African American Holiday Association

(AAHA)

Programs:






Holiday Stress Management and Wellness

AAHA has further offered holiday wellness support, Kwanzaa, rituals and ceremonial cultural awareness, through workshops, lectures, storytelling and consultations at schools, workplaces and community-based organizations, at low to no-cost. AAHA has served as a clearing house for cultural awareness, over the years, providing a wealth of resource of educational information and service delivery to 100’s of thousands on radio, t.v. and in print.
 
Educational Outreach Campaigns
AAHA’s educational outreach campaigns have informed the general public through the media, on Kwanzaa, "holiday syndrome" and holiday stress management. Our promotion has encouraged people to attend its annual Pre- Holiday Health Seminars, Health Fairs, and MarketPlace Festival. The educational outreach campaigns have been very beneficial offering alternative/prevention wellness concepts to provide tools to minimize health risks due to the traditional holiday season.   
Youth Entrepreneur Program (YEP)
 
Another outgrowth of the Expo event is AAHA's YEP (Youth Entrepreneur Progect). Since its inception in the winter of 1989, YEP has used the holiday season to assist over 1000 District of Columbia youth, ages 9-21 offering them opportunities for skills and leadership development through a hands-on self help, learning and earning opportunity at the Expo. AAHA offers training and experiences to a "YouthPreneur" to market or sell their products and services through subsidized exhibit booth spaces through AAHA's fundraising and direct public donations for this activity. Other youth receive life, customer relations, entrepreneur and special events skills as Event Assistants, where youth receive payment for serving the public or by working with the adult event staff, with their earnings matched by the AAHA. This project, to this day, serves as a model for many other trade shows who have also recognized the vital need to "grow" their business leaders in the African American community through youth entrepreneurship. AAHA's YEP offers a successful track record of training youth in entrepreneurship and offering opportunities to not only learn but to earn money through our own Black culture with our own models of self-sufficiency to affect the next generation.
 
 
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Technical Assistance for Holiday Alternatives and Special Events
 
AAHA has further offered technical assistance to the community interested in learning about alternative ways to celebrate Baby Showers, Going –home Services, Family Reunions, African-Centered Weddings, Halloween and Easter. Technical Assistance for special events management has involved AAHA in over 30 or more marches, demonstrations and programs in the D. C. Metropolitan area, nationally and abroad. Notable events AAHA has been involved in managing or co-managing include: The Million Man, Million Woman, Million Family and Million Youth Marches. AAHA was the East-Coast regional chair for the Million’s Woman March and coordinated the national public relations for it and for the Million Family March. AAHA was also on the steering committee for the 40th Anniversary March on Washington.