California Behavioral Health Infrastructure Gaps

Investment in health infrastructure is a top priority in California, where a recent state proposition has funded initiatives to expand mental health and substance use disorder services. PHS is serving as a partner to Advocates for Human Potential to support a gap analysis for identifying opportunities to bolster the behavioral health continuum of care. This includes gathering and visualizing more than 30 geographic and population health indicators. Our analytic tools are helping changemakers to achieve the goal of greater health equity.

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

Community Solutions for Early Childhood Mental Health

PHS 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.

People-Centered Health CaMelissa KingAugust 21, 2021Landscape and Policy Analysis

Social Determinants of Health Platform for Justice-Involved Persons

Project Healing partners, Valley Care Community Consortium, Tarzana Treatment Center, 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.

Los Angeles City and County Health Service Coordination for People Experiencing Homelessness

The 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.

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