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It s being called the Mohawk Valley COVID Community Navigator Program, including The Center (formerly the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees), Mohawk Valley Frontiers, Mohawk Valley Latino Association, Hope Chapel AME Zion Church, the Rome NAACP and the Utica/Oneida County NAACP.
The outreach effort is being funded by the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties through the Ron and Shelia Cuccaro Family Fund.
“We feel strongly that those who have suffered the effects of COVID-19 disproportionately deserve our community’s very best efforts to ensure that they get information and access to the vaccination,” said Ron Cuccaro in a statement from the Community Foundation announcing the effort. “Sheila and I are thrilled that The Center and all of the community partners are engaged in this important work, and it’s great to see the impact we can have when we all work together.”
Organizations band together to help people of color get vaccinated in Utica and Rome
Mohawk Valley COVID Community Navigator Program kicks off to help more people of color get vaccinated in Utica and Rome.
Posted: Jun 9, 2021 5:03 PM
Updated: Jun 9, 2021 6:24 PM
Posted By: Gary Liberatore
Utica, N.Y.. - Several local organizations are banding together to help get more people of color vaccinated in Utica and Rome.
The effort is being called the Mohawk Valley COVID Community Navigator Program.
Various navigators from numerous agencies will be going out into the two cities in the coming weeks to try to get more people of color vaccinated.
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