Community Benefit partner Valley Verde increases access to healthy, nutritious food by teaching people how to grow organic produce for their families and communities. Learn about their efforts to promote nutrition at gardening and cooking workshops for low-income families and schools in San Jose.
For more than a decade, El Camino Health has worked with Community Benefit partner Gardner Health Services, supporting its Down with Diabetes program. Discover how the program offers case management, supplies, bilingual care and more for underserved youth and adults with or at risk of diabetes and prediabetes in the San Jose community.
In honor of American Heart Month, we’re highlighting Community Benefit partner South Asian Heart Center, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Learn how this nonprofit offers preventive screening, lifestyle counseling, education, and ongoing follow-up specifically for South Asians, a population at much greater risk of heart disease and diabetes.
Community Benefit partner Health Mobile provides free, comprehensive dental treatments to low-income and unhoused individuals throughout San Jose. See how their clinics on wheels continue to improve oral health access and delivery.
Community Benefit partner School of Arts and Culture at MHP is removing economic barriers in East San Jose’s Mayfair neighborhood with the Los Mercaditos Hunger Relief Program. Twice a month, families can receive free, healthy food at community farmers markets.
Children and youth who are victims of child abuse benefit from psychotherapy but often don’t have access to behavioral health resources. Community Benefit partner Bill Wilson Center works to address this need through the Child Abuse Treatment Program (CHAT), which provides psychotherapy treatment services, information and help navigating the criminal justice system.
