community now and there's a lot of myths around shisha shisha is in fact with nicotine nicotine being an addictive drug one session of so of shisha forty five minutes to an hour gives the equivalent to nicotine and tar of smoking two hundred cigarettes and so it's not a safe alternative to smoking regular cigarettes lots of harm done by shisha and it's not really historically a part of the somali community but has become that recently and it's causing much harm to the somali community with the illness and death from nicotine addiction hello my name is dr ashraf i am one of the sweetest medical center doctors who are here today with multiple representatives from the swedish area multiple different hospitals and clinics we have on our table here some materials and outreach that we are distributing sue the health board and the community that is coming here today at this table we're offering blood glucose screening which is a check for diabetes one of our doctors is here using an interpreter volunteer we have nurses from our clinic and then along the firewall we're checking for blood pressures screening for hypertension and other very important illness in the corner we have residents and doctors who are available to counsel patients if they have abnormal values we're really excited to be here today and excited to be engaged in the somali health community get screens routinely and regularly because finding cancer early is the best way to treat it successfully we are available to help people who don't have health insurance and we are also annual somali health or health fair as you can see there's a lot of people behind me there's people in rooms the reason we're doing the health care is to get the community to understand the importance of preventative health care we have people who don't have access to regular health care we have doctors here and nurses and different resources within the community and we're encouraging people to come down and meet with providers so that they understand the importance of preventive care i think we all understand somalis it's hard for us to go to the doctors at early stages to receive the care that is necessary the majority of the time what happens is we end up going one where at a later stage and sometimes it's very difficult to find treatment especially in the cases of cancer so the important thing is to go to your doctor regularly get the screenings that you need annually so that you can if something changes within your body the provider can catch it at an early stage hello everybody the salaam aleikum my name is ion i'm the interim program manager of the seattle public library community engagement services are here today to let you all know that the library is your place we have twenty seven libraries in every single neighborhood we offer so many services and programs including hallmark help e s l classes computer classes somalis story time so really come visit me i work at the downtown library my name is i on adam anytime if you have any questions or you have seen he can't speak english too well just come visit me and i'll connect it to any resources that you need thank you hi everybody my name is new in the community program manager with may work or help we're very happy to be here at the in my name is stephanie a blend i am an intern at the king county journal or program which is part of king county's in seattle public health and our program provides health education outreach regarding the former asarco copper smelter that wasn't a coma so it was a copper factory that operated for about one hundred years and through the smokestack there was arsenic and lead contaminants that settled across this area in the puget sound so our role is to let the public know about this potential health issue so arsenic and lead are chemicals that affect developmental parts of the brain and can also lead to some several types of cancers so there's no immediate health risk but little bit of exposure over a long period of time is a concern so our program we're reaching see the speaking community spanish speaking community and now the somali speaking community and we just want to let them know about different healthy actions they can take to reduce hi my name is little i came out today to volunteer with and help out with the flu shots and i'm working with a nurse and another nursing student and it's really wonderful to have all this tamale professionals coming out and helping the community and it's really great you know connecting and meeting people and we need more people to come in and do this kind of thing i'm a nurse at harbor view and i work with people who have diabetes and with me is in the sta sofia and they work at harborview and we are here at the some ali health fair to help people learn about diabetes the most important thing when people have diabetes and even to prevent diabetes is t clinics we're really proud to provide high quality excellent care for our somali families and we've been doing we've been working for many many years serving generations of somali families many of our services include besides regular checkups and immunizations we also have a great team of pediatric mental health specialists including pediatric psychiatry psychologists we also  who is our somali community cultural mediator and helps to coordinate a lot of the patient care at our clinic and we'll probably see some of the most complicated complex medical issues in the community  whether they be a refugee that has just come to the united states or a family a large family that have a child with medically complex issues but we have a strong comprehensive  care team and we're very happy to be working with the community to provide services whether they be caught medically complicated or whether they just be here need a check up or a physical for school so we really welcome year so