Healthy Room Project: Fresno Unified volunteers creating ‘safe positive spaces’ provide makeover for family

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Staff members and school resource officers of Fresno Unified volunteered to help remodel bedrooms for a family.

The makeover was a part of the Healthy Room Project, an initiative that is aimed at creating “safe positive spaces, for at-risk children in vulnerable communities.”

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School resource officers who knew the family nominated them for the makeover. The family was given new beds, desks, dressers, lamps and bedding. Also, new paint and personalized design elements were added in the students’ bedrooms.

The project was a partnership with HandsOn Central California, Fresno Police Department, Fresno City Council Vice President Tyler Maxwell and Total Concepts.

“Thank you to the more than a dozen volunteers, including Fresno Unified staff, who came together to transform the bedrooms for one of our families during an incredibly difficult time,” said Superintendent Misty Her. “We hope this makeover provides a calm and welcoming space for healing.”