Knowing Your Audience

Knowing that we could best accomplish our mission through community partnerships, we launched an assessment phase to collect information about vulnerable populations and the agencies that serve them and to develop relationships with these community agencies.

Shortly after widespread power outages caused from the windstorm, several Carbon Monoxide poisoning cases among immigrant and limited English proficiency patients were being reported. Public Health – Seattle & King County mobilized the internal Communications Team and Vulnerable Populations Action Team (VPAT) to launch an intensive outreach campaign – relying heavily on relationships established with community based organizations and human services agencies to help reach community members. Learn more about the Seattle Windstorm