Understanding Working Conditions of Domestic Workers in California

California Domestic Workers Coalition (CDWC) is a statewide alliance of community-based organizations, domestic employers, worker centers, labor unions, faith groups, students, and policy advocates. CDWC sought to build a strategy for advocacy and outreach by understanding working conditions of domestic workers in geographic context. PHS came alongside CDWC to untangle complex relationships among various datasets to paint a clear picture of working conditions for domestic workers in California.

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.

California Food Policy Advocates HEROES Act Analysis and Infographics

Congress had the opportunity to help families put food on the table and to infuse much-needed spending into the economy by raising the maximum benefit for SNAP during COVID-19. PHS and our partners at Nourish California (formerly California Food Policy Advocates) designed an analysis to help decision-makers understand the impact a 15% boost to SNAP (also known as CalFresh) would have on California by county and congressional district.

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

Health EquityMelissa KingMay 3, 2017Community Engagement

Behavioral Health Screening and Follow-Up in Massachusetts

An important aim of the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) is to improve access to behavioral health screening and community-based services for youth enrolled in MassHealth. Dr. King conducted longitudinal data analyses and designed a series of static and animated maps in ArcGIS to tell the story of how health care access changed over the first three years of the initiative. The maps were used to help identify opportunities to improve health equity.

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