East Palo ALto Community Health Network

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The East Palo Alto Community Health Network (CHN) brings together community-based organizations, healthcare providers, and residents to build a healthier East Palo Alto, together.

Convened by ‘Anamatangi Polynesian Voices through a Get Healthy San Mateo grant, the CHN is a community-centered space where lived experience leads the way. We center the voices and needs of youth, families, and elders to work across organizations by sharing information, strengthening relationships, and taking collective action.

Youth Advisory Group

Our Promise:

We listen.

We collaborate.

We act together.

We create change.

Strengthening culturally responsive and trusted pathways to mental and behavioral health support.

  1. Behavioral Health & wellness

2. Workforce development

Creating Community Health Worker and Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist recruitment, certification, field experience, and career pathways.

3. Youth & Family wellbeing

Connecting youth-serving organizations and families to health, wellness, prevention, and workforce opportunities.

4. Community Connection & Resource Navigation

Making existing services easier for residents and organizations to find, understand, and access.

The annual Mama Dee Day Pacific Islander Festival in August 2026 carried the theme ““Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Families.”

The event brought together community-based organizations, healthcare providers, cultural performers, musicians, merchants, and food vendors.

21 community-based organizations like Fit to the Core and Live in Peace Bike Shop

8 cultural performances

8 musical performances

8 merchant vendors

12 food vendors

680+ attendees from a grand total of 67 different zipcodes

Interested? Email info@anamatangi.org if you want to join the meetings

CHN meets on the last Monday of each month, 6-7pm PT

Your Voice, Your Community, Your Future

The CHN Youth Advisory Group brings young people into the conversations shaping health, wellness, and opportunity in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park.


You'll sit at the table with community organizations, leaders, and professionals, and help decide what the network works on next.

Youth ages 14–24 who live, work, or go to school in East Palo Alto or East Menlo Park. All backgrounds welcome.

Who can apply?

  • Join the monthly CHN Community Meeting (Zoom and in person)

  • Attend Youth Advisory Group meetings between CHN meetings

  • Share youth perspectives and community needs

  • Help develop youth-focused ideas, activities, and solutions

  • Connect with community organizations, leaders, and professionals

  • Help plan Mama Dee Day and the Health Summit 2027

What will you do?

  • Leadership training

  • Community service hours

  • Letters of recommendation

  • Networking and mentorship

  • Real youth leadership experience

  • Stipend for every Youth Advisory Group meeting you attend

What will you gain?

Ready to contribute to a healthier future for your community, learn valuable skills, and get paid?

APPLY HERE