– The Glassboro Health Equity Coalition continues to support food equity for residents of Glassboro through a variety of initiatives. In June, coalition partners Felicita Johns, Melanie Stewart, and Leslie Spencer met with town council leaders to discuss the city’s ordinances…
– At the Lakewood chapter of New Labor, we focus on distributing information, coordinating vaccination sites, and ensuring that low-wage Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. (BIPOC) workers in Ocean County have easy access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Our work focuses on…
– By the end of 2021, our COVID-19 vaccine equity efforts had assisted well over 3000 people in getting vaccinated. Not all were vulnerable from a housing perspective, but we were concentrating our efforts in a variety of ways with targeted…
– Two and a half years ago, we all began to experience isolation in a way we had never imagined. It has been a troubling and frightening time for many, but for more vulnerable individuals, the shutdowns that followed the start…
– “It’s hard for someone to care about us coming up to them and talking to them about taking the vaccine, if they are about to lose their housing or are already housing insecure. Housing, food access, public health – it’s…
– This post was originally published on the NJHI web site on July 13, 2021. It has been updated to reflect the New Jersey Vaccination Learning Network’s efforts as they evolve. Since the initial phase of the national COVID-19 vaccination…