Champion Empowerment Program
Funded by the Network for a Healthy California’s Local Food and Nutrition Education Program, the Champion Empowerment Program is a nutrition education, physical activity and community engagement program managed by FAC and offered at a series of public housing venues in Los Angeles County in 2012 and 2013.
Residents of Los Angeles’ public housing developments experience a wide range of challenges associated with chronic poverty in an urban setting. These problems include poorer health outcomes, lower skill levels, significant economic insecurity, and reduced access to quality goods and services. The Champion Empowerment Program seeks to address several of these concerns directly and indirectly by focusing on health education and empowering individuals to make healthier lifestyle choices to improve their wellbeing at personal, household and community-wide levels. Each year, the Champion Empowerment Program recruits up to 50 individuals to complete a 40-hour training program to be educated in the fundamentals of nutrition education and physical fitness, and receive training in order to serve as healthy lifestyle ambassadors in their community.
For more information contact
Heather Hayes
323-730-7722
heatherh@famecorporations.org
Body & Soul
FAME Assistance Corporation is working with the California Department of Public Health and its Network for a Healthy California campaign to implement the Body & Soul program in Los Angeles.
Body & Soul is a health program for African American churches that encourages members to eat a healthy diet to promote good health and reduce the risk for many diseases.
Churches that have adopted Body & Soul have a pastor that is committed and involved with the program; provide church activities that promote healthy eating; provide a church environment that promotes healthy eating; and provide peer counseling that motivates church members to eat a healthy diet. The churches also reach out to their communities and provide nutrition and health education.
FAME Assistance Corporation provides support to its network of partner churches who have adopted Body & Soul and assists them in successfully implementing the program.
 
For more information contact
Samuel Alleyne
323-730-7700 ext 5026
samuela@famecorporations.org
Let's Move CA!
An initiative sponsored by FAME Corporation, Let's Move CA! is a supportive arm of First Lady Michelle Obama's nationwide campaign to fight childhood obesity and raise healthier children across America (www.letsmove.gov). Through the Let’s Move CA! initiative, we focus on providing a comprehensive, collaborative, community-based campaigns to assist children, youth, and their families in making effective choices in the areas of nutrition, physical activity and healthier lifestyles.
As part of the Let’s Move CA! program, FAME Corporation sponsors and promotes strategic events, conferences, and collaborate meetings that spread the message to raise an active and healthier generation.
Download Let's Move LA brochure
To become a Let’s Move CA! community partner, event volunteer,
or for more information contact
Armando Alvarado
323-730-7749
info@letsmoveca.org
Tobacco Control Program
The Tobacco Control Program at FAME Assistance Corporation is a grant funded by the Los Angeles County Department of Public health to promote smoke-free environments in different cities throughout LA County.
Currently, FAME staff is working closely with City Councilmember’s and policy makers to pass an ordinance regulating drifting secondhand smoke in multi-unit housing complexes in both Culver City and Carson. Secondhand smoke is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States and annually kills 65,000 non-smoking Americans.
In order to pass this policy, Fame staff has built a strong coalition of members and organizations passionate about tobacco prevention, has conducted over 1,000 surveys for data collection, conducts presentations for local organizations, recruits individual constituents to speak at city council meetings, creates collateral materials for marketing the campaign and many other activities.
FAME Assistance Corporation works on this campaign in collaboration with many well-renowned organizations including but not limited to: The American Lung Association, The American Heart Association, The American Cancer Society, SAFE- Smoke Free Air for Everyone, Breathe California, and the Tobacco Control and Prevention Program and the Los Angeles Department of Public Health.
More Tobacco Control Related Resources:
Los Angeles County DPH Tobacco Control
Secondhand Smoke Travels
Resources for Landlords and Tenants
For more information contact
Jazmine Guillen
323-730-7700 ext 4023
jazmineg@famecorporations.org
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