A regional substance use information campaign is currently being developed by a regional substance misuse taskforce to address a gap in locating substance use services and information. The taskforce is comprised of staff from local health departments, LME/MCOs, and substance use service providers, as well as other interested community members, and is led by the NENCPPH. The campaign will include window clings, stickers, and printed materials with a unique logo and QR code which will connect individuals to a website with …
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Regional Health Assessments
The NENCPPH, after discussing the benefits and challenges of conducting a regional health assessment has joined with others from a larger region in Eastern North Carolina to develop the structure and procedures for voluntary participation in a regional community health assessment. The first of these joint community health assessments began collecting data in 2018. A website with the results is found at Health ENC https://www.healthenc.org/.
An updated NENCPPH regional health assessment using secondary data was completed in 2012. Previously, …
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Public Health Awareness
NENCPPH gathered member local health department representatives together, along with a representative from the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, to work collaboratively to develop a coordinated regional plan for increasing public awareness of core public health functions. Existing public health awareness initiatives were reviewed. Possible strategies were prioritized to reach the identified target populations. Possible strategies were drafted for consideration by the NENCPPH Board.
As part of its public health awareness initiatives, the NENCPPH maintains a website (www.nencpph.net…
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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