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Expanding access & transforming health through lifestyle medicine

Are you a healthcare professional working in a Los Angeles County Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)?

Join Thrive LA, an initiative empowering LA’s FQHCs with no-cost certification, training, tools, and resources to support healthier clinicians and healthier communities, thanks to the generous support of the Sheila Dave and Sherry Gold Foundation.

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FREE training opportunities for LA County FQHC clinicians

These free training opportunities equip FQHC care teams with practical skills in lifestyle medicine—supporting clinician well-being, advancing health equity, and improving outcomes for the communities they serve.

Expires on Sept 14, 2025!

Build a strong foundation in lifestyle medicine and nutrition to prevent and treat chronic disease. This free course is available until September 14, 2025—start today and make the most of this opportunity to grow your impact. 

Enter code LA2025ESSENTIALS at checkout. 

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Food As Medicine

Discover how nutrition can be a powerful intervention in treating—and even achieving remission of—type 2 diabetes and reversing insulin resistance. 

Enter code LA2025FAM at checkout. 

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Learn to promote whole-person health using the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine, with practical tools like checklists and educational videos. 

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How to enroll

Creating a free ACLM account is the first step to enrollment. Your account not only unlocks the course materials—it also provides access to ACLM’s comprehensive library of patient education resources, designed to help clinicians inspire and guide patients toward sustainable lifestyle changes for better long-term health outcomes. 

Sign In or Create a Free Account

Visit lifestylemedicine.org and click ‘My Profile’.

Sign in to your preexisting ACLM account or create a new account by clicking ‘create a new account’ if you do not have one already.

Please do not create another account if you already have one.

Click on the course that you would like to complete.

Click ‘Register Myself’ in the bottom right corner. Your name will appear in the box on the bottom right.

Click ‘Proceed to Cart’; scroll down to enter the promo code associated with your course in the promo code field making sure not to include any extra spaces.

  • Lifestyle Medicine and Food as Medicine Essentials: LA2025ESSENTIALS
  • Food as Medicine for Type 2 Diabetes Remission: LA2025FAM
  • Click ‘Apply’, the price will then drop to $0.00.
  • ‘Submit Order’ to finalize the purchase.

Share these ready-to-use materials with your patients to support education, motivation, and sustainable health behavior change.

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Lifestyle medicine certification scholarships

Fifteen scholarships awarded in 2025

We were thrilled by the overwhelming interest in Thrive LA’s lifestyle medicine certification scholarships. This scholarship covered the full cost of becoming board certified in lifestyle medicine, including:

Although the 15 Thrive LA scholarships have already been awarded, we’re pleased to share another scholarship opportunity for FQHC primary care clinicians. ACLM’s National Training Initiative makes certification more accessible and is currently accepting applications.

Lifestyle Medicine National Training Initiative Scholarship

A 50% scholarship match for primary care providers (MD/DO/NP/PA) who work within Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) across the United States.

This program helps build a nationwide lifestyle medicine-trained workforce. In addition to subsidized education and certification, participants join the Health Center Learning Collaborative, gaining guidance and peer support to implement lifestyle medicine across their clinics.

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Real stories of lifestyle medicine transforming communities

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How to use shared medical appointments in under-resourced communities 

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ACLM and NACHC launch partnership to improve health outcomes 32.5 million CHC patients

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Award-winning program delivers lifestyle medicine to youth 

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Delivering lifestyle medicine to the community: A YMCA example

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From poor health to lifestyle medicine leader

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A stepwise approach to launching a lifestyle medicine practice

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Thank You

Brining lifestyle medicine to FQHCs and CHCs within Los Angeles is made possible in part through the generous support of the Sheila Dave and Sherry Gold Foundation. We are grateful for their commitment to integrate lifestyle medicine into clinical practice.