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About the Network

The Orange County Network of Care was developed in 2021 as part of the ACEs Aware initiative launched by the California Surgeon General and Department of Healthcare Services to reduce Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), trauma, and toxic stress by half in one generation.
Orange County organizations have received funding from ACEs Aware since the inception of the initiative. Today, Orange County leads the state in ACEs screenings, with over 42 percent of Medi-Cal members 0-20 years old being screened.

 

Orange County United Way serves as the coordinating backbone and administrator for Orange County Network of Care and is supported by the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (CACHI), which was established to build collective momentum towards healthier, stronger, and more resilient systems and communities.

Vision

A system that supports all residents in achieving their full potential to thrive by enacting radical cultural shifts to promote community healing of trauma and by creating systemic community change that ensures opportunities for all. Together we will ensure that individuals, families, and communities are connected to resources and accompany them along the journey.

Values

Screen

Screening goes beyond the use of a “tool” and is a process that recognizes hidden barriers, is done with cultural humility, respect, avoids labeling, avoids re-traumatization, triggering, ensures the safety of individuals, and recognizes vicarious trauma. Screening is seen as preventative and the implications of doing it are understood.

Treat

Treatment involves education on resilience skills, personal advocacy, and awareness of treatments that include medical, social, and community options. We strive to create a Continuum of Care that includes care coordination, increases accessibility, reimbursement of services, involves peer-to-peer support, reduces stigma, and promotes policies to support wellbeing at all levels.

Heal

Healing involves a continuum of treatment that leads to the empowerment of community to be ambassadors integrating the experience and transcending it. It seeks to understand individual needs in healing, addresses the mind, body, spirit, as well as the unique background of each individual. Healing occurs at all levels including individual, organizational, community, and systems.

Executive Committee

Shared Stewardship, Distributed Leadership, and Collective Impact

The Executive Committee serves as the leadership body working to advance the vision and values of the Orange County Network of Care, and is comprised of members from Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) and Rady Children’s Health, First 5 OC, CalOptima Health, and Orange County United Way. The Executive Committee provides guidance, sustainability planning, and strategic stewardship for the Orange County Network of Care, ensuring that the network aligns with community needs, promotes system-level integration, and supports long-term impact.

Michael Weiss, M.D.
Vice President Population Health, CHOC and Rady Children’s Health
Terri M. Iler, Ed.D.
Director, Community Clinical Outreach, Division of Population Health, CHOC and Rady Children’s Health
Sara Brown, Ph.D, Ed.D, MSN
Vice President of Health Services and Family Resilience, First 5 OC
Lisa Burke
Vice President of Learning and Community Engagement, First 5 OC
Mia Arias
Director of CalAIM Operations, CalOptima Health
Carmen Katsarov, LPCC, CCM
Executive Director, Behavioral Health Integration, CalOptima Health
Elizabeth Andrade
Executive Director, 2-1-1 Orange County, Orange County United Way
Iliana Soto
Director, Orange County Network of Care, Orange County United Way
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Administration Team

Serving as the coordinating backbone for the network, the Administration Team works with partners to facilitate action, elevate community voice, support sustainability efforts, influence policy, and steward systems change
Elizabeth Andrade
Executive Director, 2-1-1 Orange County, Orange County United Way
Carol Kim
Senior Director, Community Investments & Evaluation, Orange County United Way
Rachel O’Connell
Manager, Community Investments and Data, Orange County United Way
Iliana Soto
Director, Orange County Network of Care, Orange County United Way

Lived Experience Advisory Group

Connie Bartlett,
National Healthcare and Housing Advisors
Kim Benson,
Kid Healthy
Claire Braeburn,
America On Track
Adriana De La Rosa,
Inter-Faith and Racial Justice Advocate
Deborah Diaz de Leon,
NAMI Orange County
Deana Helmy,
OCHCA Behavioral Health Services
Cricket Jamet,
South OC for All
Erika Jewell,
CHOC and Rady Children’s Health
Beck Levin,
Disability Rights California
Luna Lu,
AASCSC
Danielle Nava-Mijares
Nava Consulting LLC
Hieu Nguyen,
HN Consulting, Inc.
Mario Ortega,
Abrazar, Inc.
Tay Sandoz,
Child Guidance Center
Katie Tran,
Hope Community Services
Erika Zemmol,
Community Advocate
Abdullah Zikria,
ICNA Relief
Miriam Zuniga,
Unidos South OC
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The Lived Experience Advisory Group is composed of community members with firsthand experience navigating health and social service systems in Orange County. Their insights help shape the network’s community engagement strategies, inform systems-level decision-making, and ensure the network’s work reflects the real needs and challenges of those most impacted. Commented [EDC1]: Button linking to PDF of Executive Committee headshots and bios.


By sharing their perspectives, members contribute to the development of solutions that are more practical, effective, and responsive to historically under-resourced communities.

The Network in Action

The Orange County Network of Care convenes multi-sector partners to prioritize and develop systems change and alignment strategies. Recognizing that no one sector alone can solve today’s complex problems, community organizations, healthcare institutions, and aligned initiatives have joined to build a more connected, coordinated, and optimized health and social service system. We believe that addressing these core challenges will also help turn the tide on the issues of adverse childhood experiences.

Strategic Priorities

Priority 1
Coordinating Infrastructure for Community and Clinical Connections

Strategy: Promote an interoperable closed-loop referral ecosystem and community/health data information exchange to support care coordination across the Continuum of Care

Priority 2
Convene and Align Multi-Sector Network Centering Opportunity for All and Community

Strategy: Create alignment across partners, programs, and initiatives, supporting community-informed
systems change and community-led advocacy efforts for policy change.

Priority 3
Promote Trauma-Informed Community Awareness and Workforce Education

Strategy: Increase the skills and confidence of the workforce to provide culturally responsive services that meet the needs of children and families, while building the leadership and capacity of the community.

We are moving toward alignment and building an enduring collective impact movement that inspires cooperation and leads to advancing health opportunity by moving through the Accountable Communities for Health (ACH) model to support, strength, and sustain the system of care through:

Testimonials

“Building on our momentum and on previous work, we're aiming to take the existing efforts as the foundation for the ACH to continue to build, refine, and make these efforts more systematic and sustainable. I would love to see a system where we can safely and securely share data across organizations, informing our efforts to support and care for our shared families. Systems like closed-loop referral platforms would help us better track patients’ connections to needed resources, ensuring that once families are referred, they're actually connected to the services they need. A system of data sharing and care coordination that expands across both clinical and community-based organizations would be ideal.”
Terri Iler,
Terri Iler, Director of Community Clinical Outreach in the Division of Population Health at CHOC and Rady Children’s Health
“One of the greatest opportunities is aligning everyone toward a shared vision for our county for who we want to be, how we want families to be supported, and ensuring they have access to the resources they deserve. We have great potential to strengthen our collaboration and connectivity across all areas of our work.”
Elizabeth Andrade,
Elizabeth Andrade, Executive Director of 2-1-1 Orange County, Orange County United Way
“Our community’s complex systems have not kept up with changing needs, and many OC families struggle to navigate and access care. We see this work as creating a thoughtful and compassionate pathway that overcomes barriers, prevents re-traumatization, and effectively connects people to the services they need for true healing to occur.”
Iliana Soto,
Iliana Soto,Director of Orange County Network of Care, Orange County United Way

Trauma-Informed Resources

Access additional ACEs trainings, websites, stress busters, and information for parents, teens,
providers, educators, and more.

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For more information about Orange County Network of Care, please contact:

Iliana Soto
Director, Orange County Network of Care
IlianaS@UnitedWayOC.org

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