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Public health updates: vaccination planning, maternal mental‑health grant and aging navigation
Summary
Public‑health staff briefed the board on plans for respiratory vaccines this fall, an $80,000 maternal‑mental‑health grant supporting home visits and screening, expansion of clinic services (STI testing and AccuDetox), aging navigation partnerships, and an upcoming community health assessment.
Public health staff gave a multi‑topic update when the board convened as the Board of Health. The presenter outlined several program highlights, including plans for immunizations ahead of respiratory season, surveillance proposals for tick‑borne disease sampling with CDPHE partnerships, and a successful sports‑physical vaccination night. On maternal mental health, the presenter noted an $80,000 behavioral health grant that supports long‑running community groups and home visiting programs: "this $80,000 grant ... programmatically is supporting, this isn't what I expected," the presenter said, linking the funding to screening and referral capacity for perinatal families.
Public health also reported aging‑navigation partnerships and potential inclusion in a five‑year rural health transformation grant, an active Chaffee community clinic with walk‑in hours and increased takeup of STI testing (30 panels last month) and AccuDetox visits (25 visits in July). Staff asked for broad participation in the county's five‑year health assessment and said they were approaching 300 community survey responses at the time of the report.
