San Gabriel Valley Healthy Cities Collaborative San Gabriel Valley Region, CA (Los Angeles County)

Partner Organizations Neighbors Acting Together Helping All (NATHA) City of Duarte Duarte Unified School District City of Hope, Center of Community Alliance for Research and Education (CCARE)

San Gabriel Valley Healthy Collaborative Celestine Walker, Executive Director, NATHA City of Hope, CCARE members, Active members in Coalition (left to right): Marisela Huerta, Mayra Serrano (Community Interventionists), Kimlin Ashing (Founding Director/Professor), Noé Chávez (Fellow) Patricia Duff-Tucker, Program Director, NATHA

San Gabriel Valley Healthy Collaborative Cesar Monsalve, Director of Parks and Recreation, City of Duarte Lisa Dowd, Coordinator Health Services, Duarte Unified School District Sarah Fujimoto, District Nurse, Duarte Unified School District

San Gabriel Valley Healthy Collaborative We are a coalition of community activists/advocates, health professionals, and researchers dedicated to empowering youth and families to live healthier lives and become leaders/educators promoting health and social justice with their fellow community members. We seek to collaborate with others empowering youth and families to become peer educators/health promoters.

Top Three Sources of Pride in Our Community Seeing youth who participated in our programs become leaders in their community Engaging and collaborating closely with diversity of community members Organizing a diversity of programs/ events across our communities

Area(s) of Focus for Our SCALE Work We aim to: Empower youth and families Build community capacity Reduce obesity Promote healthy living Promote social justice Evaluate programs We plan to improve equity by: Promoting empowerment/leadership within communities Increasing cultural competency in programs

We are most proud of our work to… Design and implement programs that develop the leadership abilities and talents of ethnic minority youth so they can educate their peers about living healthier and raising awareness in their communities Results: Youth becoming health educators and giving workshops to other youth to improve health in their families and communities

We know a lot about….. We need help with….. Creating culturally competent programs Engaging underserved community members Collecting and analyzing data Working closely with youth Scaling up our Eat Move Live program Developing innovative ways to evaluate our programs Developing capacity across multiple community partners within our geographic region

Favorite Hometown Spot(s) The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens Southern California Beach Sunsets

Words We Live By….. Activist Spokesperson Who Best Represents Us (and why) “Dolores Huerta” – Don’t think we can live up to her but she is dedicated to social justice, empowerment, community engagement, grassroots efforts and was instrumental in migrant worker rights along with Cesar Chávez, yet not very well known. Community engagement Youth empowerment Participatory/collaborative research Equality/social justice Respect Grassroots Cultural sensitivity Dedication Our Community Theme Song…. “Stand By Me”

Best way to contact us: Noé Rubén Chávez, Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope (CCARE) – nochavez@coh.org, (626) 256-4673 (ext. 64303) Patricia Duff-Tucker, Program Director, NATHA – patricia@natha.org, (626) 794-5889