Wello Partners With Resource Centers for Well-Being Clinics
If I asked you to imagine smelling burgers and pork chops being cooked on a grill, music playing and people dancing, children throwing a football around, and people filling up bags with local sweet potatoes, carrots and other produce, you probably wouldn’t guess that this was the scene for people waiting to get their COVID-19 vaccine. But it is.
Wello’s latest community collaboration to improve the health and well-being of all in Brown County comes in the form of a partnership with Community Services Agency Inc. (COMSA), We All Rise: African American Resource Center, and Prevea to host well-being clinics. This project leverages trusted community resource centers and an established process to continue to build trust, have open communication and conversation about the COVID-19 vaccine as well as other health concerns within the Black, African American, Somali, and refugee populations.
Attendees at these well-being clinics can speak with Community Well-being Navigators who are nursing students from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) that are on-site to answer questions, provide additional health resources, and help build relationships during the clinics. In addition, this project purchases local products from farmers and businesses to provide to attendees. The most recent clinic at We All Rise offered sweet potatoes, carrots, eggs, pico de gallo, cheese sticks, and syrup from local food hub Seasonal Harvest LLC. and beard, hair, and skin products from Favoryt Brand.
By hosting these clinics at the resource centers, providing produce and products, and having Community Well-Being Navigators that are representative of the populations these clinics are directed towards, this project aims to build a local framework to address health and well-being of the whole individual and community centered on trust and relationships that results in vaccinations.
The next Well-Being Clinics will take place:
Date: Sunday, May 8, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: COMSA, 1600 Shawano Ave Suite 108, Green Bay, WI 54303
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Time: 4:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: We All Rise African American Resource Center, 430 S Webster Ave Unit D, Green Bay, WI 54301
Date: Sunday, May 29, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: COMSA, 1600 Shawano Ave Suite 108, Green Bay, WI 54303
Date: Thursday, June 9, 2022
Time: 4:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: We All Rise African American Resource Center, 430 S Webster Ave Unit D, Green Bay, WI 54301
Date: Sunday, June 19, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: COMSA, 1600 Shawano Ave Suite 108, Green Bay, WI 54303
Date: Sunday, July 10, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: COMSA, 1600 Shawano Ave Suite 108, Green Bay, WI 54303
Vaccinations are available for kids 5+ and adults. Prevea is providing first, second, and booster shots. People who receive a vaccination at the clinic are entered in a drawing for a gift card. You do not need to receive a vaccine to attend. This project is part of the vaccine equity initiative and funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). You can learn more about this project by visiting the Brown County RISE page.
This story was ran as our May Green Bay Press-Gazette column.