Carole Collins This is Me

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1. 1. VidaenelValle.com

   www.vidaenelvalle.com/news/eng - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/22/2004   Last Visited: 1/12/2006

   Carole Collins, a coordinator at the West Modesto King Kennedy Neighborhood Collaborative, said she hopes the move is only temporary. The group intends to urge the county to provide WIC services in west Modesto in the future. She said that taking a bus to the Hackett Road center will be a challenge for a mother with three or four children in tow.

2. 2. West Modesto: Page 2

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   Published on: 10/22/2004   Last Visited: 5/24/2006

   Claudia, her mother, Juanita Jackson and her sister, Carole Collins, who is director of West Modesto King/Kennedy Neighborhood Collaborative, and the collaborative in general have stood beside and advocated for the neighborhood in numerous ways.

3. 3. www.sierrahealth.org

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   Published on: 5/5/2006   Last Visited: 3/10/2007

   Carole Collins would never credit the West Modesto/King Kennedy Neighborhood Collaborative with the creation of a clinic that offers medical care and a variety of other services to a long-deprived neighborhood.
   
   "The discussions really started many years ago - probably 30 years ago," Collins explains. "The residents have always asked for some form of health facility that could meet their needs."
   
   But she does credit the collaborative with being in the right place at the right time - and with the right approach - to push the clinic concept into a reality. The facility opened in May 2002.
   
   "It all happened on our watch. In 1997, Stanislaus County was closing down its hospital but county leaders were concerned about what that would mean to our area," Collins says.
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   "People were missing appointments and women were going without prenatal care," Collins says.
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   Collins says recent surveys show that people served at the clinic are coming from all over the county.
   
   "All of the different groups played a role; the whole community participated in the design and development of the center that they felt they needed," Collins says. "The result is that all of the community uses the center and it has become a wonderful asset for the whole county."
   
   For more information contact West Modesto/King Kennedy Neighborhood Collaborative Coordinator Carole Collins at (209) 522-6902.