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Letter From the Director
Dear Clinic Family,
What an amazing year it has been! We have served over 8,000 people and trained over 100 high school students and 30 college students this year. Over 50 of our high school interns are ready to be medical assistants certified by the state of California when they turn 18.
It has been 20 years since the two year Teen Healthcare Internship and Training Program started and we are sending out an alumni survey to our many program graduates to learn what they are doing and how the clinic impacted their lives. We will have a report of our compiled alumni feedback in 2019.
We were honored to be selected to provide three presentations at national conferences this year. We were asked to share our best practices and patient health outcomes, making it possible for others to replicate our successful model.
We provided cataract surgeries to 18 people who could not afford them and 409 dental services including cleanings and x-rays with treatment at a local dental office. Our mental health services continue to grow with over 924 people served, and more doctors are volunteering and helping our patients have early access to health care.
Our high school students were also actively involved in education equity and health equity efforts to make sure everyone has a chance to succeed and be healthy.
While many great things are happening at WFC, we always need more help. For those who are ongoing supporters, we appreciate your assistance. For those who are new, here are some ways you can help:
• Recruit volunteer medical, dental, and vision professionals to help at WFC
• Recruit medical, dental, and vision partners for referrals to their offices for more complex cases
• Assist with linking us to local medical, dental, and vision businesses that can donate healthcare items and services to WFC
• DONATE or find donors to continue the important services WFC provides to the community, and support the two year Teen Healthcare Training Program
All of this can happen by linking people you know to our website at www.westminsterclinic.org.
This support helps many low-income families in our community who are struggling with their health. It also helps many high school and college students have a meaningful place to serve their community and train for careers in healthcare.
We are all making an important difference together and we thank you!
Sincerely,
Lisa Safaeinili, MPH
Executive Director
Letter From the Director 2015
Dear Friends and Supporters:
It has been another great year of growth, innovation and service to those in our community whose family income averages $25,000 a year.
It is amazing what we have been able to do as an organization that is 99% volunteer, and where 94% of donations go back to direct service. We thank all of you who help make that possible!
Some of the highlights of this year’s accomplishments include:
1) Starting a new Corazones Sanos (Healthy Hearts) Program for children and adults at risk for heart disease. Thanks to a new grant from Astra Zeneca’s Connections for Cardiovascular Health Foundation, and matching grants from Kaiser Permanente and others, we are seeing successful outcomes with decreased weight, improved lab results and healthy lifestyle changes. Over 200 patients are being tracked, and over 500 people are reached by this program.
2) Our bilingual S.A.L.U.D. (Student Advocates Leading Uplifting Decisions) group is making it good business sense for 7 Latino markets in 4 cities in East Ventura County to partner with Westminster Clinic and offer healthy foods good for diabetics, people at risk for heart disease and people struggling with obesity. SALUD also helps with weekly nutrition education, fresh fruit and veggie distribution at Westminster Clinic, they have their own newsletter for patients, hosted a free Zumbathon February, 2015 that included local dignitaries, and have many other projects underway.
3) 84 high school students in our Health Careers Pathway Program (44 will be first generation college students), over 100 volunteer medical professionals, and over 200 non-medical volunteers serve our families regularly with health supporting services and medical care. It is a very successful intergenerational model of care by volunteers.
4) In the past twelve months, WFC served over 7000 people, gave out over 500 backpacks with school supplies, provided fluoride dental varnish to over 160 children, vaccinated over 500 people, offered free Zumba and yoga classes to more than 100 different people and provided free fruits and veggies to over 350 different families in addition to the weekly medical care, mental health services and health education provided.
5) To know us better and see what WFC is doing, we have a new clinic video you can find by typing in Westminster Free Clinic 2015 in YouTube, or viewing it on our new website at www.westminsterclinic.org We invite you to be inspired and see for yourself what your support and investment is doing.
Thank you for believing in the work we do. It is only possible because of you!
Most Appreciatively,
Lisa Safaeinili, MPH
Executive Director
Newsletter Fall 2015
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