Collaborative Relationships

Community-Based

Asian Pacific Health Center
The Asian Pacific Health Center (APHC) is a not-for-profit community clinic located in the mid-city of San Diego. Founded in 2000 by a group of Vietnamese health professionals to meet the health care needs of the underserved population in the area. APHC provides low-cost and family-centered health services to persons who may not otherwise have access because of financial, language, cultural or psychological barriers.

California Black Health Network
The California Black Health Network (CBHN) provides a forum for individuals and groups concerned with the health status of African Americans (policy makers, consumers and providers) to engage in collaborative analysis, problem solving and program implementation. With offices in San Diego and Sacramento, CBHN is involved with several community-based programs throughout California.

California Breast Cancer Research Program
The California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP) was established pursuant to passage by the California Legislature of the 1993 Breast Cancer Act (i.e., AB 2055 (B. Friedman) [Chapter 661, Statutes of 1993] and AB 478 (B. Friedman) [AB 478, Statutes of 1993]). The program is responsible for administering funding for breast cancer research in the State of California. The mission of the CBCRP is to eliminate breast cancer by leading innovation in research, communication, and collaboration in the California scientific and lay communities.

Community Health Improvement Partners
The Community Health Improvement Partners (CHIP) is a collaboration of San Diego health care systems, hospitals, community clinics, insurers, physicians, universities, community benefit organizations and the County of San Diego who are dedicated to a common vision.  Formed in 1995, CHIP is organized under the auspices of the Hospital Association of San Diego and Imperial Counties.

Council of Community Clinics
The Council of Community Clinics is the oldest of three separate organizations that provide support services to San Diego's Community Health Centers. The shared goal of these organizations is to strengthen the health care safety net for the uninsured by providing services and technical expertise to help community health centers achieve their mission.

EYE Counseling and Crisis Center
The EYE is a multifaceted non-profit agency based out of North San Diego County. The variety of services offered families throughout San Diego include child abuse prevention and treatment, counseling and support services for victims of domestic violence and their children, residential and out-patient substance abuse treatment for women and their children, a 24-hour crisis response, after school mentoring program and diversion programs for high-risk youth.

Family Health Centers of San Diego
Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) provides comprehensive, accessible, quality health care services to residents and businesses of San Diego and the surrounding region. They offer affordable services to all income levels, with a special commitment to low income, medically underserved individuals.

Home Start, Inc.
Home Start, Inc. is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing and alleviating the damaging consequences of child abuse. Since 1972, Home Start's programs have bettered the lives of San Diego residents by promoting healthy parent-child relationships, strengthening family support systems, improving children's access to healthcare, and fostering economic self-sufficiency.

Interfaith Community Services
Interfaith Community Services was founded in 1979 by a handful of diverse faith communities to address the needs of low-income, homeless, and underserved populations. These faith centers regularly encountered individuals in crisis, but were incapable of meeting their needs. Individually, the faith centers were giving handouts, but by creating Interfaith, they were better able to produce change in the lives of the hungry, substance abusers, the mentally ill, homeless and the unemployed.

Jewish Family Service of San Diego
Jewish Family Service of San Diego was founded in 1918 by a consortium of women's clubs who sought to address the myriad of human needs of the time. Today, JFS is a comprehensive social service organization with nine locations throughout San Diego County and an office in Palm Desert, serving the Coachella Valley. From its early grassroots origins, the agency now serves over 20,000 people annually.

License to Freedom
License to Freedom is a nonprofit community-based organization that promotes nonviolence through community education, crisis intervention, self-sufficiency programs and advocacy for refugee and immigrant survivors of domestic and relationship abuse in the San Diego region.

Neighborhood House Association
Neighborhood House Association envisions self-sufficient, culturally diverse communities that are characterized by being physically, socially and economically healthy places in which individuals and families can live and develop to their maximum potential. Their programs include: children and family programs, food/nutrition, health, senior, youth and social services, and employment placement and training programs.

Operation Samahan
Operation Samahan is a non-profit family health and multi-service community center that offers a whole range of health and social services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved families and individuals in San Diego County. Operation Samahan's mission is to promote better health and living conditions by providing high quality, affordable and culturally accessible primary health care, health promotion and education, and multi-faceted social services.

Pacific Beach Middle School, San Diego
The mission of Pacific Beach Middle School is to provide a nurturing environment that fosters curiosity, critical thinking, and a passion for learning which allows students to grow into resourceful and responsible citizens.

Palomar Pomerado Health
Palomar Pomerado Health is recognized nationally for the highest quality of clinical care and access to comprehensive services. It's mission is to heal, comfort, and promote health in the communities it serves.

ParentCare Family Recovery Center
ParentCare Family Recovery Center has been providing outpatient substance abuse treatment for pregnant and parenting women in east San Diego County as well as providing similar services to fathers. ParentCare has also added a component of family planning and education and clinical services for clients.

Project Concern International
The mission of Project Concern International (PCI) is to prevent disease, improve community health, and promote sustainable development. Motivated by a concern for the world's most vulnerable children, families, and communities, PCI envisions a world where abundant resources are shared, communities are able to provide for the health and well being of their members, and children and families can achieve lives of hope, good health, and self-sufficiency.

Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital is San Diego region’s only designated pediatric trauma center and the only area hospital dedicated solely to pediatric care. Its goal is to help create a region where all children go to school healthy and ready to learn how to be productive, responsible citizens. From birth through adolescence, children have special health care needs that are different from those of adults. Rady Children’s responds to those needs by providing expert pediatric care within a unique healing environment. In addition to caring for children at their main campus in Kearny Mesa, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego has 15 neighborhood centers offering primary care and specialized services for children. Children's is also active in numerous community outreach programs, including health education, early intervention and counseling, child abuse prevention and child safety issues.

Roosevelt Middle School, San Diego
Roosevelt Middle School is one of the oldest middle schools in San Diego serving downtown San Diego and the surrounding neighborhoods in the urban core. As of February 2006, Roosevelt Middle became an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program (IB MYP). The IB MYP philosophy for the middle school student promotes international awareness and concern with an appreciation for the arts, foreign language, music, and technology. It also encourages compassion for humanity and instills a sense of student responsibility for community and service.

Salvation Army
The Salvation Army encourages the development of health services and exerts influence for developing partnerships both locally and internationally. Historically, hospitals and clinics have been a significant part of the Salvation Army identity and are most effective, influential and sustainable when they link to health-related community development, in which which both Salvation Army corps and people within the community have the opportunity to participate.

San Diego Youth and Community Services
San Diego Youth and Community Services (SDYCS) is a nationally recognized, comprehensive non-profit organization that has helped stabilize the lives of more than a half-million young people and their families since 1970. SDYCS administers their programs from fourteen Centers located throughout San Diego County. Its approach is based on practices that have proven to be effective -- focusing on long-term solutions. Many SDYCS programs are replicated in communities across the nation.

Urban League, San Diego County
Since 1953, the Urban League has served the people of San Diego County, reaching out not only to African Americans, but to people of all colors, ages and beliefs for whom the playing field is not yet level. For over more than four decades, the League has helped an estimated 445,000 individuals achieve social and economic equality.

Vista Community Clinic
Located in the cities of Vista and Oceanside in northern San Diego County, California, Vista Community Clinic is a private, nonprofit health care center. It was founded in 1972 to serve people who experience social, cultural or economic barriers to health care.

Vista Hill Foundation
Vista Hill began as a non-profit hospital serving patients with mental health disabilities. Vista Hill has grown to be one of the community’s leaders in the development and delivery of behavioral health and substance abuse programs and services.

YMCA Childcare Resource Service
Established in 1980, the YMCA Childcare Resource Service (CRS), a department of the YMCA of San Diego County, is committed to promoting the well being of children and families in San Diego County. The mission of CRS is to provide leadership for the enhancement of the quality of life of children and families.

Updated: 11/09/06