The Uintah County Teen Outreach Program has teamed up with TriCounty Health Department to help babies and raise awareness for congenital heart defects. The Teen Outreach Program is in both Uintah and Duchesne County and the youth acquire 20 hours of community service learning. This year the group chose Little Hats, Big Hearts as their focus. “Our goal is to be able to donate 50 red crocheted or knitted hats to be given to newborns during the month of February,” shares TriCounty Health Educator Katie Lucio. Donations need to be in cotton or acrylic yarn and must be submitted by January 5th. TriCounty is even providing red yarn for youth to use to make the infant hats at home. Donation boxes will be at the Roosevelt and Vernal health departments and all are asked to consider helping this worthy goal.
