​Community Partnerships
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Our Community Partnerships pod supports local community health organizations in overcoming barriers to health care through helping provide educational and hands-on resources to the populations they serve. Our past work includes: 
  • Motivating Action Leadership Opportunity (MALO) -- Tongan American community health organization​
    • Series of Talanoa discussions to learn more about health inequities the  community faces and ways they work to combat the them
    • Ran social media campaigns about nutritional foods and the work their CHWs do
    • Organized resources like healthy traditional recipe substitutions, insurance enrollment, and a sustainable gardening activity at their 2023 Kisina Health Fair
  • Southern California Health Equity speaker series 
    • topics such as environmental health disparities, technologies that assist vulnerable communities in accessing medical care, and street medicine.​
  • ​Fundraised money for Dr. Edgar Chavez, a Pomona alumnus, whose clinic was severely damaged in a storm last semester 
​Upcoming Projects: 
  • MALO
    • Compiling health substitution recipe book for traditional Tongan foods
    • Mental health workshops or summits for the youth group and the CHWs
    • Talanoa website/publication - compiling previous data and adding new information
    • Article writing about our Talanoa conversations to highlight the work that MALO has done to help them with applying for grants
    • Organizing resources for health fairs
  • Speaker series
    • Theme this semester is Gender and Health
    • We have already set up speakers for this semester, but will soon start working on inviting speakers for next semester
    • Help setting up for and coordinating logistics!
  • Joslyn Senior Center 
    • Developing health-related workshops for members and providing some resources for their health fair
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