Program areas at Vital Access Care Foundation
The continuum of cancer Care (education, detection, navigation, and support) program provides in-depth disease specific 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 2022, the program educated 7,118 individuals, provided (1)patient navigation to 4,154 community members, (2)additional support to 485 cancer patients and survivors, and (3)781 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 research engagement program provides community outreach and engagement, including vacf being community principal investigators in community-based research projects, community engagement partners and members of community advisory boards. In 2022, the program made a community footprint of 73,618 reaches, 6,645 engagements and facilitated at least 515 enrollments in various projects to increase the representation of asian americans.
The outreach, education & navigation 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. We reached out to 256,911 persons, directly engaged with 15,852 while making 23,330 referrals and linkages to Care, crisis prevention, food distribution, ppes and personal hygiene items, navigation to preventative Care, vaccination, transportation, housing support, financial assitance, etc. For 10,988 community members; and providing 9,410 covid-19 testing and vaccine navigations. All services are provided free of charge.
The equity coalition and community building program 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 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.