GRASSROOTS PREPARE, TAKE ACTION FOR YOUR HEALTH

Health Care Access

County of Los Angeles

Applying a proven model or solution to a new issue or sector (e.g., using a job recruiting software or strategy to match clients to supportive housing sites, applying demonstrated strategies from advocating for college affordability to advocating for housing affordability and homelessness, etc.)

LA County Department of Mental Health Services for Latinos is currently under represented and under served. The LACDMH for the next following three years is $400,000,000 per year which gets allocated tho organizations or private business to provide mental health to the community. The Latino community population in the LA County is 49% of which 65% are the "in need of services" with mental health. Of the $400,000,000 in 2022 allocated, Latino organizations and/or service providers were only awarded $4,000,000. The only way we see going after these funds is to organize our grassroots Latino nonprofit or service providers small organizations and prepare them with "advocacy and capacity buidling" skills to be prepared and work on grant writing and build their proposals to be competitive. We must organize, take action to demand funding via proposal writing and with one voice demand funding to do community outreach and refer our people for mental health services for treatment and healing.

Our CALL TO ACTION TO ORGANIZE AS A COALITION entails reaching out to the grassroots nonprofits serving our Latino communities, Capacity building Advocacy Training Media presentations/Interview techniques Grant Writing Training in speaking in front of LA County Supervisors Effective leadeship skills Effective Negotiating Skills Understanding Budgets Social Media and Media Advocacy Understanding Unity as Oneness, the competition is outside, not within

In identifying with the Dalai Lama when asked what his thought about happiness was: "Three big categories help frame the specific ingredients of happiness: health, hope, and harmony. The Golden Rule of the Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama said Buddha's teachings can be summarized in two sentences: You must help others. If not, you should not harm others. 1. In organizing as a coalition we have a stronger unified voice to demand xxxx 2. Provide capacity building to become advocates 3. To engage into proposal writing with well thought out plans for programs to benefit our Latino communities. We are all ill afte the pandemic 4. To Learn how to become public speakers to demand the right to funding to provide much need services to our Latino, immigrants, indigenous, homeless or not communities. 5. These capacity building training will be offered yearly from here on. 6. Partner with an expert organization such as the Center for Management Nonprofits

After being part of a comite for a few years in the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health when we saw the funding results for 2022, we realized that we were funded at the lowest level, $6 million for Latino organizations of $400,000,000 available this year. My conclusion is that we were not ready to compete for these fundings and we were scattered. My proposal is to organize all these nonprofits and organizations into a coalition, those ones that are not knowledagle in grant writing, speaking and presenting their proposals, mediating, and yes, fighting for what is right in a knowledable, prepared way, need to be invited to table to learn these skills, practice them, and go put the fight with tools that are essential to the system. To begin quantifying, the number of organizations that will make up the coalition is at least 30, each organization represents between 300 and 1000 people, the benefits that each organization will provided if funded is quantifiable.

Center for Nonprofit Management - Support with capacity building, training, preparing nonprofits and grant writing management