Despite funding cuts, Wardenburg’s Community Health Education Department, will continue distributing free condoms and cold care kits on campus this year.
Last March, the University of Colorado Student Union cut many of the campus cost center’s budgets. The Legislative Council distributed $30 million among cost centers and student groups.
“Last year with the budget cut, the Community Health Center got targeted. I don’t know why,” said Robin Kolble, manager of the Community Health Education Department.
With the budget cuts, it looked like many of the programs that the center offers would be gone. Despite the decrease in money, services such as free condoms, HIV testing, cold care kits and spring break kits will continue.
“Every year, I kind of forget what to do, so when I get sick and when they happen to pass out the cold care kits, I know what I need,” said David Jones, 22, a junior integrative physiology major.
The smaller programs are here to stay, but many of the bigger events will have to be either eliminated or downsized, Kolble said.
“We are going to be doing things a lot more thoughtfully,” Kolble said. “This budget cut gives us time to examine our programs.”
The department left Wardenburg this week to a new location on Grandview Avenue.
The department has a lease at its new location for the fall, but hopes to soon be permanently located at the UMC.
UMC Director Carlos Garcia said he believes the Community Health Education Department will have a place in the UMC by the early part of spring semester.
Contact Campus Press Staff Writer Chelsea Holland at Chelsea.Holland@Colorado.edu
