Community Action Board Members

Peter Braun
American Diabetes Association (ADA) of Los Angeles
6300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90048

The American Diabetes Association of Los Angeles has a mission to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.  They offer services in English and Spanish, Monday – Friday, 8:30am-5pm, to children, teens, adults and seniors.
http://www.diabetes.org/

Paul Castro, JD
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles
3580 Wilshire Boulevard, Seventh Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90010

Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles is an extended family of compassionate social services that enriches the community and improves the lives of countless men, women and children of all religions, ethnicities and ages. For more than 150 years, Jewish Family Service has counseled families, fed the hungry, sheltered the homeless and protected the vulnerable.
http://www.jfsla.org/

Sharon Collins, MBA, CFRE
Pacific Region, OASIS in Los Angeles
3818 Crenshaw Blvd., # A-923
Los Angeles, CA 90008

The purpose of OASIS centers and programs is to promote successful aging through lifelong learning, health programs, and volunteer engagement, with an emphasis on evidence-based programs and practices.
http://www.oasisnet.org

Tony Grijalva
Hollywood Senior Multipurpose Center Latino Club
1370 North Street Andrews Place
Hollywood, CA 90028

At Hollywood Senior Multipurpose Center (HSMPC) more than 6,000 seniors enjoy a variety of recreational and educational programs in a nurturing, enriching environment. There are also support services for those seniors who are homebound or less independent. The mission of the HSMPC is to help seniors and their families maintain and enhance their independent lifestyles through meaningful involvement and peer relationships within a family atmosphere, which values cultural heritage, diversity and individual worth.
http://www.hsmpc.com/

Andrea Jones
Healthy African American Families II
3756 Santa Rosalia Drive, Suite 320
Los Angeles, CA 90008

HAAF began in October 1992 as a project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to gather information and ideas about the social, cultural, health and political factors that affect pregnancy outcomes for African American women in Los Angeles.  Today, they have expanded their interests to issues that include preterm delivery, mental health, diabetes, asthma, kidney disease, women’s health and a male-involvement project.
http://www.haafii.org

Loretta Jones, MA
Healthy African American Families II
3756 Santa Rosalia Drive, Suite 320
Los Angeles, CA 90008

HAAF began in October 1992 as a project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to gather information and ideas about the social, cultural, health and political factors that affect pregnancy outcomes for African American women in Los Angeles.  Today, they have expanded their interests to issues that include preterm delivery, mental health, diabetes, asthma, kidney disease, women’s health and a male-involvement project.
http://www.haafii.org

Chang Lee
Korean American Coalition
3450 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 911
Los Angeles, CA 90010

KAC is a nonprofit organization established in 1983 to promote the civic and civil rights interests of the Korean American community. KAC aims to achieve these goals through education, community organizing, leadership development, and coalition-building with diverse communities.
www.kacla.org

Barbara Linski, MA, EdS
Hollywood Senior Multipurpose Center Latino Club
1370 North Street Andrews Place
Hollywood, CA 90028

At Hollywood Senior Multipurpose Center (HSMPC) more than 6,000 seniors enjoy a variety of recreational and educational programs in a nurturing, enriching environment. There are also support services for those seniors who are homebound or less independent. The mission of the HSMPC is to help seniors and their families maintain and enhance their independent lifestyles through meaningful involvement and peer relationships within a family atmosphere, which values cultural heritage, diversity and individual worth.
http://www.hsmpc.com/ __________________________________________________________

Anna “Aziza” Lucas-Wright, MEd
Avalon Carver Community Center
4920 Avalon Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90011-4004

The Avalon-Carver Community Center has been a multi-service resource to low-income individuals and families in south-central Los Angeles, CA since 1940’s. Its mission is to care for the physical, mental and spiritual needs of individuals and families in south central Los Angeles whose lives have been severely disrupted by the use of alcohol and other addictive substances. It hopes to change the attitudes and negative behaviors of its clients for the purpose of returning them to productive and satisfying roles within the community and, to do this, it offers a full range of direct and supportive services that will holistically address the needs of clients, their families and the community at large.
http://www.avalon-carver.org/

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T.H.E. (To Help Everyone) Clinic, Inc. provides coordinated, continuous care to improve the health status, access and health awareness of medically underserved & low-income people in Los Angeles County.  It provides culturally sensitive and quality comprehensive health services at affordable costs and encourages and educates people to take a proactive role in maintaining their own health.
http://www.theclinicinc.org/

Adriana Mendoza, MSW
AARP California
1415 L Street, Suite 960
Sacramento, CA 95814

Since 1958 AARP has been a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a membership that helps people age 50 and over have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable to them and society as a whole, ways that help people 50 and over improve their lives.
http://www.aarp.org/states/ca/__________________________________________________________

Mike Murase, JD
Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) Community Development Corporation
231 E. Third St., Suite G-106
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Since 1979, the mission of the Little Tokyo Service Center, a Community Development Corporation, is to meet the critical needs of people and build community by providing linguistically and culturally sensitive social services to the greater Little Tokyo community and the broader Japanese community in the Southern California.
http://www.ltsc.org/_________________________________________________________

Franco Reyna
American Diabetes Association (ADA) of Los Angeles
6300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90048

The American Diabetes Association of Los Angeles has a mission to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.  They offer services in English and Spanish, Monday – Friday, 8:30am-5pm, to children, teens, adults and seniors.
http://www.diabetes.org/
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Rigo Saborio, MSG
St. Barnabas Senior Services (SBSS)
675 S. Carondelet Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057

The mission of SBSS is to enable senior citizens to live independently and with dignity for as long as possible, not only through the provision of comprehensive social services for those in need, but also by promoting a viable community life where seniors have routine social contact with others that is the foundation of good mental and physical health, supports inter-dependency, and gives seniors access to information and resources that empower their own problem solving and allow them to choose their own destinies.
http://www.sbssla.org/ _________________________________________________________

Laura Trejo, MS
Los Angeles Department of Aging
3580 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90010

The mission of the Los Angeles Deptartment of Aging is to improve the quality of life, independence, health and dignity of the City's older population by managing community-based senior programs that are comprehensive, coordinated and accessible, and to advocate for the needs of older citizens.
http://aging.lacity.org/

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Fannie Upshaw
His Sheltering Arms Inc.
11101 S. Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90061

His Sheltering Arms, Inc. provides residential, long-term, substance-abuse treatment services to persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, persons with HIV/AIDS and criminal justice clients. 
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/tx_la/Los_Angeles_California_Treatment_Centers.htm

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Phyllis Willis, MSW
Watts Labor Community Action Committee
11101 S. Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90061

Since 1965, the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) has operated as the key antipoverty agency in South Central Los Angeles. The WLCAC continues to serve the residents of Watts, although that population is changing. As a result, the WLCAC has incorporated programs celebrating Latino culture and emphasized multiracialism to the people of its community.
http://www.wlcac.org/

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Turusew Wilson, MS, RD
Independent Health Educator
2342 S. Garth Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034


Also see Los Angeles Community Academic Partnership for Research in Aging, an academic - community partnership that provides critical infrastructure to facilitate and implement community-partnered research across a large and ethnically diverse urban center in the United States.
Los Angeles Community Academic Partnership for Research in Aging (LA CAPRA)