We work with 4 regional project partners across the state that have shared interests and goals to help strengthen the work.
API-CHAT is a project under Bay Area Community Resources (BACR). API-CHAT works with Young Adult Leaders (YAL) to join an ongoing effort to restore our community’s health by developing policies to combat the tobacco industry from infiltrating our communities and addicting the next generation.
API PACT is a program of California Health Collaborative. The program is tasked with reducing tobacco-related health disparities among the following priority populations: Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Native Hawaiians (AA & NH/PI) in a seven (7) county region in the Central Valley including Merced, Mariposa, Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings, and Kern. They also have a youth coalition that builds and supports young students to be leaders in their community. Through trainings, students learn public speaking skills, professionalism, leadership skills, data collection, and more.
Families in Good Health is an outpatient services center that offers many services, including Best Babies Collaborative, Welcome Baby program, and Kellee Murchison-Bennett Love Your Heart program. This Long Beach outpatient services center is one of the best in California. As part of the Dignity Health network, Families in Good Health is dedicated to delivering high quality, compassionate care and access to Long Beach and nearby communities.
Waymakers and CASA (Community Action Service Advocacy) are working on a tobacco initiative to reduce the disproportionately high tobacco use rate and rates of exposure to secondhand smoke in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities in Orange and San Diego Counties. The South Coast Region API Tobacco Prevention Project works with residents, community organizations, housing management, health partners, and youth groups on initiatives including: smoke-free multi-unit housing policies, voluntary tobacco-free policies in healthcare workplaces, and API youth engagement.
SPARC has recently established additional partnerships with AA & NH/PI organizations across California to help build capacity and conduct community outreach to AA & NH/PI communities.
Population Served: AA and NH/PI
Region: San Gabriel Valley
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Population Served: Southeast Asians
Region: Merced County
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Population Served: South Asians
Region: Cerritos, Artesia, Irvine, San Fernando Valley
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