LyVesha Franklin
Trainer
LyVesha Franklin (Queen Tay) is a Community Health Worker (CHW) and takes great pride in serving humanity. As a mother, she prioritizes her time with her family by setting healthy boundaries while wearing many hats in her community. She is Monterey County's first and only independently contracted CHW, with her own CHW business LoveGodSelf LLC (www.lovegodselfllc.org). She is also creating opportunities to support more CHW's to become independent contractors by designing a training video, that will be accessible next month through www.pearsuite.com, as well as subcontracting CHW's in Monterey County until they secure their own contracts. LyVesha is also contracted with St. Vincent Preventative Family Care, connecting community members to Community Support and Enhanced Care Management services. On top of everything, she also is the Founder/Executive Director of a non-profit organization called Kweens' Kounsel Inc., whose mission is to provide a holistic approach to the advocacy of Black Maternal Health.
LyVesha sits on the Board of Directors for the Birth Network of Monterey County, serves on the Maternal Mental Health Task Force and the Doula subcommittee, and is the co-chair for the Lived Experience Advisory Directive (LEAD) for the Monterey County Continuum of Care. She is a founding member of the Seaside Covid Action Team in response to the pandemic and is a member of the NAACP. For the past four years, LyVesha consistently modeled for the annual Prancing Ponies only all women car show in Carmel. She has been awarded seven Certificates of Recognition, four of which were from Monterey County Board of Supervisors, one from California Assemblymember Dawn Addis, another from Action Council, and one from United Way for her service to the community as well as a Resolution, No: 24-028 recognizing Kweens' Kounsel Inc on Black Girl Magic Day Feb. 15, 2024.
LyVesha has been interviewed and featured in the Monterey County Weekly Newspaper and will soon be on the cover of Health Matters magazine. She has been contracted to advise the COC on the best way to develop and implement an equity framework. LyVesha is also a Public Speaker, an Ordained Minister, a mentor, and an active parent in her children's school, where she serves on the School Site Council. She does all these things in spite of the Social Determinants of Health and the adverse childhood experiences that she has survived, with an intention to empower others and be an example of reprogramming and breaking generational curses.
