BPHC Bulletin: Your Plans for Family Vaccination Clinics and New Playbook

To further support the administration of primary COVID-19 vaccines, boosters, and pediatric doses, HRSA is encouraging health centers to consider hosting and/or participating in family vaccination clinics. Family vaccination clinics are intended for the whole family—offering primary vaccinations and booster shots, and the pediatric vaccine for kids ages 5-11. As mentioned in our most recent Digest, we would like to get a better understanding of your health center’s plans for family vaccination clinics.

We’ve sent an email to the Project Director identified in HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks for your health center. This email came from BPHCAnswers@hrsa.gov and has subject line, “Your Health Center’s Plans for Family Vaccination Clinics.”

We’d like a single representative for your health center (regardless of the number of sites) to share whether or not your health center plans to host or participate in family vaccination clinics that are designed to make it easy and comfortable for families to get COVID-19 shots.

Please share your answer by 11:59 p.m. your local time on Friday, December 10.

Based on your response, you’ll receive a single follow-up question:

• If Yes (you are planning family vaccination clinics), how many family vaccination clinics do you anticipate hosting/participating in by Monday, January 31, 2022?
• If No (you are NOT planning family vaccination clinics), we will ask if there is any additional information or support HRSA can provide to help your health center host or participate in family vaccination clinics.

Thank you in advance for responding to this ask. This information will help us better understand how best to support you over the next few months as we continue our COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

If you have questions about the Health Center Program and COVID-19, please contact Health Center Program Support online. Select “Coronavirus Inquiries (COVID-19)” as the issue type—the third option on the “Health Center or EHBs Question” screen.

You can also call Health Center Program Support at 877-464-4772, option 2, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET, Monday-Friday (except federal holidays).

Family Vaccination Site Playbook To support your community-based efforts to get families vaccinated against COVID-19, HHS developed a Family Vaccination Site Playbook, now posted on WeCanDoThis.hhs.gov, along with other materials to support your efforts to educate your community about primary and booster vaccination.