Thank you for your interest in presenting at the 24th Annual Southern California Health Care Symposium. The Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC) and Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers (the Coalition) look forward to welcoming you on Friday, April 4, 2025, at The Westin Anaheim Resort.  

We’re looking for speakers to present strategies, innovations and best practices that can help community health center leaders, staff and advocates advance health equity and health care transformation in their communities. Our members and partners want to learn from you on topics including workforce, policy and advocacy, quality improvement, clinical services, operations, social drivers of health and anti-racism. See the full list below. We look forward to receiving your proposals!  

Submission Details  

Each session is slated for 60 or 90– minutes, including Q&A, and will have no more than three presenters. Please include all information in the online submission form or attachment and submit it no later than Friday, October 25, 2024, for consideration.  

2025 Session Tracks 

The selection committee will consider proposals related to the subject areas below. The committee is especially interested in abstracts that include and reflect health center best practices or include a CCALAC or Coalition member or affiliate. Sessions may not include sales or marketing products or other commercial information. 

• Anti-Racism – Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, Allyship, Responsiveness to Social Justice, Systemic Injustice, Politics, and Measuring Community Health Center Initiatives  

• Clinical Services – Screenings, Clinical Competency, Care Coordination, Community Health Workers (CHWs), Behavioral Health, Infant and Maternal Mortality (Birthing Justice), Gender Affirming Care, People living with chronic illness (e.g., Hypertension, Diabetes, etc.), Sexual Reproductive Health (HIV, STIs, etc.), Telehealth  

• Operations – Compliance, Billing and Coding, Alternative Payment Models, CalAIM, Organizational Sustainability, Trauma-informed Care and Resilience, Program Development and Sustainability, Finance  

• Policy and Advocacy – Homelessness, CalAIM, Alternative Payment Methodologies, Payment reform, Managed Care Reform, Workforce  

• Quality Improvement – Evaluation, Data Governance and Management, Data Exchange, Practice Transformation, Population Health Management, Innovation, Compliance, Data Collection, Delivering care with cultural humility      

• Social Drivers of Health (SDoH) – Food Insecurity, Housing, Transportation, Risk Stratification, Material Poverty, Homelessness, Street Medicine, Addressing Clinical Challenges for Under-resourced Populations  

• Transformation – Clinical Workflows, Policies and Procedures, Medi-Cal Initiatives (e.g., Alternative Payment Methodology, Value Based Care, CalAIM, and Medi-Cal Expansion)  

• Workforce – Leadership Development, Employee Engagement, Equitable Compensation, Wellness Programs, Recruitment and Retention, Leadership and Employee Resilience, Leadership Development, Workforce Pipeline Development  

• Other – If you have a great idea for a session that does not fall into one of the above categories, please submit your idea! Briefly explain the content area your session will address and how it aligns with the mission of the 24th Southern California Annual Health Care Symposium.  

CCALAC JEDI STATEMENT 

CCALAC strives to be an anti-racist organization with a culture that is equitable, inclusive and supportive of all employees and members. Our core values of partnership, equity, innovation, integrity, and service guide us in our internal collaborations, and in our work with our members and the community. We are committed to advancing racial and social justice and health equity and will demonstrate this through our organizational culture, policies, business practices, programs and services, communication, and leadership structures. 

All CCALAC communications comply with Ethical Storytelling (ES) Guidelines. The people-first principle respects people’s humanity and their experience. We strongly encourage presenters to prepare abstracts that align with ethical storytelling. Click here to access the guide.  

APPLY NOW! 

Deadline to submit is October 25, 2024 at 11:59pm.