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Five entities in Worcester including UMass Medical School and the Family Health Center of Worcester have received a share of nearly $9 million in state funding announced Thursday to help people access coronavirus vaccines in hard-hit communities.
Those two recipients were joined by Worcester counterparts AIDS Project Worcester, Centro and Seven Hills Behavioral Health among roughly two dozen such groups statewide that are being relied upon to help increase awareness and access to vaccines in 20 of the hardest-hit Massachusetts communities, including Fitchburg, Framingham, Leominster and Worcester.
Each organization will use its share of the funding to provide guidance about vaccine eligibility, assistance in registering online and translation services, among others. In some cases, the organizations will directly administer vaccinations to groups not available through other outreach efforts.
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Wareham Police program targets addiction, not addicts
“We needed to do something,” she said.
But the “Wareham Fighting Against Addiction Drop-In Center,” opened at the Church of the Good Shepherd on High Street a little over three years ago, has been closed due to COVID.
Alfonso and Bill Pimental were instrumental in starting the addiction drop-in center and have continued to work on the community’s addiction problem as best they could.
Now an ally in their fight against addiction has appeared: the Wareham Police Dept.
“Bill and I have been doing things on the back end and then Wareham PD came to us and said we need to do something with the community. So we came up with this program.”
Michael Coughlin
FALL RIVER For the past ten months I’ve been writing about COVID-19 from a largely statewide perspective. Boards of Health in 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts have been and continue to battle the virus and are now working with the rest of the healthcare community to vaccinate the public.
This month and next I’ll focus on the COVID-19 experience here in Fall River. At the end of January, COVID-19 had sickened over 11,000 Fall River residents, resulting in almost 300 deaths. I recently spoke with Fall River Health and Humans Services Director Tess Curran for an update on the COVID-19 response here in Fall River.