As part of LAACHA’s New Direction, to provide structure, help clarify and communicate LAACHA’s new vision, as well as to provide members with opportunities to engage and provide input, LAACHA is forming three additional committees: Capacity & Resources Development Committee, Innovation Committee and Outcomes & Evaluation.
Capacity & Resources Development Committee
Purpose:
To develop a structure to enable the development of membership capacities.
Responsibilities:
- Assess capacity development strengths and needs
- Identify overall priorities
- Identify and/or develop tools to support capacity development efforts
- Identify educational, training and technical assistance opportunities
- Develop and action plan with short, mid and long-term recommendations.
Members:
- Andrés González, Senior Services Supervisor, City of South El Monte
- Adrianne Hament, Office of the Director, Community & Government Relations Division, Department of Mental Health
- Barbara Gonzales, Manager, Community Health, Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center
- Carlene Davis, Director of Strategy and Evaluator of the California Black Women’s Health Project and the co-founder of Sistahs Aging with Grace & Elegance
- Grace Cheng Braun, President and CEO, WISE & Healthy Aging
- Ron Kusek, Transformational Wellness Coach & Holistic Chef, Lean Aging Wellness
Innovation Committee
Purpose:
To identify, support and promote emerging community informed processes and practices that positively impact older adult health and wellbeing by improving access, quality of care, individual and population health, and reducing costs.
Responsibilities:
- Assess community needs
- Identify innovative community informed solutions
- Identify and develop strategies to support and promote innovative solutions
- Develop and action plan with short, mid and long-term recommendations.
Members:
- Allisson Goforth, Program Director, Community Wellness Department, Partners in Care Foundation
- Avi Price, COO & Co-Founder, Uniper-Care
- Barbra McLendon, Policy Director, Alzheimer's Los Angeles
- Davis Park, Vice President, Front Porch, Center for Innovation and Wellbeing
- Donna Benton, Director, Family Caregiver Resource Center, USC
- Iveris Martinez, Director, Center for Successful Aging, California State University, Long Beach
- Jeanette Montano, Resident Services Coordinator, Los Angels County Development Authority
- Mandi Carpenter, Manager, Arts, Wellness, and Engagement Programming, Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles
- Phyllis Willis, Director, Senior Services, WLCAC
Outcomes & Evaluation Committee
Purpose:
To help reduce disparities and improve outcomes for diverse older adults through outcome identification, tracking and reporting.
Responsibilities:
- Identify potential areas for improvement
- Develop valid, reliable outcome measures
- Identify strategies/performance measures to help reduce disparities
- Develop an action plan with short, mid and long-term recommendations.
Members:
- Ellen Eidem, Director, Office of Women’s Health, Los Angeles Department of Public Health
- Gretchen Swanson, Chair, Los Angeles Falls Prevention Coalition
- Janina Morrison, Medical Director, The Wellness Center at the Historic General Hospital, LAC+USC Medical Center
- Maureen Feldman, Director, Social Isolation Impact Project
- Reggie Tucker-Seeley, Edward L. Schneider Assistant Professor of Gerontology, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USC California
- Jovito Murillo-Leon, MA, MPH, Doctoral Student in Public Health, School of Community and Global Health Claremont Graduate University
- Carmen E. Reyes, Center and Community Relations Manager, Los Angeles Community-Academic Partnership in Research in Aging