New: our analysis tool now includes San Mateo County data
Healthy Santa Clara is thrilled to announce its upcoming participation in the annual AACI Back to School Health Fair on Saturday, August 8, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the AACI Community Health Center, 2400 Moorpark Ave, San Jose. Securing a resource table at this premier event marks a significant milestone for our organization. Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) has built over 50 years of deep community trust in Santa Clara County, and tabling alongside them opens doors to deeper, long-term partnerships supporting K-12 students and immigrant families.
Our booth will bring hands-on wellness education to families, including free leaflets on nutrition, exercise, and emotional wellness, an interactive health trivia prize wheel for kids, and back-to-school wellness kits with jump ropes, hacky sacks, and fidget toys. The fair itself is free and open to the public, with free health and dental screenings, backpacks with school supplies while they last, complimentary youth haircuts, food trucks, and live cultural performances.
See the AACI Health Fair page →Healthy Santa Clara recently had the opportunity to meet with and brief Senator Dave Cortese's district staff, sharing our research findings and the breadth of our program work. Beyond education and awareness collaboration, we've been invited to host a table at the Senator's next Unhoused Health Fair, an annual event that provides health-related resources and services to an estimated 450–500 individuals experiencing homelessness.
The fair brings together dozens of nonprofit, city, county, and state partners to offer services like health screenings, harm reduction resources, and meals to attendees. Healthy Santa Clara's table at the next fair, planned for Winter 2027, will be an opportunity to extend our data and outreach directly to one of the county's most underserved populations.
Partner with us →Healthy Santa Clara is partnering with the Ecumenical Hunger Program (EHP) to bring healthy nutrition resources, summer exercise kits, and mental health leaflets to local children. The partnership will include tables at two upcoming community events: National Night Out on August 4th, expected to serve approximately 150–200 kids, and Blockfest on August 8th, expected to serve approximately 500–700 kids.
In addition to the event tables, we're providing healthy recipes and nutrition tips to accompany EHP's food boxes, helping families make the most of what's inside.
Partner with us →Our analysis tool now includes San Mateo County, expanding coverage to a second Bay Area county with striking parallels to Santa Clara. Early findings show similar east-west disparities, with East Palo Alto, tracts in Redwood City, and Half Moon Bay recording the highest composite risk scores in the county. As in Santa Clara, the data points to behavioral health and housing insecurity as the leading drivers - reinforcing that these are regional patterns, not isolated local conditions. The expanded tool is available now.
Two intervention projects focused on San Mateo County are kicking off this summer. If your organization is interested in getting involved, we would love to hear from you.
Get in touch →Healthy Santa Clara was founded by Henri Smit, a community service leader and AI & data science practitioner with a deep passion for healthcare, public health, and the power of data to drive meaningful change in underserved communities. The idea for the organization took shape through Henri's role on the Youth Action Committee at Sacred Heart Community Service, where the gap between the health data being collected and the communities who could actually use it became increasingly clear.
That gap became the founding premise of Healthy Santa Clara: data literacy is one of the most powerful tools available to the next generation of community advocates. Rather than letting research sit in reports, the organization was built to turn census-tract-level health data into something local nonprofits, policymakers, and neighborhoods could act on directly - and to grow a network of partnerships across Santa Clara County built on that shared evidence base.
Meet the founder →