Community Engagement Alliance | UC Davis Health

California CEAL is a statewide initiative that brings together academic institutions and community partners to advance community-engaged approaches to health equity.

Historically,

Starting in 2020, this project known has “CEAL” is comprised of eleven academic institutions and their community partners focused on strengthening community-engaged strategies to enhance education, awareness, access, and inclusion of underserved communities to reduce disease disparities. 

The STOP COVID-19 CA Alliance is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded California-wide, academic community partnership using community-engaged approaches to address COVID-19 prevention, treatment, and testing for those most at risk for COVID-19 infection and complications. The “STOP CA” stands for Share Trust Organize Partner California Alliance in the name of the project and “CEAL” stands for Community Engaged Alliance.

UC Davis CEAL works with community partners to conduct outreach, training, and communication to reach underserved populations across California with health and safety messages.

Currently,

CA CEAL remains focused on supporting and enhancing CBO capacity to expand linkages to social needs services for underserved communities in collaboration with key partners to improve health equity.

Activities at all sites over a two-year period include skills development webinars, technical assistance delivery, optional communities of practice meetings and evaluation to assess outcomes. A variety of pertinent topics are presented in a Webinar series in Spanish and English languages to build knowledge and skills to support clients at organizations. 

You can read more about CEAL on the NIH website.