The Communicable Disease Program investigates communicable diseases, responds to outbreaks, provides education and referrals, documents disease incidence, and works closely with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
Our Title X Clinic provides individuals the information and means to exercise personal choice in determining the number and spacing of their children. The Family Planning Program services are confidential. Services are provided without regard to religion, race, color, national origin, disability, age, sex, number or pregnancies, or marital status.
This program supports families with children/youth with special health care needs through in-depth one-on-one care coordination services designed to enhance the care giving capabilities of these families. HCP provides care coordination, information, and serves to ensure Weld County children have access to and receive the health care they need to thrive.
Effective July 1, 2020, the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment will no longer provide the Healthy Communities Program for Health First Colorado (Medicaid) and Colorado Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+). For more information, contact the Weld County Department of Human Services.
A collaborative effort to decrease rates of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) in Colorado, HPV Free Colorado uses a multidisciplinary approach to achieve a sustainable increase in completion of the HPV vaccine series for 11- to 17-year-olds through education and awareness campaigns.
The Weld County Health Department's Immunization Core Program provides education about communicable diseases, health risk reduction, and vaccine-preventable diseases for adults and children to Weld County residents, physician offices, schools, daycare facilities, long-term care facilities, and local businesses within the community. Routine and recommended immunizations for both children and adults are available in the clinic, occasionally during local community events and during outbreaks and epidemics.
The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) Program is a no-cost program for first-time, low income pregnant women. Each client is paired with a specially trained RN who visits clients in their home, beginning in pregnancy and continuing until the child is 2 years old. Clients are taught about normal child development, safety and security for their children and spacing subsequent pregnancy.
WCDPHE provides I-693 services for individuals who were admitted to the U.S. as refugees and are in the process of applying for their Green Card (permanent residence), as required by law. Vaccines also are administered as needed.
The Weld County Health Department's Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic Offers a full-service clinic for men and women including testing, treatment and exams for all sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Clinic services are intended to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and their complications such as infertility, HIV transmission, adverse outcomes of pregnancy and reproductive tract cancer.
The Women's Wellness Connection (WWC) Program offers free breast and cervical cancer screenings to eligible women in Weld County. The Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation, or WISEWOMAN, program works to provide cardiovascular screenings, risk reduction counseling, referrals, lifestyle programs, and other healthy behavior support options to improve control of hypertension and other cardiovascular disease risk factors.