Mission Report 2021 Meeting the Challenges of 2020
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Putting the care in student healthcare THE LOS ANGELES TRUST FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH MISSION REPORT 2021 MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF 2020 Top row: Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas distributed N95 masks at an on-campus 04 Advocacy health rally; Executive Director Maryjane Puffer delivered PPE to Dr. Anitha Mullangi, 05 Healthy living chief medical officer of St. John’s; The L.A. Trust moved its oral health education to 06 Mental health social media and televison, attracting 1.1million views. Center row: California State 07 Oral health Superintendent Tony Thurmond spoke at the virtual California School-Based Health 08 Research Alliance Conference; Trusters engaged students on Zoom; The L.A. Trust and its 09 Sexual/reproductive health partners distributed more than 100,000 toothbrushes during Operation Tooth Fairy. 10 Student engagement Bottom row: Program Manager Eddie Hu helped organize our Y2Y Summit; 11 Substance use prevention The L.A. Trust worked with partner FCancer to fight HPV; Superintendent Austin Beutner 12 Wellness Centers led LAUSD’s Grab and Go effort, which distributed more than 122 million meals. 13 Partners 14 Financial report © Copyright 2021 by The Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health. All rights reserved. Cover photo by Rinzi Ruiz. 15 Leaders/staff The year that challenged everything he past year was like no other. The worldwide healthcare. We convened experts and stakeholders at pandemic hit Los Angeles hard, shutting schools, online forums. We increased community outreach on social T locking down students and families, closing media and TV. We engaged student health advocates businesses and causing thousands to lose their jobs. at our first virtual Summer Academy. And we launched More than 23,000 Angelenos lost their lives. a new website and rallying cry, “Putting the care in student Last year brought the issue of racism to the forefront healthcare.” once again, reminding us that institutional racism and We weren’t alone in demonstrating resourcefulness. implicit bias are built into every aspect of American life, Our partners stepped up to support us as we pivoted. including our education and healthcare systems. Los Angeles Unified emerged as a national leader in The pandemic tested these systems as never before, handling the crisis. Healthcare providers saved lives, and students were deprived of critical resources and while risking their own. the face-to-face support of their teachers, healthcare The unsung heroes of the pandemic were our providers and friends. young people, who managed online education, nursed The Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health adapted sick loved ones and shouldered increased family to meet the crisis. Starting last March, we transferred responsibilities. in-person meetings to online platforms like Zoom; We acknowledge all that’s been lost and all that’s expanded education campaigns on social media and been learned: We must address structural racism by television; and masked up and distributed PPE and investing in healthcare and prevention education in our more than 100,000 toothbrushes and oral care items underserved communities. Student-informed school- at Wellness Centers and schools. based healthcare is more important than ever. And, We launched a new Student Mental Health Initiative working together, we can move closer to a world where and educated legislators about the need for school-based every student is healthy and successful. Best regards, Maryjane Puffer Will Grice, Kaiser Permanente Executive Director Board President THE LOS ANGELES TRUST FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH MISSION REPORT 2021 3 “Of all the forms “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The L.A. Trust was a leader in the movement for school-based healthcare. ADVOCACY Advancing quality care for kids and teens We educated policymakers on school-based healthcare he Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health In September, our staff and Student Advisory Board supports school-based healthcare as a founda- members joined the California School-Based Health T tion of healthcare justice for our kids and teens. Alliance (CSHA) in educating more than 40 state In 2020, we backed more than 15 legislative legislators and their staff on the need for school- measures, signed petitions, joined online campaigns based healthcare. and helped influence policymakers in Los Angeles, In October, we helped conduct the online California Sacramento and Washington, D.C. School-Based Health Alliance Conference, attended The year started with good news as the Los Angeles by nearly 1,000 advocates from across the state. Unified School Board approved a resolution designed Our campaign for on-campus care culminated in to expand dental and vision screenings for K-12 February 2021, when we joined CSHA in observing students. The resolution, which The L.A. Trust strongly National School-Based Healthcare Month with a PR supported, permits free non-invasive dental health and and social media campaign. vision screenings for every LAUSD student whose Student health is essential to academic success — and parents or guardians do not expressly opt out. school-based healthcare is essential to student health. 4 THE LOS ANGELES TRUST FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH MISSION REPORT 2021 HEALTHY LIVING “Of all the forms “Of all the forms Nutrition was the star of our outreach of inequality, injustice in health We went online and to the field to increase our impact is the most shocking uarantine didn’t stop our healthy living We posted more than 200 times on social media and inhuman.” outreach — it expanded it. We moved our during the school year to support CalFresh Healthy healthy living campaign online and to the Living, the nation’s largest nutrition education program. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Q field to help families eat healthy during the shutdown, This campaign reached an additional 46,000 and reaching hundreds of thousands of students and garnered thousands of online interactions. community members. The L.A. Trust distributed free grocery bags, gloves The L.A. Trust nutrition team held one-hour work- and recipe cards to the Fremont Free Food Fair, a shops weekly on Facebook Live in English and Spanish, food site organized by the UMMA Community Clinic, giving community members timely advice on food Community Health Councils and Food Forward. We also benefits, pantry cooking and smart shopping. purchased more than 2,800 cookbooks and gave them In addition to live workshops, The L.A. Trust produced to families during the pandemic. 30 Spanish- and English-language Nutritious Bites COVID-19 worsened L.A.’s food crisis, and we cooking videos. The healthy recipes — ranging from Berry lent our support to food banks, food fairs and LAUSD’s French Toast to Mango Chicken — gained 800,000 views massive Grab & Go effort, which served more than on KLCS TV and reached nearly 30,000 online. 122 million meals. “Of all the forms “We demonstrated how to maintain nutritious eating during quarantine.” Esther Yepez Program Manager The L.A. Trust Our videos and workshops proved that nutritious didn’t mean boring or expensive. THE LOS ANGELES TRUST FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH MISSION REPORT 2021 5 “Of all the forms “Your training taught valuable tactics and mindsets all youth practioners should have.” Andres De La Peza Director of Learning Woodcraft Rangers Amid the pandemic, we launched The L.A. Student Mental Health Initiative. MENTAL HEALTH We expanded mental health awareness Confronting COVID, racism and healthcare inequity ear 2020 increased pressure on our was conducted in March 2021 (a total of 125 adults students and stressed our already burdened who work with students received the 8-hour training from Y education and healthcare systems. The L.A. Trust). Students on our Student Advisory Boards Last fall we responded by launching The L.A. Trust were trained by The L.A. Trust in QPR. Student Mental Health Initiative, funded by Ballmer Crucial to the initiative is the Youth Mental Health Group, Cedars-Sinai, Dignity Health and Health Net. Collaborative, first convened in March 2021. The initiative includes social media campaigns by The collaborative brings together key stakeholders in students and The L.A. Trust, and training in Youth Mental student mental health, including LAUSD School Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA), designed to teach adults how Health, LAUSD Student Health and Human Services, to help adolescents experiencing a mental health or youth mental health providers, The L.A. Trust and addiction challenge, and Question, Persuade and Refer student representatives. (QPR), a suicide prevention program. Its purpose is to identify and overcome barriers to YMHFA training started with The L.A. Trust staff in students accessing mental health services and co-create October — our first training for after-school providers improvements in partnership with youth. 6 THE LOS ANGELES TRUST FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH MISSION REPORT 2021 “Of all the forms ORAL HEALTH “Your training taught valuable tactics Helping families brush up on oral health and mindsets all We innovated to fight childhood dental disease youth practioners should have.” he Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health During the pandemic, online education took center has a long commitment to children’s oral health, stage. Oral health TV spots, produced by The L.A. Trust Andres De La Peza Director of Learning T and that commitment grew stronger during and featuring Program Manager Esther Yepez, were Woodcraft Rangers the pandemic. shown 150 times on KLCS TV, reaching a viewership of Children with poor oral health are nearly three more than 1.1 million. These kid-friendly videos reached times more likely to miss school and perform poorly. thousands more on social media and the internet. According to the latest L.A. County Smile Survey, In June and February 2021, we distributed oral care nearly half of the county’s children have experienced items worth $475,000 as part of Operation Tooth Fairy, tooth decay by the time they enter school, and 4,500 including more than 100,000 toothbrushes, toothpastes kindergarten and third-grade children need urgent and other donated dental health items.