[Colorado-talk] Fwd: Call for volunteers at POD exercise on June 17th

Tue May 30 00:25:08 UTC 2017

This is a great way to serve our community and ensure the blind receive appropriate services during an emergency situation.

Gary

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From: Julie Reiskin <jreiskin at ccdconline.org<mailto:jreiskin at ccdconline.org>>
Subject: Fwd: FW: Call for volunteers at POD exercise on June 17th
Date: 29 May 2017 at 17:18:59 MDT
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Hello Folks
Please scroll down--this is a request from Denver Public Health wanting to make sure they can serve our community in an emergency.  I hope some folks will go and help them out--I think it is great that they want to practice with us and not people pretending to be us!!!
Please spread the word

fom: Lisa Filipczak <lisa.filipczak at dhha.org<mailto:lisa.filipczak at dhha.org>>
Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 4:36 PM
To: jeffrey cain <Jeffrey.Cain at ucdenver.edu<mailto:Jeffrey.Cain at ucdenver.edu>>
Subject: Call for volunteers at POD exercise on June 17th

Dear Jeff,

Denver Public Health and Denver Environmental Health are looking for volunteers to help with an upcoming test of an emergency medicine dispensing site, called a point of dispensing (POD).  We are specifically looking for volunteers who have disabilities, so that we can ensure we provide accessible emergency services to all people in Denver.  As discussed, would you please share this information with your contacts at the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition? I would be very grateful for any volunteers with medical, access or functional needs who would be willing to come through our POD. I am hoping to recruit approximately five volunteers. People who are deaf/hard of hearing, those with limited mobility and/or people who are blind would provide great input into our exercise and process.

In order to prepare Denver for emergencies that may impact the public’s health and well-being, Denver Public Health and Denver Environmental Health, along with support from the Denver Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, plan responses to potential disasters.  One piece of this planning includes response to disease outbreaks or bioterrorism events. Response from Public Health and Environmental Health could include providing medicine to affected and potentially affected people throughout Denver and surrounding areas.  Medicines are provided to the general public through Points of Dispensing (PODs), which are essentially pop-up clinics staffed by public health and environmental health staff, as well as recruited volunteers.  The PODs are designed to rapidly and safely provide medicine to people, free of charge and with basic medical screening for safety, in order to treat or prevent illness.

On June 17th, Denver Public Health will test their ability to open up a POD site.  We are inviting members of the community to visit this site and receive fake medicine bottles so that we can test our ability to operate this POD.  Some of the goals of testing this POD are to:

-          test the ability of staff and volunteers to set up the POD quickly and correctly;

-          identify any problems in our communications with the general public; and

-          identify problems in providing these services to people with disabilities, including vision, hearing, and mobility impairments.
Our hope is to use this as an opportunity to improve the way we operate PODs so they are safe and accessible to everyone in the Denver community.

To identify potential problems with our ability to provide an accessible POD, we would like to invite you to visit our POD site on June 17th any time between 11:00am to 2:00pm.  I anticipate that participation will take approximately 30 minutes. We will have evaluators on site who will document problems or barriers encountered, and we will use this information to improve our planning and operations.  There will be small give-aways and opportunities to learn more about the work we do.

Please reach out to Lisa Filipczak at lisa.filipczak at dhha.org<mailto:lisa.filipczak at dhha.org> or 303-602-3668<tel:(303)%20602-3668> to RSVP by Friday, June 9th. Also contact Lisa if you have any questions, would like more information, or would like to discuss assistance we can provide to get you to the POD site.

Thank you for your time and we look forward to working with you.

Point of Dispensing Details:
Date:  Saturday, June 17th
Time:  11:00am – 2:00pm (stop by any time between these hours)
Location:  Denver Health Pena Southwest Family Health Clinic
1339 S Federal Blvd, Denver, CO 80219

Best regards,
Lisa
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Public Health Planner
Epidemiology and Preparedness
Denver Public Health, a Department of Denver Health<http://www.denverhealth.org/>
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