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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SERVICES Our environmental health support and services work throughout Bristol Bay to promote community health. • Drinking water and sanitary wastewater • Solid waste management • Utilities administration, operation, and maintenance • Rabies vaccination and animal bite investigation • Injury prevention • Air quality
TOBACCO PREVENTION AND CESSATION PROGRAM BBAHC offers tobacco prevention and cessation services. Tobacco cessation services are available to everyone in the region. • Prevention education: schools, community health fairs, village clinics, other health-promoting activities • Cessation services: enrollment and free counseling • Resource materials for community members
Contact: (907) 842-3396
Contact: (907) 842-9292
Alaska’s Tobacco Quit Line: 1-800-QUIT-NOW (800-784-8669) Text READY at 34191 to enroll with Alaska’s Tobacco Quit Line WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC) Our WIC program provides healthy foods and nutrition education to income- eligible pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women and children up to the age of five years. Contact: (888) 842-2037
HEALTH EDUCATION • Health education, outreach programs, and direct services to community and individuals • Health Education Resource Library: cost- free lending library with books, DVDs, and other educational materials Contact: (907) 842-3398 INFANT LEARNING PROGRAM (ILP) ILP provides early intervention services to children up to three years of age who are experiencing or may be at risk for developmental delays. • Assessment, education, therapy services • Home-based and family-centered • Family service coordination
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Who can apply for WIC? • Pregnant women • Moms who just had a baby • Moms for one year if they are breastfeeding • M oms for six months if they are not breastfeeding • P arents or guardians of children under five years old
Contact: (907) 842-3398
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