Community Health Services Division
Division Mission
The mission of Community Health Services (CHS) is to encourage, support and empower residents to be healthy, build capacity for self-sufficiency, and improve the health and well-being of the community.
The Division focuses on neighborhood-based community strategies that address root causes of health and social inequity in public education and income and economic development.
Key strategies that the Division currently uses include:
- Promoting healthy choices through policy development, community engagement, education and information dissemination
- Protecting the health and well-being of residents with appropriate interventions and health policies based on state-of-the-art knowledge
- Ensuring access to quality health and social services through collaboration with individuals, families, institutions and available resources in the community
- Providing culturally and ethnically sensitive services to the community
- Engaging in on-going planning and evaluation in partnership with the community
Programs
Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
Asthma Start
Dental Health
Diabetes Program
Health Care for the Homeless
Legislative Council
Medical Marijuana
Male Health
Nutrition Services/Physical Activity
Project New Start/Violence Prevention
Contact Information
Community Health Services
Division Director: Kimi Watkins-Tartt
1000 Broadway Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: (510) 208-5900