Fresno Building Healthy Communities

Programs: Communications coordinated statewide design, marketing, and promotion activities for building healthy communities sister sites coordinated communications and media trainings with nonprofit partners in an effort to develop community leaders as spokespeople in their local communities coordinated earned media for fresno building healthy communities youth action teams annual dia de los muertos community altar event where youth leaders payed tribute community youth who passed on due to community violence coordinated media outreach highlighting community efforts around the passing of the rental housing improvement act in both print and television coordinated paid media outreach to educate and engage the community around the transformative climate communities program.

hub: engaged with community leaders to help secure the rental housing improvement act, a citywide ordinance that calls for a mandatory registry of all rental properties and a baseline inspection program to ensure healthy housing for all engaged with more than 200 southwest fresno community leaders to adopt a historic pollution-free vision for southwest fresno via the southwest fresno specific plan convened more than 200 community members at fresno building healthy communities annual community gathering to discuss and gather feedback on the coalitions community efforts and goals the coming year trained coalition nonprofit partners alongside fresno states central valley health policy institute on race and inclusion, discussing a variety of topics on racism, ethnicity, and equity supported students and families by helping draft and establish fresno unified school district as a safe school district led preliminary community engagement efforts around the transformative climate communities program which established $70m to be invested in southwest fresno.

special projects worked in partnership with fresno state athletics and fresno fuego to provide healthy activities and recreational opportunities to more than 75 youth at the kids soccer clinic partnered with the fresno workforce investment board to screen and assist community residents to become agricultural pesticide qualified applicators worked alongside several community members to help develop their leadership skills, elevate their voice in local decision-making processes, and complete community service projects in an effort to earn a bicycle for their child as part of the fresno building healthy communities earn-a-bike program.