We're really excited about our grand opening celebration and our capacity to provide much needed health care services to our young people. We hope the entire community will come and share this wonderful event with us, especially young people and their parents.

Community support of our program is outstanding. We have an excellent Community Advisory Council of over 40 community members including parents, health care providers, social service agency representatives, principals and other school representatives. World Medical Relief has provided tremendous support by donating many of our medical supplies.

We are hoping that members of our community will take the time to attend our Open House on Friday between 3 and 7 p.m. to learn about our services and to take advantage of all of the wonderful information that will be available at no charge. Parents will be able to enroll their youngsters for services, make appointments, talk to our medical provider and learn how to access our services.

We have a very exciting and entertaining day planned for all our guests. We have invited several other agencies to be on site with free helpful information and services for families and youth. There will be free refreshments, music and free Healthy Teens backpacks for youth who register for services at the Healthy Teens Community Care Center.

And for those who don't have that, we'll have a donation box where they can give a dollar.

It may not happen for years but we don't know, so our job as the health department is to be prepared for the worst case scenario.