Young & Health (Y&H) is a Pasadena nonprofit organization that offers comprehensive health care to low-income school age children throughout the greater Pasadena who lack or have inadequate health insurance. Young & Healthy has over 350 health providers that volunteer their expertise for the organization and those who they serve. Those volunteers range from physicians, dentist, mental health and other professional health providers, who treat the children at their offices for free; donation their time and services. Young & Healthy was established in 1990 and it has grown due to the greater number of children that need their services in the Pasadena area, now they offer services for dental, mental, medical care, and health education, just to
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It took me two days to accomplish all of the data input because more than one hundred children received dental screenings at their school. After the data input, the child’s file needed to be filed away alphabetically, I had to sort the files and place them in the filing cabinets. Overall, my time with Y&H was a great experience, I learned about case managing, how a non-profit organization works to help the community, and how I can make a difference to assist in any …show more content…
I think that two call per parent is more than enough, making more than two calls is a little excessive to me. I understand that more calls mean more case management time and the organization is a non-profit and they need to show how their grands are being allocated, but I feel that parents find the calls intrusive and that could be the reason why so many parents did not return the calls. Over 95% of the children that received the screenings had some type of dental coverage either private insurance or Medical coverage and I think that it would benefit Y&H if they updated their forms for the screenings and ask the parents if the child has dental coverage. Adding that question to the forms would lessen the calls that Y&H has to make after the dental
It took me two days to accomplish all of the data input because more than one hundred children received dental screenings at their school. After the data input, the child’s file needed to be filed away alphabetically, I had to sort the files and place them in the filing cabinets. Overall, my time with Y&H was a great experience, I learned about case managing, how a non-profit organization works to help the community, and how I can make a difference to assist in any …show more content…
I think that two call per parent is more than enough, making more than two calls is a little excessive to me. I understand that more calls mean more case management time and the organization is a non-profit and they need to show how their grands are being allocated, but I feel that parents find the calls intrusive and that could be the reason why so many parents did not return the calls. Over 95% of the children that received the screenings had some type of dental coverage either private insurance or Medical coverage and I think that it would benefit Y&H if they updated their forms for the screenings and ask the parents if the child has dental coverage. Adding that question to the forms would lessen the calls that Y&H has to make after the dental