Please donate here and then join the Women Of Impact Health Equity Walk Team!
Together we can ensure everyone--and particularly all women and children in our valley--have access to compassionate, stigma-free healthcare! ❤️
As I have done, please consider making a donation in honor or memorium of someone you love who has been affected by the lack of comprehensive, compassionate health care.
(P.S. You can still donate even if you don't want to walk!)
Walk Out Loud For The health of Women and Children In Our Valley! The recent acquisition of the Borrego Health system has brought to DAP Health 23 clinics serving women and children. These clinics offer compassionate, stigma-free primary care, OBGYN care, and pediatric services, among other kinds of specialty care. But tragically, many unique obstacles to accessing this health care still exist for these women and children.
I (Karyl) first learned about these obstacles and needs at a listening session with 13 DAP case workers (formerly with Borrego Health). It shocked me. For example, for women taking care of children and grandchildren, transportation and a car seat is healthcare, since it’s not possible to get to a doctor without these. In this same way, shoes also become health care. Glasses are health care. A cell phone is health care. So is access to a computer and assistance with it since this is often necessary to fill out required forms. For so many women in our valley--gay and straight, younger and older--there is a cascade of dire needs that we can do something about, while also connecting with each other and having a great time in community together!
(In case you are wondering, federal and state health care dollars cannot go to address these kinds of needs. These needs require a separate funding source. This source is us, our communities, and Women of Impact!)
Please donate through this page,
get your Women of Impact T-shirt,
and walk with me and the WOI Team on October 28! ❤️
Walk Out Loud For LGBTQ+ Care. Every stripe of the rainbow, including those seeking gender-affirming care, have continually found a safe haven here, free of shame and stigma.
Walk Out Loud For Mental Health. Thanks to the 2022 opening of the Marc Byrd Behavioral Health Clinic — which offers in-person and telehealth individual and group psychotherapy, as well as medication management — this long-held DAP Health dream is now a reality.
Walk Out Loud to Care For Everyone. Health equity means all people have the same access to health care, no matter what social determinants of health negatively impact them. At DAP Health, everyone is welcome, with no one ever turned away due to their inability to pay.
Walk Out Loud to End HIV. HIV/AIDS care, testing, and prevention have always been at the heart of DAP Health's mission, and that simple fact will never change. Our clinical expertise has been hard-won from our vast experience, and is what has enabled us to expand as we have.
Walk Out Loud to End Epidemics. This has forever been DAP Health’s superpower, as it swiftly and successfully addressed a number of community health crises. For instance, its on-campus COVID-19 clinic was the first to open in the Coachella Valley, and the nonprofit successfully lobbied the powers that be for the community’s fair share of the much-needed mpox vaccine.
THANK YOU FOR DONATING!