Health & Resource Fair Invites Students and Staff to Get to Know Available Services

Publish Date: March 28, 2024

On March 28, CHC Health & Wellness staff, Student Accessibility Services, and the Basic Needs Center along with various vendors hosted a fair to provide information and showcase the services they and other agencies provide to the campus community.

In addition to our own Health & Wellness mental health and medical teams, the fair included many other service providers who handed out brochures explaining their services and fielded questions from students seeking additional information. Students seemed excited to learn how many different services they could receive, most for free. The medical table enrolled one student into the Family Pact program. 

Tables also had free goodies for visitors including jump ropes, squeeze balls, gym scarves, water bottles, bean bags, LED arm bands, and coloring books. Our Basic Needs Office distributed 400 Farm Fresh to You boxes filled with fresh vegetables and fruit during the resources fair.  This event has propelled us forward to distribute another 200 fresh vegetable and fruit boxes in April and 200 boxes in May.  Additionally, the food truck served a total of 586 meals and 200 Juice It Up smoothies to students.

The mental health table offered “Talk with a Therapist” sessions and a handout about counseling on campus or online. Five students signed up for an initial visit with a mental health therapist, and attending faculty members said they would announce such opportunities to their students.  The event also incorporated tours to our on-campus Community Garden led by retired professor Janine Ledoux.

A special thank you to the entire planning committee, that included Erika Sherman, Ericka Paddock, Vannesa Ramirez, Lauren Means, and Hannah Sandy, for hosting this inaugural event.