UWEAST is a partner of the Dunya Women’s Health Collaborative at UC San Diego Center for Community Health, launched in 2016 to improve the health and well-being of FGC affected and at-risk communities in San Diego County. Dunya’s community partners seek to:

• Conduct community outreach and education to improve awareness of FGC-related health care services. 
• Develop cultural competency and clinical management training for healthcare providers.
• Ensure access to affordable, high quality, culturally and linguistically competent health care services for FGC affected communities.
• Facilitate survivor-led dialogue with culturally competent community leaders to break the silence and advocate for sustainable change.

The Hub is a safe and fun space at our center for male youth to come together for recreational activities, is open Friday through Sunday from 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm. The Hub is supervised by trained male peer counselors and other UWEAST staff.

The purpose of the women’s only yoga is to encourage healthy lifestyles and offer local refugee women a community-supported alternative to physical activity.

A partnership with the San Diego County Division of Behavioral Health Services, the Urban Beats program is an artistic transitional age youth program that utilizes self expressions and art to de-stigmatize mental health and social services.

The goal of the all girls swimming and basketball program is to give female community members the opportunity to exercise comfortably without the presence of men. These sessions are available at the local City Heights YMCA and offered once a week.

Photo Credit: Megan Burks

Dialogue with the Doctor is a monthly evening preventive health discussion led by a physician for refugee women to comfortably address health-related issues.

UWEAST is currently implementing an actionable prevention plan to improve the well-being of East African boys and men, by simultaneously targeting the sociocultural, physical/built, economic, and educational environments, provided in part through The Hub.