“Vaccinate Fair Haven” Campaign Readied

The Fair Haven community is partnering with Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) to launch a ​“Vaccinate Fair Haven” campaign to register all eligible residents for their Covid-19 shot.

The Fair Haven Community Management Team (CMT) learned about the campaign during its virtual monthly meeting Thursday evening.

The campaign officially launching March 13 is asking for community volunteers to help with knocking door-to-door throughout Fair Haven to encourage residents to get vaccinated.

The campaign will use the ​“get out the vote” model by going door to door to residents, offering rides to the Wilbur Cross mass vaccination clinic, and the option to have a volunteer nurse or physician administer vaccination to homebound individuals, said Fair Havener Kica Matos.

The campaign is looking for volunteers who can give rides to vaccination appointments, offer information in Spanish, and do door-to-door canvassing. Those interested can sign up here.

“We are determined to make sure that we get our entire neighborhood vaccinated,” Matos said. 

During Thursday’s CMT meeting, CEO of FHCHC Suzanne Lagarde gave a vaccination update on FHCHC’s mass Covid-19 vaccination clinic at Wilbur Cross High School. Lagarde said the clinic is administering about 300 vaccinations per day and has the capacity to do at least 500.

Lagarde informed eligible residents to send an email to [email protected] with their name, date of birth, address and contact info to have an appointment scheduled at the Cross clinic.

Lagarde said she met recently station state Social Services and Acting Commissioner Public Health Commissioner Deidre Gifford. At the meeting, Lagarde requested exception from following state age guidelines with a batch of Covid vaccines received from the federal government rather than the state. Lagarde is asking that residents help advocate that FHCHC be able to use the federal vaccines to vaccinate its patients regardless of age. ​“I worry that some people are not going to come back,” she said. ​“Free us from the bonds of the state guidelines.”

The meeting participants also heard from four organizations requesting letters of support for requests to receive federal Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) grant money distributed annually through the city. The organizations included Student Parenting & Family Services, Clifford Beers, Gather New Haven, and Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Hartford (CCAOH) .

The New Haven Free Public Library is also asking that Spanish-speaking residents fill out a survey to give the library input on how to better assist non-english speakers. Click here to take the survey.

Click here if you are interested in signing up to volunteer with the ​“Vaccinate Fair Haven” campaign. You can also email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)