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The March 10-11 event was the first to serve the local homeless community. Heidi Beedle
Peak Vista Community Health Centers and Springs Rescue Mission partnered to provide 200 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to the Colorado Springs homeless community during a two-day event, March 10 and 11 at Springs Rescue Mission. It was the first vaccine event to specifically target homeless individuals in Colorado Springs.
âThis is a turning point for the community,â says Jack Briggs, president and CEO of Springs Rescue Mission. âIf you think about homelessness, there are three things youâre trying to address: The first is health, the second is their housing, and the third is work. You canât get to housing or work if theyâre not healthy. The COVID virus has had impact in a lot of communities, but particularly in the homeless community â itâs isolated them even more than before. By getting them vaccinated an
Adam Roberts believes that recognizing the mind and body as two parts of the same system is one of the keys to overall health.
Since May 2019, Roberts has been the president and chief executive officer at Diversus Health, the largest community mental and behavioral health provider in southern Colorado. Itâs also one of the regionâs oldest organizations, founded 145 years ago as a company that distributed coal, lumber and clothing to miners in the Rockies before it shifted its focus.
Roberts wants to bring Diversus further into the future by creating more efficient processes and a brand that speaks clearly to the public.
Thumb Community Health Partnership announces Man Therapy
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UPPER THUMB - Thumb Community Health Partnership announces the launch of a new Thumb region campaign targeted at working-aged men. The campaign is designed to erase the stigma surrounding mental health and increase the awareness of resources in our area. In the four- county region known as the Thumb in 2018, there were 41 deaths by suicide. Men made up 90 percent of those suicides.
Challenges to good mental health are a growing public health crisis and the Thumb Community Health Partnership is making local efforts to help combat this crisis using the online portal- www.mantherapy.org. The purpose of Man Therapy is to help reshape the mental health conversation, using humor to cut through stigma and tackle issues like depression, divorce and even suicidal thoughts head on, the way a man would do it.