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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday January 26, 2004
Contact:
Pawnee Brown, Education and Outreach Specialist, 360-786-5581 Ext. 6966
Volunteers
Recognized for Time Devoted to HIV Programs
OLYMPIA – Volunteers, who give time to Thurston County’s
Healthmobile and other HIV outreach programs will be honored in special
ceremonies January 30th. About
30 people will be recognized for their participation in the needle exchange,
HIV Consortia and Jail Testing Programs.
All of the programs are designed to help protect at-risk individuals
from the spread of AIDS and to give them support and counseling if requested.
Pawnee Brown of the Thurston County Public Health and Social Services
Department oversees many of the volunteers.
“We just would not have the manpower to provide the kinds of outreach
programs we provide, if it weren’t for all the time donated by volunteers.
I would estimate that about 2,000 hours are donated for the
Healthmobile outings alone. And
it’s important to remember that the Healthmobile has to go out in all kinds
of weather in sometimes-stressful conditions, and these volunteers accept
those conditions and continue to provide assistance to residents of the
greater Thurston County community.
In addition to volunteer recognition, the ceremony will also feature
comments from recovering addicts who have utilized the outreach program
services and turned their lives around.
The HIV volunteer recognition program will run from 3 to 5 PM, Friday
afternoon January 30th. The
location is the Thurston County Health Department, 412 Lilly Road NE, Olympia,
Washington.
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