King County: Vulnerable Populations Event and other Alerts

RantWoman regrets she will be out of town for this event but emphatically recommends the event and the other info below it from King County.


Community Communication Network:  September 13, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION
*Register Now*  Agency Emergency Planning:  Emergency Preparedness and Response for Community Based Organizations  The Vulnerable Populations Operations Workgroup is holding the third and final training in a three part series on agency emergency planning for community and faith based organizations.  We are using the Community Based Organizations: Standards and Indicators for Preparedness and Response http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/preparedness/VPAT/standards.aspx to guide this series. Please join us on Tuesday,  September 24th from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM at the American Red Cross for this workshop on the Incident Command System, and Financial Preparedness.
*  Staff is trained in Incident Command System (ICS) and is personally prepared to fulfill role in an emergency
*  Vital information is backed-up and accessible
*  Emergency payment procedures and emergency financing options are established and maintained
Register Today! https://agencyemergencyplanning.eventbrite.com/
*For Dissemination*  Information about protecting your health for people preparing to undertake pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj or Umrah, including warnings about MERS.  MERS is viral respiratory illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It is caused by a coronavirus called MERS-CoV. Most people who have been confirmed to have MERS-CoV infection developed severe acute respiratory illness. They had fever, cough, and shortness of breath. About half of these people died.  Please help distribute flyers to people traveling to the Arabian Peninsula.  Flyers are available in English, Farsi, Arabic, Amharic, Oromo and Somali and can be found.
Download Translated Flyers Here!  http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/communicable/diseases/MERS/HajjUmrah.aspx

PARTNER NEWS AND INFORMATION

*For Dissemination*  Group Health to offer free pertussis vaccine to under and uninsured adults in King and Pierce Counties.  As part of the Silence Whooping Cough campaign, free immunization clinics for uninsured and underinsured adults will be held from 9:00am-12:00pm throughout September at the following locations.  See attached press release for more information.

*         Group Health Federal Way           Saturday, September 14         301 320th Street, Federal Way
*         Group Health Rainier                    Saturday, September 21         5316 Rainier Ave. S.,  Seattle
*         Sea Mar Downtown                      Saturday, September 28         2121 S. 19th Street, Tacoma
*For Dissemination*  Financial Planning Day - October 12th: Spread the Word!  The City of Seattle will be holding a Financial Planning Day, which will be held on October 12 at the Garfield Community Center.  This is a great opportunity for people to receive free professional financial planning as well as help with credit, debt, foreclosure and mortgage problems, enrollment into health coverage through expanded Medicaid/Health Benefit Exchange, etc.   Please see the attached flyer, which is being translated into Chinese, Spanish, Tigrinya, Vietnamese, and Amharic.    Jennifer Meissner, jmeissner@skcabc.org, 253-297-0482, is coordinating outreach; contact her for translated information.

If you have any questions, please contact robin.pfohman@kingcounty.gov>.