ORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE

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EXHIBIT A Health Equity and Literacy (HEAL) Project: Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA) Scope of Work The Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA) is pleased to be a partner with the City of Santa Ana on the HEAL-OC Project, funded by the DHHS Office of Minority Health. OCAPICA is the largest Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) serving nonprofit organization in Orange County. OCAPICA serves more than 55,000 diverse community members in 26 languages on an annual basis in the areas of health, mental health, workforce development, civic engagement, youth leadership and development, and housing. OCAPICA leads the Orange County API COVID-19 Task Force made up of nine community based organizations. In the past year, the API Task Force educated more than 88,000 AAPI community members about COVID-19, tested more than 25,000, and vaccinated more than 60,000. In addition, OCAPICA leads a large AAPI coalition made up of over 30 community organizations and education institutions. OCAPICA will involve both the API Task Force as well as our AAPI Coalition in the HEAL-OC efforts. OCAPICA is a former National CDC Center of Excellence addressing disparities in health among racial and ethnic populations. OCAPICA also has led several community based participatory research efforts that address social determinants of health as well as language access. For the HEAL-OC program, OCAPICA will help to lead the Population Health track to develop and implement a Population Health Literacy Plan in community settings to improve access and use of COVID-19 health resources. OCAPICA and other HEAL partners will work to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate health literacy interventions to reduce gaps in COVID- 19 testing and vaccination. OCAPICA will also work on all other aspects of the program including participating on the steering committee, supporting the development of the Health Literacy Surveillance and Intervention Plan, and working with our other AAPI community partners to implement and evaluate the interventions to determine efficacy and outcomes. OCAPICA and its partners will implement and hold community forums, mobile vaccination hubs, call centers, and direct outreach activities to also implement our health literacy interventions. OCAPICA will have two bilingual staff who will work closely with community members to involve them in the program, implement evaluation methods to gather data in the development of our health literacy plan and interventions, and implement our interventions. OCAPICA's Executive Director and program leadership team members will also participate in leading the Population Health track and development of the Health Literacy Plan.