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Causes: Community Clinics, Emergency Assistance, Health, Homeless & Housing, Housing Expense Reduction Support, Human Services
Mission: Sos provides vulnerable and low-income families and individuals with direct access to health, food and safety net services they need to improve their lives. Sos is the largest community health center in orange county to combine wrap-around social services with healthcare.
Programs: Clinics: annually sos provides care to approximately 12,000unduplicated patients accounting for over 38,200 patient visits. Sosprovides comprehensive healthcare including a full program of primary,specialty, sub-specialty, dental, integrated behavioral health andcomplements its outpatient care with hospitalist inpatient follow-ups,treatment adherence education, clinical case management, diseasemanagement, counseling, education, and testing. Sos offers onsite lab,nutrition and dispensary services comprehensive quality healthcare isprovided at three clinical sites located in costa mesa, santa ana, andlake forest. Sos is designated as a federally qualified health center(fqhc). Fqhcs are community-based organizations that providecomprehensive primary care and preventive care, including health, oral,and mental health services to persons of all ages, regardless of theirability to pay or health insurance status, in a medically underservedarea (mua).
social services: provides both clinical and social case management,emergency financial aid, food, legal aid, homeless outreach programs,resource and linkage to benefit enrollment, and seasonal supportprograms. Programs serve all of orange county with 75% in santa ana andcosta mesa. Residents seeking services include the chronicallydisadvantaged and those accessing supportive services for the firsttime, casualties of the devastating recession. Sos's target populationis ethnically diverse and lives at or below 100% of the federal povertylevel; the homeless, seniors on fixed incomes, the disabled, and thosewith mental illness are a significant portion of the population served. Social services annually serves over 100,000 orange county residents.