Community Health Workers working with Lead

(09-13-2023)

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*Nikeland Nichols*

-Mr. Nichols is an advocate for students. He helps with pregnancy prevention and he is also a community health worker.

-How do you develop good relationships?

*Dana Foster*

- Mrs. Foster is also a community prevention worker

- She helps give the community a chance to give out resources to help whenever someone needs it. No matter what the need is.

- At 16, you can be a certified health community helper, and find out what needs to be done in your community.

*Camelle Mixon*

- Ms. Mixon works with the CDC and is a "Public Health Associate Degree"

- She hosts different events to help teens understand the ways to prevent teen pregnancy

- "It gets you out of the area you are used to." With this job, you have the ability to travel around the world and figure out new parts of the world.

*Sydnie Fleming*

- Ms. Fleming is also a community health worker

- She helps provide people who need a doctor, transportation, food, education, or help filling out personal information.

- "HUMAN GOOGLE" is what she described herself as.

- Social determinants of life such as education, friends, and exercise.

*Outreach (clinics/social workers)*

- "Bobby Sue doesn't have insurance so Sydnie would help"

- You can find help and community outreach workers at different events such as different festivals, churches, schools, and stores.

*THE LEGACY OF LEAD*

- Thomas Midgley works with motors and if you add TLD to ethynyl it will help with cars which gave these workers bad health problems. After a lot of research, they find out the cause of the problem and learn a way to fix it.

- It takes centuries for led to get out of the environment

- You can get a blood test to test your bloodstream to determine if you have lead in your system.