iMPACt
Mid-peninsula Pediatric Advocacy Coalition
Our History
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In 2016, a group of pediatricians and other health professionals from the Office of Child Health Equity, Fair Oaks Health Center, Gardner Packard Children’s Health Center, Mayview Community Health Center, and Ravenswood Family Health Center created iMPACt: the Mid-peninsula Pediatric Advocacy Coalition, to address the social determinants of health affecting the children and families in this area in a joint, coordinated way. Past coalition projects have focused on family poverty, early education, and mental health. iMPACt also puts together food and educational resource guides for families.
Our Work
OCHE leads bi-weekly iMPACT meetings. We continue to work with the San Mateo Medical Center (Daly City, Fair Oaks, Half Moon Bay) Gardner Packard (Palo Alto), Ravenswood Family Health Network (Ravenswood and Mayview), Stanford Pediatric Emergency Department, and Stanford Newborn Nursery clinics. We also partner with schools and are currently working with the Redwood City School District and the Primary School.
In addition to our meetings, we support our clinics and schools by organizing and distributing donations. This year, our clinics iMPACT clinics have received diapers, formula, thermometers, and more.
"Our charge nurse at Daly City Clinic shared with us that she received [OCHE]'s email about the donations of diapers, formula, and thermometers. Everyone at our clinic is thrilled! These items make such a difference to our patients and to our staff who get to provide the items to patients in need. We are so grateful!"
Daly City Clinic Team with OCHE Nursing Kits
Past Highlights
2025: Little Libraries in the Stanford Daily
On January 15, 2025, The Stanford Daily published an article highlighting the Little Libraries program. Read the full article here.
2024: Raising a Reader
Students can lose up to 20–30% of their school-year reading gains over the summer, a setback that disproportionately impacts low-income youth and contributes to long-term learning gaps (Cooper et al., Review of Educational Research, 1996). To help close this gap, the OCHE partnered with Raising a Reader to distribute 400 Summer Learning Kits across 7 community clinics, the Peds ED, and the Primary School.
2023: Kit Distribution
Through iMPACT's partnership with the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health (LPFCH), 149 kits were distributed. Each kit included a $5 CVS pharmacy gift card, 3 cooling pads, a medicine dispenser, a thermometer, and a snotsucker.
2020: Diapers at The Doctor
To provide relief to families experiencing finacial hardships with the COVID-19 pandemic, iMPACt members and partners distributed 45,000+ diapers to local families in the Summer of 2020!
For more information about Diapers at the Doctor click here.
2019: REACH Mental Health Training
The iMPACt group worked to ensure that health professionals were equipped with the tools necessary to provide youth with proper mental health care. There are now 35 REACH-certified primary care providers in the Mid-Peninsula.
2018: Early Childhood Literacy
Talk, Read, Sing is an early childhood initiative to encourage school readiness amongst all our iMPACt clinics. Delivering children's books and other educational materials, the Talk Read Sing program has been an ongoing effort to ensure that families who visit an iMPACt clinic are empowered to engage their children in activities that promote early brain and language development.
For more information about Talk, Read, Sing click here.