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Project Sleep Board Member and Rising Voices speaker Kristyn Beecher raised awareness of sleep health, sleep disorders, and sleep equity at the ROCK the Block Community Health & Resource Expo in Houston!
Rock the Block is an event that strives to unite community members, organizations, and stakeholders to address the social determinants of health disproportionately affecting underserved communities, particularly the BIPOC community.
Fellow Rising Voices speaker, Jamie Nicole, serves as the Executive Director of The AIP BIPOC Network, the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that hosted ROCK the Block. Jamie invited Kristyn and Project Sleep to get involved with this great event by hosting a table with Project Sleep information and resources.
Kristyn shared, “No one had ever seen anything ‘sleep-related’ at a health fair before. Not the community members or the other health organizations. For that reason, we were super popular.” Kristyn was able to let people know about Project Sleep’s Sleep Helpline as a free resource available for anyone with questions or concerns about their sleep. “The Sleep Helpline is such an amazing resource,” said Kristyn. “Everyone was in AWE that something like that existed.”
Huge thanks to Jamie Nicole and Kristyn Beecher, along with everyone who stopped by the Project Sleep table at ROCK the Block. We hope to do more community-based work like this in the future. Stay tuned for more events and activities like this soon!
