Workforce Development

In order to support workforce development within the health departments, the NENCPPH formed a taskforce to identify needs and strategies to address those needs.  The taskforce reviewed and tweaked survey assessment tools.  The resulting assessment was shared with the health departments in the NENCPPH, and completed by all levels of staff.  From the survey a few major areas of training needs were identified, including stress management, team building, conflict management, and leadership skills. 

In order to address the training needs, …
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Health Care Reforms

Seeking to position local health departments within the NENCPPH to be effective partners in health care reform, a health care management workgroup met to consider how the health departments can best position themselves and demonstrate to others that they are effective in providing care management as North Carolina transitions to managed care.  Interviews with some case managers from the local health departments (LHDs), along with some of their clients, were interviewed for inclusion in a document demonstrating the LHDs value in providing …
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Healthy Weight Promotion Initiatives

The Northeastern North Carolina Partnership for Public Health (NENCPPH) has supported a variety of healthy weight promotion initiatives, including Faithful Families Eating Smart and Moving More (now called Faithful Families Thriving Communities), the CDC funded Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Stroke Prevention Program, the regional Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), the Partners in Community Health (PICH) regional healthy foods coalition, worksite wellness programs, and the regional walking challenge.  NENCPPH also worked to increase awareness of healthy weight initiatives throughout the region, in …
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Other Activities

  • Established a workgroup to discuss behavioral health needs and initiatives regionally
  • Networking with Healthy Carolinians task forces, Partnerships to Improve Community Health (PICH), and other community coalitions and organizations to share ideas, identify community problems and resources and address public health problems
  • Developing ways to address common internal needs of the partnering health departments