Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness

04/06/2023

It’s been a looooong week, mom. Stop by The Pop-Up Village for a free massage, on us!

If massages aren't your tea, we've got a long list of useful family planning and pregnancy services like Prenatal Care Help, Childcare Help, Free Food, Fresh Produce, Music & Dance, Cooking Demos, Pop-Up Shops, Acupuncture, Massage, Herbal Medicine, Mental Health Support, Sharing Circles, Self Care, Medi-Cal/CalFresh Enrollment, WIC & More!

Join us every 2nd Saturday for our community block party, dedicated to providing resources and services to help you with family planning, pregnancy, and more! We can't wait to meet you and welcome you into our village.

HAPPENING THIS SATURDAY , APRIL 8
1 PM - 4:30 PM • 1201 Mendell Street in San Francisco .and.keys

11/29/2022

06/10/2022

We appreciate all the tough decisions that the Mayors office has to make, and we appreciate the opportunity to serve the community, we are asking for funding to build a transition plan that supports and for the communities we serve.

Mayor London Breed’s $14 billion budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning July 1...

06/09/2022

Whatever happens with the COVID $ I'm lifting up our Staff who carried the work of COVID- pictured here are just a few our team members who helped make it all happen and when I say it all - this is what I mean!
This is not even everything but just some of highlighted work:
Over the last 18 months (Jan 2021 - present), Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness has consistently provided COVID prevention, risk-reduction outreach, health education, and promotion to vulnerable racial/ethnic populations in Bayview Hunters Point. Rafiki has achieved the outcomes below: Supported community mobile, roving, and at least 21 stationary DPH site testing events per month.
Provided face-to-face outreach and pre and post test counseling to over 50,000 individuals tested and 10,000 vaccinated at DPH sponsored neighborhood sites (Bayview Opera House, 1800 Oakdale, 155 Jennings, and 90 Kiska).
Expanded vaccine engagement across the 4 neighborhood testing and vaccination sites, mobile events, and Rafiki sponsored programming.
Developed and routinely updated community oriented social media marketing campaigns to cover vaccine hesitancy, COVID prevention tips, facts about COVID transmission, and Bayview specific case counts.
To ensure community access to services, Rafiki maintained partnerships with 4 well-respected community organizations (Bayview YMCA, YCD, San Francisco AAFBC and BSOTC) that provided social marketing support, targeted outreach to youth and elderly groups experiencing high rates of COVID transmission and testing site support to Rafiki staff.
Provided almost 1,200 positive clients with supportive after-care services such as home based deliveries of essential items (PPE, cleaning supplies, hygiene products and groceries for up to 2 weeks) to facilitate safe isolation and quarantine.
Offered referrals to community resources for COVID recovery to over 20,000 clients.
Beginning in February 2022, Rafiki also began distribution of rapid test kits to community leaders and residents. To date, we have distributed over 8,000 tests.
Submitted detailed monthly reports to DPH to document successes, challenges, and collaboration strategies to share with other CBO’s

06/07/2022

We are devastated by this and are hoping that the BOS will add this in their add-backs as I'm not sure what will happen to all the people that have been depending on the services that we all provide.

After two years of praise and acknowledgement for their strong pandemic response, community organizers are suddenly feeling like the mayor’s new budget

04/30/2022

$150 stipends !
Starting today at 10 am!
For the youth in your life!

03/02/2022

Our Rafiki family celebrates acknowledging the incredible women who tirelessly and brilliantly show up!!!!!

02/15/2022

We are grateful for All The !!!

To continue celebrating Black History Month, the FWCP is highlighting Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness, a local health and wellness center with a mission to eliminate inequalities in San Francisco’s Black and marginalized communities through education, advocacy, and by providing holistic health and wellness services in a culturally affirming environment. Rafiki Coalition has been serving the community since 1986.

We commend their inspiring and essential work!

For more info on Rafiki Coalition, visit rafikicoalition.org.

02/08/2022

You are invited to join us TODAY at 11 am for a new workshop with Brenda Perdue! For the next 6 weeks, join us Tuesday mornings and have a good time dancing and working out to beats from around the world! Invite your friends and family and let's boogie!

https://rafikicoalition-org.zoom.us/j/2743693928

02/05/2022

As we celebrate Black History Month 2022 please note that such happenings as this week - executed in his living room, plea deals trying to be made without including family for and still no justice for have on the mental health of African Americans. The real fear of can be profound, isolating and life defining. So when I see studies like this one showing the relationship between isolation, loneliness, depression, anxiety - I see that even the that many have get worn away under the onslot and cost of
"Studies on social engagement and mental health show a relationship between loneliness and mental illness. And there is often a self-perpetuating cycle – symptoms limit connections and support, which leads to the loss of those supports as protective factors, which may increase symptoms, and so on."

We have seen this with the suicides of and and the overdose of show us all to well the cost.

Please join Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness on our quest to build, join, inspire a