Mobile Dental & Medical Clinic
The Santa Rosa Mobile Dental & Medical Clinic makes it possible for working families in the community, including vineyards workers, to have access to preventive care and treatment at locations and times convenient for them. A full range of preventive and interventional services are provided including physical and dental examinations, dental hygiene and fluoride treatments.

Neighborhood Care Staff mentor grassroots leadership to address local community health and quality of life issues. In FY08, NCS mentored 162 community leaders in 5 communities who implemented 13 local action plans to improve safety and infrastructure, address substance abuse, engage residents in gang prevention efforts, and reduce obesity, impacting over 1,500 low-income residents.

Quality of Life Initiative on Community Mental Health supported the Mental Health Coalition of Sonoma County in FY08 in developing the MHC-SC website, initiating its anti-stigma social marketing campaign through provider and community surveys, organizing 2 Mental Health Symposiums and facilitating the Mental Health Dialogues with over 30 bilingual outreach workers.    Top

Agents of Change Training in our Neighborhoods (ACTION) provided leadership and advocacy training in FY08 to 85 Spanish-speaking new community leaders in vulnerable neighborhoods in Sonoma County, as well as to 25 members of the 41st Avenue Community Center in formation in Sacramento.

Poder Popular builds leadership among farm workers and their families in Sonoma, Healdsburg and St. Helena. In FY08, the groups began their local advocacy efforts addressing the areas of discrimination, housing and education services.

House Calls Program tends to the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of frail elderly seniors and adults with complex chronic diseases by providing primary medical care in the home. The House Calls Team provided 2,005 in-home primary care services visits and support to 317 low-income homebound persons.      Top

The Promotores de Salud/Promoters of Health are community-based lay health and wellness promoters/educators. Serving as a cultural bridge, the promotores assisted 1,127 children with health insurance enrollment, connected 3,228 persons with resources and enrolled 475 persons in the MiVIA, an electronic personal health record system.

Circle of Sisters is a free violence prevention after-school program for girls ages 10 to 14.  The program participants attend schools with high rates of free and reduced-price lunches.  In FY08, 120 girls attended the program weekly from September 2007 to May 2008.   Top