“My goal is to continue to create a safe space for our community members, and build that relationship with everyone, so they know that this is a hub for wellness,” Brooklyn health champion Jessica Joseph told Our Time Press. On a sunny Friday afternoon last week a room full of neighbors from elders to youth came out to a Brownsville Wellness Program Community town hall held at the Brownsville Community Culinary Center (BCCC) to talk about health-related issues affecting residents.
Joseph, manager of the BCCC Diabetic Wellness Program hosted the event.
As the attendees lunched on vegan and jerk chicken wraps they shared their health journey stories, heard from each other,and told moving and deeply personal stories…