Small town vaccination outreach — including ‘the hard part’ — is daily challenge for S.A. students
Maria Felix-Ortiz, center, University of the Incarnate Word professor of psychology, talks to an attendee about the free COVID-19 and flu shots available at a health fair at Natalia High School last week. A grant is allowing college students to promote coronavirus prevention in rural areas as part of overall health and wellness.
When a COVID-19 vaccine became available, Teri Wootan and her family in Natalia got it with a two-hour round trip to Uvalde. Now a UIW psychology major, Wootan joined the outreach progrram and pitched the idea of partnering with Natalia officials to make her high school a focus of participation. The outreach began with a grant by the UIW Interfaith Youth Council to educate people on preventing the spread of COVID-19 through faith-based institutions. But last year UIW received a $149,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to partner with Texas A&M San Antonio and the Texas Department of State Health Services to promote vaccination against the disease.
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