2022-11-09T22:49:09-08:00 2021-12-31 954401626 Vasin Heyn & Company 5000 N Parkway Calabasas 201 Calabasas CA 91302 990 2021-01-01 954555879 Maternal and Child Health Access MATE 2137494261 1111 W 6th Street 4th Floor Los Angeles CA 90017 Lynn Kersey MA MPH Executive Dir. 2022-11-09 true Lynn Kersey MA MPH 999009999 Rolland Vasin P00644882 8182223500 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2021 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Lynn Kersey MA MPH 1111 W 6th Street 4th Floor Los Angeles CA 90017 5066527 false X www.mchaccess.org X 1996 CA Through direct support, individual advocacy, policy change, and health care workforce transformation, MCHA is building a California where women and families are supported, and everyone has the opportunity to be healthy. See Schedule O. 10 9 58 26 0 3965794 5029295 10422 3947 13 21 8032 33264 3984261 5066527 0 0 3627106 3780720 0 26844 951713 832699 4578819 4613419 -594558 453108 825754 854268 799512 357548 26242 496720 X Through direct support, individual advocacy, policy change, and health care workforce transformation, MCHA is building a California where women and families are supported, and everyone has the opportunity to be healthy. See Schedule O. false false 2678159 Welcome Baby is a model home visitation program designed to improve maternal health and birth outcomes, and provide support for pregnant and parenting women and their families. The program promotes the mothers and babys health, well-being and enhanced nurturing, and understanding of babys development. We provide information, support and a trusted parent coach to meet with women and support them through pregnancy and the first nine months of their babys lives. During home visits, the Welcome Baby staff refer clients to needed resources, distribute baby and mom-friendly items, provide breast feeding education, and provide information on accessing health care coverage. See Schedule O for further details. 1197373 Health Coverage Outreach and Enrollment. Through this program, MCHA provides one-on-one education and assistance to low income people seeking quality health coverage and access to services. MCHA educates people about health coverage options, helps them enroll in or renew their coverage, and works to ensure they are able to use it with clinics, doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and other access points. The greatest need we serve, however, is troubleshooting, or fixing the health coverage when its not working, when clients must switch health programs, or when they have trouble getting the health care they need. We use this knowledge of health coverage issues people face to engage in broader advocacy to improve health delivery systems. 326521 Health Coverage Training. MCHA is the organization that government agencies and other organizations turn to for accurate and up-to-date information on health care programs. MCHAs trainings help agency staff learn the intricacies of how health care programs are supposed to work and what to do when they don't. This covers enrollment, renewals, and troubleshooting for every available low-income health care program in the county and state. 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Part IV - Additional Information 55311 55311 Accrued Payroll and Related Liabilities 182483 182483 X 5083897 17370 17370 5066527 5066527 4613419 4613419 4613419 Part X : FIN48 Footnote MCHA is exempt from Federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and California income taxes under section 23701(d) of the California Revenue and Taxation Code. The IRS classified the organization as one that is not a private foundation within the meaning of section 509(a) of the Code because it is an organization described in section(s) 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi).MCHA has adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Section 740-10, which clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes. ASC Section 740-10 prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. ASC Section 740-10 requires that an organization recognize in the financial statements the impact of the tax position if that position will more likely than not be sustained on audit, based on the technical merits of the position. As of and for the year ended December 31, 2021, MCHA had no material unrecognized tax benefits, tax penalties or interest.MCHAs Forms 990, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax, for each of the tax years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018, are subject to examination by the IRS, generally for 3 years after theywere filed.MCHAs Forms 199, California Exempt Organization Return, for each of the tax years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017, are subject to examination by the Franchise Tax Board, generally for 4 years after they were filed. Part XI, Line 2d: Other revenue amounts included in F/S but not included on form 990 Reinstatement of net assets $17370 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: MCHA's other programs include CalFresh enrollment, a Community Mental Health program, and assistance with oral health services and policy for low-income people. Our program to provide support for high risk pregnant or parenting women through our Perinatal Outreach and Education staff have turned to providing short-term case management support for Los Angeles County clients with COVID. The support included providing the client with their basic needs, including food and necessary supplies as well as shelter for isolating and quarantining and health coverage assistance. We provide health education classes and support groups to help parents grow and learn. Other Programs:Policy/Advocacy: Effect changes in health systems for low-income women and families through administrative changes in health policy and State and local levels. Examples: reviewing documents and commenting to help ensure the enrollment system for low-income pregnant women is as simple and accurate as possible,creating newborn enrollment tool kit, flyers so that women know pregnancy coverage lasts one year post-pregnancy. CalFresh enrollment: MCHA knows that access to fresh, healthy food is as integral to good health as is access to insurance. We provide clients with assistance in filling out a CalFresh Program application, make sure documentation is complete, and follow through to ensure the application is reviewed and approved. We assist with semi-annual reporting and annual renewals as well as troubleshoot problem cases. We train other agencies about the processes, documentation required and troubleshooting as well.Community Mental Health Subcontract: MCHA maintains a program to assist with the stress of lack of health coverage and mental health resources. We support and refer to groups and counselors, enroll in health coverage, refer to health services and troubleshoot barriers to receipt of such services.Our program to provide support for high risk pregnant or parenting women through our Perinatal Outreach and Education staff have turned to providing short-term case management support for Los Angeles County clients with COVID. The support included providing the client with their basic needs, including food and necessary supplies as well as shelter for isolating and quarantining and health coverage assistance.. We provide health education classes and support groups to help parents grow and learn. These classes can be rollicking Zumba, mindful meditation, healthy cooking on a budget, dealing with domestic violence, womens health topics, housing and rental rights, immigration issues whatever the community of women finds most pressing. We offer bi-weekly breastfeeding support at our main office. Child care is provided for all groups and classes. Total program expenses were $136,407. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process The Audit Committee meets with the auditors to review and discuss a draft of Form 990 and approves Form 990 in its final form before presenting it to the board of directors for review. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts The process for monitoring and enforcing compliance with the Organizations Policy is for all employees to review and sign our "Conflict of Interest Policy" annually. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management Salary scale is determined by reviewing and analyzing the salary structure ofcomparable Non-Profit Organizations in addition to referring to the Non-Profitdirectors compensation survey report. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees Other key employee salaries are set historically or in consultation with HR for new positions, and granted annual COLAs. Form 990, Part VI, Line 18: Explanation of Other Means Forms Available For Public Inspection Form 1023 and all other informational return documents are available to the public either through www.guidestar.org or upon written request. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Documents are available upon written request. Other Changes In Net Assets Or Fund Balances - Other Increases Reinstatement of net assets = $17370 Organization's Summary Mission or Significant Activities - Continued Maternal and Child Health Access (MCHA) is a California Non-Profit Organization with the mission statement: Through direct support, individual advocacy, policy change, and health care workforce transformation, MCHA is building a California where women and families are supported, and everyone has the opportunity to be healthy.During the year ending December 31, 2021, MCHA provided direct services from two main offices and in various Los Angeles communities. The declaration of a Global Pandemic and a Public Health Emergency in 2020 triggered MCHA staff to pivot to working from home to provide services, starting mid-March. The early months of the pandemic presented a series of challenges trying to meet immediate basic needs and keep up with new information on resources, which persisted into 2021 even though clients scrambling for resources lessened. In 2021, MCHA again reached over 2300 women and their family members in perinatal home visitation and case management programs. Our legacy perinatal program shifted to COVID case management work. In-person classes shifted to virtual. We provided services to over 20,000 individuals seeking enrollment in, renewal of, or assistance with free or low-cost health coverage or services, even more essential due to the pandemic. We assisted over 10,000 families facing food insecurity and needing CalFresh information and food support and were able to start a new outreach program to inform families of pandemicfood support, which continues to this day. We trained over 800 people representing 220 government, social service agencies, schools and clinics through our health coverage training and technical assistance program. MCHA provided hundreds of hours of technical assistance to agencies about health and nutrition coverage issues, needs that were exacerbated by the pandemic.MCHA maintains: bi-weekly health education classes and breastfeeding support groups, both provided virtually a monthly meeting for community-based agencies and organizations about maternal and child health-related topics, with guest speakers, additional food, housing, diapers, clothing, and other supplies for families in need, an economic development arts collective, assistance with income support through government and private programs, an outreach program for enrolling families into health care coverage and troubleshooting their health coverage or health services issues, a COVID case management program and a home visitation program for pregnant and parenting women and their families, oversight of 13 other home visitation projects in partnership with another organization, an Oral Health Advocacy project providing direct assistance and policy work for women and children needing dental care, a CalFresh (food stamp) outreach program for enrolling individuals and families into nutrition coverage and troubleshooting any issues and a training program/technical assistance about health care coverage and services for community-based organizations and others, and added nutrition coverage for CalFresh to the training program in 2018.MCHA also conducts administrative and individual advocacy and policy work to improve health care and social services coverage and quality. In late 2020 MCHA was funded for COVID health education outreach, which extended into vaccine outreach in 2021 and through August of 2022. Part III Statement of Program Service Accomplishments - 4a Welcome Baby is a model home visitation program designed to improve maternal health and birth outcomes, and provide support for pregnant and parenting women and their families. The program promotes the mothers and babys health, well-being and enhanced nurturing, and understanding of babys development. We provide information, support and a trusted parent coach to meet with women and support them through pregnancy and the first nine months of their babys lives. During home visits, the Welcome Baby staff refer clients to needed resources, distribute baby and mom-friendly items, provide breast feeding education, and provide information on accessing health care coverage. Welcome Baby has expanded to 13 program sites countywide, and MCHA helps oversee and support those sites by providing training, consulting and shadowing, which allows new parent coaches to follow and observe an experienced mentor, and MCHA to observe other parent coaches.Total program expenses were $2,678,159.