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Working Through the Unique Year of 2020

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St. Clair County nurses showing off the Infant Safe Sleep book donations.Sleep Baby Safe & Snug book that was donated to all mother's who gave birth within St. Clair County during Safe Sleep Awareness month. East Side Health district's Diaper Depot provides families with children under the age of 4 with monthly diapers free of charge. Diapers are delivered to the families car, curbside during these times of social distancing. Expanding the Food Voucher program into East St. Louis and building a partnership with Neighbor's Market.Katrina Galati of the Chronic Disease work group dropping vouchers off the Neighbor's Market to start their partnership. The Neighbor's Market team.Participants of the HEALTHIER TOGETHER 2020 Summit attended via Zoom, enabling us to practice safe social distancing.St. Clair County Chairmen Mark Kern giving opening remarks to set the stage for the summit.Carol Daniel facilitated the Summit discussion.Reverend Rob Dyer & First United Presbyterian Church kindly hosted HEALTHIER TOGETHER's 2020 Health Summit.Dr. Robert Farmer sharing the work that has been done along with the work planned for the future.Pastor Charles Rogers discussing the importance of ongoing projects within the Washington Park footprint.Our Substance Use Disorder work group, chaired by the St. Clair County Drug Prevention Alliance created 3 posters released as part of their Escape the Vape Campaign targeting our communities youth. An Escape the Vape campaign poster displayed inside Down the Hall Home Brew in downtown Belleville. Mobile Food Markets became the norm and built partnerships between Project Compassion, NFP & the St. Louis Food Bank with local schools and business.Come rain or shine, volunteers showed up to make sure families had food during unknown times.