Organization Information:
Please provide the following information: (1) title of the proposed project, (2) name of your coalition, (4) name of coalition members and their professional affiliations, and (5) contact information (email addresses).
The title of our proposed project is Medicine and Health.
The name of our Coalition is: United API Community of Health
Coalition members & Contact information:
Bao Her ([email protected])
Christina Vang ([email protected])
Cheryl Gonzalez ([email protected])
Mai Nou Vang ([email protected])
Sue Song ([email protected])
Part B: Description of the problem and theory of change
PART B – Description of the Problem and Theory of Change In 500 words or less, describe the contemporary issue and specific problem your organization aims to address. Articulate the causes, impact, and persistence of the problem. Discuss what needs to be done to address the problem. Cite any pertinent work (projects, research, publications, etc.) that shapes your group’s views.
The specific contemporary issue identified is the concern with health and medicine which is problematic in the API community because of social disadvantages such as low educational levels, high poverty rates, and linguistic isolation. Often times there is limited resources available for these API communities to reach out to. We have clearly identified that the lack of knowledge, emphasis, and understanding of health overall is not strong enough in the API communities, therefore, API groups experience a wide range of health issues and many suffer in silence. Most of all, API communities are often under-represented and undeserved in health care. We are seeing a rising problems of health issues among API communities, with various groups experiencing more commonalities with certain diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and Hepatitis diseases. There needs to be a stronger approach to emphasize the importance of these emerging health concerns within our API communities. Despite the sole concern and fact that we want to educate the young and old; it' also about building more awareness of these diseases and finding ways of prevention before the people of our communities are diagnosed with such diseases. In terms of education about the diseases, we also identify that forms of treatment and medicinal usage varies across these API communities are different in their own ways. We respect the differences and acknowledge its uniqueness, however, we also want to emphasize the importance and effectiveness of following through with physician treatment plans and medications as well. Our organization aims to address and recognize these underlying causes and proposes to develop different educational methods to approach this problem in our communities.
We want to build a better understanding of the issue by discussing these issues in relation with the traditional medicinal beliefs present in API communities compared to western medicine and health care. In discussion with this aspect, we also hope to address the differences in treatments such as traditional, herbal medicine along with traditional rituals versus western hospitalization and treatment with pharmaceutical drugs. Included in our educational approach, we also want to raise more awareness among the API communities by discussing the significance of nutritional balances in maintaining a health lifestyle as well as combating health problems in a long term view. We want the API communities to understand how nutritional values also play a key role in health overall. In addition, we want to merge the API communities' understanding of health and western health care practices together in one to help with building healthy lifestyles in the future. In order to properly address these issues, we want to develop an organization that will mainly educate and hold discussions to bridge the gaps of understanding and trust surrounding the cause and treatment of illness and disease.
Advisory Board of Experts & Affiliations:
Mai Lee, M.D.
•Affiliations: Mercy General Hospital - Sacramento; Mercy Hospital of Folsom; Mercy San Juan Medical Center;
Methodist Hospital of Sacramento; Mercy Medical Group,
A service of Dignity Health Medical Foundation
–Education: Medical School: Rosalind Franklin University
of Medicine and Science; Internship & Residency:
University of California San Francisco
Contact: 916-537-5000
Lei Li, M.D.
•Affiliations/Contact:
•Sacramento Medical Center
Adult And Family Medicine
2345 Fair Oaks Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95825
•Medical Education - MD,Shanghai Medical University
Residency - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center,Lubbock, TX
Board Certification - Family Medicine, American Board Of Family Medicine
Emilie Young, R.N.
•Affiliations: Sutter Medical Center
•Education: Associate in Sacramento City College
•Contact information: 916-543-9087
Joshua Nguyen, R.N
•Affiliations: Sacramento Medical Center
•Education: California State University of Sacramento (B.S.)
•Contact information: 916-786-3214
Nancy Clarke (Nutrition Specialist)
•Affiliations: South Sacramento Kaiser Permanente
•Education: Loma Linda University, Loma Linda (B.S. Nutrition & Dietectics)
•Contact information: [email protected] (916) 908-5674
Ethan Hong (Fitness Trainer)
•Affiliations: 24 Hour Fitness
•Education: Certified Personal Trainer
•Contact: 916-568-4433
Pira Ronchanayon, M.D.
•Affiliations: affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Mercy General Hospital and Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
•Education and training : Chulalongkom University/Faculty of Medicine
•Contact information: 916-399-1171
Rino Dinzon, Do M.D.
•Affiliations: Roseville Medical Center
Sacramento Medical Center
•Education: Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL
Contact Information: Adult And Family Medicine
2345 Fair Oaks Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95825
916-688-2100
Models of Success and Community Partners:
Coalitions will need to develop an advisory board of experts on their issue. In addition to your primary coalition members, provide the names of organizations or individuals that do relevant work on the issue (i.e. community non-profit organization, academic research center, public agency, etc.).
Our coalition’s main concern is health and medicine in the API community.We listed below a few local and national non-profit organizations that serves the API community in health care. These organizations have made a significant impact in the API community. Their dedication and useful resources has helped the API community thrive in America. Some organizations focus on a specific ethnic group while others work with the entire API group in general.
Contact: 691-477-4451 ext. 1018
1428 Highland Ave.
National City, CA 91950
Fax: 916-392-9326
5464 Ethel Way
Sacramento, CA 95820
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hlubclinic/
5709 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95824
Our coalition’s main concern is health and medicine in the API community.We listed below a few local and national non-profit organizations that serves the API community in health care. These organizations have made a significant impact in the API community. Their dedication and useful resources has helped the API community thrive in America. Some organizations focus on a specific ethnic group while others work with the entire API group in general.
- Asian Pacific Islander Community Health Network
- A county-wide health network that provides accessible information, resources, and research to the API community. Its main goal is to improve the community health and community voice. It also provides leadership role in addressing concerns about the API health disparities by promoting a dialogue on the API health.
- Website: http://sdapi.org/about-us/
Contact: 691-477-4451 ext. 1018
1428 Highland Ave.
National City, CA 91950
- Hmong Women’s Heritage Association (HWHA)
- A non-profit organization founded in 1993 to meet the unique needs of the families that were resettling in Sacramento from Thailand, mostly focusing on the Hmong community. It serves as a support group for the elders and non-English speakers. The organization also offers an array of resources for the Hmong community to utilize.
- Website: http://www.hmongwomenheritage.org/
Fax: 916-392-9326
5464 Ethel Way
Sacramento, CA 95820
- H.L.U.B Clinic (Hmong Lifting Underserved Barriers)
- This organization informs the community about prevalent types of cancers and diseases that affect the Hmong population and the importance of getting screened for these illnesses.getting screened.
2. Provide an environment for pre-health undergraduates to obtain hands-on clinical experience.
3. Gather quantitative and qualitative data to assess the health status of the Hmong community. It also provides an environment for pre-health undergraduates to obtain hands-on clinical experience. The organization gathers quantitative and qualitative data to assess the health status of the Hmong community. - Contact: 916-572-8760
- This organization informs the community about prevalent types of cancers and diseases that affect the Hmong population and the importance of getting screened for these illnesses.getting screened.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hlubclinic/
- Asian Resources Inc.
- A non-profit, community-based organization in Sacramento and many other locations throughout the valley that help low-income families, limited English speaking youth, immigrants, and refugees to become proactive citizens. A few services they provide are job training, refugee programs, youth development, academic services, community services, and health education. They are partnered with Sacramento Employment & Training Agency (SETA), Kaiser Permanente, Covered California, and many more other orginizations.
- Website: http://asianresources.org/
5709 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95824
Project Synopsis:
Three types of projects are eligible for funding: (1) service, (2) education, and (3) policy. Service projects aim to directly fill a need in a community or among a target population. Education projects focus on researching a problem and/or increasing the public’s awareness of a problem. Policy projects address a contemporary issue by initiating, improving, or eliminating a public policy. In 750 words or less, propose a project that builds from your group’s theory of change. Include the following details in your synopsis: project goals or objectives (what you hope to achieve), key events (where, when, and how you will achieve your goals or objectives), and timeline of key tasks (what steps will need to be taken to put your project into action).
Our main project focuses mainly on education because our goal is to develop an organization that provides educational health classes and workshops to bring awareness and educate the API communities about health, medicine, and nutrition. Our mission is to bridge the gaps of the misunderstandings, lack of knowledge, and mistrust between the API traditional health care values and the Westernized system of health care. Our educational classes and workshops will be hosted in community buildings such as schools, family clinics, and family-owned buildings. These workshops and classes will occur on the second Saturday of every month. For each particular month, we will choose one particular disease or health concern for focus. Our organization will have four main family practitioners, two nurses, one pharmacist, one nutritional specialist, and one physical fitness trainer. We will also utilize community and student volunteers (specially interested in the health care fields) to help with our projects. Before the workshops each month, we plan to send out flyers to community shops, clinics, schools, and ask for RSVPs, from attendees so we will have a rough estimate of our audiences. We expect to welcome but are not limited to one hundred and fifty attendees each month. For the beginning of each workshop session, the physicians will do presentations about a particular disease and talk about its rising concerns among API communities. Afterwards, we want our pharmacist to continue the discussion into any medicinal treatment, elaborating on the details and information about drugs for treatment and alternatives in relation to the specific disease of focus. After each educational session, we will allow time for our attendees to divide into groups that will allow for our volunteer interpreters to work with them in better explaining the materials of the presentations and discussions. A question and answer session will be held soon afterward so that attendees can address any of their concerns and clarify their understandings.
Nutritional education and fitness routines will be offered after each educational class sessions. Nutritional classes will focus on teaching about health and nutrition as a component. The goal of these nutritional sessions are to help attendees develop and maintain lifelong changes to their lifestyles. The nutrition education will focus on utilizing the food of the season or month as its model. The nutrition specialists will present and teach about the nutritional aspect of that particular food as well as presenting brochures containing recipes for attendees to try at home. The purpose of this educational session is to help motivate and educate API communities to focus on nutritional balance to develop healthy habits of eating. All of these promote the awareness of health and wellness within the community. The physical trainer will work alongside our nutritional specialist in creating fitness routines and exercises that our attendees can learn and try to implement into their lives. Part of staying healthy and avoiding illness is to keep the body healthy by being active and integrating exercises into our daily lives. With each particular exercise, the physical fitness trainer will explain how each particular exercise benefits the body and how to perform the exercises properly to avoid causing injuries. As part of this routine, the trainer may also work on personal levels with those who feel the need to. Similarly, our nutrition specialist will also work with attendees on a one-to-one basis, discussing their nutritional diet and how they can maintain a healthy diet or meal plan as part of their health plan.
Furthermore, this educational session serves the purpose of uniting API communities together to openly discuss any concerns, misunderstandings, or address any questions attendees may have about their health. We encourage attendees to openly discuss traditional rituals that are performed or traditional beliefs that they may resort to in the times of illness. We encourage attendees from these API communities to share their different values such as herbal medicinal uses versus western medicine. Often times, representatives of these API communities utilize other forms of treatment that are different and it may be more effective. We hope that the educational learning process is something that happens between both the community and our practitioners, because we look forward to bridging the gaps of understanding between the two worlds. We hope to develop a learning environment where people from the API communities can set aside their fears and misunderstanding about western health practices and where western health care providers can see into the world of these undeserved people and understand how to better treat them in a health care facility. We hope to achieve these goals by attaining this grant and promise that it will definitely be put to good use.
Our main project focuses mainly on education because our goal is to develop an organization that provides educational health classes and workshops to bring awareness and educate the API communities about health, medicine, and nutrition. Our mission is to bridge the gaps of the misunderstandings, lack of knowledge, and mistrust between the API traditional health care values and the Westernized system of health care. Our educational classes and workshops will be hosted in community buildings such as schools, family clinics, and family-owned buildings. These workshops and classes will occur on the second Saturday of every month. For each particular month, we will choose one particular disease or health concern for focus. Our organization will have four main family practitioners, two nurses, one pharmacist, one nutritional specialist, and one physical fitness trainer. We will also utilize community and student volunteers (specially interested in the health care fields) to help with our projects. Before the workshops each month, we plan to send out flyers to community shops, clinics, schools, and ask for RSVPs, from attendees so we will have a rough estimate of our audiences. We expect to welcome but are not limited to one hundred and fifty attendees each month. For the beginning of each workshop session, the physicians will do presentations about a particular disease and talk about its rising concerns among API communities. Afterwards, we want our pharmacist to continue the discussion into any medicinal treatment, elaborating on the details and information about drugs for treatment and alternatives in relation to the specific disease of focus. After each educational session, we will allow time for our attendees to divide into groups that will allow for our volunteer interpreters to work with them in better explaining the materials of the presentations and discussions. A question and answer session will be held soon afterward so that attendees can address any of their concerns and clarify their understandings.
Nutritional education and fitness routines will be offered after each educational class sessions. Nutritional classes will focus on teaching about health and nutrition as a component. The goal of these nutritional sessions are to help attendees develop and maintain lifelong changes to their lifestyles. The nutrition education will focus on utilizing the food of the season or month as its model. The nutrition specialists will present and teach about the nutritional aspect of that particular food as well as presenting brochures containing recipes for attendees to try at home. The purpose of this educational session is to help motivate and educate API communities to focus on nutritional balance to develop healthy habits of eating. All of these promote the awareness of health and wellness within the community. The physical trainer will work alongside our nutritional specialist in creating fitness routines and exercises that our attendees can learn and try to implement into their lives. Part of staying healthy and avoiding illness is to keep the body healthy by being active and integrating exercises into our daily lives. With each particular exercise, the physical fitness trainer will explain how each particular exercise benefits the body and how to perform the exercises properly to avoid causing injuries. As part of this routine, the trainer may also work on personal levels with those who feel the need to. Similarly, our nutrition specialist will also work with attendees on a one-to-one basis, discussing their nutritional diet and how they can maintain a healthy diet or meal plan as part of their health plan.
Furthermore, this educational session serves the purpose of uniting API communities together to openly discuss any concerns, misunderstandings, or address any questions attendees may have about their health. We encourage attendees to openly discuss traditional rituals that are performed or traditional beliefs that they may resort to in the times of illness. We encourage attendees from these API communities to share their different values such as herbal medicinal uses versus western medicine. Often times, representatives of these API communities utilize other forms of treatment that are different and it may be more effective. We hope that the educational learning process is something that happens between both the community and our practitioners, because we look forward to bridging the gaps of understanding between the two worlds. We hope to develop a learning environment where people from the API communities can set aside their fears and misunderstanding about western health practices and where western health care providers can see into the world of these undeserved people and understand how to better treat them in a health care facility. We hope to achieve these goals by attaining this grant and promise that it will definitely be put to good use.
Proposed Budget:
Provide a cost breakdown of materials, resources, fees (i.e. speaker fee), or food associated with your project. Funding is not guaranteed. The amount awarded will be based on the merits of your application.