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Through this project, the Northeastern Partnership increased its capacity to prevent, diagnose and medically manage diabetes among African Americans, and sought to reduce health disparities in the 19-county region.

The Diabetes Sentinel program was a collaboration of 30 African American churches and public health providers for diabetes prevention, outreach and policy change. Each participating congregation identified adult and youth leaders for training as lay advisors (Sentinels), created a committee to support this effort, established and implemented policies that promote healthy …
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This Tobacco-Free Colleges Initiative served 18-24 year olds attending college in Beaufort, Chowan, Dare, Edgecombe, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Pamlico and Pasquotank counties. Funding for the project was provided by a NC Health & Wellness Trust Fund grant (2006). Statewide efforts to address tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) have been primarily focused on youth ages 12-17 and adults. However, studies at the time showed that 18-24 year olds represented the only group in which smoking rates were rising …
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NENCPPH launched the mobile clinic project, Health in Motion, in northeastern North Carolina. The goal of the NENCPPH mobile clinic was to provide at risk populations access to Human immune virus (HIV) prevention and primary care and treatment services. The mobile clinic also visited communities to provide screenings for cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension, and infectious diseases. Health in Motion received funding from a Ryan White Title II grant and a Kate B. Reynolds grant.

The Northeastern Partnership’s Regional HIV Program expanded …
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Built on a consultant’s assessment of the billing practices of the region’s 11 local health departments (covering 19 counties) the NENCPPH created a work group which established a compendium of best practice policies and procedures to address billing and coding issues, provide benchmarks for performance and alerts for further action. This process has helped maximize reimbursements and resulted in the creation of a best practice manual used as a resource tool and training vehicle across the region.

In 2004, the NC legislature authorized the creation of “public health incubators,” innovative organizations that foster more effective and efficient allocations of resources. The incubators enable a “critical mass” of resources and shared activities that are often necessary to provide essential public health services and are otherwise unavailable to many of the under-resourced local health districts that are Incubator participants.

The Public Health Incubators are modeled after the Northeastern North Carolina Partnership for Public Health (NENCPPH) which was formed in …
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Conducted a health information campaign to reduce obesity and diabetes in the region.

In the past, the NENCPPH has worked with the North Carolina General Assembly to educate them about the need to provide funding to health departments for the delivery of core public health functions. Unlike some states, local health departments in North Carolina do not receive funding to carry out this important local health department role.