Mission

To promote holistic family well-being for Latinos through community engagement, education, research and advocacy for social change.

Salud Familiar | Family Health

Funder: PacificSource Charitable Foundation
Project Summary:

The goals of the program will be to: 1-enhance Latino families’ understanding of chronic disease and associated risk factors and 2-support them in making behavioral and/or lifestyle changes to their lower risks for chronic disease. Salud Familiar will utilize the We Can! obesity prevention curriculum developed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute which utilizes leadership development to affect behavioral and lifestyle changes to increase physical activity, healthy nutrition and to reduce screen time.

Hand in Hand Confronting Cancer

De la Mano Frente al Cancer is a collaboration between a Latino community based organization, Familias en Acción, and cancer organizations to enhance access to cancer care and support services through funding made possible by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

The population to be served will be Latinos in Oregon who represent 11% of the population. De la Mano Frente al Cancer will support the development of cancer support services for a population that has limited or no access to existing services.