Welcome to the team, Karina, Molly, and Jessee!
A huge welcome to our interns Karina Cabrera, Molly Shea, and Jessee Santos. Karina, our Communications intern will help us improve our Get Healthy San Mateo County social media and website content. Read more...
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Get Healthy SMC Community Corner
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Staff Perspective
Voting For Our Health
By Mai Le, Community Health Planner
For many people, voting is not top of mind when they think of public health interventions. But there is a body of growing research to suggest that civic engagement, which includes voting, volunteering, and joining read more...
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Boards and Commissions Vacancies
There are three vacant seats on multiple commissions for the City of Menlo Park and there are two different committee seats open for the City of San Bruno.
City of Menlo Park: Applications are being accepted for one seat read more...
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CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Ensuring empowered residents are involved in decision-making and social and civic engagement.
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Vote for Your Health: New Resources
Get Healthy SMC has a new resource page on the connection between voting and health. We encourage community partners to share this information read more...
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HEALTHY SCHOOLS
High-quality education creates pathways to better health.
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Getting Up to Date on Immunizations
On September 7th and 8th, San Mateo County Health hosted a Back-to-School vaccine clinic at the San Mateo County Medical Center. The clinic provided an opportunity for students who were behind on their immunization read more...
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Cafeteria Promotion at Henry Ford Elementary School
Students at Henry Ford Elementary School in Redwood City enjoyed their lunch with an opportunity to sample fresh local watermelon. We had 187 read more...
Photo credit: Angie Cavazos, County of San Mateo
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HEALTH EQUITY
Equity is a key consideration in each Get Healthy San Mateo County priority area to ensure San Mateo County residents have equitable opportunities to be healthy.
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Outreach Training Collaborative Launches
A collective of Get Healthy SMC grantees is working together to pilot a Community Health Outreach Professional (CHOP)/Promotoras Training program that will hold an orientation for new outreach workers on read more...
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Second Contemplative Practices Session – Sign Up for the Next One!
Senior Coastsiders is hosting their second Contemplative Practices session on September 30. This second session will focus on Hatha Yoga read more...
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COVID-19
A key priority for San Mateo County is to increase awareness and improve access to COVID-19 preventative measures, including testing, vaccination, and boosters.
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Report Highlights Four Major Lessons of COVID-19 Pandemic
The Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII) has just released their latest impact report, The Power of Public Health United: Catalyzing read more...
Photo credit: BARHII
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Mini Grant Opportunity for COVID-19 Prevention Education
Neighborhood Partnership Program has made available awards of up to $5,00 to grassroots community organizations servings as trusted messengers in their community educate community members on safe practices for the read more...
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HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS
Complete neighborhoods make it easy for residents to be healthy every day in their communities by making the healthy choice, the easy choice.
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Successful Implementation of the Inaugural School Travel Fellowship
Last year San Mateo County Office of Education Safe Routes to School Program rolled out the inaugural School Travel Fellowship to support five (5) read more...
Photo credit: Theresa Vallez-Kelly, San Mateo County Office of Education
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HEALTHY HOUSING
Stable and affordable housing protects health and provides the ability to engage in healthy opportunities.
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Join our partners at the Climate Summit for San Mateo County!
Thrive Alliance is hosting the Climate Summit for San Mateo County on October 9th, in partnership with Climate Resilient Communities, Nuestra Casa, and Rise South City. This event is free to attend, with in-person and read more...
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