Community Rx Launch Week

Faith Force is a faith-based program dedicated to advocacy in African American communities, rooted in a shared love of the earth.

Black and brown communities have carried the burden of climate impacts for our country for far too long. While America’s reliance on natural gas and limited energy sources have soared, our nation’s low income neighborhoods sit on the fence line of air and climate pollution. Communities of color also pay more of their income to energy cost than their white counterparts, making it a financial burden to simply breathe clean air. From playgrounds to pulpits, communities of color continue to suffer from environmental injustices and action is required now.

That’s why Moms Clean Air Force is a signer to the Equitable and Just Climate Platform and focused on ensuring that a JUST transition to zero climate pollution means a fair and equitable distribution of resources, technology and attention to the places and people that need it most.

Launch Week Events

Monday, February 18, 2019, 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM:

The Community Rx Program will be kicking off our launch week with a Facebook LIVE featuring our very own Regional Field Manager, Shakeila James. Join us as Shakeila provides an in-depth introduction of Moms Clean Air Force, the Community Rx Program, and the format for this amazing launch week!

Missed the live event? No worries! Watch the livestream video here

Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 6:30 – 7:30 PM:

Join Moms Clean Air Force as simultaneous Community Rx Table Talk events are held in the tri-state area of SC, NC, and GA. Three Table Talks in South Carolina (Greenville, Columbia, Florence) and three Table Talks in North Carolina (Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh) will help to introduce Community Rx to small groups of 10-20 people.

Missed the live event? No worries! Watch the livestream video here.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM:

Join Moms Clean Air Force for a LIVE Bible Study event featuring an interactive discussion on the connectedness between God’s commandments and the earth, us and the earth, the call on the community and why churches and communities of faith are important to the environmental justice movement.

Missed the live event? No worries! Watch the livestream video here.

Thursday, February 21, 2019, 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM:

Join Moms Clean Air Force for a Facebook LIVE with Shakeila James and Chancee Lundy Russell, as we discuss the importance of living clean and building clean.

Missed the live event? No worries! Watch the livestream video here.

Saturday, February 23, 2019, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM:

Join Moms Clean Air Force to plant a healthy tomorrow through a Community Rx Tree Planting. The tree planting will take place in the Kirkwood & Ormewood Forest area of Atlanta, alongside our partners Trees Atlanta and NeighborWoods, with a goal of planting 100 trees in one morning.

View photos and highlights here.

Saturday, February 23, 2019, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM:

Join Moms Clean Air Force as we host one big Community Table Talk event acknowledging and informing the week’s participants and local community members who have served in and around African-American communities. We will have the opportunity to engage in a meaningful conversation surrounding the topic(s): “What is the right Rx for the Black community? What does it mean to have a “seat at the table”, and what does it mean to “build a table”?

Speakers included:

Dr. Mildred McClain, Co-founder and Executive Director, Harambee House/Citizens For Environmental Justice
Shakeila James (Moderator), Regional Field Manager, Moms Clean Air Force
Dr. Na’Taki Osborne Jelks, Assistant Professor, Spelman College Environmental & Health Sciences Program and Co-Founder, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
Rev. Leo Woodberry, Executive Director, New Alpha Community Development Corporation and Environmental Justice Chair, Sierra Club’s Ready For 100 campaign
Rev. Michael Malcom, Executive Director of The People’s Justice Council and Alabama Interfaith Power & Light
LaTricea Adams, Founder and President, Black Millenials 4 Flint
Whitney Brown, Staff Associate for Communications & Administration, Georgia Interfaith Power & Light

Missed the live event? No worries! Watch the livestream video here.

Sunday, February 24, 2019, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM:

Join Moms Clean Air Force as we wrap up our Community Rx launch week in worship. Worship day will be a time to reflect on the launch week’s activities and fellowship in Christ. We will fellowship at Impact Worship Center with leaders: Dr. Arthur T. Jones, Jr. and First Lady Tonya Jones. If you are unable to physically attend the service, please feel free to watch via live stream here.

View Photos and Highlights from Launch Week