CALIFORNIA PAN-ETHNIC HEALTH NETWORK
1221 Preservation Park Way Ste 200, Oakland, CA 94612 www.cpehn.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.

For over 25 years, CPEHN has been at the forefront of passing, changing, and implementing policies that reflect community needs for better health. With our community partners across the state, we have engaged hundreds of advocates for policy change through letters, testimonies, educational visits, and media advocacy. At the core of our work are our partnerships with community organizations and coalitions whom we convene to leverage our work and enhance our capacity to mobilize for policy change. We convene three statewide networks: The Having Our Say coalition (HOS), which convenes grassroots, direct services, and immigrant rights organizations that serve diverse communities of color and immigrant communities in California; The Behavioral Health Equity Collaborative (BHEC), which convenes state and local organizations serving the mental health needs of immigrants, refugees, youth, LGBTQ, and people of color; and the California Oral Health Progress and Equity Network (CA-OPEN) connects local and state organizations working together to ensure that good oral health care is a right for all Californians. CPEHN works with these three networks to educate stakeholders and empower them to advance a health equity policy agenda via legislative and administrative advocacy, connecting them to key decision-makers so they can make their voices heard. We also work with these networks to identify issues for further research, and publish policy reports and recommendations based on our findings to educate community partners and decision makers about the health care needs of communities of color and health equity-focused solutions to these issues. To achieve these goals, CPEHN worked closely with its networks to mobilize community members and conduct advocacy to advance its policy agenda, which focused on improving access to affordable, timely and high quality oral, mental and primary care and ensuring that state and county resources are funding the community supports and infrastructure needed to build healthy communities. Working hand in hand with our partners, we provided technical assistance and training to our local partners on policy analysis, state budget and legislative processes, and advocacy strategies to amplify their voices, ensuring that local communities can make their voices heard by policymakers. In 2019, we launched a series of health equity and oral health webinars that reached over 400 advocates with timely and relevant policy information and advocacy skills training. In addition, we worked with members of the Having Our Say and Behavioral Health Equity Collaborative to mobilize for health equity in Sacramento, in local legislative districts, and in Washington DC. Together, we conducted over 40 legislative advocacy visits with federal and state legislators, testified on dozens of bills, and held local community events in Modesto, Sacramento, Oxnard, Santa Ana, Oakland, Fresno, and Los Angeles. In addition, CPEHN staff regularly met with California State Assembly and Senate staff, including legislative members and the staff of the Health and Budget Committees to provide policymakers with clear, accurate information about key health equity issues and to discuss our policy agenda, which includes Medi-Cal quality improvement, disparities reduction, Health in all Policies, Health4All, and immigrant mental health. As a result of this advocacy, California enacted bills related to police oversight, reproductive justice, increased health plan data transparency and disaggregation, and access to medical interpretation services. CPEHN also sponsored three legislative budget requests in 2019, resulting in $83 million in investments into communities of color across California through health care navigator grants, startup funds for in-home asthma prevention and remediation services, and funds to support the continued development of culturally-competent practices in mental health.By analyzing health care data sets, hosting consumer focus groups, and conducting stakeholder interviews, CPEHN also developed and published actionable data and research on key health care topics, including immigrant access to mental health care, health care access challenges for diverse communities, and the impact of health reform on different regions of California. CPEHN published Accessing Mental Health in the Shadows, a landmark report on the current state of immigrant access to mental health that highlighted critical barriers to mental health care for Californias immigrant population while also outlining policy solutions to help improve access.

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