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How does your health affect your hair?
September 06, 2017
The second Hair and Health Symposium provides an opportunity to learn about how your health can affect your hair and the important role that barbers and stylist play promoting health. The Sept. 18, 2017 event includes a hair show celebrating Rochester’s latest braidings, weavings, buzz cuts and natural styles.
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Conference focuses on health as a spiritual matter
September 06, 2017
The Health is a Spiritual Matter Conference brings together dynamic speakers and a panel of experts for a day of workshops and worship on Oct. 7, 2017. The conference includes separate workshops for men, women and parents and provides a special open discussion for young adults called #SpirituallyFit.
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Communities gather to create safe play spaces for “Play Streets”
August 29, 2017
Children and families from two tightly-knit Rochester neighborhoods gathered to host Play Streets, a pilot event introduced this year by the Healthi Kids Coalition through their PlayROCs campaign. Play Streets gives kids the opportunity to safely play, beautify their neighborhoods, and participate in new activities.
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Sept. 8 - In this story on the dangers of stage 2 hypertension, Dr. Matthew Devine, medical director of Accountable Health Partners and a Common Ground Health consultant, describes the agency's high blood pressure registry which shows that approximately 35 percent of adults in our Finger Lakes region have hypertension.
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Sep 1, 2017 - Ben Woelk, our Health and Community Infrastructure Analyst, was featured in an article about Rochester’s first parklet outside of Joe Bean Coffee.
