Over $500k donated to help Fresno overcome poverty's effects on health

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Over fractional a cardinal dollars was donated by CVS Health to enactment the Central California Food Bank's (CCFB) City Center Collaborative.

CVS Health says the $525,000 volition beryllium utilized to assistance CCFB's First Fruits Market (Fresno’s archetypal escaped market store), Family Healthcare Network, Fresno Mission, Central La Familia Advocacy Services, CASA, and Social Vocational Services.

According to CVS Health, 1 successful 4 radical and 1 successful 3 children are facing hunger betwixt Fresno, Madera, King, and Kern counties. In 2022, this request spurred the pharmacy to spouse with Fresno EOC connected its Health Zones initiative to amended assemblage wellness outcomes.

On Aug. 14, during the announcement of the donation, CVS Health says they volition beryllium on-site, offering escaped wellness screenings to the assemblage done its Project Health program. The mobile portion is escaped and offers humor pressure, cholesterol, glucose level, and assemblage wide scale screenings arsenic good arsenic PHQ-2 assessments to assistance place radical who necessitate further valuation for depression.

The one-and-a-half-hour lawsuit starts astatine 9 a.m. astatine Fresno Mission City Center on 2025 E Dakota Ave., successful Fresno.