City of Garfield (2017) Print

star-24px 2017 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Community Health and Economic Empowerment
└ Addressing community health
Through its Generations for Garfield initiative, the City of Garfield set up pop-up wellness centers at its local VFW post. Part of a pilot program, the centers provided a centrally located, multigenerational space for programming, including arts, cooking and exercise classes. Since the pilot, the effort culminated in construction of the Garfield Engagement Center in 2019.

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