A Mobile Clinic

In our effort to address the barriers to healthcare access, our mission is to improve our clients well-being and health outcomes by providing mental health services and preventive care for individuals with a history of chronic homelessness. With a collaborative effort aided by the case management and outreach currently offered by the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLACC), the mobile clinic will provide additional supporting services that will focus on bringing mental health services, healthcare and social services directly to our clients. As we strive to integrate our services by collocating a mobile clinic, we will focus on disease prevention and healthcare promotion through primary care, while employing a biopsychosocial approached.
By working hand in hand with WLACC, the mobile clinic strives to add an important component to existing housing interventions and treatment plans with the emphasis on improving the quality of life while creating a safe space for client participation. The mobile clinic will also take part in facilitating referrals for specialty care for those in need of medical and social resources. By adding a mobile clinic to WLACC’s location, many of our clients will have the opportunity to be screened for physical examinations while being offered consults to mental health services as well. By working closely with St, John’s Hospital, and the Martin Luther King County Medical Center, we will rely on their extended services when inpatient referrals are warranted.
Services
Providing medical services that touch upon the primary care practice guidelines, follow-up care and in treating the most common of medical conditions, our medical students and staff will focus providing informative preventive care. The...

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...the Public Health Service Act, applying under the federal designation for a non-profit health center, would allow funding for the start up of the mobile clinic. In funding a program that focuses on addressing the unmet needs of our clients, federal funding will be vital in starting up the mobile clinic that will bring collocated health services to WLACC. Collocating health services at WLACC that provide primary care, preventive and screening services and adhere to federal case management and fiscal management requirements, would further enhance qualifications for targeted funding, based on the fact that WLACC is a nonprofit organization. By meeting the federal requirements of accounting for a budget while outlining goals and and identifying an evaluation process, will also help develop a business plan that will facilitate the creation of the mobile clinic initiative.