The Nashville Promise Zone Infrastructure workgroup will host a virtual town hall on COVID-19 vaccination education for residents of the Nashville Promise Zone (NPZ) and beyond, in partnership with MDHA and Neighborhood Health. The virtual town hall is a part of a series that the workgroup will continue to host in an effort to educate NPZ residents that have limited access to COVID-19 resources. This virtual town hall will include information from experts who are working to protect Nashville’s residents from COVID-19 and the Delta Variant. They will take questions from all who attend.

NPZ Infrastructure Workgroup Goal: Increase access and awareness of transportation and infrastructure-related inequities affecting residents within the NPZ

This event will be moderated by the Civic Design Center’s Design Director, Eric Hoke.

Panelists

Paige Hopkins is the COVID-19 Resource Navigator at MDHA. Paige acts as a central contact to mobilize COVID-19 resources and facilitate logistics of resource delivery. Since January, Paige has been working to connect MDHA residents to COVID-19 vaccinations. Working with a variety of community partners, vaccinations have been offered on-site at properties, as well as at local clinics where transportation has been provided to those who do not have access.

John Walker is a native of Nashville Tennessee, where he is employed with Nashville Development and Housing Agency as a Social Service Coordinator for twenty-two years. His responsibilities include the maintenance of successful living by providing resources for Mental Health, Physical Health, educational, and financial health.

He accomplishes those successful living goals by monitoring the ongoing needs of resident that reside in affordable high-rise apartments by responding to environmental, and cultural issues that are common in low-income housing that inherently affect their living environment. In addition, he also includes programs that use the existing talents of those that continue to explore their various desire to give back to the community that they live in.

To further accomplish the successful living goals of MDHA resident he maintain a working relationship with agencies and organizations that give assistance for residents providing food, rental assistance, insurance, financial advice, health care, advice on social government benefits, police protection, and etc.

Challenges in his position are to maintain a creative balance that responds to ongoing issues that are imminent and long-term by casework management, counseling, and group discussion.

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