Current Activities & Initiatives

Funding from the American Rescue Plan Act was used by the NENCPPH to pilot sharing of services across the region for two care management programs: high-risk pregnancy (CMHRP) and at-risk children ages 0-5 (CMARC).  Recruitment and training for two float care managers, one for each program occurred prior to these floats being deployed. These float positions are designed to provide regional coverage when an LHD has a staff vacancy or shortage.  To support workforce retention and professional development, pilot funds …
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Promotion of Public Health Careers – A website and promotional materials were developed to better inform youth and adults about careers in public health and link those individuals to career opportunities within the local health departments in Eastern North Carolina.  Information is shared at high school and college career fairs, within health departments, and in the communities.  A link to the “Careers2MakeADifference” website is below:

Internships – The NENCPPH has offered many internship opportunities to undergraduate and graduate …
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A regional substance use information campaign, NENC Connect , was developed by a regional substance misuse taskforce to address a gap in locating substance use services and information.  The taskforce was comprised of staff from local health departments, LME/MCOs, and substance use service providers, as well as other interested community members, and was led by the NENCPPH.  The campaign included the development of an app/website, window clings, stickers, and post cards with a unique logo and QR code which connects …
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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 was developed to share the results called Health ENC. The majority of health departments and hospitals in over 30 counties continue to collaborate together …
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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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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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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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• Established a workgroup to discuss behavioral health needs and initiatives regionally. Behavioral health service provision ideas and challenges shared during the NENCPPH Board meetings.
• 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