“We’re simply making an attempt to do our half in serving to the neighborhood be more healthy. I feel it’s critically vital that we proceed to work collectively,” says Aaron Perry, the founding father of Rebalanced-Life Wellness Affiliation. “I actually take pleasure in having the three barbershops and partnering with Public Well being [Madison & Dane County] on this. All of us are working very well collectively.”
The Rebalanced-Life Wellness Affiliation, in collaboration with JP Hair Design and Public Well being Madison & Dane County, will present vaccines for youths, teenagers and adults this Saturday, Jan. 8, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on the Males’s Well being and Wellness Heart inside JP Hair Design, the most important Black barbershop in Madison.
“This clinic can be for everyone. We’ll begin with the five-year-olds all the best way as much as 90-year-olds. If persons are not vaccinated, they’ll come and get vaccinated. We may have the three vaccines out there for folks,” Perry says.
“We’ve already accomplished about six vaccine clinics. We took slightly break for the vacations however now we’re beginning again up for the brand new 12 months,” he provides.
The COVID-19 vaccine partnerships with local Black barbershops began final April. The vaccine clinics are again initially of 2022 at an important time – proper when America is seeing an unprecedented spike in Covid-19 circumstances fueled by the fast-moving Omicron variant that has been crushing hospitals and clinics throughout the USA.
“It’s our aim that we need to host these both each Saturday transferring ahead,” Perry says. “We’ll nonetheless be rotating from JP Hair Design, Resilient Hair Design and B. Proper Barbershop in Solar Prairie.”
Just lately, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention has approved a 3rd “booster” shot for 12-15-year-olds, giving them an additional dose of safety as they return to high school amid a surge of infections throughout the U.S.
“We can be providing the booster shot, too,” Perry says. “It’s vital that individuals get the booster, too. If they’ve had two photographs already and are simply coming for the booster, I’m honoring the voucher for that.”
Perry’s Males’s Well being and Wellness Heart is a brand new revolutionary well being mannequin for lowering well being disparities that work with companies, companies, community-based organizations, well being educators and the religion neighborhood to create an consciousness of the most important well being considerations affecting African Individuals and to actively promote a more healthy life-style.
“We’re doing our greatest to get folks the COVID info and the vaccines that we want within the African American neighborhood,” Perry says. “I’ve seen that individuals have been slightly lax on the carrying of the masks. Individuals are coming right into a barbershop generally forgetting their masks. So it’s critically vital that we proceed to make masks out there as a result of I do see slightly lax in carrying them, however they may put on them you probably have them on website.
“I’ve requested extra masks in order that we will make them out there for the entire barbershops,” he provides.
The continuing Youngsters Kickin’ Covid marketing campaign is seeking to arrange 250 children who get the COVID-19 vaccine with a voucher price as much as $100. The vouchers are given to children/teenagers who full their second dose or obtain a booster.
“That’s a aim that we now have set for the 12 months. We need to vaccinate 250 children,” Perry says. “We received some funding from Dean Well being Plan, and for our greater vaccine clinics for teenagers and adults, we received a grant from DHS [Department of Health Services].
“It’s at all times been our plan from the start to begin vaccinating the infants – from 5 to 11 we’re providing the vaccines for the youngsters,” he provides. “They’ll come over and get the primary dose from us and we’ll schedule them for that second dose both at our place or we’ll discover a place the place they’ll go and get it completed.”
The Males’s Well being and Wellness Heart is positioned proper subsequent to JP Hair Design, 588 Grand Canyon Dr., on Madison’s west facet.
“Present up between 10 a.m.-3 p.m. There can be no lengthy traces. They’ll are available and get vaccinated straight away. For these children receiving their boosters, we are going to honor the $100 voucher,” Perry says.
