4th Annual "Golfing in Colorado" Raffle Winners

Rural Solutions held their 4th Annual raffle June 9, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at their office of 115 N. 5th Ave. Sterling, CO. Representing Eastern Colorado Services for the Developmentally Disabled Golf Team, Billy (Bill) Duffield was present to do the drawing.

The winners of the following prizes are:

1st prize: Ballyneal Golf Course in Holyoke - 1 round of Golf for 4 to be used in 2010 - Joan Lorince

2nd prize: Glenwood Springs Golf Club - 1 round of Golf for 4 plus 2 carts to be used by November 1, 2010 - Spencer Green

3rd prize: Northeastern 18 in Sterling, CO - 1 round of Golf for 2 plus 1 cart to be used by August 31, 2010 - Dave Henson

Other Prizes to be Drawn:

Mossland Golf Course in Flagler - Round of Golf for 2 plus 1 cart to be used by August 31, 2010 - Rod Zwirn

Sedgwick County Golf Club - 1 round of Golf for 4 plus 2 carts to be used by December 31, 2010  - Help for Abused Partners

F&H Golf Course in Haxtun/Fleming - 1 round of Golf for 4 plus 2 carts to be used by October 1, 2010 - Robert Baker

Prairie Pines Golf Club in Burlington - 1 Round of Golf for 2 plus 1 cart to be used in 2010 - Pete Walter

Riverview Golf Course - 1 Round of Golf for 2 plus 1 cart to be used in 2010 - Sterling Foot and Ankle Center

Washington County Golf Club in Akron - 1 Round of Golf for 4 plus 2 carts to be used by September 1, 2010 - Alex Wright

Wray Golf Course - 1 round of Golf for 4 plus 2 carts to be used to be used by September 1, 2010 - Help for Abused Partners

Bunker Hill Country Club in Brush - 1 Round of golf for 2 plus 1 cart to be used during weekdays by December 31, 2010 - Bob Segerstrom

We would like to thank everyone for participating, all proceeds will benefit Rural Solutions Projects.

Community HIV/AIDS Education and Action Conference

Rural Solutions was awarded a six month CHAPP (Colorado HIV/AIDS Prevention Program) grant through the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to determine and address unmet needs.  The grant started in January 2009 and ended June 2009.  Rural Solutions hosted the conference on June 12th and had guest speakers Dr. Jack Westfall, M.D., M.P.H. - Associate Dean for Rural Health University of Colorado School of Medicine, Susan Driesbach, Ph.D. Co-Director Rural Center for Aids/STD Prevention University of Colorado, Denver, Ralph Wilmoth, CDPHE STI/HIV Division Director, Tara Wass, Ph.D. Director of Research Design and Statisitcs, Center for Research Strategies, Jeff Basinger Executive Director for NCAP, and Lori Casillas, Executive Director of Colorado Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention. At the conference the HIV/AIDS Needs Assessment in Northeast Colorado report was distributed and so was the HIV Prevention Plan for Northeast Colorado.  Several articles were written about the conference in the Journal Advocate and Ralph Wilmoth provided his presentation to share, please see the links below.

Ralph Wilmoths presentation.

Articles written:

June 15, 2009

June 16, 2009

June 17, 2009

Editorial June 19, 2009

2008 7th Annual Legislative Breakfast

Rural Solutions hosted their 7th Annual Legislative Breakfast at the Washington County Event Center, Akron, CO on November 14.  There was an excellent turn out for the event with approximately 50 attendees.  These attendees included legislators such as Congresswoman-elect Betsy Markey, State Representative Cory Gardner and Senator Wayne Allard's aide Danyel Brenner.  There was an excellent attendance by the county commissioners and commissioners-elect.  We had a format of open discussion with the Legislators and then broke out into round table discussions to discuss the different organizations and agencies represented by Rural Solutions Board Members.

                                        

Betsy Markey, Danyel Brenner and Cory Gardner address some of the questions and comments brought to their attention.

 

Cory sits with some of the Commissioners and takes a moment to look at the contents of the packets handed out.

Here some of the attendees take some time to finish breakfast and look at their packets.

2007 Health Disparities Symposium

Rural Solutions hosted their 9th Symposium on April 12th in Burlington, CO and April 13th in Sterling, CO.

There was a great turn out and we appreciate all who could attend to address the Health Disparities in our communities.

We would also like to give a great big THANK YOU to everybody:

Our Guest Speakers:

Mauricio Palacio - Office of Health Disparities

Lorenzo Olivias, MPH - Regional Minority Health Consultant, US Public Health Service, Region VIII

Chris Armijo, CFFC MSPH, Project Director - Equality in Health Initiative for Colorado Foundation for Families and Children

Honorable Lt. Governor Barbara O'Brien - Lt. Governor of Colorado

Denise Denton - Rural Health Consultant D2, Inc.

Our Trainers:

Dijana Rizvanovic - Spring Institute, Interpreter Network of Colorado (INoC)

Dov Sellem - Spring Institute, Interpreter Network of Colorado (INoC)

Our Emcee's:

Burlington

Kindra Mulch, RN - Kit Carson County Health and Human Services

Sterling

John Klein, LPC, NCC - Centennial Mental Health Center

The facilities that allowed us to have our symposium at their establishments:

Burlington - Prairie Pines Golf Club

Sterling - Northeastern Junior College

A special thank you to our Sponsors:

Gold Sponsors:

                     

Silver Sponsors:

Bronze Sponsors:

                                                                

Kit Carson County Health                                             Rural Communities                        

Service District                                                               Resource Center                          

                       Plains Medical   

       Yuma District Hospital            Center– Limon

 

 

 

                                          

Lt. Governor Barbara O'Brien was a guest

speaker at the Burlington Symposium. She

addressed the different health issues that 

affect rural Colorado and our communities.  

Lorenzo Olivas, MPH, did a presentation at both Burlington and Sterling about minority health concerns and the development of initiatives to support the Healthy People 2010 goal of eliminating health disparities.

 

Above Chris Armijo CFFC, MSPH, facilitated the

video "Hold Your Breath" and the follow up discussion

at both Burlington and Sterling.

 

 

Report all problems to Webmaster@rural-solutions.org