It’s being paid for with federal stimulus money awarded to the community through the American Rescue Plan Act.
County Commissioner Justin Hodgesays some of the money will be used to expand the health department’s mobile services.
“With the funding that we’re committing to it, we’ll be able to provide other health department services to people, such as our sexual health services, immunizations, lead testing, WIC.”
Commissioner Hodge says they’re optimistic funding these programs will have a have a tremendous and transformative impact on the community.
Non-commercial, fact based reporting is made possible by your financial support. Make your donation to WEMU todayto keep your community NPR station thriving.
Like 89.1 WEMU on Facebook and follow us on Twitter
Contact WEMU News at734.487.3363 or email us at studio@wemu.org