TCC Family Health
The Childrens Clinic, Serving Children and Their Families
Long Beach, California, United States
About
Founded in 1939, TCC Family Health is a charity based in Long Beach, United States working on health, children & youth, mental health +4 more.
TCC Family Health is a 501 nonprofit, Federally Qualified Health Center based in Long Beach, California, operated legally as The Childrens Clinic, Serving Children and Their Families. Founded in 1939 by physicians and community leaders focused on access to care for children from low-income families, it now runs a network of 13 health centers across Greater Long Beach, Bellflower and surrounding communities. Services include pediatric, adult and senior primary care, OB/GYN and prenatal care, dental and optometry, chronic disease management, behavioural health, walk-in immunizations, on-site laboratory testing, pharmacy and 24/7 after-hours physician and nurse access. The organisation also provides enrolment assistance for health coverage, interpretation and translation, food pantries and farmers markets, housing support, a Medical-Legal Partnership, home visiting for new parents, and a Mobile Medical Clinic. It offers care on a sliding fee scale, states that no one is denied care due to inability to pay, and is governed by a volunteer board in which at least 51% of members are patients. Its services are provided in several languages in addition to English.
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Healthy Families America
Children & Youth · United States
Nationally recognised home visiting programme for expectant mothers and families with young children, from pregnancy to age 3-5, delivered by Family Support Specialists.
Reach Out and Read
Education · United States
Pediatric early literacy programme in which doctors and nurses give new books to children from 6 months to 5 years at well-child visits.
Everychild Bright Beginnings Initiative (EBBI)
Mental health · United States
Programme embedding toxic stress screenings into prenatal and pediatric check-ups to address the effects of toxic stress and chronic exposure to violence.
Greater Long Beach Community Medical-Legal Partnership
Justice & Legal aid · United States
Collaboration with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles providing free health-related legal services to TCC patients.
Mobile Medical Clinic
Health · United States
Mobile unit bringing primary and preventive care to people across Long Beach, with a focus on those experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity.
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Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, BRIDGE Housing, Baby2Baby, Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center, First 5 LA, Everychild Foundation, Miller Foundation, Ahmanson Foundation, Keck Foundation
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