Community Health Education and Linkages

Join the Healthy Communities Movement!

Are you looking to lead your community to better health? Are you looking to increase your public health skills and build a resume that demonstrates your community leadership? Become a Public Health Ambassador with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH)! Public Health Ambassadors support their communities across Los Angeles County by sharing public health information and resources with family, friends, school and social networks. Ambassadors are encouraged to share information and resources in a way that is unique to their individual style, community needs, and interests. Topics include COVID-19 safety, youth substance use/abuse prevention, mental health, reproductive health, immunizations, and more! How will you make an impact?

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Public Health Ambassadors and Parent Ambassador Leaders (PALs) in action!

Find out how Public Health Ambassadors and Parent Ambassador Leaders (PALs) are taking action in their communities! Click below to watch an interview (in Spanish) that took place with Telemundo Channel 52, a well-known Latin American news channel, and our DPH Staff and Parent Ambassadors!

Calendar of Events

Check Out This Month's Public Health Ambassador Training Series

Become a Public Health Ambassador!

Learn what it means to become a Public Health Ambassador today!

As little as one training and you will always be welcomed at upcoming trainings.

All program participants receive a certificate of participation (equivalent to one hour of community or volunteer service) for each training they participate in. Public Health Ambassadors that tell our team how the information and skills learned in the program helped them create impact in their community are also eligible to be featured as the monthly Public Health Ambassador Spotlight in our Public Health Ambassador newsletter, Impact! Scroll to the Impact! section to read previous issues.

Trainings are provided each month. Depending on the topic, two sets of trainings may be available to better meet the needs of audiences such as students. We want to make sure you get the most from the program and are conducting trainings as a two-part series: one knowledge building training and one skill building training. In the first part you will learn how the topic impacts your community, what you can do gain information to support your health and that of your community, and you ll learn about local resources. In the second part you will gain public health skills, learn how to use DPH resources and opportunities that will support your capacity to create meaningful impact in your community!

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Trainings are one hour in length.

Scroll to the Calendar of Events section and click on the button that says Register here with the corresponding training date and time that you d like to attend.