Natalie Venegas is in the middle of a bunch of booths on the Santa Barbara City College campus. It’s a health and wellness fair. But she admits she didn’t come here to learn about health or wellness.
“What brought me out here today was probably the free ice cream. Well, okay, also getting to know that there’s clinics here to help us out, and keep us healthy,” said Venegas. “Yeah, I got more than the ice cream,” she joked.
SBCC is a pioneer in health and wellness efforts among community college students. In 2019, it started The WELL, the first freestanding health and wellness center on the state’s 116 community college campuses…