KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES

The purpose of this award is to expand access to needed primary health care services specifically by expanding services at existing health center sites in an underserved area or for an underserved population. The IDS project that KKV will be implementing involves expanding existing services with new hires, extending hours of primary medical care operations at satellite service sites, and retaining jobs that are connected to community-based preventive health care programs. With this award, KKV committed to hire a new Licensed Clinical Social Worker to deal with the increasing needs within the community that come from job lay-offs, lack of work opportunities, and concurrent related issues such as increased substance abuse, domestic violence, gang violence, depression, anxiety, chronic stress disorders and other behavioral health problems. 2 new clinical support staff will be added to allow a new KKV physician to expand hours of primary care services at two separate KKV satellite sites -- at its Elder Services Center and at the Kuhio Park Terrace public housing complex (the largest in the State of Hawaii). Expanded clinical service hours at these sites will accommodate the growing demand for these types of services in the areas where these satellite sites are located, and will circumvent the problem of limited space for patients at KKV's main health center. In addition to new hiring, KKV also committed to retain a .2 FTE LPN and 2.25 FTE of case management and other paraprofessional staff. These staffs have been providing culturally and linguistically competent outreach, case management and intervention activities with community residents who have substance abuse and other behavioral health related problems and eligibility services.

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