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Accessibility Summit premieres in U.P.

HOUGHTON - Two Gogebic County health officials attended the first U.P. Accessibility Summit on Sept. 26 and 27 at Michigan Technological University in Houghton.

Kassi Huotari, executive director of the Gogebic Range Health Foundation, and Amy Nosal, a community health worker with the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department, participated in the event uniquely centered around the needs and benefits of increasing accessibility.

Increasing accessibility means creating spaces and attitudes that uplift an understanding of why and how to invite the largest variety of people possible.

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