Denver Partners to Offer Expanded Community Testing
DENVER – The City and County of Denver has partnered with Denver Public Health and several community organizations to offer free COVID-19 testing directly in the community.
While the data gathered by Denver Public Health includes only known cases of COVID-19 confirmed by testing, the figures clearly show a disproportionate amount of inequities in death by race and ethnicity. Guided by this data, the Mayor’s Office of Social Equity and Innovation launched a Racial Equity Council, under the Social Safety Net Plan, as a hyper-focused strategy centered around bolstering access to testing through consistent outreach to communities most adversely impacted by COVID-19. The Racial Equity Council has helped to identify locations for Denver Public Health to improve access to testing in underserved communities.
COVID-19 Testing Locations, Days and Times:
Tuesday, June 9 & Tuesday, June 23
The Center for African American Health
3350 Hudson St.
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. (both days)
Saturday, June 13
Montbello High School
5000 Crown Blvd.
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Thursday, June 18
Sam’s Club
7805 E. 35th Ave.
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Saturday, June 20
New Hope Baptist Church
3701 Colorado Blvd.
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Friday, June 27
Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church
1500 S. Dayton St.
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Additional locations and days for free, community-based COVID-19 testing are currently being determined. If your community organization is interested in hosting a free COVID-19 testing site in Denver, please call Denver Public Health at 303-946-7471.
The Racial Equity Council is comprised of organizations such as the Be Well Health and Wellness Initiative of the Foundation for Sustainable Urban Communities, Center for African American Health, Denver Indian Health and Family Services, Open Door Ministries, Center for Public Health Practice-Colorado School of Public Health, Make A Chess Move (MACM), Girls Inc., Street Fraternity and Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR). This council will provide guidance to enhance health care access and resources for communities of color disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 to promote health equity.
For up to date information on the city’s recovery and relief plan and actions, visit Denvergov.org/covid19.
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Members that were present: Krystin Trustman, Jeanne Weis, David, Hank Braaksma, Jadwiga Brown, Michael Hughes, Ann Husker, Lindsey Alarcon.
1st Item: Where is everyone at and any updates in the last 3 months?
- David: No report- daily walk/ yard work and staying home.
- Hank: Yard work, working full time now, while closing transportation. Looks like SRC Transportation Services will be picked up from some other organization in the near future. Hank is a strong candidate for a position there. Hank will try and keep our meetings at SRC but is not 100% on that yet.
- Jadwida: Still teleworking. NO in person meeting unless there is an okay from several supervisors. They are in Phase 2 for the in-person transition. CDLE guidance is to continue teleworking till labor day. They are doing remote training. She also spoke about the Old Town Arvada having talks about making the parking lot, paid parking or no traffic at all. This is to reduce the traffic in their town.
- Jeanne: Pandemic had given some challenges bit didn’t change what she was doing other then more zoom meetings. Arc is showing solidarity for current issues regarding the protests.
- Latoya: DRMAC is working remotely and has had a smooth transition during the pandemic.
- Michael: He spoke about the re-imagine and how 86 RTD local Government Representatives had a meeting and discussed 4 different scenarios. He wants them to face reality and see the big problem, money. Mike wants RTD to look at the real numbers and fiscal crisis they are facing. There deficit for 2021 is between 183 million and 280 million under water. For 2020, the stimulus should break RTD even for this year, they were at a 200 million deficit. Jadwida suggested that RTD be proactive and realize this is their last call for RTD. Hank responded about RTD regarding the CARES Act and how there is no budget but has failed to use the 5307 and use that for funding the 5310.
What is needed to be followed up:
- Joe will get the minutes to get caught up
- Michael asked what we think the summer is going to look like. He suggested a default assuming it will be virtual only for at least another 2 months. He also talked about presenting a couple of candidates for July or August if anything.
- 2 new members were in the meeting: Ann Husker-a rider for Lakewood Rides, Lindsey Alarcon- who is the replacement for Jyotsna from RTD’s Community Engagement Department.
Contact DRMAC for information on the date for the next LCC meeting.
Denver Streets Partnership, a diverse group of advocates who are working a wide variety of forums and action groups to make Denver the best place for all, met this morning online at their monthly meeting. After a round of introductions , the group took time to share their reactions on the past week, and generated the word cloud seen here. Following that, reports were given by members on: policy campaigns – Twenty is Plenty (on Denver residential speed limits) and Shared Streets (on street closures and new bike lanes); Xcel’s Electrification plan; and on the Climate Change Task Force, among others. For more information on the group, see https://www.denverstreetspartnership.org/
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