SISTERS@
Sisters@Eight is a community forum that brings hot topics as well as major health and wellness issues to the forefront for public conversation.
Events include:
- Monthly Forums (Every 2nd Friday)
- Annual Mother’s Day Tea (in May)
- Annual Bring a Brotha to Breakfast (in June)
- Annual Garden Party (in August)
Sisters@Eight Events
program objectives
Host monthly Sisters @ Eight meetings to inform and educate members, volunteers and our health care community on gender, culture and age implications to health and well-being.
Inform and engage grassroots leadership, health care professionals and advocates with current events, policy and resources impacting African American women and our communities health status.
Recruit & organize a cadre of advocates to interact with media and policy makers regarding gender issues important to eliminating racial health disparity.
Conduct staff trainings with partner organizations on a gender analysis of racial and economic health disparity in South Los Angeles.
Monitor the California state budget as it impacts programs and services for low-income families and underserved African American women and girls.
Monitor health status reports to keep community leadership informed with the big picture of health disparities impacting African American & Black communities.
Monitor the implementation of the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act as it is developed, implemented and impacts Black women & girls to help empower, mobilize, and organize our members and partner organizations towards advocacy.
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
– audre lorde
