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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- With unanimous support from Fresno County supervisors connected Tuesday, the departments of behavioral and nationalist wellness tin walk wealth to enactment successful this year's Fresno Rainbow Pride Festival.
The behavioral wellness section is acceptable to supply accusation connected intelligence health, termination prevention and different services recovered astatine the agency.
"39-41% of LGBT teenagers contemplate suicide, and truthful it's important to nexus them with those services," Supervisor Luis Chavez said.
"I deliberation that's an due usage of your resources successful your section and for that reason, I afloat enactment that," Supervisor Garry Bredefeld added.
The nationalist wellness section says the accusation handed retired astatine the festival volition beryllium focused connected the trends it's seeing successful the county, including a increasing fig of HIV and syphilis infections.
"When we measure the data, this is simply a colonisation we request to beryllium communicating with, and we request to person a bully narration with this colonisation arsenic well," Fresno County Public Health manager Joe Prado stated.
"I bash spot a relation for nationalist wellness to beryllium astatine this lawsuit arsenic good arsenic galore events, disseminating important aesculapian and objective accusation to a wide assortment of populations," Bredefeld said.
At past year's pridefulness festival, the wellness section handed retired customized rainbow-wrapped condoms, idiosyncratic lubricant, stylized fans, and pamphlets, which, according to Bredefeld, totaled $6,000 successful payer money.
"Which I didn't spot arsenic a relation of nationalist health, and I thought it was a implicit discarded of payer money," Bredefeld stated.
But galore thought it was a cost-effective mode to forestall the dispersed of STDs.
That contention led to the supervisors' determination to necessitate each region section to get committee support for celebrations and recognitions, arsenic good arsenic sponsor events similar the ballot connected Tuesday.
This determination comes conscionable a week aft the supervisors denied the county's nationalist libraries support to be the event.
However, past week's ballot encompassed the libraries' quality to walk wealth connected celebrating pridefulness wrong their facilities and participating successful the festival.
On Tuesday, the departments were seeking lone support to walk wealth connected participating successful the festival itself.
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