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https://covid19.lacounty.gov/la-county-pick-up-testing-kit-program/
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Download flyer: IsolationQuarantineSummaryRequirements.pdf
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For free tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/supporting-covid-positive-pregnant-and-parenting-people-tickets-240695575947
The existing health care system actively harms Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) birthing people. Racial discrimination and bias contributed to both disrespectful care and adverse birth outcomes. Due to the pandemic, efforts to flatten the curve limited the support systems created to combat racism in birthing spaces. For instance, although doulas have been touted as a solution to prevent Black maternal mortality, those same doulas have been prevented from providing in-hospital labor and delivery services due to COVID-19 restrictions. BIPOC pregnant people are doubly harmed due to existing and new restrictions.
The Community Engagement Research Incubator and Strategy Hub (CERISH) launched the PRIORITY-VOICE study to better understand COVID-positive birthing people’s experiences navigating perinatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic and identify both challenges and solutions.
People who are pregnant or have recently been pregnant have an increased risk of severe illness as a result of contracting COVID-19. While there are censuses underway tracking the number of birthing people infected by COVID-19 and their birth outcomes, we already know that there are tangible ways in which pandemic precautions have changed the healthcare delivery models and harmed perinatal practices.
At this Collaboratory, researchers and community advisory council members will share data from the PRIORITY-VOICE Study followed by a panel discussion about on-the-ground challenges and solutions to improve the BIPOC birthing experience.
*The acronym PRIORITY-VOICE stands for Pregnancy Coronavirus Outcomes Registry-Visioning Opportunities to Improve Healthcare and Equity.
Learning Objectives:
Describe how the pandemic changed COVID-positive birthing people’s access to maternity care.
Identity multilevel challenges and then solutions to improve birthing people’s maternity care experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Share community-based strategies to support BIPOC birthing people who are navigating maternity care during and post the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sponsored by CERISH
CERISH’s vision is to develop ideas that can serve as a foundation for a necessary Black envisioned, led, and operationalized infrastructure. Learn more about CERISH at birthjustice.ucsf.edu
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Flyer: Financial Empowerment Workshop.pdf
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CORRECTION: The deadline for Submission of Community Prevention and Population Health Task Force Application is January 21, 2022 - The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is now accepting self-nomination applications for 2-year appointments (June 1, 2022 – May 31, 2024) to the Community Prevention and Population Health Task Force (Task Force). The Task Force functions as a County Commission and is responsible for promoting health, equity, and community well-being in Los Angeles County by making recommendations to the Board of Supervisors, the Alliance for Health Integration, and the Department of Public Health on population health priorities, initiatives and practices that will achieve health equity and healthy communities.
Since its inception in the Spring of 2016, the Task Force has elevated opportunities to improve health equity in Los Angeles County. Task Force members have weighed in on critical policy decisions, including public health protections for people living near neighborhood oil drilling sites, an equitable response to COVID-19, and addressing racial inequities through alternatives to incarceration.
Additionally, the Task Force serves as the advisory body to the Center for Health Equity and provides leadership and strategic direction for community health planning in L.A. County, and other strategic efforts to promote strong population health, health equity, and racial justice. Notably, the Task Force has developed Principles of Equity which have been adopted by the Center for Health Equity.
For more information about the Task Force, including meeting agendas, their charter, and letters were written to comment on policies, please go to www.TaskForce.ph.lacounty.gov.
If you are interested in being considered to serve on the next cohort of the Task Force, please complete an application and attach your resume at Task Force Application 2022-2024
*The self-nomination application and a resume are due by Friday, January 21, 2022.
Task Force members can also be appointed directly by the Board of Supervisors. Please contact your Board office if you are interested in being considered for an appointment.
If you have any questions or would like to request assistance with the application process, please email dphplanning@ph.lacounty.gov
Thank you for your interest in serving on the Community Prevention and Population Health Task Force!
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Human Trafficking Resource Sheet PDF Final.pdf
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