Black Women for Wellness

Black Women for Wellness and Golden State Opportunity will launch a collaborative pilot project designed to increase access to healthy and nutritious food for at least 35,000 low-income Black women in Los Angeles County over the next three to five years. We will share information about the thousands of dollars available to eligible families through the CalFresh program, while increasing public awareness of this important resource. We will also help women enroll in CalFresh and claim the funds needed to provide food for them and their children.

Led by Black Women for Wellness, this program equips Black girls 14‑24 in South LA with trauma‑informed wellness, reproductive justice, STEAM and beauty‑justice career exposure, financial literacy, and leadership training. Prioritizing foster‑involved and opportunity youth unemployed and not in school, the program offers stipends, healing circles, skill labs, and a paid Youth Advisory Council, building economic independence, healthy relationships, and brighter futures.

BWW will raise awareness about the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), which offers support for low-income, working Californians, amongst foster youth. Via its Get Smart B4 U Get Sexy comprehensive sex education program for youth, BWW will forge new relationships with foster youth-facing organizations, table at community events, develop educational materials, and conduct digital outreach to share information about CalEITC. BWW will also provide reproductive justice training to professionals in foster youth-facing organizations.

A multimedia “Zombie Apocalypse” campaign to raise awareness and advance meaningful systemic change about the impact of climate justice on communities of color.