Health and Wellness Promotion and Advocacy

TCCI promotes Health and Wellness through nutritious meals it serves to children and youth every day.  Prepared in TCCI’s kitchens, these  meals emphasize fresh fruit and vegetables, with limited salt and saturated fats.  Annually, TCCI serves more than 225,000 breakfasts, lunches and snacks to children enrolled in its programs.

TCCI also promotes Health and Wellness through sports and leisure programs designed for children, youth and adults.  The Rita Walters Learning Complex provides structured and unstructured  team and individual recreational activities for the community.  Aerobics classes, yoga classes, pick up games, open court activities, youth and adult basketball leagues and volleyball are among its offerings to keep the community fit.

TCCI’s interest in the health of its clients has led it to promote the construction of two primary health facilities co-located with child and youth service programs.  The Health Clinic at the Rita Walters Learning Complex will focus on child and adolescent health, and serve children and youth enrolled in the child care center, high school and youth center programs, as well as the broader community. 

The proposed Casa Dominguez Health Clinic, completed in 2010, provides pediatric services to the co-located child care center children as well as to the Casa Dominguez Housing Development. Finally, TCCI promotes Health and Wellness through its Health Fairs, where community residents receive immunizations, screenings and treatment from mobile vans provided by community health care providers.  Through increased access to health care, TCCI improves the health status of the children and families it serves.