The South LA/South Bay African American Infant & Maternal Mortality Community Action Team (SLASB AAIMM) would like to share with everyone the following upcoming events:
AADAP Hot Topic Tuesday - How the Alcohol Industry Targets the LGBTQ+ Community: Community Resilience & Protective Factors
Tuesday, June 14th, 2022, 4-5pm PT
Marlon Pascual, AADAP Community Organizer – Inglewood Prevention Unit, invites the Inglewood Community to attend AADAP's next Hot Topic Tuesday, "How the Alcohol Industry Target the LGBTQ+ Community: Community Resilience and Protective Factors."
There will be a kahoot! game sharing history around Pride, how the alcohol industry turrets the Queer community, and have a guest speaker sharing resources and protective factors.
To register, be sure to click on the following link.
Reimagining Black Family and Child Well-Being in Research, Programming, and Public Policy
Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 2-3:30 pm ET (11am-12:30pm PT)
As part of their initiative to build a multi-year applied research agenda on Black children and families, Child Trends will be hosting a webinar on reconceptualizing well-being for Black children and their families, and want to shift the national conversation toward a more holistic understanding of Black families and communities that acknowledges their cultural assets.
Panelists include research, policy, direct service, and advocate voices who will discuss how common perceptions of Black child and family well-being have influenced policies and programs to date and what an asset-based approach to research, policy, service, and advocacy could look like.
For more information and to register for this event. be sure to click on the following link.
AAIMM Baby Café – hosted by Black Infants & Families L.A. & BreastfeedLA
Thursday, June, 16, 2022, 10am-12pm PT
The AAIMM Baby Café is an informal drop-in breastfeeding support group for Black/African American pregnant and postpartum people, free to join.
This is a space to celebrate infant feeding and offer support wherever needed, and is hosted every Thursday,
To join, please click on the following link.
Black Vax Vaccine Clinic
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Join the following locations for a summer celebration of culture, featuring free vaccinations, home covid-19 testing kits, swag bags, meals, and a $20 target gift card for the 1st 20 people who come by to get vaccinated:
Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church, 10am-2pm - 4126 Arlington Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90008
South Park, 10am-2pm - 345 East 51st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90011
1st Annual Juneteenth Film Festival Gardena Cinema, 3-7pm - 14948 Crenshaw Blvd. Gardena, CA 90249
For more information, be sure to contact Shavon Moore Cage at smoore.scpc@gmail.com.
AADAP Health Intervention Program - NEW YOU Resource Fair
Thursday, June, 23, 2022, 12-4pm
The New You, at the Curtis Tucker Center for Community Wellness - 123 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90301 - will celebrate Juneteenth, Pride, Father's Day, and National HIV Testing Day.
There will be free haircuts for participants, as well as HIV Testing & PrEP info, COVID vaccinations and boosters, fly shots, health and harm reduction services, and hygiene kits.
Any questions, please contact Stephanie Haynes at shaynes@aadapinc.org or (424) 331-5799.