Program areas at Share Ourselves
Clinics: annually sos provides care to approximately 12,000 unduplicated patients accounting for over 38,200 patient visits. Sos provides comprehensive healthcare including a full program of primary, specialty, sub-specialty, dental, integrated behavioral health and complements its outpatient care with hospitalist inpatient follow-ups, treatment adherence education, clinical case management, disease management, counseling, education, and testing. Sos offers onsite lab, nutrition and dispensary services comprehensive quality healthcare is provided at three clinical sites located in costa mesa, santa ana, and lake forest. Sos is designated as a friendly qualified health center (fqhc). Fqhsa are community based health centers that provide high quality, comprehensive medical, dental, and behavioral health services to the orange county community. The clinic also secured designation as health care for the homeless ("hch") program, section 330(h) of the public health service act. The purpose of the hch is to improve the status and outcome of care for homeless individuals and families by improving access to primary care and substance abuse services.
Social services: provides both clinical and social case management, emergency financial aid, food, legal aid, homeless outreach programs, resource and linkage to benefit enrollment, and seasonal support programs. Programs serve all of orange county with 75% in santa ana and costa mesa. Residents seeking services include the chronically disadvantaged and those accessing supportive services for the first time, casualties of the devastating recession. Sos's target population is ethnically diverse and lives at or below 100% of the federal poverty level; the homeless, seniors on fixed incomes, the disabled, and those with mental illness are a significant portion of the population served. Social services annually serves over 100,000 orange county residents.