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OUR WORK WITH COMMUNITY
HAAF’s scope of work includes:
- Conducting and analyzing ethnographic, qualitative research on African American pregnancy experience;
- Evaluating community processes of participation in the qualitative research in Los Angeles and community concerns about observational and investigational research in collaboration with the CDC (publications available);
- Networking and identifying community members, organizations, and businesses that play a strategic role in the development of public health intervention and prevention strategies;
- Providing health and community data to organizations;
- Facilitating contracts between agencies and minority groups within the community;
- Providing meeting space for community meetings held by CBO’s and community members;
- Consulting about working within minority communities and about the health needs of ethnic minority families;
- Training at universities on ethnic minority health and social issues;
- Participating in Los Angeles County Department of Health Services planning activities;
- Hosting meetings for health and social services programs within minority communities;
- Participating on advisory councils;
- Participating in health fairs and other events visited by a critical mass of the service population; and
- Functioning in a key liaison role that has lead the recruitment and retention of minority elders with diabetes in two federally funded community based interventions designed to improve the self-management skills of older African Americans and Latinos with diabetes.
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MISSION STATEMENT
Healthy African American Families is a non-profit, community serving agency.
Our Mission is to improve the health outcomes of the African American and Latino communities in Los Angeles County.
We are committed to enhancing the quality of care and advancing social progress through education, training, and collaborative partnering with community, academia, researchers, and government.
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