Summary: Collaboration between school district staff, school-based health centers, and community partners helped document vaccine compliance for over 99% of Seattle Public Schools students in January 2020 Community vaccine clinics bolstered efforts to improve compliance with state requirements Community and school-based efforts also promoted recommended vaccines like flu, meningitis, and HPV as well as required…
If you work with 2020 graduating high school seniors of Southeast Asian ancestry, they may be interested in applying for the following scholarship from the Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund, Inc. At least 40 awards will be available. Link to scholarship Asian Counseling and Referral Services (ACRS) is hosting the following FREE events at 3639…
Crossposted from the Public Health Insider A new immigration rule that Public Health–Seattle & King County (PHSKC) Director Patty Hayes calls “inhumane” will be going into effect soon, because of a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. The rule would penalize some immigrants who use certain health, food or housing services and then apply for…
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The Washington Department of Health announced the first case in the U.S. of a new novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Snohomish County on January 21, 2020 and (by this blog’s publication date) four additional cases have been identified in Illinois, California, and Arizona. The virus emerged in Wuhan, China in December and there are a growing…
VietQ is hosting Washington’s first Vietnamese LGBTQ conference on February 29, 2020 from 10am-4pm at Asian Counseling and Referral Services main offices. Titled “BAN – Means More Than Friends,” the conference is “for queer Vietnamese folks to share community, celebrate our lives, and engage in discussions as it relates to our intersecting identities.” Family members…
As of January 1, 2020 Washington residents who are undocumented are now eligible to enroll into the Family Planning Only Program (no longer called Take Charge). In this post you will find: Family Planning Only training Frequently Asked Questions New Family Planning Only Application Additional information: Apple Health for Children goes through age 18 (regardless…
