UCLA-Smokefree Air for Everyone (SAFE)

FAME Corporations is proud to partner with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)’s Center for Health Policy Research on a multi-year project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. UCLA-SAFE seeks to increase access to smokefree apartments in Los Angeles’ high-need neighborhoods, with a particular focus on Latino and African-American communities, while reducing exposure to secondhand smoke. FAME’s demonstrated history and invaluable experience with community outreach and tobacco control and prevention project management will aid these efforts through conducting community awareness campaigns, public opinion surveying, community presentations, communicating tenant experiences and promoting success stories.

By joining UCLA’s efforts to secure voluntary non-smoking policies in apartment buildings across the city, FAME is helping improve the quality-of-life for thousands of Angelenos. To learn more about the UCLA-SAFE project, click here.

Residential Voluntary Smoking Reduction Program

“Fighting for your right to breathe clean, healthy air where you live.”
 The Residential Voluntary Smoking Reduction Program at FAME Corporations is grant-funded by the California Tobacco Control Program (CTCP) to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, tobacco smoke residue, tobacco smoke waste, and other tobacco smoke products. Our program sets out to offer residents a choice to live free from unwanted exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. The objective is to transform six multi-unit housing complexes to voluntarily adopt and implement written smoke-free policies requiring all outdoor common areas (e.g., open spaces, playgrounds, swimming pool areas and entrances) and 100% of contiguous individual units (including balconies and patios) to be designated as smoke-free. The overall impact of this project will ensure the health and safety of housing residents and guarantee their right to breathe clean air and put an end to the needless exposure to cigarette smoke and its deadly results. FAME Corporations enjoys distinguished collaborative partnerships with many well renowned organizations such as the American Lung Association, the American Heart Association, The American Cancer Society, and the Los Angeles Department of Public Health.

Tobacco-Related Health Equity

FAME’s main focus is to reduce the exposure of drifting, unwanted secondhand smoke in multi-unit housing complexes, specifically in low-income neighborhoods with Latino and African-American communities. This work will be concentrated in the cities of Paramount, Bellflower, Carson, and Hawthorne. FAME will be working to promote smoke-free living by offering a wide range of support through both programmatic activity as well as training and technical assistance including but not limited to the following: conducting public opinion surveys, providing community presentations, awareness building through community recruitment as well as recruitment and training of key community leaders, and highlighting success stories and share tenant experiences with local media outlets. Expected outcomes include increasing the number of people with improved access to smoke-free and tobacco-free environments.