California Black Health

Network, Inc.

Denise Adams-Simms, M.P.H.

Executive Director

April 2, 2008

The California Black Health Network

Mission Statement

“To Improve the Health Status of People of African Descent in California by

Influencing Policies and Developing Programs that Promote Health and

Prevent Disease”

History and Mission of CBHN

Founded in 1978 First statewide conference in 1980 Instrumental in creating Office of

Multicultural Health Co-Founder of the California Pan-Ethnic

Network (CPEHN) Currently CBHN is comprised of 6

chapters and 2 affiliate organizations

Overview Previous and current grant projects

– Quality Assurance Project– Sweet Heart Project– African American Tobacco Education Network/

African American Tobacco Education Partnership– Smoke Free Living for African Americans– Personal Health Record– Tobacco Related Diseases Research Project

The Message

How to Reach African Americans in Community

Advocacy for Culturally Competent Outreach

Utilization of Data and Research to Promote Social Marketing

Partnership Opportunities

Quality Assurance Project Funded by the California Healthcare

Foundation Purpose: to develop an Afrocentric

framework for defining health care quality and to establish capacity to educate consumers about ensuring high quality medical services

San Diego and Inland Empire service areas

Quality Assurance Activities

Completed approximately 250 knowledge attitude and behavior surveys defining health care quality and documenting health care experiences of African Americans

Conducted Training of 40 persons as health advocates in San Diego and Inland Empire in 2003.

Sweet Heart Project REACH 2010 Grant from Center for Disease

Control (CDC) Foundation, funded by The California Endowment

Designed interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease and diabetes among African Americans in Central San Diego

Partners with CBOs, faith-based organizations, Community Health Center and health professionals.

Sweet Heart Interventions

Disease Management, what to do, when to do it and why. How to live with the disease, not die from it!

Nutrition Education Classes Physical Activity Education Classes and

Groups

Sweet Heart American Diabetes Association

Tour De Cure Team

African American Tobacco Education Network (AATEN)Partnership (AATEP)

Funded by CDHS - Proposition 99 Originally there were four ethnic

networks evolved into six Priority Population partnership

Networks consist of administrative agency, advisory committee, other subcommittees and general membership

AATEN /AATEP Goals and Activities Build leadership Provide training and technical

assistance Assess Health Education materials for

cultural appropriateness Disseminate ethnic-specific information Community Education campaigns Mini-grant program

“Not in Mama’s Kitchen”

Advocacy campaign to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke

Participants commit to smoke free environments

Campaign ran Mother’s Day to Father’s Day each year

Solicited recipes and personal stories for inclusion in a cookbookl

Smoke Free Living for African Americans (SLAA) Funded by the County of Sacramento through

Tobacco Settlement Monies To reduce second hand smoke in the cars

and homes of African Americans in Sacramento

To Provide Services and Support resources to help African Americans in Sacramento Stop Smoking

To Conduct a Social Marketing Campaign to reduce second hand smoke exposure for children

Tobacco Related Disease Research Program

Funded by UC Regents Collaboration between CBHN and San

Diego State University Conducting Surveys to assess the

health needs of African Americans in six areas of California and assist in tobacco use prevention and cessation.

Personal Health Records for African Americans

Planning Grant funded by The California Endowment

Encourage African Americans to utilize electronic personal health records

To improve health status of persons with chronic illness such as diabetes

Looking for 250 persons willing to be diligent record keepers.

Networking OpportunitiesCBHN Chapters

African American Health Consortium – Beverly Jones-Wright (909) 473-3002

Bay Area Consortium for Quality Health Care Inc. – Gwen Rowe-Lee (510) 763-1872

Black Health Leadership Council of Los Angeles – Donzella Lee (323) 299-2227

North County African American Health Consortium - Natasha Riley - 760-407-1220 ext 167 -

Networking OpportunitiesCBHN Chapters

Sacramento Black Health Network - Rhonda West-Peters - (916) 448-7900

San Diego Black Health Associates -Lottie Harris - President - 619-299-0411 ext,7420,

Contact Us www.cbhn.org

Email: das@cbhn.org

Executive Office 7851 Mission Center Court # 260San Diego, CA 92108Phone (619) 295-5413/Fax (619) 295-5749

Sacramento Office1330 21 st Street #205Sacramento, Ca 95814Phone (916) 448-7900Fax (916) 448-7977

30th Anniversary CelebrationSymposium and Dinner

Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel5711 West Century Blvd.

Los Angeles

September 25, 2008

Another Thought for Today

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people”.

Martin Luther King, Jr.