District 2 Supervisor Liz Archuleta — Pepsi presents: Kid’s Virtual Summer Camp

“Part of what existence means to me is knowing the distance between what I am now and what I was then.”

—Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens

Coconino County Health and Human Services (CCHHS) and Northern Arizona University (NAU) have partnered to create a new COVID Aware Enhanced Food Handler’s Certification for the local food-service industry.

The CCHHS Enhanced Food Handler’s Certification represents the most current health guidance directly related to preventing the spread of COVID-19 in a food-service establishment. The recommended practices stem from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and are designed to increase the safety to guests, employees and our community.

Food-service businesses and employees can complete the program online, free of charge. Following completion businesses will then be listed on the CCHHS website as a Certified COVID Aware Business and be given a certificate to place on a front window to notify patrons that the business is Certified COVID Aware. The display of a COVID Aware certificate indicates that a business is promoting best practices and actively supporting local proclamations and Arizona State Executive Orders.

For more information on the certification please visit https://coconino.az.gov/2397/CCHHS-Enhanced-Food-Handlers-Cert.

Join us for the Nackard Pepsi presents: Kid’s Virtual Summer Camp every Monday at 6:30pm through August 10. The camp will stream from The Orpheum Theater’s YouTube channel and features seven local organizations including Little Music Makers of Flagstaff, Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA), Momentum Aerial, Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival, Lowell Observatory, Willow Bend Environmental Education Center, and The Arboretum of Flagstaff. With content for all ages, the camp will take viewers on virtual tours of The Force is With Our People exhibit at MNA, the mushroom garden of The Arboretum, and the night sky through a telescope at Lowell Observatory. Kids will learn how to sing traditional African songs, write a haiku, juggle, and even build their own at-home worm composting bin.

Register for camp sessions here by clicking the ‘FREE’ button to have the stream link and downloadable activity materials delivered to your inbox:

Dr. Evie Garcia is part of a team of researchers at Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity. She invites you to participate in their study of unpaid (family or friend) caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s or other dementia.

The purpose of the study is to assess the resources that caregivers of loved ones with Alzheimer’s and related dementias currently have, and still need, to improve their own health and caregiving experience. The survey also includes questions specific to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the effect of social distancing on caregivers. Findings from this study will be used to create and expand programs for Alzheimer’s/dementia caregivers in Northern Arizona. We are pleased to invite you to participate in this study and help us complete this important research!

There are two ways to participate in the study:

Joining the study is entirely voluntary and you may choose to stop participating at any time. If you choose to participate, you will receive a $25 gift card for each activity in appreciation for your time.

Please respond to this email or call us at 928-523-5794 if you have any questions or would like to sign up for a focus group. You can also learn more about the study on our website, https://nau.edu/sherc/adrd-caregivers/.

These figures are updated and will be shared every morning at 10:00 am in order tocoincide with the Arizona Department of Health Services release of data. We will continue sharing these figures in our daily newsletter.

Here is the information as of 07/13/2020:

The Coconino County Health and Human Services has issued a new weekly report entitled COVID-19 Coconino County Weekly Update.

The report, which includes a COVID-19 situation summary, key takeaways, demographic and geographic information, hospitalizations and testing data related to Coconino County residents, is updated each Wednesday morning at 10 a.m.

AZDHS just updated their COVID-19 website which now includes race and ethnicity on confirmed cases, location of confirmed cases by zip code, ages & gender of related deaths, and number of hospital beds & ICU beds available.

If you have not yet filled out the 2020 Census, please do so!

By filling out the census, you are ensuring that our community is counted and can receive the necessary resources we need to keep our community safe, healthy, and thriving!

Other important things to keep in mind:

You have the option of completing the questionnaire by phone.

To begin, call 844-330-2020 for English or 844-468-2020 for Spanish.

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