Specialized Care Partnerships

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We are committed to excellence and equity, ensuring everyone has access to health services. By working together with our partners, we’re helping to meet important social needs that affect health and wellness making it easier for people in Los Angeles County to get the care and support they need.  

Our partnerships include working with:  

  • Residential and outpatient substance use disorder (SUD) treatment programs across the County in collaboration with the Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (SAPC), as well as other service organizations, to provide sexual and reproductive health education classes in English and Spanish, as well as one-on-one help to link clients to care at LA Health Services. 
  • Community-based organizations and culturally specific programs, such parenting groups, men’s programs, adolescent programs, and schools. We provide health education classes on perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health, fatherhood engagement and healthy relationships for adolescents as well as pregnant, postpartum and parenting people. 
  • A Medical Legal Community Partnership, a team of legal, financial, and mental health advocacy organizations that provide supportive services to patients around some of the biggest issues impacting their ability to live happy, healthy lives, including: housing, income, access to healthy/fresh foods, education, literacy, and legal aid. 
  • A Medical Financial Partnership (MFP) that supports parents by connecting financial health with overall health and wellbeing by integrating specialized MFP social workers into health care clinics. This helps families navigate financial and social issues such as medical debt, housing instability, and access to public benefits, making it easier to focus on the wellbeing of their children. 
  • Local school districts to provide primary care and pediatric health services at school-based health centers for youth of all ages. 
  • Providers working with pregnant and postpartum patients who may be experiencing substance use and/or perinatal mental health concerns to provide mental health consultations via phone through our PROMISE line.  

To learn more about our programs, partner with us, or make a warm referral to one of our clinics please contact WHPI@dhs.lacounty.gov.