About the North Coast Clinics Network

NCCN has been supported by member clinics and by generous grants and subcontracts from organizations including:

Supporting Organizations
The California Endowment	The California Wellness Foundation	Blue Shield Foundation	Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board
The Tides Foundation	Health Resources and Services Administration	Office of Rural Health Policy	Robert Woods Johnson Foundation
Humboldt Organizations
Community Health Alliance	The Humboldt Area Foundation	First Five Humboldt	McLean Foundation

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Our Current projects include:

Consortia Core Operating funds that support Network service expansion, direct services for the core operations of the network, finance, policy, advocacy and shared administrative services provided by The California Endowment

Disaster Preparedness Consulting to assist other consortia and clinics with disaster preparedness plan preparation and for the support of clinic staff time for disaster preparedness planning activities through funds provided by Health Resources and Services Administration via the California Primary Care Association

Clinic & Consortia Core Operating funds that support direct services for the core operations of clinics and the network. Activities include recruitment and retention for providers, finance and accounting technical assistance provided by The Blue Shield Foundation

Rural Health Demonstration Project supporting MMO's King Salmon Clinic, RRHC's Alderpoint and school-based outreach and STHS's mobile primary care outreach through funding Provided by California Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board

Clinic Core Operating funds that support direct services for the core operations of clinics, Americorps, and Healthy Families provided by The California Wellness Foundation funding

Hospital Based Dentistry Project, which is increasing access to dental care for Humboldt County children, funded by The California Endowment

Rural Health Network Development trains staff for disaster preparedness and buys disaster preparedness supplies and telecommunication equipment for clinics with funding provided by Health Resources and Services Administration through the Office of Rural Health Policy

RWJF's Covering Kids and Families which funds the Healthy Family "in-reach" as well as the Outreach and Enrollment Assistance staff at RRHC and DNCHC, funded by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation

Circle of Smiles coordinates dental care for area children refered by clinics and other providers with The California Endowment funding

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Insurance Education and Enrollment Assistance: Healthy Families Outreach is funded by a federal CAP grant via the Community Health Alliance, Covering kids and families, and the McLean Foundation. For more information about the program contact:
Dot Campbell, 
Healthy Families Outreach Coordinator
707.442-6066. 

NCCN is fiscal agent for:

• The Redwood Empire Perinatal Conference which is supported through registration fees and by the Humboldt County First Five commission.

• Northern California Rural Round Table

Past Projects:

• The Doula Project, which helped train doulas to assist with child births, with funding from the The Women's Foundation

• PICNIC - the Prenatal, Infant and Child Nutritional In-home Counseling Project, funded by the Humboldt County First Five Commission

• Automatic External Defibrillator- The purchase of automatic external defibrillators for mobile health clinic sites. Paid for by the Humboldt Area Foundation.

• The Humboldt Community Breast Health Project funded by the Susan G. Komen Foundation and The California Endowment

• Y2K computer upgrade and assessment, funded by the Tides Foundation Community Clinic Initiative

• TALAP, the Technical Advocacy and Legal Assistance Project, funded by the California Primary Care Association.

• The Humboldt Community Switchboard (441-1001), a call-in referral line funded by The California Endowment. 

• California State Rural Health Association It was funded by the James Irvine Foundation.

• The Regional Immunization Registry and Tracking Project (RIRP) established a computerized registry on the immunization status of the children in Humboldt, Del Norte and Trinity counties. Funded by The California Endowment.

• The Pilot Case Management Project, which developed a Case Management model.

• TeenSmart:  The directory of social services for teens in Humboldt County.

• The ID Card Project, which was supported by the Humboldt Area Foundation and the Blue Cross Foundation, distributed NCCN ID cards to member clinic patients.  This project was NCCN’s first joint effort and was a stepping-stone to computerized patient records on smart cards.