Success Stories by State: California

• Mendocino County Health Department
  July 2009
  The project was designed to address adolescent substance abuse by providing youth with knowledge, refusal skills, and opportunities to bring positive change to their communities.
• Mendocino County AIDS Volunteer Network Health Outreach and Prevention Education (HOPE) Project
  July 2009
  The MCAVN Health Outreach and Prevention Education (HOPE) project fielded three outreach teams to distribute AIDS prevention messages to injection drug users, homeless individuals, the impoverished, and those alienated from the health care system.
• Healthy Nations Initiative
  October 2008
  The Healthy Nations Initiative was funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help Native Americans reduce the harm caused by substance abuse in their communities.
• St. Joseph Health System Sonoma County
  December 2007
  The goal of the personal health record pilot project is to improve health outcomes of migrant and seasonal workers, agricultural worker families, and mobile population groups.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• California InfoNet Project
  June 2007
  The InfoNet Project was formed to strengthen Tuolumne County residents access to health and social services by providing an easy-to-use website to provide information and assistance service for low-income households, the homeless, seniors, people with disabilities, Latinos and Native Americans.
• Dancing to Deter Diabetes
  June 2007
  The "Reach Out" project in rural Lake County, California, helps diabetics learn about nutrition and medication, and they dance.
• Angel Flight West: A Higher Level of Kindness
  June 2007
  Angel Flight West provides free, private air transportation for people with medical and other needs.
• Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Project (ADAPT)
  January 2007
  The Mendocino County Health Department and its partners developed the Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Project (ADAPT) in response to the need for substance abuse prevention and treatment services for rural youth in northern California.
• Mobile Clinic/Telehealth project
  January 2007
  This consortium was formed to address the lack of basic healthcare available in the rural, impoverished areas of the Central Valley of California. This project will focus on health promotion and health screenings to prevent cancer and other diseases.
• Santa Catalina Island Healthcare Consortium
  January 2007
  A consortium consisting of Catalina Island Medical Center, Loma Linda University Medical Center, and the USC Catalina Island Hyperbaric Chamber, with the help of the Santa Catalina Island Company and Two Harbors Enterprises, will utilize creative outreach models to bring primary care services through a satellite clinic to the remote island community of Two Harbors.
• Tulare County Children's Health Initiative
  January 2007
  The Tulare County Children's Health Initiative (CHI) is focused on increasing dental and medical health access for children ages 0-18 through outreach and enrollment into publicly funded programs and by offering a new gap insurance product, Healthy Kids, for children ineligible for state Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
• Family Healthcare Network, Tulare County
  July 2006
  Family HealthCare Network (FHCN) is a primary care clinic with ten sites located in Tulare County, in California's rural San Joaquin Valley. FHCN exists to provide quality healthcare to everyone in the communities we serve.
• Project for Rural Access to Substance Abuse Treatment
  July 2005
  This collaboration was formed to provide substance abuse treatment, primary medical care, childcare, and transportation assistance to residents in rural areas of the county.