Health and Wellness

Mar Vista Family Center (MVFC) believes that maintaining healthy families and a healthy community are critical to achieving our mission. Our health and wellness activities are fully integrated, culturally fluent, and tailored to all ages to engage and strengthen the entire family. The program’s goal is to promote healthy lifestyles in the community by providing information on important health topics, giving community members the tools to eat better and providing ways to increase daily exercise. Through working with multiple partners, fundraisers, and volunteers, MVFC engages over 1,000 community members in a variety of health and wellness activities throughout the year.

Community Garden

In the Center’s Community Garden, families plant, grow, and harvest vegetables and herbs for use in their meals at home with the fresh produce they have grown. Gardening has proven to be a great bonding and stress-relieving activity that engages the entire family.

Zumba, Dance, and More

MVFC offers a variety of facilities and activities to keep everyone in the family active on a regular basis. In addition to zumba and dance classes held at the Center, community members also use our on-site gym, jog on the Ballona Creek path, and participate in after-school sports programs.

Additional health and wellness activities include: bilingual health information sessions, the summer camp hot-meal program, the food pantry program, and more.