The Black Family Wellness Expo will be held at New Prospect Baptist Church

WLWT News runs Route 5. welcome back. A celebration of health solidarity and community. Next week is the Black Family Welfare Show. It is focused on building a strong and healthy future. And for free health screenings and workshops and more. It’s more about information and more, and it’s also about empowerment. And joining me today is Patrice Hoffman, Borders, and Tina Welch, both from Cincinnati. Added links chapter. Thank you very much for being here with us. thank you. OK, so let’s look at it properly. Patrice, talk a little bit about the Expo. What can people expect if they’ve never done it before? Well, it will be a free event for the whole family of all generations. This will be an opportunity to move, learn how to be healthy and find some tips and strategies to solve some of the issues that we know about right now. So anyone from children down to grandmothers or grandfathers, they can come down and get these instructions and encourage men to do the same, because we have a special session for our men. In addition, we will go to the blood drive. We also have an opportunity to vaccinate. Kroger is coming with its pharmacists and nurses to vaccinate, and it will be a free event for the whole family. And Tina, I’ll bring you here. What are some of the biggest challenges you see affecting black families right now in terms of health and wellness? It’s understanding their options and taking healthy forms of prevention that are so important so they know where they stand next to them now to focus on. Having options is very important. And Patrice, how can events like this help close the gap when it comes to care or access to information? Yes, this is a great question. What we do know is that number one, we are some of the lowest blood donors. We also know that we have very high rates around diabetes as well as kidney failure. And so we’re really addressing those concerns with the Health Show. We had a blood drive. We have a special plenary session in partnership with Network for Hope, which focuses on organ donation and kidney health, really showing how we can actually prevent it. circumstances? So it’s about creating space for information and entertainment. And finally, what do families hope families take away from attending this conference? Key information about their health journey and don’t wait until the last minute to find out the exact information. And back to Patrice’s point, we want it to be fun. And so we have activities to engage our stakeholders and some other things. all right. Thank you both for being here with us today. Once again, the Black Family Welfare Show is next Saturday, March 21st. It will be at New Prospect Baptist Church on Smith Street from 11am to 3pm It’s all on your screen right now, and there will be a, sorry, sorry, sorry. Food, music. As you hear line dancing and more. The Expo is free and everyone is welcome. And for more information, you can scan Q