World Braille Day

World Braille Day is celebrated on January 4th, Louis Braille’s birthday. Louis Braille was the inventor of braille! Born in 1809 in France, Louis became blind after a childhood accident. At 15 years old, he created a reading and writing system composed of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number and even musical, mathematical, and scientific symbols.

Click here to learn more about Braille Day.

Martin Luther King Jr Day

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed on the third Monday in January.

President Ronald Reagan signed a bill on November 2, 1983, creating a federal holiday in Dr. King’s honor. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was first observed as a national holiday on January 20, 1986. This year it was celebrated on January 15, 2024.

You can visit the National Civil Rights Museum, to learn more about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the influential decisions, monumental actions, and steadfast progressions of humanitarian rights that reach far beyond the civil rights movement.

Click here for ways to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with your colleagues at work.

2024 Lunar New Year

It's the year of the dragon!

According to the National Museum of Asian Art, he Lunar New Year is a celebration of the arrival of spring and the beginning of a new year on the lunisolar calendar. It is the most important holiday in China, and it is also widely celebrated in South Korea, Vietnam, and countries with a significant overseas Chinese population. While the official dates encompassing the holiday vary by culture, those celebrating consider it the time of the year to reunite with immediate and extended family.

Click here to learn more about the Lunar New Year.

Click here to learn more about local Lunar New Year celebrations.

Love Your Heart ❤

Save the date for Love Your Heart 2024 – February 14-29! ❤ Love Your Heart is an annual event in which organizations from across the U.S. and Mexico join together to provide free blood pressure screenings to the public. Love Your Heart annually helps tens of thousands of people get to know their blood pressure numbers and take charge of their own heart health.

Learn more and check out ways to get involved at LoveYourHeartSD.org.

Videos

• How To Monitor Your Blood Pressure at Home
• In Their Own Words: Why You Should Get Your Blood Pressure Checked
• 2019 Love Your Heart PSA: Tyler - Imagine being a healthy 20-something and the unexpected happens -- you suffer a stroke, a reminder that Tyler's experience can happen to anybody.

#LoveYourHeartSD #AmaTuCorazon #KnowYourNumbers

If you are a CIE partner, and you have clients that are working, you can use the CIE to send electronic referrals directly to 211 San Diego!

When you use Direct Referrals to connect clients to our services, we follow up so that they don't have to!

For example, through the VITA & CalEITC referral, we follow up within 3 business days and educate clients about potential tax credits, scheduling eligible clients for free tax appointments at a convenient or virtual VITA tax site.

Download the informative flyer below or share it with other organizations!

WeAllCount Point in Time (PITC)

The WeAllCount Point-in-Time (PITC) serves the purpose of conducting a one-night census of individuals experiencing homelessness in our community during the month of January. This count provides an excellent opportunity to increase awareness of homelessness and to spark action. The next data collection will be Thursday, January 25th, from 4:00 AM - 8:00 AM.

The San Diego Regional Task Force on Homelessness is also looking for volunteers. For 2024, volunteers will have the opportunity to support by volunteering at 1 of 42 sites across the San Diego Region. 

Learn more here.

Open Enrollment is from November 1, through January 31, 2024.

“Beginning January 1, 2024, a new law in California will provide adults 26 through 49 years of age access to full-scope Medi-Cal services and immigration status does not matter.

Medi-Cal and Covered California use the same application. After entering a client's information, they will find out whether they qualify for Medi-Cal or Covered California.

Learn about coverage levels, how to apply, or view what plans and pricing are available by clicking below.

On January 15, 2024, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) opened the Providing Access and Transforming Health (PATH) Capacity and Infrastructure Transition, Expansion, and Development (CITED) Round 3 application window. 

If your organization is a CIE steward seeking to leverage your CIE data-sharing infrastructure for the benefit of CalAIM and you would like some sample language from 211/CIE San Diego's previously successful CITED applications, please reach out to our CIE National team at CIE@CIESanDiego.org to receive our sample language.



211/CIE San Diego was proud to engage partners and the social services sector across California, along with UCSF SIREN, to participate in this important statewide survey on CalAIM. During the summer of 2023, the California Health Care Foundation commissioned a statewide survey about CalAIM (California's Medicaid reform) implementation among people working at managed care plans, health care organizations, behavioral health organizations, and social services organizations. A total of 1,196 individuals completed the survey, including 412 from social service organizations.

This survey data will be further analyzed by the UCSF SIREN team and will help inform the selection of 5 counties for a deeper dive analysis. Additionally, a huge thank you to the CalAIM Community of Practice, co-facilitated by 211/CIE San Diego and Health Leads, who helped to disseminate this survey throughout their partner networks.

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