Market Match in Southeast LA

Project Budget:  $40,000
www.hungeractionla.org

The project will expand Hunger Action LA’s Market Match program to help low income people in three Southeast LA County communities who receive CalFresh or SSI to purchase farm fresh fruits and vegetables from participating farmers markets and thus afford a healthier diet. Through Market Match, people receiving CalFresh, WIC and SSI receive $5 to $10 bonus dollars for fresh fruits and vegetables each time they visit the farmers market and spend an equal amount of their own money or benefits (thus the “match”). Market Match operates at 25 farmers markets total including Huntington Park, Paramount, and South Gate. We will expand the program in these communities, especially for SSI recipients. SSI recipients especially encounter barriers in eating healthy.

Free Wellness Programs for Older Adults

Project Budget:  $40,000
City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks
www.laparks.org

The Department of Recreation and Parks goal of adding free wellness classes is to reach out to the older adult population within lower socio-economic areas of the City.

Participating in our Wellness Program, older adults can get active while making new friends and having those important social interactions. These free wellness classes will be offered at recreation centers in low income communities in South East Los Angeles, where older adults aged 50+ on fixed incomes cannot afford to pay for quality classes geared for their demographics. The older adult population is rising, and to keep them healthy and active, we offer healthy lifestyle opportunities at local recreation centers.

Project Access in Southeast LA

Project Budget:  $40,000
Worksite Wellness LA (WWLA)
www.worksitewellnessla.org

WWLA’s program, Project Access, is a multi-dimensional project that covers topics related to physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being. The curriculum provides assistance navigating local health resources to prevent chronic conditions through eight workshops on topics including financial literacy, healthy lifestyles, stress management and food budget planning.

Through this program we anticipate reaching 100 individuals, primarily low-income Latina women and their families, with preventive health education that includes better nutrition and financial literacy, as well as social service navigation tools. AltaMed’s Match Grant of $20,000 will expand staff capacity to substantially increase Project Access presentations, particularly in the following Southeast communities: Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Downey, Huntington Park, Maywood, and Walnut Park.

Common Threads Family Cooking Classes

Project Budget:  $8,000
Common Threads
www.commonthreads.org

Common Threads is a nonprofit that brings health and wellness to children, families and communities through cooking and nutrition education. We have served families in Los Angeles since 2008 and last year alone reached 41,000 individuals.

With support from AltaMed, we will empower 32 children and parents/caregivers how to make healthier food choices for their long-term well-being. Specifically, we will deliver two sessions of our experiential, six-week Family Cooking Class with families of two of our partners in Southeast Los Angeles: LINC Housing at Mosaic Gardens and Aspire Junior Collegiate Academy.

Teens N Fitness: Wellness Agents of Change

Project Budget:  $10,000
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
www.chla.org/research/diabetes-and-obesity-program

The goal of this project is to empower students from Huntington Park Senior High to become agents of change by coaching them to create health and wellness messages for their peers and community. Teens N Fitness (TNF), developed by the Diabetes & Obesity Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in partnership with the after school program just keep livin Foundation, will be used to reach this goal.

TNF, designed for high school students living in low income communities, includes games, interactive activities and discussions intended to teach and reinforce lessons about nutrition, explore how mental health influences health and wellness and promote physical activity.

GrowGood’s Social Enterprise Project

Project Budget:  $40,000
GrowGood, Inc.
www.grow-good.org

GrowGood has recently launched the Social Enterprise Project that builds on the therapeutic, safe space that we have carved out of the bustling L.A. metropolis to grow and sell produce and microgreens to restaurants and other purveyors. The main purpose of the social enterprise is to provide paid work opportunities for homeless individuals.

Through its partnership with The Salvation Army’s Homeless Bell Shelter, GrowGood provides paid work opportunities for five homeless individuals who reside at the shelter each quarter and plans to increase hiring capacity as the commercial growing business expands. GrowGood’s model is set against the health-oriented backdrop of urban agriculture, interlaced with food-based education, employment pathways, nutrition and lifestyle coaching, and immersion in a therapeutic greenspace.

LGBTQ Youth Leadership Academy

Project Budget:  $30,000
Latino Equality Alliance
www.latinoequalityalliance.org

LGBTQ Youth Leadership Academy is a program of Latino Equality Alliance (LEA), a fiscally sponsored project of Community Partners, whose mission is to promote liberty, equality, and justice for the Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer + community (LGBTQ).

The goal of the academy is to engage and empower LGBTQ youth and young adults ages 14-24 to learn about the civic and governmental process of the Southeast Los Angeles communities through which they may change public policies.

A New Leaf Program

Project Budget:  $30,000
A Vision of Health
www.avisionofhealth.org

The New Leaf Program is a one-year program focusing on nutrition and exercise. The goal is for participants to lose 5-7 % of their starting body weight and increase their physical activity to a minimum of 150 minutes per week. Participants meet with lifestyle coaches on a weekly basis for the first 16 weeks, then monthly for the next 6-8 months.

SELA HEALTH for ALL!

Project Budget:  $20,000
Designated Exceptional Services for Independence (D.E.S.I.)
www.desiserve.org

“SELA HEALTH for ALL!” is a new campaign creating healthier communities by promoting better choices for individuals.

SELA HEALTH Chats:
Three exciting, eye-opening & FREE presentations by local leaders in Health & Wellness. Think ‘TED Talk meets SELA’. D.E.S.I. will bring knowledge directly to the people in busy areas like certified farmers markets and swap meets. Audience members can ask questions, participate in hands-on demos and learn what it takes to stay healthy in SELA! Available on Facebook live for digital audiences.

Family Fun Nights

Project Budget:  $6,000
City of Santa Fe Springs
www.santafesprings.org

The City of Santa Fe Springs has held a Family Fun Night once per year to advocate for a healthier lifestyle for our community residents. The focus of this event has been in conjunction with one of the school districts in our city, Los Nietos School District, and their health initiative, Healthy Los Nietos.

MUSD Healthy Recipe Book and Cooking Workshops

Project Budget:  $40,000
Montebello Unified School District
www.montebello.k12.ca.us

The Montebello Unified School District’s (MUSD) School Grown Movement (SGM) has an established school garden at each school site. The schools in the south of our District: Bell Gardens Elementary, Garfield Elementary, Suva Elementary, Suva Intermediate, and Bell Gardens High School are comprised of an ethnic demographic of 99% Latino/Hispanic.

Huntington Park Senior Lunch Wellness Program

Project Budget:  $20,000
City of Huntington Park, Parks and Recreation
www.hpca.gov/14/Parks-Recreation

The Senior Lunch Wellness Program will provide healthy meals to senior citizens, promote healthy eating habits while providing a friendly environment to reduce social isolation. The City of Huntington Park has a population of about 60,000 residents with the majority of the residents being of Latino/Hispanic descent. 7% of our residents are over the age of 65 and 29% of our residents are under the poverty line.

Healthy Cooking Club

Project Budget:  $30,000
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
www.lafoodbank.org

The Commodity Supplemental Food Program, (CSFP) is a senior food program funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has been administering this program in Los Angeles County since 2003. In 2017, we served an average of 26,694 seniors every month at 145 distribution sites across the county.

Salt Lake Park Soccer and Futsal Equipment

Project Budget:  $10,796
City Of Huntington Park, Parks and Recreation
www.hpca.gov/14/Parks-Recreation

The objective is to empower soccer players of all ages and highlight their talents when it comes to soccer. Soccer unites our community from children to adults and is the most popular sport and past time in our City.

Summer Youth Soccer Program

Project Budget:  $20,000
City of Santa Fe Springs
www.santafesprings.org

The Parks and Recreation Services Division in Santa Fe Springs offers a summer youth soccer program. This program is the largest youth sports program that is provided, with over 350 youth participating. The youth soccer league provides an opportunity for youth and their families to participate in a fun, healthy and friendly program during the summer months.

Multicultural Cooking Program

Project Budget:  $8,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Whittier
www.bgcw.org

This project is a fun, innovative class for the teens at El Rancho High School. They meet twice a week: first to go over ingredients needed for a recipe, and then to create the dish. The program benefits our members in multiple ways. Some of them do not have any exposure to cooking in their homes, so it’s a valuable opportunity to spend time learning basic culinary skills while discovering their own and others’ culinary heritage.

The Running Club

Project Budget:  $1,000
Tweedy Elementary
www.bgcw.org

The goal of the project is to achieve life-long health and wellness. The students of Tweedy Elementary will benefit from the health clubs, all students, the staff, and the neighboring community. The project will be completed at Tweedy Elementary, South Gate California and at local park (South Gate Park).

The Shower of Hope

Project Budget:  $40,000
End Homelessness California, The Shower of Hope Project
www.theshowerofhope.org

The Shower of Hope project is based on the idea of offering free showers to those experiencing homelessness. In addition to offering those without shelter a way of staying clean and therefore healthy, we strive to give our clients dignity and confidence through cleanliness as a way of integrating back into society.