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Health staff report expands child services, detail vaccinations and environmental-health metrics
Summary
Health department representatives told the committee that grant-funded training will increase capacity to serve children (including required 0–5 training), reported $19,000 in professional-development awards, shared inspection and clinic statistics (35 food inspections, 43 tobacco inspections, nine radon kits distributed), and announced a vaccine clinic on March 14.
Amy Grant, identified as from the health center, told the Iroquois County Health Committee that several training and grant opportunities will expand the department's capacity to serve children and adolescents.
Amy said the health center has seven employees attending trauma-therapy training and is sending five therapists to a state-required 0-to-5 training so clinicians can provide and bill for services to children ages 0 to 5. She credited Ashley Warren and workforce-development contacts for connecting the center to grant funding and…
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