Founded in 2005, the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative is a statewide grassroots organization that addresses health, environmental, reproductive justice, and other social issues faced by its low-income, female, Vietnamese immigrant and refugee workforce.
In 2010, NIRH partnered with the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative to successfully advocate for passage of a San Francisco ordinance creating the Healthy Nail Salon Recognition program to incentivize nail salons to stop use of products containing the “toxic trio.” In 2011, they conducted outreach and built support for the establishment of Healthy Nail Salon Recognition programs in communities across California.