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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mayor
Bates to Join Local Leaders in Announcing Effort to Provide Access to
Health Insurance for Every Berkeley Child Berkeley, CA –
Mayor Tom Bates will join school and community leaders at a press
conference on Monday to announce an effort to provide access to health
insurance for every child in Berkeley.
The plan includes a number of local efforts and support for the
statewide Californians for Healthy Kids initiative. Local efforts include
programs like LifeLong Medical Care, a nonprofit health provider that
receives funding from the City of Berkeley.
LifeLong has forty University of California, Berkeley, student
volunteers that work to contact parents of uninsured children in Berkeley
public schools to help them enroll in public health insurance programs. “With the support of statewide efforts like Californians for Healthy
Kids and our local community agencies, we can provide access to health
insurance for every Berkeley child,” said Mayor Tom Bates. “On Monday, we will outline our commitment to reaching that
goal.” WHO:
Mayor Tom Bates, Berkeley Superintendent
of Schools Michele Lawrence, LifeLong Medical Care Executive Director
Marty Lynch, Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action, and others. WHAT:
Press Conference on Providing Health Insurance
to Every Child in Berkeley WHERE:
Berkeley Unified School District Administration Building 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
WHEN:
Monday, April 4, 10:30 AM # # # |
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