We’re here to be part of building a place rooted in community, where children and families thrive. We hope you’ll join us.


Share your concerns and passions in town-hall style discussions about issues affecting everyone’s health in Santa Monica and the Westside. Tap into the creative roots of well-being with cultural events that engage you in a holistic experience of wellness. Connect with like-minded families and begin shaping your community today.

  • BEACON Lights Up Community's Feelings

    Six lanterns in the window of The UCLA Family Commons glow with colors that change as people’s feelings change. This interactive, data-driven display is designed to spark public conversation about how we feel. Using a mix of art and technology, it gives us another way to share and see each other’s feelings.

    The shifting colors of the BEACON lanterns reflect the ups and downs, ins and outs, of how people in our community are feeling. The colors change continually, just as our feelings change from moment to moment.

    When you use our “widget” to record how you feel, your input is automatically transferred to the server that controls the lanterns.

    Join the conversation. Click here to add your light to the lanterns’ glow.

 

  • Why Habits Matter to the Environment

    Personal choices make a difference not just to families’ well-being, but to the health of the environment. For example, more than 2 billion single-use, plastic shopping bags are used in Los Angeles County each year. Some estimate that Californians across the state use as many as 600 bags per second. Almost all of them are used...

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