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Latino Health Access, in collaboration with the University of Southern California, Department of Family Medicine and the Southern California Center of Academic Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention, is leading a primary prevention, community-based intervention to promote positive youth development.
The Latino Children’s Violence Prevention Initiative targets Latino children ages 6 to 12 and their families living in the Roosevelt area of Santa Ana, California, one of the lowest income neighborhoods in the entire county. The project is funded by SAMHSA.
The goal of the Family Medicine Rotation project is to increase cultural competency of medical residents in the context of public health and community medicine. The residents also complete a clinical rotation at Latino Health Access. Promotores locate homebound, extremely low-income, medically uninsured community members who are living with untreated chronic diseases. They arrange appointments with the Family Medicine Residents, who accompany the Promotores to the patients' homes. Basic medical care is administered directly in the home, using supplies and equipment the resident carries in a suitcase. Arrangements are made to provide lab work, needed medications, and any necessary follow up. The Residents, who are primarily from Kaiser Permanente, are medically supervised by physicians from their sponsoring organizations.