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Here for Houston & Harris County. Public health. Team @davidyoungsoo; one kid, one cat.
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Not a cat person? No problem! Your faithful companion is waiting:
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Together we can end gun violence! #wearorange
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Learn more about the Relentless Interrupters Serving Everyone:
publichealth.harriscountytx.gov/Divisions-Of...
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This week, HCPH also opened the RISE Empowerment Center, a new hub for violence prevention services. Violence interrupters build relationships across the community, helping potential perpetrators of and survivors of gun violence access healing, mediation, and support.
cw39.com/news/local/h...
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The Harris County Public Health violence interruption team has prevented over 100 incidents of gun violence since inception. Dr Shiree Berry from HCA Northwest notes that the hospital has seen a dramatic decrease in recidivism - people coming into the hospital multiple times as victims
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Lupe Washington, Director of Community Health & Violence Prevention Services for Harris County Public Health, shares that HCPH hospital-based interrupters have met with more than 600 victims of violence at bedside. Survivors and perpetrators are overlapping groups - support & prevention are key
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On preventing child suicide, Dr Lawrence Thompson Jr. of Harris County Resources for Children and Adults: “We mandate school safety officers but not school psychologists. Our limited school funding forces principals to choose between counselors and teachers.”
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Totie Fields maybe?
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Last but not least … it wouldn’t be a Houston bike ride without:
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Art along the way
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More turtles (unscientific count); still just one alligator
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Resuming trip report - there were more people on the trail closer to downtown than last year (including more women) - felt safer
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A good chance to plug our upcoming webinar☀️
Sneak preview: between 2019 and 2023, hospitals in Harris County saw over 1,000 heat-related illnesses stemming from on-the-job exposure
Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Report: publichealth.harriscountytx.gov/Portals/hcph...
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Ah yes, the Chilean colectivo has found its way north
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I heard you sing it at Tanglewood 😆
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HCPL doing their part:
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Harris County Public Health has your back through mosquito, tick, and avian surveillance and associated control efforts. Thank you for spreading the word and protecting yourself!
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Don’t mess with Sackets kids. Some good news (not without damage already incurred):
www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
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(The truly experienced bring their own trays, the less couth like us simply pick up at one stand and eat in the next line.)
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success
a little greasy but I am definitely fueled til lunch
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Medicaid cuts impact healthcare access, even for people not on Medicaid:
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And by extension - when care is not covered, workers leave the workforce to care for aging parents.
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Yes, covers ~39% of children and ~41% of births 😢
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Potential Medicaid changes of highest concern to NACo members:
- Per-capita cuts
- Work requirements
- Reduction in FMAP
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Additional resolutions:
- Restoring benefits to certain veterans with other-than honorable discharges and upgrading status for those discharged due to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
- Expanding prescribing authority to advanced practice nurses
- Preventing cuts to Medicaid(!!!)