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Flyer Created with Youth Voices
Elevate Youth focuses on reducing substance use disorder and healing the harms created by the war on drugs. Youth ages 12-26 are engaged through arts-based activities that promote creative expression. One goal for Elevate Youth is to create more youth-led...
Partnering with Nourishing Neighbors to fight hunger in our community
Imagine having to worry about when your next meal will be or not knowing what you can feed your children for dinner. Unfortunately, that is the reality many of our neighbors face every day. At CAP OC we work to help find solutions for those in our community facing...
Pandemic fuels struggle to buy baby diapers
Struggling parents with children still in diapers may get a $30 million boost under a proposed state budget allocation to assist existing diaper banks in California and launch similar services in other regions, including San Bernardino County. Money for the five...
Move More Eat Healthy – May 2021 Success Story
The Healthy Communities Initiative’s Move More Eat Healthy (MMEH) campaign would like to celebrate the success of resident leader Brenda Torres, who recently appeared as a guest on “La Voz de tus Recuerdos,” a weekly Facebook live show hosted by Elisa Castañeda....
Reducing Youth Access to Tobacco – May 2021 Success Story
During the month of May, the Reducing Youth Access to Tobacco in La Habra Program collaborated with the American Lung Association to provide a Letter Writing Training to the Vape Free La Habra coalition. Health Promotions Coordinator, Brittney Morales-Bravo provided a...
Disneyland welcomes hunger fighting ‘superheroes’ as first visitors to Avengers Campus
Community Action Partnership of Orange County serves as an umbrella organization for the Orange County Food Band and other non-profit groups that distribute diapers, offer mental health services and provide rental assistance. The team at Community Action Partnership...
Federal Food Box Program Is Tapped Out, Creating Burden For Orange County Food Bank
Gregory Scott, president and CEO of Community Action Partnership Orange County, which runs the program, said it will have a "devastating" impact for the food insecure. "When the program first started back in March of 2020 they were giving us 120,000 boxes of food," he...
Elevate Youth’s Partnership with Waymakers OC
The Elevate Youth program targets youth ages 12 – 26 on building awareness on youth substance use disorder and prevention by healing through creative expression. Elevate Youth staff have been eager to meet with other youth-serving organizations to explore...
Nonprofit sets out to help 5,000 OC Students return to in-person classes with school supplies
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Move More, Eat Healthy – April 2021
Students Tara and Averi are graduates of Move More Eat Healthy's (MMEH) Placentia Youth Resident Leadership Academy (YRLA). They are juniors at Valencia High School who chose to focus on Homelessness Intervention as their public health project. Since the graduation of...