaboration with community leaders in South LA and members of National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation a framework known as Critical Dialogues. This is an engagement tool for bringing community leaders and organizations together to create shared understanding of social issues of timely importance to the health of our communities, such as racism and gender justice. Photo credit: Joshua Hamm

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