Family Information & Navigation Desk (FIND) Program

Dr. Dayna Long is a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, where she is a founder and medical co-director of FIND.

Long works in both primary and emergency care at UCSF Benioff Oakland. She also serves as medical director of the ATTACK Asthma Clinic, which provides asthma education and management to children and their families following an emergency department visit. She is the UCSF Benioff Oakland principal investigator for an AsthmaNet trial funded by the National Institutes of Health. Her research endeavors include the Best African American Response to Drugs (BARD) study.

Long has bachelor's degrees in history and biology from Stanford University. She earned her medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She completed an internship, a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in infectious diseases at UCSF Benioff Oakland. Her professional interests include health care disparities, asthma and emergency medicine. She is the proud mother of three boys.

Dr. Kelley Meade is associate director of primary care at UCSF Benioff Oakland and serves as co-director of FIND. She cares for pediatric patients in a busy federally qualified health center that operates out of the children's hospital. The center provides safety-net medical services for many children from a wide variety of backgrounds, including those with special needs.

Meade is active in medical staff leadership and serves as board secretary for the Pediatric Multispecialty Medical Group. She participates in collaborative research and community advisory boards in asthma and developmental health. Her professional interests include health care navigation for families, care coordination and primary care transformation.

Dr. Nooshin Razani is a pediatrician who was trained to be a "nature champion" by the National Environmental Education Fund and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2010. Since then, she has worked to forge relationships between parks, health organizations and communities, for the purpose of improving mental and physical health. At UCSF Benioff Oakland, she serves as director of the Center for Nature and Health. In partnership with the East Bay Regional Park District, this team has started two programs at the Primary Care Center: a park prescription program (in which care providers encourage patients to spend time in nature to enhance their health) and a nature shuttle program.

Razani also serves as lead medical consultant and senior fellow at the Institute at the Golden Gate, a think tank for the national parks. Her other endeavors include working as principal investigator for a community-based park and health initiative in San Francisco's Bayview – Hunters Point neighborhood; serving on the leadership committee for Healthy Parks Healthy People: Bay Area; and participation in the National ParkRx Initiative.

Christine Schudel is FIND’s program director as well as the education specialist for the Primary Care Center (PCC) at UCSF Benioff Oakland. She has held the latter role, in which she oversees the PCC’s health education programs, since earning master's degrees in social welfare and public health from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012. During graduate school, she gained experience as an intern at Brighter Beginnings, James Morehouse Project at El Cerrito High School, and Prevention Institute. Prior to graduate school, she worked as an asthma case manager and research coordinator at the PCC and was certified as an asthma educator in 2007.

Leanna W. Lewis is a social worker and serves as FIND’s program coordinator. At UCSF Benioff Oakland’s Center for the Vulnerable Child (CVC), she is also the Encore Medical Clinic’s oral health program coordinator.

Lewis earned her master's degree in social work at San José State University. In the nearly two decades since, she has worked with a culturally and socioeconomically diverse population of children, teens and families in schools, community agencies and health care settings.

Most recently, Lewis has been working in a program that provides mental health and other support services to foster youths and their families. She also has experience teaching and training in the areas of foster parent development, foster youth experiences, care of transition-age youths (at-risk young people, such as those transitioning out of foster care), cultural humility (providing care with awareness of and sensitivity to other people’s backgrounds) and culturally accountable mental health care. She has served as a member and leader of the CVC’s task force on cultural responsiveness and accountability, which is charged with expanding awareness of the impact of oppression, marginalization and racism in the institution and the community at large.

Jasolyn M.C. Harris is a social worker whose roles at UCSF Benioff Oakland include community liaison, psychoeducation specialist for at-risk adolescents, and supervisor for the FIND Program.

As a community liaison, Harris focuses on building in-depth partnerships with other community-based organizations (CBOs), such as the City of Oakland’s Neighborhood Services Coordinators, Alameda County Public Health Department, Alternatives in Action and Attitudinal Healing Connection. Harris' role as community liaison has also been an avenue for addressing issues of commercial sexual exploitation of children and minors (CSEC/CSEM) in Alameda County. UCSF Benioff Oakland has created a CSEC/CSEM collaborative project in hopes of working as an institution to respond more effectively to this problem, as well as working with other community partners and organizations to help young victims of commercial sexual exploitation.

Harris earned a bachelor's degree in sociology, with a certificate in American humanics (nonprofit management), from California State University, Fresno. She earned a master's degree in social work, with an emphasis in social action and change, from San Francisco State University. She has six years of experience in crisis intervention, adolescent health, school-based mental health and community social justice, and 14 years of experience in leadership, administration and nonprofit management.

Growing up in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, and becoming a mother in her teens, Anais Amaya experienced the dichotomy in social class and economics between the two nations. This inspired her to address inequity in her own life by earning a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in integrative biology, and fulfilling a desire to care for the underserved community. Her background and life experiences inform her work as a FIND site supervisor and are tremendous assets to the program and community.

Jacques Ibula Katakanga has worked as a medical assistant in primary care at UCSF Benioff Oakland for more than 10 years, where his enthusiasm and passion for people have earned him the complete trust of our families and staff. He is a site supervisor for FIND, to which he brings a richness of experience informed by the cultural diversity of the Bay Area community.

Katakanga is also a study coordinator and asthma educator in the Primary Care Center's asthma clinic. He earned a bachelor's degree in leadership and organizational studies from St. Mary's College of California.