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1992.10.08 :  Los Angeles Weed and Seed Grants

Contact:  Charlotte Mehuron (301) 443-3376
October 8, 1992

       HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., today announced
almost $2 million in assistance to increase primary health care in
the Pico Union and South Central areas of Los Angeles, as part of
President Bush's "Weed and Seed" initiative to combat crime and
provide health and social services in high-risk areas.
       The funding includes $l.7 million in awards for eight
programs operated by seven community health organizations:  the
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, the Community Health Foundation
of East Los Angeles, the Watts Health Foundation of East Los
Angeles, the Arroyo Vista Family Health Center, the Northeast
Valley Health Corporation (two programs), the Altamed Health
Services Corporation and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community
Service Center.
       Up to $300,000 is also available to fill health care
vacancies in centers or facilities qualifying for placement of
physicians and other primary health care professionals
participating in the National Health Service Corps' federal
scholarship and loan repayment program.
       "Our strategy is to bolster existing services and to work in
concert with the Los Angeles Weed and Seed Coalition to build
community, county, state and federal partnerships for long-term
solutions to health care, social problems and crime facing these
neighborhoods," said Secretary Sullivan.

       Awards will be used to recruit physicians and other health
care professionals, and to expand primary health care, crisis
intervention, health care for the homeless and HIV intervention
services.  A jobs-related component is the recruitment and training
of local residents as community health care workers to reach
patients needing help, and to assist with referral, preventive and
educational services.
       The supplemental awards were made to programs currently
funded by the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the Health Resources
and Services Administration that were able to demonstrate
coordinated plans with the other service providers to target the
Pico Union area and the portion of South Central Los Angeles
bordered by Western, Vernon, Central and Manchester avenues.
       "The goal is to combine additional funds from the federal
Community Health Center, Health Care for the Homeless, and Ryan
White Care Act programs with community initiative and commitment. 
In doing this, our aim is to plant the 'seed' components in support
of neighborhood jobs and health care services that working with the
'weed' side of the initiative can bring about secure neighborhoods
on the road to being revitalized," said HRSA Administrator Robert
G. Harmon, M.D.
       "Through this effort, we hope to assure that the people in
greatest need receive quality health care," stated Marilyn H.
Gaston, M.D., director of HRSA's Bureau of Primary Health Care.
       HRSA is one of eight U.S. Public Health Service agencies
within HHS.

     The grantees and awards are:

GRANTEE                                           AMOUNT         AREA
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture                 $283,334       PU
Community Health Foundation of East Los Angeles    166,666       PU
WATTS Health Foundation                            450,000       SC
Arroyo Vista Family Health Center                  200,000       PU
Northeast Valley Health Corporation                140,000       PU
Altamed Health Services Corporation                266,666       SC
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community              100,000       SC/PU
  Service Center                                   
Northeast Valley Health Corporation                100,000       PU
                                                  

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