BHCLB Partners and Coalitions - Building Healthy Communities: Long Beach

Health Happens Here As an key part of our collaborative structure, our community-centered organizational partners and coalitions work on building positive, sustainable change in West and Central Long Beach in alignment with the Community Action Plan. Our partners actively participate in many spaces to work collectively towards a healthy and safe Long Beach.

Learn more about our partners and coalitions in the directory below by clicking on each topic area. For more information about partnering with BHCLB, please contact christine@lbforward.org.

Community Knowledge, Leadership, and Power

AOC7 Neighborhood Association is a community group created to improve the overall quality of life within the community bordered by Anaheim, Orange, Cherry, & 7th Street. AOC7 works to bring residents and businesses together to prevent community deterioration and enhance public safety. [Email] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Cambodian Advocacy Coalition (CAC) is a collaborative partnership between five Cambodian serving organizations: Cambodian Association of America, Families in Good Health, Khmer Girls in Action, Khmer Parent Association, and United Cambodian Community. Together, the CAC improves the health of the Cambodian Community by building the capacity of organizations and residents to collectively advocate for policy and systems changes that reduce Cambodian health disparities. [Email] [Website]

CSULB Center for Community Engagement (CCE) engages the university and community in creating a just and civil society where every member functions as an agent of social change. Based on campus at CSULB, the CCE works to connect students and community partners to learning and service opportunities for greater collaboration. [Email] [Website] [Facebook]

Centro Salud es Cultura serves as a home for community and university leadership to foster educational and wellness initiatives, as well as celebrate Latino culture. The goal of the Centro is to create opportunities for health, educational, and cultural programming aimed to improve the lives of Latinos and the Long Beach community. Our mission is to improve, promote, and advocate for the health and well-being of diverse Latino communities. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Families in Good Health (FIGH) is a multilingual, multicultural health and social education program for the Southeast Asian, Latino and other communities in Long Beach. Its mission is to help the community make informed choices and gain access needed health and social resources. [Email] [Website]

The Friendship Neighborhood (TFN) seeks to foster a proud, safe, and vibrant Willmore neighborhood of diverse, yet connected, friends and acquaintances empowered through education, cultural & activist history, shared resources, and community building activities. [Email] [Facebook]

Kingdom Causes Long Beach (KCLB) was created to inspire, connect, and mobilize the faith-based community toward good work for the city. KCLB works to see tangible community change in three areas: healthy individuals, youth, and families; a vibrant Church of the City; and thriving neighborhoods. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Latinos in Action (LIA) is a community organization focusing on improving the quality of life of latino families in education, health, and safety. [Email] [Facebook] [Twitter]

The LGBTQ Center of Long Beach serves the greater Long Beach lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community to offer assistance and provide education about emotional and physical health, housing, cultural and social activities, and legal and social justice. The Center advocates for the inclusion of all with no judgment or restrictions based on sexual orientation or gender identity. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Long Beach Area Peace Network (LBAPN) is a grassroots community group that is dedicated to bringing about peace and social justice. [Email] [Website] [Facebook]

Long Beach City Clerk’s Office is a city department that provides accessible legislative services to all, including the obligation to inform and notify the public; conducts all local elections; and promotes and enables civic engagement through partnerships with the Mayor and City Council, community organizations, and schools. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services (LBDHHS) is the one of only three city-run health departments in the state of California. The mission of LBDHHS is to improve the quality of life in Long Beach by promoting a safe and healthy community in which to live, work, and play. [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition (LBIRC) is a grass-roots network of community-based organizations and individuals working towards a more humane and just immigration policy with greater respect for the human rights and dignity of all immigrants. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Instagram]

Long Beach Language Access Coalition (LAC) was formed in 2011 to help address the language access needs of Long Beach’s limited English speaking residents. The Coalition’s primary focus has been the implementation of a city-wide Language Access Policy that provides services and translated documents into Spanish, Khmer, and Tagalog (adopted in 2013). [Email]

Long Beach Rising! is a comprehensive civic engagement program in partnership with local organizations to promote civic participation, alliance building, voter engagement, and community organizing amongst communities historically marginalized from the political process, including low-income communities. The coalition organizes and hosts annual programs such as the Long Beach Rising Leadership Training, Boards and Commissions Training, and the People’s State of the City. [Email] [Website]

The Long Beach Time Exchange (LBTE) is a time banking community, where members use a currency called time credits to exchange skills and services. Members earn one time credit for each hour that they help others, and spend one time credit for each hour that they receive a favor, service, or lesson from another. In the process of completing time exchanges, we learn new skills and uncover our gifts, make new friends, work to create sustainability for ourselves, and our great city. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Participatory Budgeting Long Beach (PB) is an innovative democratic process that gives local residents the power to decide how to spend city capital funds in their districts. Through PB, community members brainstorm ideas for community improvement projects, develop these ideas into full proposals, and then vote on which projects will be funded and implemented. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Semillas de Esparanza is an community-based organization dedicated to improving the welfare of individuals and their families in West Long Beach. [Email] [Facebook]

VoiceWaves Youth Media is a Long Beach youth-led journalism and media-training project. VoiceWaves youth, ages 16-24, learn to report, write, and create digital journalism content. Their reports will raise awareness of healthy community issues and activate change action. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Economic Inclusion

Clean and Safe Ports Project has been working to bring community, workers, and environmental allies together for a better harbor region. In recent years, the project has supported drivers who are taking legal and administrative action across the harbor area. It is dedicated to supporting the establishment and maintenance of a clean truck fleet at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and to support fair working conditions of port truck drivers. [Email] [Website]

Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) aims to educate, organize, and mobilize faith leaders in Los Angeles to stand with low wage workers and their families in the struggle for respect and dignity in the workplace and beyond. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Green Education, Inc. creates the programs, projects, systems and relationships required to educate and prepare individuals for green industry career paths and entrepreneurial opportunities. We will advance graduates to apprenticeships, internships and on-the-job training situations via collaborative projects designed to create energy efficient and sustainable communities. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Filipino Migrant Center (FMC) aims to educate, organize, and mobilize the low-income and working-class families of the Filipino community in Southern California and address the issues and concerns that they face in their daily lives. FMC focuses their work in free community services, worker organizing, and youth organizing. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

The Foundation for Economic Democracy seeks to create democratically governed community projects and worker-owned businesses where workers, their families, and their communities can all live and thrive with dignity. [Email] [Website] [Facebook]

Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community serves to address the growing inequality and poverty in Long Beach by promoting living wages, responsible development, affordable housing, and healthy communities. The Coalition engages in grassroots leadership development, political advocacy, civic participation, and public education to make a more livable Long Beach for everyone. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Long Beach Community Action Partnership (LBCAP) is part of a national network of approximately 1,100 Community Action Partnerships aiming to give support to low-income individuals and families with educational, social or economical barriers and help them in achieving self-sufficiency. For individuals/families that qualify, LBCAP offers a wide variety of free services—youth programs, job training classes, energy assistance programs, and job development opportunities. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Radical Cooperatives Empowerment Project seeks to empower residents and take ownership over community issues through worker cooperatives, which provide skills in group decision-making and leadership development to build knowledge residents can use to develop locally-sourced, healthy food systems in Long Beach. [Email]

Unite Here Local 11 is an affiliate of UNITE HERE, a union representing workers throughout North America. UNITE HERE boasts a diverse membership, comprising workers from many immigrant communities as well as high percentages of African-American, Latino, and Asian-American workers. Through organizing, UNITE HERE members have made apparel jobs in the South, hotel housekeeping jobs in cities across North America, and hundreds of thousands of other traditionally low-wage jobs into good, family-sustaining, middle class jobs. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Environmental Justice

Century Villages at Cabrillo (CVC) is a nonprofit community development organization that serves as the steward of the Villages at Cabrillo. CVC delivers property management, real estate development, and supportive services, which aim to empower residents, restore health and inspire hope. CVC deeply believes in the pursuit of social justice by providing dignified, affordable housing and economic opportunity within a supportive community. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Don’t Waste Long Beach (DWLB) is a coalition composed of community, environmental, and worker rights organizations working together to transform Long Beach’s commercial waste hauling system to fulfill a vision for a clean and thriving city with recycling, composting, and good green jobs for all. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) is an environmental health and justice non-profit organization working towards a safe and healthy environment for communities that are disproportionately suffering the negative impacts of industrial pollution. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

End Oil reduces oil dependency and promotes energy alternatives by changing public policy and behavior in order to create a more healthful environment and combat climate change. Communities for Clean Ports, our main campaign, educates, engages with communities, and advocates to reduce port pollution that poisons people, fouls the environment, and costs billions of dollars each year. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Green Education Inc. creates the programs, projects, systems and relationships required to educate and prepare individuals for green industry career paths and entrepreneurial opportunities. We will advance graduates to apprenticeships, internships and on-the-job training situations via collaborative projects designed to create energy efficient and sustainable communities. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma (LBACA) works to change the profile of childhood asthma in the most affected areas of Long Beach and surrounding communities, through improved: healthcare delivery and quality, outreach, education support systems, healthy living environments and, changes in policy at all levels. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Food Access and Sovereignty

American Heart Association Teaching Gardens are aimed at teaching first graders through fifth how to plant seeds, nurture growing plants, harvest produce, and ultimately understand the value of good eating habits. Garden-themed lessons teach nutrition, math, science, and other subjects all while having fun in the fresh air and working with your hands. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Food Finders is a community-based food rescue organization that serves as a conduit for food, education, and awareness between donors, volunteers, agencies and people in need. Their mission is to eliminate hunger and food waste while improving nutrition in the food insecure communities we serve. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Healthy Active Long Beach (HALB) works to educate and empower individuals in Long Beach so they can live healthier and more active lives! HALB offers free nutrition education workshops and healthy cooking demonstrations in English and Spanish at various locations in addition to many other collaborations with the Health Department and community. [Email] [Website] [Facebook]

Long Beach Alliance for Food and Fitness (LBAFF) is made up of community members, non-profit agencies, and public organizations who work together to bring quality, affordable healthy foods to Long Beach residents and create opportunities for them to be more physically active in a safe environment. The goal of LBAFF is to create systematic, comprehensive strategies that will in turn give rise to a healthier community in Long Beach. [Email] [Website] [Facebook]

Long Beach Fresh works to increase the production, distribution, and consumption of healthy, local foods in Long Beach. Long Beach Fresh supports all three points of the local food economy: “Eaters,” “Feeders,” and “Seeders.” [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Land Use and Mobility

City Fabrick is a nonprofit urban design studio dedicated to improving the physical environment of Long Beach through design, planning, policy, and engagement. City Fabrick plans, develops, and implements projects spanning open space, mobility, land-use, and building design with concepts that are both site-specific and globally relevant. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Healthy Active Streets is a project aimed at getting people out in the community on bicycles by conducting bike safety education, community rides and events, outreach, nike advocacy, micro bike share programs, and youth programs. [Email] [Website] [Facebook]

Walk Bike Long Beach (WBLB) is a community organization aimed at addressing the walking and biking needs and challenges in the Greater Long Beach community. We achieve this through educating, organizing, and building grassroots leadership to empower residents to advocate for a safe, healthy, complete active transportation network to walk and bike to work and school, to run errands, and for recreation. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Parent Engagement

Communities with Power for Change (CPC) includes and welcomes the community where all have the right to participate and provide information so that families can obtain resources and information about affordable and high quality health, housing and recreational services with programs for all residents. [Email] [Facebook]

Downtown Associated Youth Services (DAYS) serves children, youth, and families in Downtown Long Beach. DAYS programs include a free summer day camp, an after school help with homework program, and a holiday gift basket drive. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Greater Long Beach Interfaith Community Organization (ICO) is an interfaith coalition of Long Beach-area congregations united in pursuit of social justice for all residents of our community. ICO works through our member congregations in Long Beach to engage low and moderate-income families in civic life and the democratic process through leadership training and congregation-based organizing. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Khmer Parent Association (KPA) produces tomorrow’s leaders of today’s Khmer youth through higher education by providing tutoring, leadership development, scholarships, and health education to youth, women, and families. [Email] [Website]

Latinos in Action (LIA) is a community organization focusing on improving the quality of life of latino families in education, health, and safety. [Email] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Success in Challenges (SIC) is a non-profit grassroots social service agency that provides community youth and adults with safe, interactive programs that promote good citizenship, character development, creativity and discipline, designed to inspire them to face life’s challenges with enthusiasm and dignity. [Email] [Website] [Twitter]

United Cambodian Community (UCC) is a multicultural social services agency that promotes and advocates for the well-being and advancement of the Cambodian community. UCC’s mission is to assist the refugee and immigrant population in making adjustments and to help bridge the gap between cultures, languages and generations. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Quality Housing

Housing Long Beach (HLB) uniquely meets the needs of Long Beach residents by working to improve, preserve and increase the supply of affordable housing for the well-being of Long Beach residents through community organizing, policy work, and systems change. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) has been providing civil legal services to poor and low-income people in Los Angeles County for the past 80 years. In 2001, LAFLA merged with the Legal Aid Foundation of Long Beach, resulting in more resources and a greater reach to people in need of legal assistance for a crisis that threatens their shelter, health, and livelihood. [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Long Beach Residents Empowered (LiBRE) is a grassroots community organizing group advancing justice in disadvantaged communities through creation and preservation of affordable housing, renter protections, and community economic development. [Email] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Justice Reform and Safe Communities

A New Way of Life Reentry Project (ANWOL) provides housing and support services to formerly incarcerated women, facilitating a successful transition back to community life. As a community advocate, A New Way Of Life works to restore the civil rights of people with criminal records to housing, employment, public benefits, and the right to vote. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

California Conference for Equality and Justice (CCEJ) is a human relations organization dedicated to confronting bias, bigotry and racism in America. CCEJ promotes understanding and respect among all races, religions and cultures through advocacy, conflict resolution, and education. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]

Centro CHA exists with the mission to enrich the lives of low-income, underserved Latino/a youth, families and neighborhoods in the City of Long Beach through community advocacy, health and educational programs, social and economic enrichment, cultural arts, community service, and after-school youth development programs. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

The Children’s Clinic (TCC) works to provide quality, integrated, innovative health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being. TCC initiatives include the Long Beach Alliance for Food and Fitness and Choose Health LA Kids. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Children’s Defense Fund California (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that works to ensure a level playing field for all children. CDF champions policies and programs that lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education and a moral and spiritual foundation. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Helpline Youth Counseling (HYC) serves youth and their families by promoting the development of strong individuals and families in their community and providing counseling and assistance to at-risk, low income children, youth and their families. Since its inception, HYC has been eliminating barriers and creating opportunities for its clients through a comprehensive and holistic array of programs. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Long Beach Advocates for Change (LBAFC) has a description coming soon. [Email] [Website] [Facebook]

The MAYE Center is a holistic healing center for victims of trauma using medication, agriculture, yoga, and education in order to heal the trauma they experienced as a result of violence. The center creates an environment that helps victims of all traumas gain insight on their experiences and post-traumatic stress disorder and then begin healing the emotional wounds and scars left behind. [Email] [Website] [Facebook]

Project ALOFA stands for “Another Loving Opportunity For All” and is a recognized 501c3 that assists our formerly incarcerated back into our community through our services. Our primary goal is to decrease the current 98% recidivism rate with the K6G Population in LA. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Youth Organizing for Equity in Schools

Californians for Justice (CFJ) is a statewide grassroots organization working for racial justice by building the power of youth, communities of color, immigrants, low-income families, and LGBTQ communities. Led by students, CFJ organizes to advance educational justice and improve our social, economic, and political conditions. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Educated Men with Meaningful Messages (EM3) works to reduce teenage pregnancy by involving young Southeast Asian men in health education, training, outreach and advocacy with their peers and community. EM3 is a program of Families in Good Health at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center. [Email] [Website] [Facebook]

Genders and Sexualities Alliance Network (GSAN) is a national youth leadership organization that works with school-based GSAs to create safe environments for students to support each other and learn about homophobia, transphobia, and other oppressions; and fight discrimination, harassment, and violence in schools. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Instagram] [Twitter]

Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) is a community-based organization whose mission is to build a progressive and sustainable Long Beach community that works for gender, racial and economic justice led by Southeast Asian young women. [Email] [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram]