Community Collaboration
Launched in 1997, the Center for Healthier Communities (CHC) mission is to identify and provide innovative solutions to the community's unmet health needs with a focus on collaboration and coalition building. Through high quality prevention education and treatment services, CHC strives to promote healthy behaviors and improve the quality of life for residents of the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys. The phone number to reach the Center is (818) 785-3489.
The Center's current programs include:
Center for Assault Treatment Services
Center for Assault Treatment Services (CATS) is the only program in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys that provides victims of physical and sexual abuse with medical treatment, forensic evidence collection and counseling 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week. CATS' outreach component provides child abuse reporting training to professionals, who are required by law to report any reasonable suspicion of child abuse
Promoting Alternatives for Teen Health
Promoting Alternatives for Teen Health through Artes-Teatro (PATH-AT), a federally funded abstinence-only program, conducts a 12-week series of workshops for middle school students aimed at helping them make healthy life choices. The workshops are led by highly trained high school students and emphasizes abstinence, self esteem and coping with peer pressure.
Access to Care Collaborative
Access to Care Collaborative (ACC) provides accessible, no cost primary medical care to uninsured, low-income, working adults. ACC uses the largely untapped resource of volunteer retired physicians, nurses and other health care and lay professionals at the MEND free clinic located in Pacoima.
School-based Obesity and Diabetes Initiative
The School-based Obesity and Diabetes Initiative (SODI) was launched to help local public schools improve the health status of its student body and staff. School wellness of the five participating schools is assessed, corrective plans developed and resources identified to address each schools’ unmet needs with a focus on diabetes and obesity.
