COMMUNITY HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AND SYSTEMS PREPAREDNESS

Submit Your Story: Interested in sharing your story with other NACCHO members? Let us know by filling out our interest form.

Popular Categories
Advocacy Press Releases Podcast Events
Grid List

Monroe County- Smoke-free Housing Implementation Success Story

When it comes to public health, community partnership is everything. Funding comes and goes, but the partnerships you create helps...

Feb 12, 2018 | Alyson Jordan

  • An Inclusive Community Health Assessment Process

    Community health needs assessments (CHA) allow community agencies and service providers to discuss issues. However, this process...

    Feb 12, 2018 | Alyson Jordan

  • How Hennepin County Consistently Maintains the Highest Level of Readiness

    Jan 24, 2018 | Michelle Bahk

  • How We Got Comprehensive Sex Ed in Rural Kentucky

    A few years ago, two high schoolers got pregnant in Lee County, KY. One of them didn’t know that birth control could prevent...

    Jan 03, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

  • emPOWERing Public Health: Fairfax County, Virginia

    In 2016, Winter Storm Jonas threatened the East Coast with hazardous winter weather which threatened the health of millions. Concerned...

    Dec 15, 2017 | Michelle Bahk

  • emPOWERing Public Health: City of New Orleans

    Addressing the needs of electricity-dependent community members can be challenging for any health department, a fact that can be most...

    Dec 15, 2017 | Michelle Bahk

  • Infectious Disease, Social Determinants of Health

    Fighting STDs with Intention in St. Louis

    Nov 07, 2017 | Alyson Jordan

  • emPOWERing Public Health: Broome County, New York

    Addressing the needs of electricity-dependent community members can be challenging for any health department, a fact that is most...

    Nov 07, 2017 | Michelle Bahk

    • Healthy Living & Prevention, Physical Activity, Success Story

    DeKalb to Develop Healthier Families Program

    The DeKalb County Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs is one of four parks and recreation departments in the nation to be selected to develop an obesity prevention program. Led by Vanderbilt University and funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Healthier Families Program aims to help parents and preschoolers aged three to five years old learn about making healthy...

    Feb 20, 2018 | Andrea Grenadier

    Monroe County- Smoke-free Housing Implementation Success Story

    When it comes to public health, community partnership is everything. Funding comes and goes, but the partnerships you create helps make it possible to sustain program missions even when the funds disappear.

    Feb 12, 2018 | Alyson Jordan

    An Inclusive Community Health Assessment Process

    Community health needs assessments (CHA) allow community agencies and service providers to discuss issues. However, this process lacked representation from people that utilize community services and experience health inequities. Staff were successful in applying an inclusive approach to engage residents and organizations that represented low-income and minority populations through CHA workgroup...

    Feb 12, 2018 | Alyson Jordan

    How Hennepin County Consistently Maintains the Highest Level of Readiness

    Jan 24, 2018 | Michelle Bahk

    How We Got Comprehensive Sex Ed in Rural Kentucky

    A few years ago, two high schoolers got pregnant in Lee County, KY. One of them didn’t know that birth control could prevent pregnancy. The other didn’t know she was pregnant, because she had never been taught how it happens or progresses. This rural area of Kentucky doesn’t seem like a likely place for comprehensive sexual education or even abstinence education, but Susan Kincaid, a Health...

    Jan 03, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    emPOWERing Public Health: Fairfax County, Virginia

    In 2016, Winter Storm Jonas threatened the East Coast with hazardous winter weather which threatened the health of millions. Concerned with the well-being of its at-risk and electricity dependent community members, the Fairfax County Health Department (FCHD) leveraged the tools of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) emPOWER Initiative to strengthen its preparedness and response...

    Dec 15, 2017 | Michelle Bahk

    emPOWERing Public Health: City of New Orleans

    Addressing the needs of electricity-dependent community members can be challenging for any health department, a fact that can be most striking during a public health emergency. Experiencing this issue first-hand, the City of New Orleans Health Department has been able to address these issues using the tools of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) emPOWER Initiative, developed by the...

    Dec 15, 2017 | Michelle Bahk

    Infectious Disease, Social Determinants of Health

    Fighting STDs with Intention in St. Louis

    Nov 07, 2017 | Alyson Jordan

    emPOWERing Public Health: Broome County, New York

    Addressing the needs of electricity-dependent community members can be challenging for any health department, a fact that is most striking during a public health emergency. To address this problem, the Broome County Health Department in New York utilized the tools of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) emPOWER Initiative, developed by the Office […]

    Nov 07, 2017 | Michelle Bahk

    3 Newsletters1200 1

    Upcoming Events

    May 23

    Calendar
    Online

    Enhancing Health Communications to Empower Your Outreach

    Andrea Grenadier will share examples of LHD-related success stories and highlight tools and resources you can use to support your communications work.

    Register

    May 29

    Calendar
    Online

    Creativity, Compliance, and Outreach in Water Safety

    A Model Aquatic Health Code Network webinar featuring Columbus Public Health.

    Register

    Jul 22

    Calendar
    In Person

    PHI*con

    PHI*con is a conference focusing on Public Health Informatics, Surveillance, and IT. It will be held July 22-23, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan.

    Register

    Jul 23

    Calendar
    Hybrid

    NACCHO360 2024

    The largest convening of local health department leaders and public health professionals in the United States.

    Register

    See Full Calendar

    PARTNER ARTICLES

    Chw 5
    Community Engagement, Community Resilience, Immunization, Vaccine Hesitancy

    Community health workers meet people where they are to build trust, elevate voices,...

    The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted what we already know to be true: higher-risk populations are especially vulnerable to public health...

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

    Library Departmental Color
    Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning, Community Engagement, Healthy People 2030, Success Story

    Library Serves as a Community Hub for Health Improvement Opportunities

    Through the power of partnerships, the Catawba County Library System has found inspiration, resources and an enhanced role as a...

    May 30, 2023 | Erica Derr, Collaborative Services Librarian, Catawba County Library System

    GYST

    How We Got Our Shot Together

    Madison County Public Health Department in New York State held a health fair and concert event in an effort to vaccinate residents...

    May 25, 2023 | Guest Author

    More NACCHO Blogs

    Preparedness Brief

    The Preparedness Brief provides updates and information from NACCHO’s public health preparedness portfolio.

    The Essential Elements of Local Public Health

    The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.

    NACCHO Voice

    This blog embodies NACCHO's mission to empower local health departments and drive positive change.
    Back to Top