For more than 25 years, Tomika McFadden has turned lived experience into public service—bringing prevention, trusted health education, free screenings, music, movement, and hope directly into community.
This was never a campaign built from a conference room. It grew from grief, advocacy, service, and a determination to make health information feel human.
BeWhole Health Fest—first established as Pennsylvania Care Health Fest—proved that prevention could be welcoming, culturally relevant, and alive. Families came for music and connection and left with screenings, resources, practical information, and a stronger relationship to their own well-being.
This is what community-centered wellness looks like: information within reach, trusted voices at the table, families moving together, and joy treated as part of health.
Leadership in the community—not at a distance
The message carried beyond the festival grounds
Regional media amplified the mission
Rooted in neighborhood trust. Built for whole families.The 2018 Pennsylvania Care Health and Wellness Festival—now BeWhole Health Fest—generated a national media footprint because the work itself was extraordinary: ambitious in scale, grounded in service, and designed around real community needs.
Each feature below preserves a chapter of the mission—from its emotional foundation and neighborhood roots to its regional reach and lasting leadership impact.
A powerful profile of the personal purpose, community leadership, and love behind the movement.
Tomika discusses making prevention, screenings, movement, music, and practical health information accessible to whole families.
An early look at the festival’s community roots and the vision to make health education engaging rather than intimidating.
Broadcast coverage helped carry the festival’s prevention and wellness message across the region.
A leadership profile tracing the personal purpose, advocacy, and service model behind Pennsylvania Care Associates.
A look back at the people, partnerships, and energy that expanded a neighborhood-centered idea into a major public experience.
Tomika’s work has earned recognition for innovative leadership, game-changing community impact, and nonprofit leadership—including 2019 Non-Profit of the Year honors.
Coverage placed health equity, prevention, whole-family wellness, and culturally relevant engagement in front of local, regional, and national audiences.
Tomika brings the same practical, culturally aware, whole-person approach to keynotes, trainings, workshops, facilitated programs, conferences, healthcare settings, nonprofits, and community experiences.
