Community Wellness

The Family Education Program aims to educate and inspire families, adults, and children to develop healthier eating and physical activity habits, so they can enjoy a happier life. This comprehensive program engages the whole family for 12 weeks where participants learn and practice good nutrition, stress management techniques, healthy cooking, and physical activity. In addition to being bilingual, the program takes a cultural competence approach which ensures that families can effectively connect the information they receive with their personal lives, values, experiences, and traditions.
This program is one of the only family programs in the country that works with the whole family, but splits the majority of the educational sessions into four separate age groups: adults, teens, and two groups of children. By doing so, each family member receives the same information, but in a format appropriate to their age and language of preference. This approach has shown to me more effective with weight loss and behavioral changes, as well as to increase family support and closeness.

Sign-up for a FREE Healthy Lifestyle class — Now offered in English! A different class will be held the 4th Tuesday of each month from 5:30pm-7:30pm. The classes will be offered virtually via Zoom. The classes are 45 minutes of physical activity followed by healthy living content. Register today to attend one class or all of the classes!

Our Community Advocacy program has been committed to developing and empowering grassroots leaders who can identify the health needs in their community and advocate for meaningful change. Lideres por la Salud was created with the mission of “creating and maintaining a healthy community, expanding education and advocating for access to healthy food and safe physical activity.”

Latinos por la Salud touches thousands of lives in the neighborhood through different community initiatives, from education in schools or churches or creating walking and biking clubs, to advocating for healthier food in grocery stores or safer street policies.

Kids spend most of their day in school where they eat up to 70% of their daily calories and develop lifelong habits. Given the critical role of schools for the physical and mental health of children, our Healthy Schools program offers health education for students and parents and the opportunity to transform the school environment through food policies.

Thanks to a partnership with the Farm to School Program and a collaboration with health promoters from Latinos por la Salud, we can provide:

In-class and after-school nutrition and snack preparation lessons to students K-12
Culturally appropriate nutrition and cooking classes to parents
Hands-on gardening education for students