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AltaMed Health Services' My Vote. My Health.™ Program Launches Voter Education and Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts to Reach Thousands of Latinos Across Los Angeles and Orange Counties
October 26, 2022
AltaMed Health Services' My Vote. My Health.™ Program Launches Voter Education and Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts to Reach Thousands of Latinos Across Los Angeles and Orange Counties
AltaMed partners with Los Angeles and Orange County Registrars to host early vote sites and ballot drop boxes at its health centers to improve voter turnout
LOS ANGELES- October 26, 2022- As the November General Election approaches, AltaMed Health Services, one of the nation’s largest federally qualified community health centers, is reaching thousands of new and low-propensity Latinos voters in Southern California through its non-partisan “My Vote. My Health.” or “Mi Voto. Mi Salud.”™ get-out-the-vote program. AltaMed has transformed its clinics into civic engagement hubs with bilingual voter education materials, outreach activities,12 early vote center sites in partnership with the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder’s/County Clerk office and a Ballot Drop Box in Santa Ana with the Orange County Registrar of Voters to reach more than 270,000 voters in underrepresented communities across Los Angeles and Orange counties. AltaMed will also focus on a Mujeres Vote sub-campaign targeting women voters to vote for their health.
AltaMed’s efforts for the November 8 General Election focuses on comprehensive voter education, access to community-based early voting sites, and canvassing with AltaMed physicians and staff to encourage communities to engage in the democratic process and address the social determinants that affect their health through voting. “My Vote. My Health.” or “Mi Voto. Mi Salud.™” produced bilingual non-partisan voter education guides with the League of Women Voters for its clinics, 12 early vote sites at its Los Angeles health centers, ballot drop box locations, a live town hall with Los Angeles Mayoral candidates, downloadable voter education materials for other health organizations, radio ad buys, door-to-door canvassing, phone banking, and peer-to-peer texting in Los Angeles and Orange counties between now and November 8.
While AltaMed’s main focus is providing high-quality, affordable health services, regardless of the ability to pay, so much of an individual’s health is determined by their environment and political factors such as poverty, systemic racism, and economic disparities. The “My Vote. My Health.” or “Mi Voto. Mi Salud.™” program aims to counteract these forces at health centers that many in the community know and trust.
“While Latinos make up majorities in Los Angeles County and California as a whole, their civic participation rates remain low due to lack of investment in direct outreach,” said Lizette Escobedo, associate vice president of civic engagement and advocacy at AltaMed. “In the communities AltaMed serves, our My Vote. My Health. team is reaching out to low propensity Latino voters who may otherwise not be contacted by campaigns. National and local polls have consistently confirmed that doctors and nurses serve as key trusted messengers amongst Latinos, hence, their role in our civic engagement program can make a significant impact.”
To learn more about AltaMed’s civic engagement program, visit: myvotemyhealth.org or mivotomisalud.org.
AltaMed Health Services Voting Locations to be Open October 31 - November 11 Flex Voting Sites in Los Angeles County:
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- October 31- AltaMed (Boyle Heights)- 3945 Whittier Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90023
- October 31- AltaMed PACE (East Los Angeles)- 5425 E. Pomona Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90022
- October 31 - AltaMed- Indiana Youth Services, 512 S. Indiana St., Los Angeles, CA 90063
- November 1 - AltaMed PACE – 1900 E. Slauson Ave., Huntington Park, CA 90255
- November 1 – AltaMed- 8627 Atlantic Ave., South Gate, CA 90280
- November 2 - PACE- 3820 Martin Luther King Jr., Lynwood, CA 90262
- November 2 – AltaMed PACE– 1776 E. Century Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90002
- November 3 - AltaMed PACE – 535 S. 2nd Ave., Covina, CA 91723
- November 3 - AltaMed PACE – 10418 Valley Blvd., Ste A, El Monte, CA, 91731
- November 4 – AltaMed – 972 Goodrich Blvd., Commerce, CA 90022
- November 7 – PACE Norwalk – 11541 Rosecrans Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90650
Mobile vote site in Los Angeles County:
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- November 7 - AltaMed Health Service University- 2035 Camfield Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90040
Ballot Dropbox Location:
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- AltaMed- 1400 N Main St., Santa Ana, CA 92701
Downloadable non-partisan voter education materials
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About AltaMed Health Services’ My Vote. My Health.” or “Mi Voto. Mi Salud.™”
My Vote. My Health. is a campaign led by AltaMed Health Services, one of the nation’s largest federally qualified community health centers, to mobilize patients, families and residents in our Southern California service areas to address the social and political determinants of health. My Vote. My Health. partners with other community healthcare providers and local civic engagement organizations to help increase Latino civic participation to improve the quality of life of underserved and underrepresented communities locally and across California.
AltaMed Health Services' My Vote. My Health.™ Program Launches Voter Education and Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts to Reach Thousands of Latinos Across Los Angeles and Orange Counties
AltaMed partners with Los Angeles and Orange County Registrars to host early vote sites and ballot drop boxes at its health centers to improve voter turnout
LOS ANGELES- October 26, 2022- As the November General Election approaches, AltaMed Health Services, one of the nation’s largest federally qualified community health centers, is reaching thousands of new and low-propensity Latinos voters in Southern California through its non-partisan “My Vote. My Health.” or “Mi Voto. Mi Salud.”™ get-out-the-vote program. AltaMed has transformed its clinics into civic engagement hubs with bilingual voter education materials, outreach activities,12 early vote center sites in partnership with the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder’s/County Clerk office and a Ballot Drop Box in Santa Ana with the Orange County Registrar of Voters to reach more than 270,000 voters in underrepresented communities across Los Angeles and Orange counties. AltaMed will also focus on a Mujeres Vote sub-campaign targeting women voters to vote for their health.
AltaMed’s efforts for the November 8 General Election focuses on comprehensive voter education, access to community-based early voting sites, and canvassing with AltaMed physicians and staff to encourage communities to engage in the democratic process and address the social determinants that affect their health through voting. “My Vote. My Health.” or “Mi Voto. Mi Salud.™” produced bilingual non-partisan voter education guides with the League of Women Voters for its clinics, 12 early vote sites at its Los Angeles health centers, ballot drop box locations, a live town hall with Los Angeles Mayoral candidates, downloadable voter education materials for other health organizations, radio ad buys, door-to-door canvassing, phone banking, and peer-to-peer texting in Los Angeles and Orange counties between now and November 8.
While AltaMed’s main focus is providing high-quality, affordable health services, regardless of the ability to pay, so much of an individual’s health is determined by their environment and political factors such as poverty, systemic racism, and economic disparities. The “My Vote. My Health.” or “Mi Voto. Mi Salud.™” program aims to counteract these forces at health centers that many in the community know and trust.
“While Latinos make up majorities in Los Angeles County and California as a whole, their civic participation rates remain low due to lack of investment in direct outreach,” said Lizette Escobedo, associate vice president of civic engagement and advocacy at AltaMed. “In the communities AltaMed serves, our My Vote. My Health. team is reaching out to low propensity Latino voters who may otherwise not be contacted by campaigns. National and local polls have consistently confirmed that doctors and nurses serve as key trusted messengers amongst Latinos, hence, their role in our civic engagement program can make a significant impact.”
To learn more about AltaMed’s civic engagement program, visit: myvotemyhealth.org or mivotomisalud.org.
AltaMed Health Services Voting Locations to be Open October 31 - November 11 Flex Voting Sites in Los Angeles County:
-
- October 31- AltaMed (Boyle Heights)- 3945 Whittier Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90023
- October 31- AltaMed PACE (East Los Angeles)- 5425 E. Pomona Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90022
- October 31 - AltaMed- Indiana Youth Services, 512 S. Indiana St., Los Angeles, CA 90063
- November 1 - AltaMed PACE – 1900 E. Slauson Ave., Huntington Park, CA 90255
- November 1 – AltaMed- 8627 Atlantic Ave., South Gate, CA 90280
- November 2 - PACE- 3820 Martin Luther King Jr., Lynwood, CA 90262
- November 2 – AltaMed PACE– 1776 E. Century Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90002
- November 3 - AltaMed PACE – 535 S. 2nd Ave., Covina, CA 91723
- November 3 - AltaMed PACE – 10418 Valley Blvd., Ste A, El Monte, CA, 91731
- November 4 – AltaMed – 972 Goodrich Blvd., Commerce, CA 90022
- November 7 – PACE Norwalk – 11541 Rosecrans Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90650
Mobile vote site in Los Angeles County:
-
- November 7 - AltaMed Health Service University- 2035 Camfield Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90040
Ballot Dropbox Location:
-
- AltaMed- 1400 N Main St., Santa Ana, CA 92701
Downloadable non-partisan voter education materials
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About AltaMed Health Services’ My Vote. My Health.” or “Mi Voto. Mi Salud.™”
My Vote. My Health. is a campaign led by AltaMed Health Services, one of the nation’s largest federally qualified community health centers, to mobilize patients, families and residents in our Southern California service areas to address the social and political determinants of health. My Vote. My Health. partners with other community healthcare providers and local civic engagement organizations to help increase Latino civic participation to improve the quality of life of underserved and underrepresented communities locally and across California.