Women's Health & Money @ Work

Women’s Health & Money @ Work helps women balance their health and financial challenges on and off the job through offering a series of free health and financial educational programs at worksites and job training centers. Low to-moderate-income women in Los Angeles County will be receiving financial coaching, enrollment assistance, guidance on accessing health care, and nutrition education at job training centers, WorkSource centers, worksites, schools, and community centers. The mission of Women’s Health & Money @ Work (WHMW) is to advance women’s health equity and financial literacy.

A financial literacy and nutrition education program conducted by Worksite Wellness LA at Leichty Middle School.

Project aims:

• Focus on the social factors that predict the health status and financial security of low- to moderate-income residents in LA: meaningful and stable work, a living wage income, equity, education, strength of community, and mobility.

• Provide education and resources to low-wage working women.

• Conduct life skills training on strategies to improve women’s health and financial status.

• Evaluate the social impact value to employers and employees of offering programs onsite at workplaces and job training centers

• Provide employers a free training benefit to their employees which can potentially improve productivity, morale, retention while reducing absenteeism, accidents, and stress

Newsletters:

• March - May 2017
• July - September 2017
• October - December 2017
• January - March 2018
• April - June 2018
• August - December 2018
• January - April 2019

Learn more about:

• Conferences
  • "To Get Better Health, We Need Good Partnerships, and Good Data"
    An overview of the October 2017 "Health, Wealth, and Housing" conference, written by LA LISC, a co-sponsor of the conference
• Meetings at the Federal Reserve Bank

For more information about Women's Health & Money @ Work, please contact:

Julie Friedman
Director
Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Education & Research Center
1100 Glendon Ave, Suite 1820
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 794-8062 Phone
(310) 794-8170 Fax
jafriedman@mednet.ucla.edu