HEALTHY BLACK FAMILIES INC
3356 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA 94703 www.healthyblackfamiliesinc.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The mission of Healthy Black Families, Inc. is to support the growth and development of healthy black families and individuals.

HBF Program Accomplishments | January 1 - December 31, 2019___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Healthy Black Families, Inc. (HBF) served over 1,000 people (mostly families) through our programs, workshops, classes and community forums. Sisters Together Empowering Peers (STEP):HBF facilitated individual counseling workshops and leadership development workshops including training workshops for our STEP Leaders. Workshops included kindergarten readiness, parenting, stress reduction and navigating social and medical services. STEP Leaders led 20 information/education sessions for parents and caregivers in Berkeley and West Oakland. Some of the session topics included - Navigating the TK/K Enrollment System; How to Fill Out the Enrollment Forms; Resiliency and Showing Up In Power and Family Engagement. These sessions also included presentations by community organizations and partners.HBF Inc. provided two community education forums that provided keynote presentations and a panel of experts at each one. These forums offered information on preparing children for kindergarten, enrolling babies and children in quality childcare, parenting education and resource materials. The forums also provide resource and information tables from local organizations that serve parents, children and families. Included in these forums are free books and items such as free back packs and other educational tools.All events were free and provided free food, beverages and childcare for participants.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Thirsty For Change! (T4C)HBF offered health education, nutrition education and movement workshops throughout Berkeley and East Oakland. HBF continued strong partnership with Center For Food Faith and Justice (CFFJ) and meet regularly with core working team (The Change Team) to strategize approaches to advance health equity and training of Water Ambassadors regarding sugar-sweetened beverage education. The Change Team continues to implement the Thirsty for Change! funding by facilitation of programs that encourage the well-being of individuals, with outreach, survey implementation, evaluation, education and policy discussion connecting this work throughout the City of Berkeley. We are excited to be at the national fore-front of creating cultural shifts and lifestyle changes that will have an impact to reduced consumption of SSBs and increase the consumption of water within our communities. We reached our goal of training and educating 15 T4C Water Ambassadors. They have been integral to our outreach, education and survey activities.HBF also hosted a retreat of the Change Team and updated the Outcome Map that will inform the collaboration and vision of the two organizations throughout our Change Team collaboration. We are also implementing the survey tool for continued documentation and evaluation of behavior and culture change among our participants and community members. As organizations, HBF and CFFJ have implemented SSB health equity education and water promotion across all of our program activities including our forums, holiday parties, community barbeque, board meetings, community outreach, workshops and classes.We partnered with the Berkeley Tuesday Farmer's Market as they offer market match and their farmers host our T4C Shop Smart class healthy shopping tours. This has given our participants the opportunity to afford and become familiar with the individual farmers and the heritage and heirloom fruits and vegetables they provide. Most of our participants have self reported that they have learned to taste, prepare and cook and sample many fresh foods for the first time.T4C classes and events are free and offer free food, incentives and childcare.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Telling Our Stories (TOS)The TOS program offered three six-week sessions of writing circles and graduated three cohorts of 8-15 participants in each session. This led to a culmination of three volumes of anthology entitled, What We Carry: Stories Black Women Never Tell: Volumes 4, 5,and 6. To promote literacy and leadership, these writing workshop sessions were offered to HBF staff, STEP Leaders and participants, Black Infant Health participants and community members. Each session resulted in a book and had a book launch celebration for the participants, their family and friends.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Food Matter/Oakland SSB HBF established a new partnership with the Roots Community Health Center to provided sugar-sweetened beverage and health equity education through our Food Matters program from an Oakland SSB-Sugar Sweetened grant. Through this work, staff provide health education, live food demonstrations, food labeling and nutrition education, and provide information and resources on how to shop in order to maximize health benefits. A leadership training element is also included to ensure that community members are trained to then go out and provide community health presentations.

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