Crossover’s Annual Health Resource Fair
2018 Family Fun Day by Rondalyn Abode
“On Saturday, June 9th, Crossover threw it’s 3rd annual Fam-
is “healthy individuals,” and the Family Fun Day is an easy way to make sure we tangibly IMPACT health outcomes in our community. ily Fun Day at Crossover Health Services (CHS)! Since its inception Health and well-being are vital to everything we do because within 2014, CHS has sought to provide north Tulsa and its surrounding out healthy individuals, you cannot have faithful families, peaceful area residents with a patient experience that rivals anything you’ll neighborhoods, or thriving institutions. We want to expose indifind elsewhere. This strive for excellence in care is in order to restore viduals in our community to the resources that bring about health, our community through the eradication of whether that is physical health, brain/ health disparities! Yay! There was a plethomental health, or spiritual health even! ra of opportunities to have fun as a family We have a number of partner organizawith jupiter jumps, obstacle courses, water ThefiFirst Component tions that are working to change statistics slides, food, balloon animal formations, of our vision of in our community for better health outface painting, baton twirling, music, gift “Restoring Our comes, and they were on display for the cards, youth sports physicals, and exotic Community,”;is community as well! and domestic animals! Yes, you read that healthy individuals. One of our partners and sponsors for right, for the first time, CHS had a petting this event, the Tulsa Health Department, zoo and an animal sanctuary on site! There -Rondalyn Abode had a panel on men’s health earlier in were guests witnessing turtles doing some the day and our own Philip (Abode) was sunbathing, others were walking around on the panel representing the intersection of faith and health! Who with tarantulas in hand, and there was even a gentlemen walking would have thought that when we made free physicals available to around with an albino boa constrictor around his neck. I don’t know the Crossover Lions in 2015, that it would grow to this?! I liken our that anyone does a Family Fun Day quite like Crossover! Family Fun Day to what I imagine the Block parties of old were like, The first component of our vision of “Restoring Our Community,”
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