Project Healthy Community

Project Healthy Community (PHC) is a health and wellness non-profit organization with the mission of promoting the well-being of the Detroit Community by providing school (and Community) based nutrition, fitness, and mental health education and services for Detroit kindergarteners through seniors. Examples of programming are: - PHC's mobile pantry is a collaboration with gleaners Community food bank and forgotten harvest. The program provides approximately 100 worth of groceries to 600 families monthly and has been a staple of support in the northwest Detroit Community. Volunteers from the Community as well as corporate volunteers have helped to sustain the program through the years. - the pe-nut and linking lessons programs, funded through the Michigan fitness foundation, incorporate physical activity and nutritional education into their in-class interventions, actively engaging students in their health over the 5-8 week-long program. The program is utilizing the usda approved "health