Honors Students Work to Promote Physical Health in a Fresno Community

The College of Health and Human Services Honors Program seeks to develop interdisciplinary collaboration in a service learning environment. To achieve this goal, the program groups its scholars and pairs each group with a community outreach organization. One of these honors groups was paired with Every Neighborhood Partnership, or ENP, which hosts community food drives throughout Fresno.

This group decided to place its focus on the 93702 zip code, and use food drives in the area as their platform to spread messages of health and fitness. COVID made connecting with the community difficult, so the group designed and distributes flyers promoting physical health and resources.

“They identified 93702 as a high diabetes rate community and so we are trying to help the community be spreading information about health, fitness, mental health,” explained Alexander Valdez, an honors scholar (bottom-right in the picture above). “We started off with these flyers that have local gym hours and fitness facts and myths to get people moving in a time that is so sedentary.”