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Get Back On Track
With Routine Vaccinations
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National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) observed in August is an annual observance that highlights the importance of getting recommended vaccines throughout your life. We know the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all aspects of life, including your ability to attend important appointments and receive routine vaccinations. During NIAM, we encourage you to talk to your doctor, nurse or healthcare provider to ensure you and your family are protected against serious diseases by getting caught up on routine vaccination.
For Parents: As your children head back to school this fall, it’s particularly important for you to work with your child’s doctor or nurse to make sure they get caught up on missed well-child visits and recommended vaccines.
Remember to take care of yourself too! Make sure to receive any vaccines you need to stay healthy. Use CDC’s adult vaccine assessment tool to see which vaccines might be right for you.
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For Those Who Might Become or Are Pregnant or Breastfeeding and Children Ages 1 – 11 Years
Fish provide key nutrients that support a child’s brain development.
Fish are part of a healthy eating pattern and provide key nutrients during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and/or early childhood to support a child’s brain development. Read more
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Healthy Recipe
New Orleans Red Beans
Get the recipe from the The Association of Black Cardiologists. . . Click here
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Fitness Tips
Cardio Counts
Cardiovascular exercise (also known as aerobic exercise) involves movement that gets your heart rate up to improve how your body uses oxygen.
Cardio is considered to be an essential part of any exercise program.
Cardio can help you:
- Strengthen heart and lungs
- Reduce stress and improve mood
- Lower blood pressure
- Lose or maintain weight
- Reduce risk of heart disease and some types of cancer
- Sleep better
- Build up endurance so you can be active longer
Any amount of cardiovascular exercise has benefits for your health. But different intensities of cardiovascular exercise can be right for different people. Read more
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Get Vaccinated!
For CDC's latest COVID-19 vaccines visit cdc.gov
Graphics: Courtesy of CDC
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Awareness Update
Watch ABC COVID-19 Awareness Update Video: Tested Positive?
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Association of Black Cardiologists
2400 N Street, NW, Suite 200 • Washington, DC 20037
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Good Health Wins was launched through a partnership between the National Council of Negro Women and Vaccinate Your Family to provide reliable information about the COVID-19 vaccines to communities being devastated by the pandemic. Good Health Wins (Women’s Immunization Networks) seeks to raise awareness of the impact of timely immunizations for people of all ages and protect families and individuals from vaccine-preventable diseases. To learn more about Good Health WINs, COVID-19, and vaccinations visit https://goodhealthwins.org/
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Why the Urgency Around Boosters? |
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Maryland Health Connection is Maryland’s official health insurance marketplace. You can compare health plans and costs side-by-side and enroll in quality health and dental insurance for you and your family.
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The National Folk Festival
The National Folk Festival is an exuberant traveling festival that celebrates the diverse cultural expressions of 21st-century Americans, the National Folk Festival is produced by the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) in partnership with communities around the country. In 2022, the National celebrates its 81st year in Salisbury, Maryland. For more information about the National Folk Festival Activities check its website.
Rev. Dr. Gertie Loretta Hurley is one of the Craft Artists featured at the Festival. See below.
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Gertie L. Hurley
Black doll making Bowie, Maryland
Gertie Hurley has made over 10,000 dolls across the past half century. She is literally surrounded by them–upon entering her foyer, visitors are greeted by a life-size doll and its smaller companions as if
arriving at a surprise party. An entrepreneur as well as an education and healthy-living advocate, Hurley champions the many benefits of Black cloth dolls. Handmade white cloth dolls were popular among early American settlers. However, enslaved children were not allowed to play
with white cloth dolls, so their mothers made them Black cloth dolls. Black cloth dolls were even found among items left in hideouts along the Underground Railroad. Patterns for Black dolls weren’t produced until the first half of the 1900s, though. Explaining the growing practice for Black young girls to make their own Black doll with other family members, Hurley expresses that “it may be just a simple doll, but they take pride in the doll because they made it and it looks like them.” Read more
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Taking Effective Action, Inc. is Proud to Introduce It's Healthy Me 123 Game
for Children Ages 4 to 8
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Currently available only on iOS |
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Mix and Mingle Coffee Lounge
Coming Soon!
We pride ourselves on providing a personalized dining and social experience. In collaboration with local coffee roasters, bakeries, wineries, micro-brewers, distillers, and artists to source the highest quality offerings. M&M serves a rotation of specialty coffees and specialty goods each month.
Mix and Mingle Coffee Lounge is a story of three friends with a mission to empower communities while using coffee as their vehicle to engage.
Hospitality, Service and Family driven. We offer quality savory hand crafted beverages, food, creative community workshops and a ghost kitchen space.
MIX AND MINGLE COFFEE LOUNGE
8923 Woodyard Road
Clinton, Maryland 20735
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Word(s) for the Week:
YOU HAVE PURPOSE
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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:17
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God has a divine plan for each of our lives. We are the chosen generation. A generation appointed and anointed with gifts of HOPE, FAITH and LOVE. Today, I encourage you to let your love and light shine for all to see that God is the divine source of life, love and everlasting peace. His will and way is greater than anything that this world has to offer.
Though at times life can be complex, it is still rewarding in every way with Jesus the Christ leading the way. So, take solace in knowing that God is with you every step of the way. He is with you even in those moments of struggle and seasons of delay.
His love for you remains the same, unconditional, unfailing and undeniable. I pray that you are forever blessed, healed and filled with
the radiant light of God.
Read: Matthew 27:11-14, 50-54
Heavenly Father:
You are worthy to be praised. You are the God of love, peace and joy. You are a sovereign God that sits high and looks low. Thank you for being such a loving and forgiving God. Help me to love and forgive others as you have loved and forgiven me. In the mighty name of Jesus the Christ. Amen
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—Minister Domitria Angelina Vieira
Assistant Director
Health Ministry Team
Love AME Church • Largo, MD 20774
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We welcome your support. For more than 16 years Taking Effective Action, Inc. (TEA) has worked to improve health education and awareness to persons in the Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia communities and beyond. We are striving to help individuals and families live longer, healthier and more productive lives. Please partner with us by your in-kind or financial donation. We appreciate any help —no amount is too small $1.00, $5.00 and up. To donate click here. Please watch the short video below that summarizes some of the things we are doing in the communities we serve.
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"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”
― Herophilus
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The latest Tweets from Taking Effective Action (TEA) (@Teaction4health).
TEA is a 501(c)(3) organization that provides education and supportive services in order to assist community members in reducing some of the health disparities they encounter.
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Mailing Address
P.O. Box 4433
Upper Marlboro, MD 20775
240-394-8327
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