Events

Come Learn About an Innovative Model to Bring Dental Care to Children in Preschool Settings

The Virtual Dental Home creates a community-based oral health delivery system in which people receive preventive and simple therapeutic dental services in community settings. The system of care utilizes the latest technology to link practitioners in the community with dentists at remote office sites. 

6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Program starts at 6:30
Download the agenda here. 

West Los Angeles College – HLRC Building
9000 Overland Ave.
Culver City, CA 90230

RSVP by May 1, 2013. Space is limited.
Please email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  or call (310) 260-1220 to speak with Karen Anthony.

This event is free. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be provided.

Three CE credits will be provided by the University of the Pacific.

This project is funded, in part, by First 5 LA

A broad coalition of health care officials and advocates will come together in Los Angeles to urge state elected officials to move quickly to expand Medi-Cal or risk losing hundreds of millions of federal dollars for California. 

Action has stalled on a critical piece of California’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act.  If legislation to expand Medi-Cal is not signed into law in the next 6 weeks, over one million low-income, working people will be left without coverage as healthcare reform is implemented. For each month of delay, California will lose hundreds of millions of federal dollars. 

SPEAKERS:         

• Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas (invited) 
• Supervisor Gloria Molina (invited) 
• Dr. Mitch Katz, Director of L.A. County Health Department
• Nita Thompson, Healthy Way L.A. Consumer/Patient
• Wendy Lazarus, Founder and Co-President, The Children’s Partnership
• Robin Ellis, Registered Nurse Practitioner, LAC-USC
• Nancy M. Gomez, Southern CA Program Director, Health Access

MCH Access Monthly Meeting

Thursday, March 21, 2013 10 AM - 12 noon

Patricia Phillips Community Room
1111 W. 6th St., 3rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017  (6th St. and Bixel St.)

Jenny Kattlove will present TCP's latest Issue Brief, "Fix Medi-Cal Dental Coverage:  Half of California's Kids Depend On It". Download the presentation slides here. 

Collaborating with Students and Schools to Maximize Health Insurance Coverage 

Vision & Voice for Healthy Students 
March 14-15, 2013 
Westin Hotel in Long Beach.

The Affordable Care Act will allow millions more Californians to get health insurance coverage. Both students and schools can play a role in maximizing this opportunity. Learn about new health insurance options, how and when families can apply for coverage, and what schools can do to help. 

Speakers include:

Kathleen Hamilton, Director, Sacramento Government Affairs, The Children’s Partnership 
Jenny Kattlove, MS, Director, Strategic Health Initiatives, The Children’s Partnership 

You can register here.

March 13-15, 2013
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
San Francisco, CA

Between the Great Recession, the volatile policy arena, the 2012 elections, and the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, the new normal for grantmakers may be working under conditions of ongoing dynamic change. The 2013 GIH annual meeting Big Ideas to Blueprints: Decisive Grantmaking in Dynamic Times will be a time to focus on how foundations, their grantees, and other partners can thrive in these changing times.

Network Breakfasts featuring TCP staff
Thursday, March 14th, 8am

Kids' Access (featuring Kathleen Hamilton, The Children's Partnership, and Suzie Shupe, California Coverage and Health Initiatives)
Oral Health (featuring Shelley Gehshan, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Jenny Kattlove, The Children's Partnership)

The Children’s Partnership and SPARC will be co-hosting a webinar, "Electronic Information Exchange: Elements that Matter for Children in Foster Care," on Thursday, January 31st at 2:00pm EST.

Speakers will include:

• Beth Morrow, Director of Health IT Initiatives at The Children’s Partnership (Author of the issue brief)
• Michelle Lustig, Coordinator for the Foster Youth and Homeless Education Services, San Diego, CA
• Rebecca Alejandro, Program Specialist, Texas Health and Human Services Commission

You can register for the webinar here.

Children's Advocates Roundtable

2-3pm

Secretary of State's Office in the Multipurpose Room

1500 11th Street Sacramento, CA

Call in number: (866) 422-9305
Participant Code #: 1972357656

Ginny Puddefoot Participates in this discussion on how Internet-based information systems can provide transition-aged youth with access and control over their own health, education and other essential records.

HealthShack is a Personal Health Record (PHR) system developed and implemented for homeless youth served by Wind Youth Services in Sacramento. 

Children's Advocates Roundtable

12-1pm

Secretary of State's Office in the Multipurpose Room

1500 11th Street Sacramento, CA

Call in number: (866) 422-9305
Participant Code #: 1972357656

Ginny Puddefoot, Director , HIT Initiatives for Vulnerable Youth participates in a discussion that will focus on what the draft report includes to improve care and outcomes for California’s kids and youth, & will provide participants an opportunity to provide feedback to the Task Force. 

The Task Force has been meeting since June 2012 to develop a 10-year plan to “improve quality, control costs, promote personal responsibility for individual health, and advance health equity.”

"Road Map to Rural Health: Cruisin’ Through Emerging Technology and Innovation"
Annual California State Rural Health Association Conference

November 13th and 14th, 2012
call  (916) 453-0780 or email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  for more information. 

Jenny Kattlove, Director, Strategic Health Initiative present on mobile applications to improve children's health.