Year-End Survey: Provide Your Feedback and Receive a Gift Card

As we reach the end of the year, we are reflecting on the work we’ve done together and considering ways we can improve in the upcoming year. Please help us evaluate our year and improve the way we engage our partners. Your feedback will help us ensure that our meetings and the resources we offer to our network are relevant to your work and more accessible to our community! We encourage more than one person from each organization to take the survey.

The first 35 individuals who complete the survey will receive a $40 gift card. Deadline for completing the survey is January 15, 2024.

Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos has been awarded $1.9 million of PATH CITED (Capacity, Infrastructure, Transition, Expansion, and Development) Funding 

In November we were awarded PATH CITED funding designed to support capacity and infrastructure for CalAIM Enhanced Care Management (ECM) and Community Supports. This is collaborative funding with 7 funded partners (Hanna Center, Community Support Network, Food For Thought, La Familia Sana, Aliados, Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County, and United Way of the Wine Country) for implementation of the Resource Connection Network (leveraging the technology NinePatch) to support closed-loop, cross-sector referrals and CalAIM implementation in Sonoma County for the next 2 years

Upcoming Action Team Meetings

Community Accountability Action Team 

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | 3:00-4:30pm

Join us for a special year-end gathering to celebrate the work and accomplishments of our ARPA partners who, in collaboration with Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos, have been providing systems change and direct mental health services to people in our community for the past year. Learn more about the services they’ve provided, lessons learned over the year, and highlights from their work!

Resource Connection Network Action Team  

Canceled this month due to the December holidays!

ACE Screening Implementation Action Team 

Some of you have been meeting with us for the past two years as part of this Action Team and together we have accomplished a lot! We have noticed that the landscape has changed significantly since this team first began meeting in April of 2021. Multi-sectors partners have been doing important work regarding CalAIM, behavioral health direct services and systems change, EPIC Health Center Electronic Health Record implementation, and responding to current and changing needs in our community. 

The ACE Screening Action Team has decided to pause this monthly meeting and the Co-Chairs and SCSU staff will use this time to intentionally engage with people who have attended this action team as well as others who may be interested in ACE & SDOH screening, trauma-informed practices, and mitigating secondary trauma. We plan to meet again early next year to share themes, information, and propose next steps drawn from the engagement that will take place in the next few months.

Our Action Team meetings offer simultaneous interpretation in Spanish. 



Join us in moving this important work forward by attending an upcoming meeting!

Our Commitments

Our website now features a page that describes Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos’ commitment to racial equity and anti-racism and provides actions to help us remain rooted in our commitments. This page is meant to be a living resource that is available to our network to reference in their own Diversity, Equity, and Belonging work and can be updated and revised as needed. 

Events and Learning Opportunities

Relationship Building with Organizations in the CalAIM Environment  

PATH CPI Best Practices Webinar

When: December 7, 2023 | 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PT

The webinar is part of a biannual series of PATH CPI webinars designed to highlight best practices for implementing Enhanced Care Management (ECM) and Community Supports, increasing providers’ successful participation in CalAIM, and improving collaboration with managed care plans (MCP), state and local government agencies, and others to build and deliver quality services to Medi-Cal members. Guest presenters include Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and Transform Health.

Sonoma County Indian Health Project’s Winter Wonderland

When: December 12-14; 10:30am-4:45pm

Where: 144 Stony Pt Road Santa Rosa, 95401

Native artists will come to SCIHP December 12-14th to sell incredibly beautiful art pieces (jewelry, cards, prints, etc.). It is also an opportunity to meet community members and service providers!

Preparing for CalAIM: The New California Health & Human Services Data Exchange Framework

When: December 14, 2023, 10-11am

Join to receive an overview and key elements of the data exchange framework, as well as available funding opportunities to assist organizations with infrastructure development. 

The Data Exchange Framework Stories of a Connected California: Lisa and Dr. Tom

There has been a lot of talk about the Data Sharing Agreement and the Data Exchange Framework recently and you may be wondering how the effort to connect to a Qualified Health Information Organization (QHIOs) applies to actual patients. This infographic provides an example of the real-life applications that data sharing and connection to a QHIO can have on patients in emergency situations.

SC|SU ARPA Year 2 Quarter 1 Report 

In July 2022, Sonoma Connect | Sonoma Unidos was awarded $3 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding. The focus of our collaborative work is to provide a comprehensive response to the root causes of mental health disparities and enduring health inequities along racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines. Through our ten partners (Aliados Health, the Botanical Bus, Center for Wellbeing, Community Action Partnership of Sonoma, Child Parent Institute, Hanna Institute, Humanidad Therapy, La Luz Center, Raizes Collective, Sonoma County Office of Education) the funding is being used to increase and strengthen client-centered, culturally responsive mental health support for our community.

• As of September 30, 2023, 7663 individuals have received culturally responsive mental health supports through farmworker clinics, stress reduction education, individual therapy, group and community convivencias, community building & cultural events, cross sector resource connection, and in-home family therapy.
• 1125 individuals have received professional development and/or training through mental health systems change partners. These staff, providers, and community members are better equipped to implement trauma-informed practices with potential to influence the lives of children, youth, and families throughout Sonoma County.
• 74% of the individuals served identify as Hispanic or Latino/e/x.

Early next year, we will be providing a more detailed insight into this work to better illustrate our collective impact.

We express our appreciation to our funders!

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