With funding from the NIH Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL), we are building the capacity of community based organizations to address the social needs of patients in historically marginalized communities.
Social Care in Underresourced Communities
The Unidas por Salud team collaborates with state-wide CEAL network to address the social needs of patients from historically marginalized communities in the desert region of Inland Southern California. The network includes 10 community academic partnership sites across California.
Behind the Project
What We’re Doing Now
Our team is collaborating with community academic partnerships across the state to implement and test a technical assistance program in a randomized controlled trial. We are partnering with the Coachella Valley Free Clinic on this project. Clinic staff will be invited to join the study.
Principle investigator: Ann Cheney, PhD
Community Investigator: Maria Pozar
Las Promotoras: Nancy Del Castillo
In collaboration with 10 sites across California, our goal is to build the capacity of community-based organizations across the state to link underresourced communities to social needs services successfully.
