A Celebration to Remember! CPCA Celebrates 25 Years of Leadership at 2019 Annual Conference
At this year’s Annual Conference, which took place at the San Diego Sheraton Hotel and Marina on October 17-18, over 800 participants helped CPCA celebrate 25 years of leadership in the community health care movement, as well as the exceptional accomplishments of our member health centers and their staff, who work tirelessly, day-in and day-out serving their communities.
25th Anniversary Video Contest: Beyond These Walls
Winners Announced!
To celebrate CPCA’s 25th anniversary, we launched the 25th Anniversary Video Contest: Beyond These Walls. We received 22 incredible videos from our members, demonstrating how they create IMPACT, ACCESS, INNOVATION and VALUE in their own communities.
CPCA Continues Its Commitment to Leadership Development; Announces Promotions
As you know, CPCA began a transformational restructuring of the organization earlier this year. It is important to CPCA that we grow our own leaders, that we are helping to develop these leaders, and encouraging their ongoing growth.
CPCA Celebrates Long-Time Employee
with First Ever CPCA Legacy Award
In October, as part of this year’s Annual Conference, CPCA honored veteran staff member Sandra Birkman – CPCA’s Vice President of Finance - with the first ever CPCA Legacy Award in recognition of her 21 years of service to the organization and the health center movement.
CPCA Welcomes
New Staff
Kokaale Amissah-Aidoo
Kokaale joined CPCA in August as the Associate Director of Education and Training. In this position, Kokaale leads all in-person trainings and manages the content and all speakers for CPCA boutique events …
Sonja Spowart
Sonja Spowart joined CPCA in October as the Chief Financial Officer. In this position, Sonja will build on CPCA’s strong foundation, drive our continued growth, and help to position us to take on additional innovative ventures to support our ...
Education Programs: News and Updates
It is the goal of CPCA's Training department to enhance community health centers' (CHCs) capacity and competitiveness by developing timely and leading-edge trainings. Integrating practical, strategic, and relational skill-building will increase CHCs' abilities to respond to and evolve within the ever-changing health care environment.
CPCA Connected Community Launches for Peer Networks:
New Communication Platform Makes it Easy to Connect with Peers and Share Resources!
CPCA Continues the Fight for Immigrant Rights
The anti-immigrant policies put in place by the federal administration have created an increased atmosphere of fear in our immigrant communities. This fear is referred to as the ‘chilling effect’ and it has discouraged many immigrants and their family members from enrolling into lifesaving services, such as Medi-Cal, out of fear that their immigration status, or that of a family member, will be affected. These fears have been further exacerbated by the public charge rule, which would expand the list of public benefit programs currently considered in a public charge assessment when an individual applies to enter or reenter the country or applies for legal permanent residency (i.e. green card).
CPCA Leads 2020 Census Work
The 2020 Census is rapidly approaching and ensuring an accurate count of California residents is essential for a number of reasons. Health centers are poised to play a critical role in supporting Census preparation, education, and engagement of their communities. California’s community health centers serve and have access to nearly 7 million Californians and are trusted sources of information, which uniquely positions them to be trusted messengers to hard-to-count populations about the importance of being counted in the 2020 Census.
CPCA Hosts Regional Listening Sessions throughout the State
As part of CPCA’s 25th Anniversary celebration, senior staff have been traveling the state to hear directly from members on what is working well and potential opportunities for change within the association. With the goal of building stronger relationships with members and Regional Consortium, CPCA has facilitated four member listening sessions thus far, and has three additional sessions planned in the coming months, in an effort to collect member feedback on important issues.