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Healthy Housing
Stable and affordable housing protects health and provides the ability to engage in healthy opportunities.
Healthy Neighborhoods
Complete neighborhoods make it easy for residents to be healthy every day in their communities by making the healthy choice the easy choice the easy choice.
Healthy Economy
A strong local economy builds household financial security for all and promotes everyone’s health.
RFP for SMC Youth Commission
Get Healthy SMC is pleased to announce the release of the Request for Proposals for the San Mateo County Youth Commission. San Mateo County Health is seeking proposals for a provider with experience in youth development and a commitment to supporting the well-being of all youth in San Mateo County. The contractor will manage, champion, sustain, provide oversight and raise the profile of the San Mateo County Youth Commission.
Student Grants for EMT Training
The Emergency Medical Services Corps program of Alameda County is now seeking San Mateo County applicants for its next cohort. The San Mateo County Health is partnering with this nationally-renowned program to train local entry-level emergency medical technicians, remove economic barriers for residents most impacted by health inequities, and increase the diversity of the local medical responder and health workforce. Applications must be submitted by December 31, 2018.
Youth Speak! Amplifying Voices from the Community Collaboration for Children’s Success
“Family therapy brought me closer to my dad,” says an incarcerated youth at San Mateo County’s Youth Services Center. “I was never as close to my dad as I am now.” We’re discussing what would have made a difference for him—the supports and barriers along his path, which for most of the last two years has taken him in and out of this detention facility. Access to family therapy and a supportive parole officer has been stabilizing since he has been incarcerated, and he pauses to consider the earlier supports that could have made a difference.
