Vital Access Care Foundation

The continuum of Care program provides cancer related services, ranging from education, early detection, patient navigation, and support. These include in-depth disease specific one-on-one and group education (breast and cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, etc.) Along with screenings/testing, and patient navigation free of charge for at-risk community members, especially low-income, underinsured, and disadvantaged populations. In 2023, the program educated 8,074 individuals, provided (1) patient navigation to 6,479 community members, (2) additional support to 256 cancer patients and survivors, and (3) 432 cancer screenings (clinical breast exams, mammograms, hepatitis b&c blood tests, fit kits, and skin check-ups). All services are provided free of charge.

The equity, coalition and community building brings together stakeholders from the aanhpi community and partners across sectors with different points of view to discuss and address the unique needs of the underserved local aanhpi community members through collective efforts and equity lens. In 2023, vacf has been leading and co-leading various projects addressing housing issues, health/social disparities, and workforce development of direct Care workers through the orange county asian and pacific islander task force (oc apitf) while being a strategic partner in different local and national coalitions. In addition, the program provides trainings to improve the community capacity on different aspects, such as community resources, data inequity, quality improvement, and advocacy, to elevate the voices and representation of the aanhpi residents.

The community education & engagement program provides outreach, education, and navigation to community resources on health matters including social determinants of health, insurance coverage, language Access, chronic and infectious diseases such as hepatitis, covid-19, etc. In addition, the program involves raising awareness, providing resources, and guiding individuals affected by hate incidents and hate crimes towards support services and legal protections. We reached out to 252,657 persons, directly engaged with 17,833 while making 23,930 referrals and linkages to Care, crisis prevention, food distribution, ppes and personal hygiene items, navigation to preventative Care, vaccination, transportation, housing support, financial assistance, legal aids, etc. For 13,642 community members; and providing 1,520 covid-19 testing and vaccine navigations. All services are provided free of charge. Additionally, vacf provides community outreach and engagement for research, including being community principal investigators in community-based research projects, community engagement partners and members of community advisory boards. In 2023, the program made a community footprint of 89,868 reaches, 6,768 engagements and facilitated enrollments in various projects through linguistically and culturally appropriate approach to increase the representation of asian americans.