The Alameda County Health Pipeline Partnership

PI: Dr. Jocelyn Freeman Garrick

Funder: The California Endowment

Dr. Freeman Garrck and her team sought and received funding to diversify the health workforce with a multiplex and coordinated program to:

1) Expand the existing Alameda County Health Pipeline Partnershipe (ACHPP) learning community by convening organizations who provide youth and young adults with health career pipeline activities;

2) Expand the advisory council of stakeholders, government, community and education partners to support ACHPP;

3) Focus on recruitment and retention of young men of color into health pipeline programs, with an emphasis on a  trauma-informed care model to become the standard amongst programs and agencies that serve and employ men of color;

4) Standardize best practices amongst health pipeline programs; and

5) Document and disseminate outcomes of the ACHPP coalition.