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April 9, 2021 Daisy Perez, Assistant to the City Manager City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 Re: HHS FOA# MP-CPI-21-006, Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19 Dear Ms. Perez: The Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA) is pleased to offer its full support and commitment to the City of Santa Ana's application for the proposal titled Orange County HEAL: Health Equity and Literacy Project. For nearly 25 years, OCAPICA, a 501(c)(3), has been a local leader in our community, dedicated to enhancing the health, and social and economic well-being of Orange County's Asians and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) through service, education, advocacy, organizing and research. OCAPICA is the largest AAPI nonprofit in the area serving more than 50,000 a year with free health, mental health, youth development, workforce development, and civic engagement services and activities in 26 different languages. OCAPICA is also a former CDC National Centers of Excellence to Eliminate Disparities among Racial and Ethnic Communities as well as helps to lead the Orange County API COVID-19 Task Force whose members just recently tested more than 20,000, vaccinated 20,000+thus far, and educated 88,000+ on COVID-19. OCAPICA will make the following contributions to this collaborative program: • Work with the community to design and develop community based education materials, tools, interventions and activities to improve health literacy • Conduct multilingual outreach education and training with underserved community members • Provide support for community advisory members and their inclusion in the leadership of the program • Provide patient navigation to testing and vaccination and provider cultural competence education • Work closely with evaluation team on community based approaches in measuring outcomes as well as appropriately evaluating health literacy tools for diverse, low income communities • Work on transforming policies in health and education systems to improve health literacy, access, and equity We are a leader of a coalition of more than 30 AAPI community organizations and a founding member and leader in multiple initiatives to advance COVID-19 health equity in our community, including as founding member of the OC Health Equity COVID-19 Community -Academic Partnership (OCHEC-CAP). OCAPICA is well -positioned to be an integral partner in this important project. We look forward to growing our longstanding relationship with the City of Santa Ana with a focus on reducing COVID-19 health disparities and improving health literacy in the city and surrounding communities. Sincerely, V l nne F ,MPHr and xecutive Director 12912 Brookhurst Street, Suite 410 1 Garden Grove, California 92840 1 Phone 714.636.9095 1 Fax 714.636.8828 1 www.ocapica.org Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance