Watch as we celebrate our former CEO, Veronica Flores, as she sits down to discuss the fantastic future with our new CEO, Michelle Burton.
Rising Together: Succession
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CEO Corner
Lever of change: opportunity vs apathy
The last four years of the Trump administration have left many of us exhausted and bewildered by the ongoing and blatant racists attacks against our communities and institutions; some leading to murder and others to caging of children, to name a few. All have gone...
COVID-19 – OUR MESSAGE TO YOU
Dear Partners and Friends, Given the fluid situation around COVID-19, Community Health Councils is taking a responsive position to the current emergency. Our primary concern is the safety of our team, their families and our communities. Thus, we will be closing our...
CEO’s Corner – September 2018
Deep breath. We have been taking a lot of those in the last few months, as CHC continues to work towards our mission of achieving equity and promoting social justice. As we enter the last quarter of this year, I am inspired by the amount of mobilization and collective...
Supporting Community Transformation
First 5 LA Best Start Region 2 Community Health Councils is proud to have been chosen as a Regional Network Grantee in the next phase of First 5 LA's place-based Best Start communities effort. CHC will be supporting Region 2 which includes Watts/Wilmington,...
CEO’s Corner March 2018
Transformational change is possible. In my lifetime, I have witnessed it. Typically, movements begin because people reach a point of saturation; tired of an inequitable status quo that keeps opportunity out of reach. I see young people taking to the streets demanding...
CEO’s Corner: How Do We Sustain Our Ability to Respond to the Ongoing Attacks on Our Community?
Two-thirds of Americans say they are stressed about the future of our nation, including a majority of both Democrats and Republicans, according to the American Psychological Association's (APA) report Stress in America™: Coping with Change. As organizations and...
CEO’s Corner – Health Matters Fall 2017
This year Community Health Councils turns 25! CHC has been an integral part of South LA’s history of struggles and accomplishments and this year is of particular significance not only to CHC, but also to South LA, as we acknowledged 25 years since the uprising on...
CEO’s Corner – Health Matters Summer 2017
Where is the Collective Humanity of our Leaders? This past week I was intrigued by an interview I heard on NPR about a rare condition known as mirror-touch synaesthesia, where a person empathizes with others through a process of simulation. Much of the literature on...
CEO’s Corner
I am now at the 6-month mark since joining Community Health Councils, as the permanent CEO, and I am extremely thankful to all our wonderful partners who have taken time from their busy schedules to meet with me to openly discuss their perceptions of CHC, mutual goals...