Genesee County Human Services Committee

Mercy Flight looks to rebuild air, happy with ground response numbers

jfbeck_99_272012 — May 4, 2024, 8:02am

Mercy Flight Executive Vice President Scott Wooton reviews

Fiscal year 2023 was one of “rebuilding” due to the loss of helicopters and the tragic death of a pilot in April 2022. However, the number of ground ambulance activity hit a high, Mercy Flight Executive Vice President Scott Wooton says.

New hybrid youth bureau-child welfare job considered for Genesee County DSS

jfbeck_99_272012 — Mar 8, 2024, 7:55am

File Photo of Genesee County Social Services Commissioner Carla Mindler.
Photo by Joanne Beck

Genesee County Social Services Commissioner Carla Mindler is hoping that someone out there can fill a newly proposed hybrid job — pending county Legislature approval — that would draw from youth bureau and child welfare in a merged position she feels would best meet the needs of her department.

Lead, wastewater analysis and grant programs all part of GO Health annual report

jfbeck_99_272012 — Feb 6, 2024, 7:58am

Public Health Director Paul Pettit took a deep breath before launching into his annual report for Human Services Committee members Monday, covering everything from lead and radon poisoning to drug and virus wastewater analysis, skyrocketing preschool transportation costs, and some good news for Genesee and Orleans counties’ accreditation progress.

GO Health pursues national accreditation to demonstrate efficiency, best use of public funds

jfbeck_99_272012 — Feb 6, 2024, 7:55am

Genesee Orleans Health Department has until November to get all of its ducks in a row — an updated strategic plan and quality improvement projects added to some 90 percent of already completed requirements — to obtain state accreditation, Public Health Director Paul Pettit says.

STEP takes a leap over to St. Anthony's on the Southside

jfbeck_99_272012 — Dec 5, 2023, 7:55am

2022 File Photo of Carla Mindler when she was explaining a need for Social Services to fill the gap left when STAR was terminated with the Student Transformation and Empowerment Program (STEP), and on Monday, she explained that STEP was now in need -- of new space -- since its current contract at Robert Morris was being terminated after this school year.
Photo by Joanne Beck

In October 2022, Social Services Commissioner Carla Mindler was figuring out how to fill a gap when the STAR program ended, and the Student Transformation and Empowerment Program (STEP) was put in its place and operated at Robert Morris in Batavia.

This year, Mindler had to find new space for STEP when she learned that Robert Morris would no longer be able to house the program and its middle and high school student participants after the end of this school year, she said.