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After the COVID-19 vaccine drive-thru event Saturday, Feb. 27, Summit County officials expect to have vaccinated nearly all of the local educator population.
While public health officials played a role in getting that effort off the ground, the Summit Community Care Clinic was the major provider for the county’s educators and child care workers.
The nonprofit already operates four school-based health clinics across Summit School District. That partnership meant it was easy for the clinic to volunteer to be the district’s provider for vaccines, Care Clinic CEO Helen Royal said.
“With that longstanding relationship with the district, we wanted to do anything we could to help them stay open and have kids be safe in schools,” she said. “It just was a logical decision.”
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Screenshot from behavioral health town hall
It’s no secret that the pandemic has had an adverse effect on the mental health of people across the world. has been able to quantify some of the demand for resources, showing that the need for mental support in 2020 was much higher than that of the past two years.
At a Summit County Government town hall on Friday, Feb. 19, Kellyn Ender, program manager for Building Hope, presented on the nonprofit’s mental health scholarship program statistics.
According to the presentation, the number of therapy sessions utilized through the program in 2020 surpassed those in 2019. It reached a high in October with almost 450 sessions used through the program.
A mural on the side of the Silverthorne Performing Arts Center, pictured in August, encourages hope, love and strength during the pandemic. Summit County community organizations will start using Unite Us, a program that helps streamline the process for finding all kinds of resources.
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Summit County’s nonprofits soon will have a streamlined process for recommending services to clients.
Building Hope Summit County, the Family & Intercultural Resource Center, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office mental heath response team and other behavioral health groups have teamed up to start using Unite Us, a software platform that allows nonprofits to work together to provide services for clients.
The county will be using a list of eligible people collected via CoMassVax.org to make vaccine appointments, Public Health Director Amy Wineland said at a Board of Health meeting Thursday, Feb. 18. The previous system of sending out a registration link when appointments become available no longer will be used locally.
The preregistration link will be used only by the county’s public health department. Other providers such as Centura Health, the Summit Community Care Clinic, City Market and Safeway will continue to use separate registration links, which still can be found at SummitCountyCO.gov/vaccine when appointments are available.