COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS participates in International No Menthol Sunday Weekend Events during the month of May:
During the weekend of May 14-16, Community Health Councils co-sponsored and participated in three events in collaboration with The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council in California, AMPLIFY!, Families Fighting Flavored Tobacco, Community Coalition and The Center for Black Health and Equity. These events are part of CHC’s “Building Community Resiliency” Focus Area through the Healthy Kids Zone Initiative. Now incorporated into Best Start, this Initiative is a multi-level and-issue, place-based approach that brings community members within a ½ mile radius of a school to work together to identify community challenges and health promoting policy solutions to those challenges. This community-driven participatory process with residents and strategic community partners identified educating the public about the deceptive messages of Big Tobacco and fighting the dangers of flavor tobacco in our Black and Brown communities in South Los Angeles. The weekend events included:
May 14, 2021
Press Conference hosted at Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Los Angeles: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/attorney-general-files-ordinance-for-la-county-ban-on-sale-of-flavored-tobacco-products/2596240/
May 15, 2021
May 16, 2021
