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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Communications & Public Relations
  • Harm Reduction
  • Injury and Violence Prevention

RFP: Overdose and Harm Reduction: Communications and Media Consultant

With support from the CDC, NACCHO is seeking a consultant to develop and disseminate effective and research informed...

Nov 22, 2023 | Andrea Grenadier

  • Injury and Violence Prevention

NACCHO Launches Equity Considerations for Local Health Departments on Opioid Settlement Funds Checklist

The Legal Action Center (LAC), with the support of the National Association of County and City Health Officials...

Nov 13, 2023

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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Injury and Violence Prevention
  • Opioid Overdose Epidemic

Request for Proposals: Strengthening ACEs and Substance Use Prevention Programming with HOPE (SASPP) Project

A funding opportunity to help local health departments and their communities support high-risk families that are...

Oct 27, 2023 | Camille Adams

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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Injury and Violence Prevention
  • Rural and Frontier Health
  • Rural Health

RFP: Overdose Prevention and Response - Understanding the Needs of Rural Communities

NACCHO is seeking a qualified consultant to conduct a series of activities aimed at better understanding and amplifying...

Oct 05, 2023 | Madeline Masog

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  • Injury and Violence Prevention

Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

NACCHO observes Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and honors local health department actions to prevent suicides.

Sep 01, 2023 | Hannah Loynds, Camille Adams, Katherine Palm

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  • Funding Opportunity
  • Injury and Violence Prevention

Request for Proposals: ED-Based Substance Use Navigation- Advancing the Evidence

NACCHO is seeking a consultant(s) to evaluate an Emergency Department based program(s) to provide linkages, services,...

Aug 17, 2023 | Madeline Masog

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  • Injury and Violence Prevention

Older Adult Fall Prevention Guide

NACCHO is pleased to announce the publication of a new guide Developing the Capacity to Support Clinical Older Adult...

Aug 16, 2023 | Hannah Loynds

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  • Injury and Violence Prevention
  • Opportunity

Request for Proposals: Consultant to Develop Communications Products for Community Prevention Framework Pilot Project

NACCHO is seeking a consultant to develop a suite a communications materials highlighting the Strengthening Capacity in...

May 26, 2023 | Amie Myrick

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  • Gun Violence
  • Injury and Violence Prevention

Reflections Following Murder of Tyre Nichols and a Violent Week

Reflections from NACCHO Chief Executive Officer Lori Tremmel Freeman.

Jan 28, 2023 | NacchoVoice

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  • COVID-19
  • Community Health
  • Injury and Violence Prevention
  • Opioid Overdose Epidemic

New Release: 2021 Overdose Prevention and Response Survey Report

This new NACCHO report summarizes data collected in Summer 2021 from a nationally representative group of LHDs, and...

Dec 14, 2022 | Francis Higgins

Partner Articles

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The EPA’s Small Communities, Big Challenges Competition encourages local...

Nov 16, 2023 | Anu Varma

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Join Novavax for a Webinar About Their New Covid-19...

Join NACCHO and our Platinum Affiliate Business Partner, Novavax, on November...

Oct 16, 2023

Join Novavax for a Webinar About Their New Covid-19...

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  • Community Engagement

It’s Children’s Environmental Health Day today!

Celebrate with us!

Oct 12, 2023 | Anu Varma

It’s Children’s Environmental Health Day today!

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Central District Health Department

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Sep 11, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Central District Health Department

Calhoun
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Calhoun County Health Department

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Sep 08, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Calhoun County Health Department

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Getting into the Groove: School-Located Vaccination...

NACCHO’s Immunization team has developed the School-Located Vaccination Clinic...

Aug 31, 2023 | Kayla Miller, PHAP

Getting into the Groove: School-Located Vaccination...

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  • Tools & Resources
  • Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning
  • Community Engagement
  • Healthy People 2030

New Resource: A Guide to Aligning Healthy People 2030...

To help address the social determinants of health and advance health equity,...

Aug 14, 2023 | Andrea Grenadier

New Resource: A Guide to Aligning Healthy People 2030...

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Pima County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Aug 14, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Pima County

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  • Community Engagement
  • Community Resilience
  • Immunization
  • Vaccine Hesitancy

Community health workers meet people where they are to...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted what we already know to be true: higher-risk...

Aug 10, 2023 | Dominique Baradaran, MSM, Interim Chief of Community Health, Oklahoma City- County Health Department

Community health workers meet people where they are to...

Brownsville
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Brownsville

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Aug 07, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Brownsville

Cook County
  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cook County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 31, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cook County

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  • COVID-19
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • ID Featured
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cameron County

The Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare-Associated...

Jul 24, 2023 | Irene Halferty, Kristen Ross

BLOC COVID+ Spotlight: Cameron County

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