Healthy Mind Healthy Body is a mental health outreach and education program that significantly improves mental health coping skills, awareness of mental health resources, and overall quality of life for residents of the South/Bay Harbor Area. Healthy Mind Healthy Body increases access to mental health services for marginalized, vulnerable, and low-income residents vis-à-vis educational workshops, a resource fair, and a conference, all of which will equip community members with mental health resources and facilitate linkage to local services. The workshops, resource fair, and conference will also raise community awareness of mental health issues and available mental health services while addressing cultural stigma.

Health Connect is an educational outreach and engagement program that increases awareness of Medi-Cal and CalFresh and improves access to care for residents of the South/Bay Harbor Area, the majority of whom are monolingual Spanish-speaking individuals and families. Health Connect informs, promotes, and educates local community members of available programs and benefits through Medi-Cal enrollment to address the Community Health Need of Access to Health and Cal Fresh enrollment to address the Community Need of Economic Security and provides our clients with enrollment assistance for these programs.

Healthy Start, Healthy Heart is an educational and outreach program that provides information about the link between environmental pollution and chronic illnesses that are aggravated by port pollution and ways to offset negative effects by integrating individual and community-wide learning for residents, local organizations, and community representatives. Participants will receive education about how port-related pollution contributes to chronic health conditions, and workshop topics will include coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, stroke, asthma, allergies, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as these are wide-spread illnesses affecting the populations that we serve.

Healthy Families Healthy Kids is a multi-faceted program to improve dietary and exercise habits among low-income individuals, with the goal of building healthier generations. Our curriculum—which was developed and approved by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health—has been implemented throughout Los Angeles County and can be used to combat chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, which disproportionately affect individuals and families with few economic resources. Our program provides services and activities for families to increase their knowledge of healthy eating habits and increase awareness of health risks linked to obesity.

RFKI continues working with our families on reducing childhood obesity and engages the community through a variety of activities, including grocery store tours, food demonstrations, parent education, physical activities, and linking families and children with community resources. Participants are also agents for change involved in community engagement by lobbying for local billboard acts to display healthy or neutral food advertising.

The Smoke Free Multi-Unit Housing (MUH) is an educational and outreach program that provides information about the harms of secondhand smoke and how smoke-free multi-unit housing policies can help protect people’s health and wellbeing. Also, educate tenants and landlords about the dangers of secondhand smoke in multi-unit housing (MUH).

RFKI has organized the Tobacco-Free Coalition’s to enact change across the city of Torrance and Hermosa Beach with the goal of reducing residents’ exposure to secondhand smoke in Multi-Unit Housing (MUH).