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Organization: RootDown LA, A Project of Community Partners Summary: Building Youth-Driven Neighborhood Food Systems by Root Down LA, in Partnership with Community Partners, provides a structure for engaging students, community organizations, and residents of South Los Angeles in an urban garden initiative that creates important systemic opportunities and partnerships to address key issues around nutrition, [...]
Organization: Food Literacy Center Summary: The Food Literacy Center teaches low-income elementary school students skills to reduce obesity risk. These skills include how to read and cook using a simple recipe, make sustainable food choices, and find enrichment in both cooking and eating healthy foods. Website: https://www.foodliteracycenter.org/ Annual Report 2014: https://www.foodliteracycenter.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/flc-ar15.web_2.pdf Fund-a-School: https://www.foodliteracycenter.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/fund-a-school_1.pdf Food Literacy [...]
Indicator Highlights Skid Row Healthy Food Micro-Enterprise Project Skid Row Healthy Food Micro-Enterprise Project by the Los Angeles Community Action Network is a pilot project in the early stages of development that seeks to serve the Skid Row community of Downtown Los Angeles. [...]
Advancing Equity in Community Health The California Department of Public Health has been working in collaboration with local health jurisdictions (LHJs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and other key partners to develop and implement a State Health Equity Plan (SHEP). The SHEP will serve as the shared equity strategy and implementation plan for Let’s Get Healthy [...]
What’s New: Data Dashboard for Aging This page highlights what’s new on the Data Dashboard for Aging and will be updated quarterly to reflect the latest changes. Select the strategy of interest for a list of recent updates and enhancements by indicator. A summary of these updates and enhancements includes: Five new [...]
Indicator Highlights Meeting Basic Needs Nearly one in five Californians—about 7.4 million people—lacked sufficient financial resources to meet basic needs.3 Housing Cost Burden Among Californians in poverty, 68.4 percent spend more than 50 percent of net family resources on housing.4 [...]
If 90% of US families could comply with current medical guidelines to breastfeed exclusively for 6 months, the US could avoid about $18.5 billion per year in increased health care costs (2014 dollars). 1 The multiple health benefits of exclusive breastfeeding for both the infant and mother are well established. Exclusive breastfeeding includes only [...]
The "10 Steps to a Healthier You" healthy lifestyle program is a childhood obesity prevention program reaching over 2400 families last year. The "10 Steps" program is a 3 class series that was designed in response to the needs of families seen in the Pediatric Healthy Lifestyle Center (PHLC) and presents evidence-based recommendations with practical skill sets to implement healthy lifestyle in the home.
Waste Not OC (WNOC) is a public-private partnership with the goal of eliminating hunger and reducing food waste by facilitating the donation of surplus food from food-producing facilities to local pantries.
SacSOS is a Web Application that allows homeless or low-income people to locate and access the resources they need in their local area.
