Task Forces & Policy Briefs

In 2013, the OCWHP partnered with other local community organizations to launch three Task Forces addressing priority women’s health issues in Orange County.

Breast & Cervical Cancer Task Force

Objectives: Address cancer screening and diagnostic disparities and increase uptake of the HPV vaccine in Orange County. 

Co-Leads: Susan G. Komen Orange County and the Health Promotion Research Institute at CSU Fullerton

Teen Reproductive Health Task Force

Objectives: Address the disparities in the teen birth rates within certain pockets of Orange County and the slowly increasing rate of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) across Orange County.

Co-Lead: Planned Parenthood of Orange & San Bernardino Counties

Health & Domestic Violence Task Force

Objectives: Strengthen the local healthcare sector's response to domestic violence and better integrate the local healthcare sector with the social, shelter, legal, law enforcement, and other services that support domestic violence survivors and their families in Orange County. 

Co-Leads: Four state-funded domestic violence organizations based in Orange County (Human Options, Interval House, Laura's House, and Women's Transitional Living Center)

Thanks to a generous planning grant from Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF), in 2013-2014 the HDV Task Force conducted a needs assessment, scanned the literature, and evaluated different approaches to integrating services to reduce the health impacts of domestic violence.  Ultimately the HDV Task Force identified a set of strategies that would, if implemented in a coordinated manner, establish a countywide, integrated and collaborative HDV System in Orange County.

In September 2014, the BSCF awarded a significant grant to the OCWHP to oversee the implementation, coordination and evaluation of the HDV System.  The OCWHP released an RFP in January 2015 and awarded sub-grants to four local organizations in June 2015. The sub-grantees launched their activities in May 2016 and the initiative was named the Domestic Violence and Health Collective - Orange County.