Public Health - Delta (North)

Provides public health nursing services. Prenatal and Early Years services include prenatal nutrition and lifestyle information; education and information on pregnancy and childbirth; postpartum support, including physical and emotional well-being for mothers and babies; breastfeeding assessment and support; and child health clinics and immunizations. School-age Health services include immunization, health promotion, and nutrition education, as well as vision, hearing, speech, and dental screening. Services are coordinated through local school districts; no referral is required. Serves North Delta. Hours are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday.

Provides harm reduction supplies, along with harm reduction education and referrals to health services, addictions services, and other social supports. Needle exchange services include distribution of clean needles, sterile water, and alcohol wipes; disposal of used needles; and health information to encourage safer injection practices. Provides safer drug use supplies such as crack pipe mouthpiece and screens, and injection supplies. Also provides safer sex supplies, including condoms. Offers confidential testing of substances to detect contaminants such as fentanyl; call to confirm service availability. Also offers opioid users with free Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to reverse the effects of overdoses from opioids like heroin, methadone, morphine, oxycodone, and fentanyl; training can be provided. Clinic hours are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday.