California Black Health Network, Inc.

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California Black Health Network, Inc.

• Denise Adams-Simms, M.P.H.
• Executive Director
• April 2, 2008

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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Sweet Heart American Diabetes Association Tour
De Cure Team
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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

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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

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Not in Mamas Kitchen

• Advocacy campaign to reduce exposure to
  secondhand smoke
• Participants commit to smoke free environments
• Campaign ran Mothers Day to Fathers Day each
  year
• Solicited recipes and personal stories for
  inclusion in a cookbookl

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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

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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.

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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.

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Networking OpportunitiesCBHN Chapters

• African American Health Consortium Beverly
  Jones-Wright [phone]
• Bay Area Consortium for Quality Health Care Inc.
  Gwen Rowe-Lee [phone]
• Black Health Leadership Council of Los Angeles
  Donzella Lee [phone]
• North County African American Health Consortium -
  Natasha Riley - 760-407-1220 ext 167 -

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Networking OpportunitiesCBHN Chapters

• Sacramento Black Health Network - Rhonda
  West-Peters - [phone]
• San Diego Black Health Associates -Lottie Harris
  - President - 619-299-0411 ext,7420,

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Contact Us

• www.cbhn.org
• Email das_at_cbhn.org
• Executive Office
• 7851 Mission Center Court 260
• San Diego, CA 92108
• Phone [phone]/
• Fax [phone]
• Sacramento Office
• 1330 21 st Street 205
• Sacramento, Ca 95814
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]

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30th Anniversary CelebrationSymposium and
DinnerHilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel5711
West Century Blvd.Los Angeles September 25,
2008
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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.