Your Environment and Health: Free Documentary Screening, Forum in Peekskill

PEEKSKILL, NY—Why are your zip code and street address such a good predictor of health? Curious or concerned as to what you can do about it? Here is a chance to act, to exchange ideas as a community.

All are welcome to attend a free movie screening and discussion on “Place Matters: Where You Live Predicts Your Health." The event takes place May 20 at the Mount Olivet Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. Sign-up is encouraged and the first 50 people who register online and attend will have a chance to win a $50 gift card. Light refreshments will also be provided.

Sign up online by visiting the PNAACP website.

"Place Matters" is part of the documentary film series Unnatural Causes, produced by California Newsreel, exploring racial and social inequities in health. Unnatural Causes crisscrosses the country investigating the growing body of evidence that suggests there is more to our health than bad habits and unlucky genes. It circles in on the social circumstances in which we are born, live, and work can actually get under our skin and put us at risk for stroke, heart disease, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, and even cancer.

This film screening is being organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - Peekskill Branch Health Committee in collaboration with Hudson River HealthCare, Lower Hudson Valley Perinatal Network, Mount Olivet Baptist Church Health Education Ministry & Sister to Sister & Mission Ministry, and Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Hudson Valley Social Justice Ministry.

Visit their website to see what keeps the Peekskill NAACP branch visible, valuable and viable.

WHAT: Free screening and discussion of “Place Matters: Where You Live Predicts Your Health"

WHEN: Noon-2 p.m. May 20

WHERE: 11 Rev G. Wiggins Plaza in Peekskill