Nonprofit gets $1.5 million after changing program name

Orange County, Calif., supervisors approved a $1.5 million contract for a nonprofit’s mental health services program after the nonprofit agreed to change the name of its Promotora Program to include English words.

The program is now called Community Outreach Services/Promotora Program.

The contract with nonprofit Latino Health Access to teach its Promotora Program to outside organizations was held up by supervisors two weeks ago after questions on the use of the Spanish word promotora when the program is aimed at educating people across Orange County on how to fight the early signs of mental illness.