Notes from the 4.25.2020 COVID Tele-Town Hall

Saturday 4.25.2020

NAACP COVID-19 Town Hall Dr. Dinah Crayton moderating

2:30pm - 

Janice Lucas, Heather Ogilvie, Edwin (Ned) Ailes, 850-769-6938, Rev Rufus Wood, Matt Shack, Carrie, Nancy Vietor, Pamela Donar, Amanda Alexander, Samantha A, Hines, Donna Pilson, Catherine Anglin-Greene, 850-276-0459, 850-630-3771, Terry Williams, Samar

Edwin (Ned) Ailes Pres CEO Life Management Center, Licensed therapist and school counselor - Incorporated in 1954 - Currently cover 6 counties -Mental and life coping-address 12,000 people annually. Anxiety and depression are the top concerns. Sliding scale and serve all 850-522-4485 24/7 help line, Tele-psychiatry, pharmacy, phlebotamy on site. Keiser Foundation reported that half of the adult population feels negatively affected by the pandemic. Offices on 15th St in Panama City, Port St Joe, Blountstown, and Mariana. Baker Act program for adult or child with mental health problem expressing self-harm or harm of others. Can be initiated by the courts, schools or a mental health provider. Baker Act gets people to patient care facilities. Life Management is using the Telehealth platform for 95% of its service.  

Ann Wing Big Ben Community-based care. 6 county area housed out of a Bay County Office

Contracts w CARE and Life Management Center. Agencies are open and offering services, with telephonic and Telemed support. Self care is very important now. Rise of removals of youth. 29 children since DCF started working from home. There is an increase in abuse and anecdotal support for rise in domestic violence. Works with the Gulf Coast Children’s Advocacy Center. Anchorage Children’s Home is open. They are still running their center.

Care Hiba Rahim - CAIR  - civil rights organization 

CAIR – Council on American-Islamic Relations

Have COVID information on their website

Immigration attorneys available to assist those with issues.

In the post COVID-19 world there are major shifts. Detention and imigration agencies are scrutinizing to a greater degree. The attorneys suggest everyone overdocument. Log every receipt, retain every document, etc.

Videos in many languages that explain the rights people have .

Assist Muslim inmates

Inmates are very concerned about contracting COVID-19, although Hiba has not had colls from those with COVID in Florida

Janice Lucas - LEAD Coalition

LEAD Coalition of Bay Co is a Community Development Corporation that began in 2012 in response to gun violence. The common denominator was socio-economic conditions with larger urban communites where the gun violence exists. October 10, 2018 changed the direction of LEAD Coalition. How can we focus on violent crime when issues of housing and food rising to the top. Funding has been received to create a FaithBuilders Network.

Aligned with a network of people in the Resilient American Communites that are working to help the community help itself. The LEAD coalition has formed a Work Group Leadership Team of organizations that are on the ground working. Glenwood, Millville and St Andrews “The Hill”

Showed the Dashboard, maps, and described the Neighborhood Health Navigators. Showed the current chart which builds to 64 cases.

Heather Ogilvie Bay County Community Library

The library is open and librarians are there to help. The library helps the community build resilience. The library has a non-emergency COVID hotline. Have paper copies of Florida Reemployment form Full spectrum of tools. There are online cources. The goal is connecting people to each other and to resources.

Dr. Russell Wright First Providence Community Church

Funerals and spiritual guidance

The faith community: all of us are affected. The virus does not discriminate. Pastors can not speak from the pulpit, but are learning to work virtually. People are depressed, losing their jobs, families are having difficulties. People forgot Panama City was hit with Hurricane Michael, and the community came together to address it.

The seniors are afraid and can’t go to speak to their pastors. There is no religious bias in this pandemic. Directly or indirectly all are affected. Morticians and pastors who conducted funerals are now dead.

Graveside services. Limit 10 at a time for viewing. Post that the mortician is following CDC guidance to keep us all safe. Mortuary 1547 Lisenby Ave across from Piggly Wiggly 5209 E 11th St is the Providence Baptist Church address

Serve on Mortician professional association, an helps with disposition of COVID victims

Donna Pilson asks if there is a pastors network. Across the churches, are pastors reacing out to the elders. Can we push information through the pasters to the elderly? It’s hard to get pastors to the table, but pastors are reaching out to people without technology. Lay people can get pastors to the table better than pastors can get pastors to the table. Facebook live every other day.

Pastor Lynva Masslieno Kingdom Impact Center

Chat Box Content

From Janice Lucas to Everyone: (03:17 PM)


Life Management  850-522-4485


From Samantha A. (CARE)  to Everyone: (03:18 PM)


Thank you.


From Donna Pilson to Everyone: (03:38 PM)


The Community Resource Center (CRC) is closed to the public to receive face to face services, however, individuals can still call the center and be connected to the appropriate resource.

From Hiba Rahim (CAIR Florida) to Everyone: (03:51 PM)


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From Dr. Russell Allen Wright, Sr. to Everyone: (03:54 PM)


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From Samantha A. (CARE)  to Everyone: (03:55 PM)


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From Hines to Everyone: (03:56 PM)


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From Catherine Anglin-Greene to Everyone: (04:06 PM)


Community Resource Center (850)215-8800

From Janice Lucas to Everyone: (04:18 PM)


LEAD Coalition of Bay County, Inc. www.leadabetterlife.org   ***@***.***

From Catherine Anglin-Greene to Everyone: (04:19 PM)


The Panama City VA HUDVASH Program provides assistance to Veterans who are homeless or have a history of being chronically homeless. We still have available vouchers. For assistance, please call Catherine Anglin-Greene, LCSW at (850)758-6786 or Shayma Salman, LCSW at (850)238-5223.. Veterans can also contact the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans at (877)424-3838. If in crisis, please contact the Veterans Crisis Line at (800)273-8255.

From Janice Lucas to Everyone: (04:21 PM)


http://www.nwrls.com/lifelong_learning.html    Bay County Public Library
Census 2020  Response Rates https://2020census.gov/en/response-rates.html

From Heather Ogilvie to Everyone: (04:30 PM)


Ben Franklin’s in My Bathroom! by Candace Fleming
Stamped: Racism, Antiracist, and You by Jason Reynolds with Ibram X. Kendrick
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
I am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

From Heather Ogilvie to Everyone: (04:41 PM)


Heather Ogilvie ***@***.***


From Janice Lucas to Everyone: (04:43 PM)


Dr. Russell Wright           850-647-2077                    Wright Mortuary                                         1547 Lisenby Avenue                           Providence Baptist Church                            5209 E 11th Street

From Catherine Anglin-Greene to Everyone: (04:44 PM)


Thank you so much to all the panelists. You all did a wonderful job!


From Donna Pilson to Everyone: (04:44 PM)


For Dr. Wright....are you hearing from most pastors in the area that they are reaching out to all of their members for wellness checks?  Outreach continues to be a concern and this may be a good way to get info out and assess needs.

From ann.wing to Everyone: (04:53 PM)


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Anchorage 850-763-7102
Children's Advocacy Center 850-872-7760


From Aileen to Everyone: (04:58 PM)


Mask disinfection education is needed. Some people are reusing masks. It would be helpful for non-washable N-95 masks. I have been steaming my masks with hydrogen peroxide.