Tri-County Health Department is now offering birth certificates in Castle Rock, Colorado. Birth certificates help establish identity, parentage, age, and citizenship. Birth certificates are useful for a number of purposes throughout a person's life including insurance, school registration, sports, and State identification card, including a driver's license, passport/travel, benefits including social security, public/social services and veteran's benefits.

The new Castle Rock Office is located at 410 S. Wilcox St. Castle Rock, CO 80104 (one block south of Plum Creek Parkway on Wilcox Street).

*Other Birth Certificate Offices:

• Administration Office, 6162 S. Willow Drive, Suite 100, Greenwood Village, CO 80111

• Commerce City Office, 4201 E. 72nd Avenue, Unit D, Commerce City, CO 80022

The Birth Certificate Offices are open Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Castle Rock and Commerce City offices close for lunch from 12pm-1pm.

Phone number is (720) 200-1401, se habla español. For more information, click here.

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See if you qualify for WIC and request an appointment at: www.tchd.org/WIC

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Steps to Safe Spring Cleaning 

It is spring and wildlife are coming out of hibernation. As of 3/22/18, the state of Colorado has already had 68 animals test positive for rabies (67 skunks and 1 alpaca), and last year at this time there were just 9 positive animals. Rabies reservoir species in Colorado include bats, skunks, raccoons, and foxes. Increased skunk rabies in urban areas increases the risk of spillover into domestic pets; rabies in domestic pets increases the risk of exposure to people.

 

Report any pet or human exposure to wildlife immediately to Tri-County Health Department (TCHD). For human exposure to domestic animals (i.e. dog and cat bites), please use the updated Animal Bite/Exposure Reporting Form . Dog and cat bites are sent to animal control for follow up. Incidents with wildlife are investigated by TCHD. As always, remind others not to touch or approach wildlife. Vaccinating pets and livestock is the best protection from rabies exposures.

Contact Information:

http://www.tchd.org  or

call Communicable Disease at: (303) 220-9200

After hours: (303) 461-2342

Make an emergency preparedness plan today. In the event of an emergency, you should be prepared to be self-reliant for up to three days without utilities and electricity, water service, access to a supermarket or local services, and possibly without response from police, fire or rescue. We encourage households, businesses and communities to prepare and plan for emergencies, including natural disasters, mass casualties, biological and chemical threats, radiation emergencies, and terrorist attacks. Prepare a plan tailored to your family's daily living needs and responsibilities. Emergency Supply Kit Checklists can be downloaded for family as well as a list for your pets and car preparedness.

The effects of secondhand smoking are just as harmful on our furry friends as they are on humans.

 

Cats are known to constantly groom themselves by licking their fur, and if they live in a smoking household, they are also licking the particles of smoke left behind from the cigarettes that lands on their fur.

 

Along with smoke, if an animal ingests a cigarette butt or other forms of tobacco such as gum, the patch, or chew it can be toxic to them. Nicotine is poisonous to animals and can lead to vomiting, abnormal heart rate, tremors, or weakness. Dogs are extremely susceptible to this and are most likely to develop cancer from the smoke.

 

Birds are also a common pet that fall subject to secondhand smoke where their respiratory systems are extremely sensitive to pollution. The bottom line is, pets are our best friends. We want to provide them with the best health outcomes possible. If you would like to know more about tobacco and pet health, visit petpoisonhelpline.com or tchd.org for more information.