Community
Our community partners and projects
Community Research Meetings
The RCMI Clinical Research Center
hosts quarterly meetings on a broad range of health and medical topics
of greatest concern to the South Los Angeles Community. Examples of
past meetings include:
- Violence Against Women and Families
- Environmental Health
- Depression
- Health Disparities Research
- Diabetes
South Central Multipurpose Senior Citizen Center (SCMSCC)
SCMSCC
is a non-profit service delivery system that provides services and
programs to seniors in Los Angeles, with a specific focus on the South
Central Community.
T.H.E. Clinic
The
only non-profit community healthcare clinic located in Southwest Los
Angeles, which provides special outreach programs for African
Americans, Latinos, and Asians. The clinic serves as a primary care
home for community members with a full range of health needs. T.H.E.
Clinic is able to provide support in eleven languages.
Healthy African American Families (HAAF)
HAAF
is a non-profit, community-serving agency whose mission is to improve
the health outcomes of the African American and Latino communities in
Los Angeles County by enhancing the quality of care and be advancing
social progress through education, training, and collaborative
partnering with community, academia, researchers, and government.
Service Planning Area 6
SPA
6 is a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors-designated community
representing the cultural and business heart of the Los Angeles African
American community. SPA 6 includes parent representatives, caregivers,
community based organizations, county departments, school
administrations, community businesses, advocacy groups, youth and
concerned community members. The collaborative group is comprised of
more than 500 member organizations and meets monthly to help identify
and fill gaps in services, share information about issues facing SPA 6
communities, constituents and networks. Many Drew clinical and
biomedical research programs interact closely with the SPA 6 community
and are active members of working committees.
Southside Coalition
The
Southside Coalition of Community Health Centers is a network of
autonomous non-profit community clinics that have joined together to
better sustain, coordinate, and improve healthcare to the impoverished,
vulnerable, publicly insured and under or uninsured people without
access to care in the South Los Angeles Area. The Southside Coalition,
established in 2004, has been growing in strength and in resolve to
improve health services and access in South Central Los Angeles. Its
members have defined a mission, vision, and purpose, and formally
signed a memorandum of understanding to work collectively. The members
believe that through concerted, collective effort, they could begin to
create a force on behalf of the under and un-insured working indigent
patient population they all served. Reasoning that through networking,
collaborative efforts, and coordination, they could begin to “restring
the safety net” of primary health care services in the South Los
Angeles area.
Community Asset Mapping
“Community
Asset Mapping” refers to the use of specialized computers and software
to analyze the health, technology, social services, and other resources
of communities. The RCMI Research Informatics Core has a Health
Geographic Information Systems expert, who uses huge databases (such as
census data; hospital discharge data; the National Health Interview
Survey; city, county and state data) to provide ready access to maps
and resource files that are easily searchable by community, zipcode, or
neighborhood. The UCLA/RAND/DREW disparities in health research grant
(DHHS #PO1 HS 10858) funded this online community asset map and
database application, which is available at http://www.cdrewu.edu/rcmi/GIS/data/maps.shtml
