The Center's Outreach Forms Community Partnerships
The mission of the Outreach Core is to integrate the Center into the local communities as a disease prevention and health and science education resource. This focus encompasses a wide range of the possible causes of health disparities including lifestyle, cultural, and socioeconomic factors.
The organizational partners of the COID include the Ethnic Health Institute and FACES (Forum, Adolescent Advocacy, Community Outreach, Education, Support) for the Future.
Other collaborations during this project period included the following:
- Center for Public Health Practice (CPHP) at UC Berkeley School of Public Health
- Alameda County Public Health Department
- Alameda County Medical Center's Highland Hospital
- Bay Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition
- Butte County and Los Angeles County California Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), UC Davis
- California Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
- Healthy House of Merced of Merced, California
- Organizations, agencies and coalitions focused on Diabetes, Asthma and Prostate Cancer
Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) at UC Berkeley
- University of California College of Natural Resources, Nutritional Sciences Department
- University of California Cooperative Extension including Contra Costa County, San Joaquin County, Fresno County
- Castlemont Community of Small Schools
- McClymonds Educational Complex
- Youth Uprising, youth development center dedicated to youth leadership, community building, and social justice
Activities in 2005
- Community Meetings
- Ethnic Health Institute Activities
- Kid's Nutrigenomics Website Project
- UC Berkeley School of Public Health: Reducing Health Inequities by Stregnthening Practice
- FACES for the Future
- Hall of Health
- Other Projects
- Presentations
Contact Patsy Wakimoto for information and collaborations.