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Carolina Across 100 is a pan-university effort to partner with communities in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. This five-year initiative will build and support cross-sector collaborations to address current challenges.

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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Carolina Across 100 is a pan-university effort to partner with communities in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. This five-year initiative will build and support cross-sector collaborations to address current challenges.

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Collaborative Mapping of Community Spaces in Princeville

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Collaborative Mapping of Community Spaces in Princeville

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CDSA of the Cape Fear, Family Support Network of Southeastern NC

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Children with disabilities and/or behavioral health challenges are 3x more likely to experience familial maltreatment due to parent stressors

The Robeson County Parent 2 Parent Project (Robeson County P2P) will provide Family Mentor trainings to parents and caregivers who have navigated systems in Robeson County to find supports for their children with disabilities or special healthcare needs. Robeson County P2P provides families and service providers in Robeson County with trainings, workshops, and health literacy events. This allows parents with lived experience and knowledge of their community to mentor and guide young parents through the same experiences and barriers they faced with caring connections and emotional support.

Building a stronger local support community for families supporting children with developmental disabilities, behavioral health challenges, and special health care needs

Proposed Aims:

Build the capacity of parents and service providers supporting children with developmental disabilities, behavioral health challenges and special health care needs.

Parents, CDSA, and Robeson County DHHS will feel that they have more resources and confidence in supporting one another and working together for the good of the identified families.

Community-Academic Partners

This project will be led by the following Robeson community members and UNC faculty:

Tina Ivins
Family Support Network of Southeastern NC

Rhonda Dial
CDSA of the Cape Fear

Laurel Powell
School of Social Work

Selina Armstrong
School of Social Work

Robeson Parent 2 Parent Infographic

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Robeson Parent 2 Parent Project - Robeson County

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Robeson Parent 2 Parent Project is building a supportive community for parents of young children. See how in Robeson County.

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Community-Academic Partnerships for Farmworkers Health

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UNC Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic

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Come join NC FIELD and UNC's Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic (EJ Clinic) for an interactive session focused on farmworker s' health. In this session, you will learn more about the social determinants of farmworkers' health, their health needs and challenges and the work that has been done to address them. We will have games, storytelling and a short presentation from NC FIELD about their work.

Please register below! For UNC students seeking CLE credit, a specific link to Heel Life is coming soon.

If you are a community member without a departmental affiliation, you may note "Not applicable" in that field on the registration form.

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Community-Academic Partnership for Farmworkers' Health - Engagement Week

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Through the Lens of Recovery: Photovoice Initiative for Healing in Robeson County

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Through the Lens of Recovery: Photovoice Initiative for Healing in Robeson County

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UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Behavior

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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13 cross-sector teams representing 37 counties

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Carolina Across 100 is a pan-university effort to partner with communities in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. This five-year initiative will build and support cross-sector collaborations to address current challenges.

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13 cross-sector teams representing 37 counties

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Carolina Across 100 is a pan-university effort to partner with communities in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. This five-year initiative will build and support cross-sector collaborations to address current challenges.

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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13 cross-sector teams representing 37 counties

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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13 cross-sector teams representing 37 counties

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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13 cross-sector teams representing 37 counties

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Carolina Across 100 is a pan-university effort to partner with communities in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. This five-year initiative will build and support cross-sector collaborations to address current challenges.

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Co-Creating Culturally Responsive Instructional Tools for Early Childhood Teacher Educators

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Co-Creating Culturally Responsive Instructional Tools for Early Childhood Teacher Educators

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Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute

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Robeson Community College, Robeson County Partnership for Children, Lumbee Tribe of NC, UNC Pembroke

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Areas of Work | Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute

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The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) is one of the nation’s oldest and largest multidisciplinary centers devoted to the study of children and families. Our researchers, implementation and technical assistance specialists, staff, and students work on projects related to developmental disabilities; physical, social, and emotional health; early care and education; early intervention and special education, racial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity, and more to address important issues facing children and families. Our work spans many disciplines from education and psychology to social work and public health.

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Eshelman School of Pharmacy, School of Global Public Health

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CareNet Wake Forest Baptist Health Counseling Centers, Children's Health Pembroke

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American Indian (AI) children are at greater risk of developing mental health problems

The Lumbee Tribe in Robeson County is engaged in on-going efforts to support community mental health. The Native Pathways to Health project, a work of nine AI communities in North Carolina including the Lumbee Tribe, identified community assets that are protective of good health such as family, community, relation to place and faith. They identified mental health programs, improved coordination of resources and community involvement as well as other issues that the community needs to be healthy. The Robeson County community also engaged in a multi-site trial to adapt and test a Keetoowah-Cherokee adolescent substance abuse prevention intervention by identifying relevant community resources to address health priorities.

Concurrently, the 2020 Robeson County Health Department assessment of adult and community health needs indicates that Robeson was North Carolina's least healthy county. Community respondents identified obesity and substance misuse as their top health priorities, with mental health as a priority risk factor for poor health, affordability a leading barrier to access and literacy a leading issue undermining quality of care. The COVID pandemic undermined community health further. Little evidence is available to describe community strengths and needs regarding child mental health. As a result, community priorities for child mental health, baseline data to support next steps, and identified community/academic partners to further the work are currently unknown. The proposed project will lay a foundation to support new, preventive work on child mental health.

If we can support child mental health early in life, we can prevent the adult health challenges documented in Robeson county.

Proposed Aims:

Document parent priorities to support child mental health among the Lumbee in Robeson

Describe community strengths and needs for the top 3 parent priorities in child mental health

Identify community-academic parents to address parent priorities through comparative effectiveness research

Project Leaders

This project will be lead by the following local Robeson County community members and UNC faculty.

Joseph Bell
Children's Health Pembroke

Trisha Carter
CareNet Wake Forest Baptist Health Counseling Centers

Kathleen Thomas
Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Bharathi Jayanthi Zvara
Gillings School of Global Public Health

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Child Mental Health in the Lumbee Community in Robeson County

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Child mental health problems affect American Indians disproportionately. Lumbee community strengths and needs are key to prevention.

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Strengthening the Nash and Edgecombe Youth Leadership Development Program

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Strengthening the Nash and Edgecombe Youth Leadership Development Program

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Gillings School of Global Public Health, Center for Health Equity Research

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Mysha Wynn, Melvin Jackson, Kim Evans, Chauronda Morrison, Project GRACE, OIC and PRIME Collective

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Preserving the Historical Record of a Pivotal Lumber and Railroad Town Belhaven

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Preserving the Historical Record of a Pivotal Lumber and Railroad Town Belhaven

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New group to digitally curate Belhaven’s bygone era - Washington Daily News

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A new group in Belhaven is looking to preserve the town’s 136-year history – online. The hope is that an online presence will provide easy access to historical information and records. Known as the Belhaven History Project, the informal group is composed of residents who are either native to […]

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Citizen Science Biodiversity Monitoring on Grandfather Mountain

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Citizen Science Biodiversity Monitoring on Grandfather Mountain

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Field Course: Forest Insects Are for the Birds: The Caterpillars Count! Monitoring Program - Grandfather Mountain

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Join Dr. Allen Hurlbert from UNC-Chapel Hill as we learn about the important role that insects play in forest ecosystems, as herbivores and as a critical food source for migratory birds. You will learn how to identify the most common groups of forest insects, how to conduct simple insect surveys and you will participate in

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Citizen Science Biodiversity Monitoring on Grandfather Mountain

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Citizen Science Biodiversity Monitoring on Grandfather Mountain

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Field Course: Forest Insects Are for the Birds: The Caterpillars Count! Monitoring Program - Grandfather Mountain

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Join Dr. Allen Hurlbert from UNC-Chapel Hill as we learn about the important role that insects play in forest ecosystems, as herbivores and as a critical food source for migratory birds. You will learn how to identify the most common groups of forest insects, how to conduct simple insect surveys and you will participate in

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Citizen Science Biodiversity Monitoring on Grandfather Mountain

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Citizen Science Biodiversity Monitoring on Grandfather Mountain

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Field Course: Forest Insects Are for the Birds: The Caterpillars Count! Monitoring Program - Grandfather Mountain

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Join Dr. Allen Hurlbert from UNC-Chapel Hill as we learn about the important role that insects play in forest ecosystems, as herbivores and as a critical food source for migratory birds. You will learn how to identify the most common groups of forest insects, how to conduct simple insect surveys and you will participate in

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ECUIPPing Warren County Youth for EMPACT

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ECUIPPing Warren County Youth for EMPACT

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UNC Department of Environmental Sciences

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Have you tested your well lately? Drinking water from a well might taste better than municipal water, often referred to as "city" water, but is it as safe to drink?

Campers attending the Environmental Justice & Peace 2022 Summer Camp were introduced to the topics of Environmental Justice and Social Justice during their first week of camp. Professor Amanda Northcross and Dr. Mark Fisher, both from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, accompanied by a group of their students, facilitated discussion and led activities for two days stressing water quality and teaching how to use in-home water testing kits using water samples from their own homes.

As campers learned about the importance and the benefits of having safe drinking water, Warren County's long-standing challenges with PCB contaminants and how the PCBs could have affected the county's water table were highlighted.

PCBs are man-made organic chemicals made up of carbon, hydrogen and chlorine atoms. A little over 40 years ago, PCBs were illegally dumped along roadsides throughout Warren County. After the PCBs were discovered, they were then placed in a landfill in the Afton community by the State of North Carolina.

The development of the PCB Landfill is known to have sparked one of the first Environmental Justice movements in the United States of America. According to www.clearwater.org, studies have linked PCBs to increased rates of melanomas, liver cancer, gallbladder cancer, biliary tract cancer, gastrointestinal tract cancer, brain cancer and may also be linked to breast cancer.

The current number of North Carolinians who depend on domestic wells for drinking water is estimated at 2.3 million, making North Carolina the fourth largest state population in the United States using private wells for drinking water, that is according to research provided by A. Wei, A. Matthews, C. Seifert and Dr. Amanda Northcross in the journal article, "Drinking Water Inequities in Eastern North Carolina are Addressed Through Matrix-Based Evaluation of at Home Water Testing Solutions," May 1, 2022.

The Environmental Protection Agency requires regulated testing of municipal drinking water; however, the testing of private domestic wells is left solely to individuals using the well. Professor Northcross stated that educating the public on the importance of testing their well water is a great public health concern.

Avery Matthews, a rising sophomore at UNC from Southern Pines is a part of Professor Northcross's team. She gave insight into the water testing project and how it can be groundbreaking in helping rural, disenfranchised communities become more knowledgeable about the importance of testing their well water.

Matthews stated that she began working on this project back in the fall of 2021 while enrolled in a class taught by Dr. Northcross where she learned about municipal under-bounding. According to the aforementioned journal report authored by Northcross and others, "The prevalence of households reliant on well water and the health impacts that may result from well water, there are trends that indicate that many minority communities are under-bounded from municipal water contributing to environmental inequity." According to www.journals.sagepub.com, municipal underbounding is the systematic failure of cities to annex surrounding minority communities.

Matthews says Northcross introduced the class to an idea that she had to address as part of the issue of environmental injustice when it comes to water quality, which was to create kits to find the most prevalent contaminants in the water as well as what causes harm to human health and what is addressable.

Once campers conducted their testing on the water they brought in, the team from UNC took the water samples to their lab on campus for further testing. If contaminants are found in the water, families of the campers will be directed to work with the UNC team as well as the Environmental Health unit of the Warren County Health Department for next steps.

The Environmental Justice and Peace 2022 Summer Camp is sponsored by the Living and Learning Youth Center and supported by Resourceful Communities, Halifax Electric and WellCare.

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Summer Camp participants study importance of water quality

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Have you tested your well lately? Drinking water from a well might taste better than municipal water, often referred to as "city" water, but is it as safe to drink?

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Enhancing Environmental Justice Leadership & Capacity

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Enhancing Environmental Justice Leadership & Capacity

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Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic

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Research & Technical Assistance

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Teaching the Tar Heel Bus Tour: Racial Literacy Curriculum for Faculty, Students, and Staff

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Teaching the Tar Heel Bus Tour: Racial Literacy Curriculum for Faculty, Students, and Staff

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Engaging Pharmacy Students with Conetoe Family Life Center Youth Summer Camp

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Engaging Pharmacy Students with Conetoe Family Life Center Youth Summer Camp

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UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students

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Area L AHEC, Rocky Mount Medical Park Pharmacy, Conetoe Family Life Center, Edgecombe County Health Department and Freedom Hill Community Health Center

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June 26, 2023

Every year, Conetoe Family Life Center hosts a summer camp for their community's children to teach them about chronic disease states, medication management, nutrition through the camp garden and how to build conscious awareness about their health and their family's health. The project was started by Rev. Richard Joyner, who was a CNN Hometown Hero finalist.

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, with the help of student organizations Asheville Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students (ACAPS), Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students (CAPS) and the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA), partnered with Area L Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the Conetoe Family Life Center by sending student pharmacists, faculty and staff to volunteer at the summer camp. The School's role was partially funded by UNC Rural and the Carolina Center for Public Service.

"It was such an amazing experience to have been part of Conetoe as a volunteer. The kids are super sweet, and we got to teach them several important topics to improve their health and their growth. It was very eye-opening volunteering and being involved in rural health because we learned the things that counties like this one need and how we can contribute in the future," said Daniela Lopez, Pharm.D. candidate class of 2025.

Throughout the week, students taught from the curriculum they designed. Topics included nutrition, heart health, vaping, substance abuse and mental health. They also put together activities and games for the kids to help them learn.

Crystal Coleman, graduate studies program coordinator in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, grew up in New Bern, not far from Conetoe, and was a staff volunteer. "My experience giving back to the children in the community was just as rewarding as the children that benefited from this awesome experience. I'm already looking forward to going back next year to volunteer," she said.

To help volunteers process what they experienced throughout the week, Rev. Joyner was present during the activities and shared how important it is for everyone to process together. "We've had a lot of students come and help, but the Carolina students have been able to adapt to this challenging culture well," he said.

He noted that the youth attending the camp are not only battling the social economic climate, but they are also battling the generational outcome of social economics. The camp hopes to build a sustainable model to address the chronic diseases in their community, and a key to this is building relationships.

"Some of the campers have experienced and lived through very difficult times - experiences a child should never have to go through. Despite this, the campers remained eager to interact with each other and the volunteers, to learn about healthy living through fun activities. Volunteering at Conetoe was one of the most rewarding experiences during my time as a pharmacy student," said Emilia Pieta, Pharm.D. candidate class of 2025.

"We are trying to change the culture and create a healthy culture. This is the groundwork - life change at the ground level. Thank you for working on the ground level with us," Rev. Joyner said.

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From Bertie County to Carolina: Expansion of Project Uplift

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From Bertie County to Carolina: Expansion of Project Uplift

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Welcome to our new website! We are currently in the process of building and improving our new website to better serve you. During this time, you may experience some disruptions or limitations in accessing certain areas of the website. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our website. If you notice an error, please contact jricks@bertie.k12.nc.us

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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Supporting Data Capture and Storytelling of Rural "Our State, Our Work" Teams

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13 cross-sector teams representing 37 counties

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Carolina Across 100 is a pan-university effort to partner with communities in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. This five-year initiative will build and support cross-sector collaborations to address current challenges.

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Unheard Voices: Supporting the Transition to Adulthood for Foster Youth in Duplin County

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Unheard Voices: Supporting the Transition to Adulthood for Foster Youth in Duplin County

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UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention’s Food, Fitness and Opportunity Research Collaborative

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Diversity Nurtures Achievements Community Youth Center

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Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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FFORC: Food, Fitness and Opportunity Research Collaborative - Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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Unheard Voices: Supporting the Transition to Adulthood for Foster Youth in Duplin County

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Unheard Voices: Supporting the Transition to Adulthood for Foster Youth in Duplin County

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UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention’s Food, Fitness and Opportunity Research Collaborative

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Diversity Nurtures Achievements Community Youth Center

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Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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FFORC: Food, Fitness and Opportunity Research Collaborative - Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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School of Education Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Alumni Needs Program

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School of Education Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Alumni Needs Program

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North Carolina teachers who are alumni of UNC-CH

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School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Department of Pharmacology

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North Carolina Community Organized Relief Efforts (NC CORE)

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Reducing Stigma Saving Lives - Whole Community Connection

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Reducing Stigma Saving Lives is building awareness and treatment for those with opioid use disorder. See how in Robeson County.

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Healthy Resilient Youth - Whole Community Connection

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Healthy Resilient Youth is a youth program for evaluating the health and vibrancy of local entrepreneurship. See how in Robeson County.

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Children’s Health of Carolina (CHC) and the Lumbee Tribe of NC

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Ronny Bell, PhD, MS - UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

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Ronny Bell, PhD, MS, is chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy and the Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor. His research focuses on health disparities in cancer as well as a concentration in chronic disease disparities with an emphasis on rural and underserved populations. As an enrolled member of the Lumbee tribe of eastern North Carolina, and Chair of the North Carolina American Indian Health Board, he is particularly interested in factors that contribute to health disparities in American Indian populations.

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Sexual Health Equity for the Intellectual / Development Disability Community

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Sexual Health Equity for the Intellectual / Development Disability Community

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School of Medicine and Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities

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Rape Crisis Center of Robeson County, Autism Society of North Carolina

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9 out of 10 women with intellectual/developmental disability (IDD) will experience sexual violence

Increasing sexual health equity and reducing sexual violence within the IDD community requires community partnerships. This community partnership with the Rape Crisis Center of Robeson County (RCCRC) is developing a comprehensive sexual health education curriculum that is accessible and inclusive of students with IDD. They will also create a companion guide for educators for use by RCCRC community and public school educators as well as a training program to facilitate adoption of the curriculum.

In addition, the partnership is developing a training program for sexual assault response teams on how best to support survivors with IDD. Both trainings will be advertised and offered for free to community stakeholders: self advocates, family advocates, SART members, healthcare providers, law enforcement, educators, advocacy organizations, etc. We anticipate an increased capacity to provide preventive education, equitable sexual health care, and greater awareness of the need for continued efforts to address this epidemic of sexual violence in the IDD community across the state.

Working together, we can stop the epidemic of sexual violence and increase sexual health equity within the IDD community.

Proposed Aims:

Increase awareness about sexual violence in the IDD community and need for systemic change

Increase accessible and equitable sexual health education for individuals with IDD

Increase knowledge, skills, and comfort level of the Rape Crisis Center of Robeson County

Project Leaders

This project will be led by the following local Robeson County community members and UNC faculty:

Amy Perry
Autism Society of North Carolina

Virginia Locklear
Rape Crisis Center of Robeson County

Margaret DeRamus
School of Medicine

Morgan Parlier
School of Medicine

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Increasing Sexual Health Equity in the IDD Community in Robeson

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Sexual health equity for the intellectual / developmental disability community includes reducing sexual violence. See how in Robeson County.

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Youth LEAD (Learning & Empowering throughAgriculture to Promote Development)

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Youth LEAD (Learning & Empowering throughAgriculture to Promote Development)

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UNC Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, UNC Department of Geography and Environment

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Gillings School of Global Public Health, Center for Health Equity Research

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Every community has deficits that deserve attention. They also have assets that deserve recognition.

MAPSCorps stands for Meaningful, Active, Productive Science in Service to Community. MAPSCorps is an asset-based youth development program that engages youth (high school to early college ages) in mapping resources, challenges, and solutions within their community and develops their capacity as researchers and community change agents. Our program happens in Rocky Mount, NC, a rural community with a sizeable Black population that straddles Nash and Edgecombe counties. MAPSCorps: Nash/Edgecombe is the only southern and rural translation of the program and has been implemented in for eight summers by Project GRACE, a longstanding community-academic research partnership between local stakeholders and the Center for Health Equity Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (CHER). Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) of Rocky Mount is a critical community partner in this work who supports youth recruitment, funds youth stipends, and provides space for program activities. MAPSCorps: Nash/Edgecombe provides up to 15 youth from these counties a 6-week paid summer internship that includes research training, professional development, and experiential learning activities. MAPSCorps 2.0 is a post-COVID-19 reinvention of MAPSCorps: Nash/Edgecombe that will adapt program elements to drive sustainability and prioritize on-the-ground wisdom.

Activating youth to assess and address their own community needs by mixing positive youth development with scientific research, asset mapping, and mobile technology.

Proposed Aims:

Develop youth skills in community assets, professional development, and scientific research.

Assess MAPSCorps 2.0 elements that need to be maintained, adapted, or eliminated for sustainability in a rural setting.

Develop and package a sustainability action plan of best practices and on-the-ground wisdom to facilitate future rural translations of MAPSCorps 2.0.

Community-Academic Partners

This project will be led by the following Edgecombe community members and UNC members:

Kim Evans
PRIME Collective

Chauronda Williams
PRIME Collective

Samuel Baxter
Gillings School of Global Public Health

Leah Frerichs
UNC Center for Health Equity Research

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MAPSCorps 2.0 - Whole Community Connection

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MAPSCorps 2.0 activates youth to assess and address their own community needs through asset mapping. See how in Rocky Mount, NC.

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Gillings School of Global Public Health, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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A Better Chance A Better Community (ABC2), Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation (FHLI)

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As many as 1 in 3 children experience hunger in rural counties. School meals are often the only way some students get food.

No-cost school meals take the approach of whole-person health, aiding in promotion of academic achievement and performance in rural counties, eliminating meal debt and "lunch shaming", and providing opportunity for overall youth success. The PEACE of Mind project convenes support from leaders within various and similarly-driven non-proﬁt organizations to eﬀectively equip healthier youth leaders in Edgecombe County through the School Meals for All (SFMA) Ambassadors Program. SMFA NC is working towards making school meals available to all public school students in NC at no cost to families. The SMFA NC Ambassadors Program engages youth ages 13-24 years old in policy and advocacy training to invoke systems level change in their local community. Our focus narrows on empowering youth to advocate for community-led change in their respective parts of the county to maximize food security. Implementing a partnership between A Better Chance A Better Community, The Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and the Carolina Hunger Initiative, we aim to prepare the next generation of leaders for healthier rural communities while reducing food insecurities.

Activating youth power and advocating for realistic, community-driven solutions to improve nutrition security in rural communities.

Proposed Aims:

Embed sustainable opportunities for youth in Edgecombe County to adequately participate in advocacy eﬀorts related to maximizing food security in the county and in their schools.

Amplify awareness of ABC2's SMFA Ambassadors and World Changers Programs in Edgecombe County and routinely convene a diverse group of community stakeholders to support the program.

Elevate community capacity building by convening young leaders and coordinating between partners to provide policy, advocacy, NCCARE360, and Mental Health 101 trainings to the targeted youth.

Utilize NCCARE360 to close the referral loop between community-based organizations in Edgecombe County, schools, and youth and their families who need assistance to regularly receive healthy food

Improve eﬃciency, utilization, dissemination, and sustainability of ABC2's already-existing GIS and story mapping methods to highlight various SDOH areas of need within the ambassadors' communities and increase access to healthy, locally grown produce with partnership through ABC2's World Changers Community Farm of Hope, Prosperity, and Change, Carolina Hunger Initiative, and NCCARE360.

Community-Academic Partners

This project will be led by the following Edgecombe community members and UNC members:

Kelsey Yokovich
The Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation (FHLI)

Kelsey Boyd
A Better Chance A Better Community (ABC2)

Jessica Soldavini
Gillings School of Global Public Health

Marlee Caregnoto
UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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PEACE of Mind: Reducing Youth Food Insecurities

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PEACE of Mind reduces youth food insecurities and mental health challenges through partnerships. See how in Edgecombe County.

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Freedom Organization Tarboro Community Garden

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Freedom Organization Tarboro Community Garden

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Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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Rural, lower income, and BIPOC communities are disproportionately affected by food insecurity and related chronic illnesses

Compared to state averages, Tarboro, NC is affected by higher rates of chronic illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and food insecurity. Tarboro is located in Edgecombe County, the most economically distressed in the state, which also hosts the lowest proportion of food retailers selling fresh produce in the Upper Coastal Plain region (<20%). Despite being in an area that boasts high agricultural production, very little of the available cropland is in vegetable production. Because of extreme flooding, there are also large parcels of vacant land that were bought out during disaster relief efforts and are now available for non-development uses.

Freedom Org is collaborating with members of the Food and Fitness Opportunities Research Collaborative (FFORC), leaders of the environmental justice movement, community partners, and the town of Tarboro to create a community demonstration garden that will both nourish and empower the community. Community demonstration gardens have been shown to alleviate negative health outcomes by encouraging community engagement, educational opportunities, increased health access, and improved food sovereignty. The act of growing food in a shared setting, with the intention of it feeding the community, allows generations to work together and learn from one another while increasing direct access to healthy fruits and vegetables. Communal gardening can also improve both the physical and mental health of those who participate in addition to supporting food literacy and engaging in local food systems.

Together, we can increase healthy food access and foster sustainable local food system models through community demonstration gardens.

Proposed Aims:

Convert underutilized land into a community demonstration garden.

Increase equitable access to fresh, healthy produce for the community.

Increase fruit and vegetable consumption among gardening participants.

Increase food literacy and food sovereignty.

Improve physical and mental health outcomes within the community.

Create sustainable partnerships between community members, academic partners, and local municipalities.

Community-Academic Partners

This project will be led by the following Edgecombe community members and UNC faculty:

Aerhealle Chace
Freedom Organization

Loretta Hilliard Draughn
ImpactOne Inc.

Reverend Bill Kearney
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Brett Sheppard
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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Tarboro Community Garden - Edgecombe County

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Tarboro Community Garden provides physical and mental health benefits to the surrounding community. See how in Edgecombe County.

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Gillings School of Global Public Health, School of Nursing

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Alternative school students face stigma and have significantly higher levels of trauma and poverty compared to other students in the district.

The HOPE Alternative Learning Program (HOPE ALP) of Edgecombe County has helped alternative school students become more resilient and taught community members to be more trauma-informed. HOPE stands for Honor, Opportunity, Purpose, Excellence. The program relies on these principles to provide mental health and behavior management skills for students with academic, psychological, emotional, and behavioral concerns. After a principal or superintendent recommends a student for HOPE ALP, they will build a plan for their success and gain access to daily support from a health and wellness counselor. With these tools, the students are given the power to become more resilient to the challenging situations many of them face every day, allowing them to better focus on their academics. Along the way, local leaders and educators are also engaged to learn how trauma may impact students, how institutions can exacerbate that trauma, and how to update harmful policies with healing ones.

Ideally, school mental health systems provide many services that promote positive school climate, social and emotional learning, and well-being while reducing the prevalence and severity of mental illness. Schools often have Specialized Instructional Support Personnel including a counselor, social worker, nurse and psychologist to help students. HOPE ALP students unfortunately do not have equitable access to these opportunities, as the school currently has no Specialized Instructional Support Personnel. Our goals for this year include making partnerships that will result in sustainable mental health services for HOPE ALP students.

With Specialized Instructional Support Personnel, we can create a comprehensive school mental health program.

Proposed Aims:

Development of infrastructure that will sustain and expand behavioral health services and support for HOPE ALP students.

Increase knowledge and access to local services like Healthy Opportunity Pilots, who offer improvement in social determinants of health for HOPE ALP students/families who are experiencing the greatest need.

Outreach and engagement with HOPE ALP youth and their families to increase awareness and utilization of onsite mental health services, promote the importance of Adolescent Behavioral Health (mental wellbeing), and connection between insurance coverage and health outcomes.

HOPE will serve as a model for trauma-informed behavioral health support in an Alternative Learning Program setting in NC and beyond, giving special attention to the needs of students at greatest risk of poor health, based on social conditions.

Community-Academic Partners

This project will be led by the following Edgecombe community members and UNC faculty:

Na'im Akbar
Rural Opportunity Institute

Tatyana Weathersbe
Rural Opportunity Institute

Stacy Rosser
Gillings School of Global Public Health

Andrew Bradford
School of Nursing

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HOPE Alternative Learning Program THRIVE - Edgecombe County

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HOPE Alternative Learning Program improves health & wellbeing through onsite school behavioral health services. See how in Edgecombe County.

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Health Promotion in Rural Northeastern North Carolina

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Health Promotion in Rural Northeastern North Carolina

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School of Medicine Division of Physical Therapy, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences in Department of Health Sciences; School of Social Work

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Tyrell Elementary School, Tyrell County School Board, Tyrell County Library

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Disinhibited Eating and Cardiovascular Health in Rowan County Police Force

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Disinhibited Eating and Cardiovascular Health in Rowan County Police Force

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Cleveland Police Department and Rowan County Sheriff's Office

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Developing the Buncombe Academic Health Department

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Developing the Buncombe Academic Health Department

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UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Public Health Leadership & Practice

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Buncombe County Health and Human Services

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School of Social Work, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

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Robeson County Department of Public Health, Healthy Start at UNC Pembroke

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1 in 7 women experience a maternal mental health disorder and there is a mental health professional shortage in 61% of U.S. rural areas.

Whole Together Robeson's mission is to promote health equity for rural mothers, children, and families starting in Robeson County with the goal of expanding to other rural communities in North Carolina. We must address maternal emotional health and wellbeing during pregnancy and early childhood to improve health and developmental outcomes for children and families. The perinatal period and early childhood are critical periods for maternal and child health and development. Both impact immediate and lifelong risks for negative health outcomes. Health and developmental inequities persist through the critical years of childhood and are intricately tied to health and emotional wellbeing across the life course. Many mothers and children experience negative early health and developmental outcomes associated with the fundamental causes of racial discrimination and poverty. Residing in a rural area increases the risk for experiencing these health inequities. This partnership and community based participatory research (CBPR) addresses gaps in services and support for rural mothers to improve maternal health and emotional wellbeing and address associated health disparities to promote health equity for rural families.

Support to address the needs of rural mothers, children, and families to improve health

Proposed Aims:

Develop culturally acceptable, feasible study methods and a support group intervention to increase maternal health and emotional wellbeing in pregnant mothers and mothers of infants and toddlers in Robeson County.

Test the feasibility of the support group methods including delivering the intervention to pregnant mothers and mothers of young children, recruitment and retention of mothers, and measurement of changes in maternal health and wellbeing, to ensure the support group is acceptable and addressing the needs of rural mothers.

Develop an implementation and sustainability plan for the intervention.

Since 2017, we have been actively partnered to support rural maternal emotional health and wellbeing during pregnancy and early childhood in Robeson County, NC. Having a clear understanding of the strengths and challenges of rural communities and the families residing in them is critical to developing and implementing interventions that will be culturally dynamic, acceptable, and sustainable. Robeson County is a rural county where the majority of residents identify as Black, Indigenous, Latine, or People of Color (BILPOC). While supported by a strong spiritual community and dedicated agencies, programs, and providers, residents continue to experience increased risks for negative health and wellbeing outcomes beginning at birth. These risks are fueled by inequities experienced during pregnancy and in early childhood. Our CBPR began with a small exploratory, qualitative study around experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in Robeson County: Mothers Improving Pregnancy and Postpartum Health Outcomes Through Story Sharing (MI-PHOTOS). Our Community Advisory Board (CAB) includes staff and administrators from Robeson County Health Care Corporation, Healthy Start, Health Department, Nurse Family Partnership, and mothers who participated in the MI-PHOTOS project, as well as university faculty and students from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In our previous study, rural mothers in Robeson County indicated they wanted access to both peer and professional support in a group-based format. Therefore, informed by constructivist, critical race, and feminist theories, we will use CBPR methods in partnership with our CAB, local agencies, and providers to develop and test the feasibility of a support group protocol for pregnant mothers and mothers of infants and toddlers in Robeson County based on recommendations from our previous research, community expertise, and broader empirical evidence.

Community-Academic Partners

This project will be led by the following Robeson community members and UNC faculty or researchers:

Whole Together Robeson Infographic

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Whole Together Robeson - Whole Community Connection

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Whole Together Robeson is improving rural maternal health and wellbeing through community informed interventions. See how in Robeson County.

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Community-Academic Partnerships for Farmworkers Health

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Community-Academic Partnerships for Farmworkers Health

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UNC Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic

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Come join NC FIELD and UNC's Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic (EJ Clinic) for an interactive session focused on farmworker s' health. In this session, you will learn more about the social determinants of farmworkers' health, their health needs and challenges and the work that has been done to address them. We will have games, storytelling and a short presentation from NC FIELD about their work.

Please register below! For UNC students seeking CLE credit, a specific link to Heel Life is coming soon.

If you are a community member without a departmental affiliation, you may note "Not applicable" in that field on the registration form.

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Community-Academic Partnership for Farmworkers' Health - Engagement Week

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Come join NC FIELD and UNC's Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic (EJ Clinic) for an interactive session focused on farmworkers' health. In this session, you will learn more about the social determinants of farmworkers' health, their health needs and challenges ... Read more

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Helping Rural Pharmacists Overcome Buprenorphine Dispensing Barriers

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Helping Rural Pharmacists Overcome Buprenorphine Dispensing Barriers

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Rocky Point Pavilion Pharmacy, Legett Drug

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Rural Research Alliance of Community Pharmacies, or RURAL-CP, is the first multi-state practice based research network developed exclusively for rural community pharmacies. We are currently recruiting pharmacies to join this innovative network!

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Helping Rural Pharmacists Overcome Buprenorphine Dispensing Barriers

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Helping Rural Pharmacists Overcome Buprenorphine Dispensing Barriers

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Leggett Drug, Rocky Point Pavilion Pharmacy

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Rural Research Alliance of Community Pharmacies, or RURAL-CP, is the first multi-state practice based research network developed exclusively for rural community pharmacies. We are currently recruiting pharmacies to join this innovative network!

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Rockingham County Primary Care Initiative (ROCK PCI), Care Connect

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In the fall of 2018, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill partnered to form UNC School of Medicine's new Primary Care Initiative. Made possible by an $800,000 investment from Blue Cross NC, the program addresses a need for better access to health care in Rockingham County by increasing patient-centered primary care and recruiting more residents to enter health care professions in the county and the neighboring area. Along with UNC Health Care's purchase of the former Morehead Memorial Hospital (now UNC Rockingham Health Care) in Rockingham County last year, the program will help prepare the region to expand its ability to provide health care in the rural community.

Program goals

Rockingham County's rate of primary care physicians per capita is much lower than neighboring counties-39 percent lower than the state average of 7.6 physicians per 10,000 residents. The county has higher rates of heart disease, diabetes, chronic lower respiratory diseases, and cerebrovascular disease when compared to state averages. Recognizing the county's need, Blue Cross NC invested $800,000 in the UNC School of Medicine Rural Advancement Program in 2018, and the North Carolina General Assembly, through the work of Senator Phil Berger, is augmenting this investment with additional funding.

The Rockingham County Primary Care Initiative works with key partners and stakeholders to develop a collaborative approach to meeting the county's healthcare workforce needs. Broadly, the program has three main goals:

to meet with key stakeholders to understand the healthcare landscape and health priorities in Rockingham County;

to increase access to health care by growing the number of practicing healthcare providers in Rockingham County while supporting existing practices in improving quality of care in their practices; and

to prepare and recruit Rockingham County residents to enter future healthcare professions.

"Greensboro AHEC is a great partner to help with implementing these goals," stated Sherry S. Hay, MPA, Director of Community Health Initiatives and Adjunct Assistant professor at UNC's Department of Family Medicine. Hay is project manager for the Rockingham County Primary Care Initiative. "Dr. Cristy Page [Executive Dean of the UNC School of Medicine], whose leadership was instrumental in launching this program, identified Greensboro AHEC as a key partner on this initiative from the beginning."

Partners & Stakeholders

Rockingham County Primary Care Initiative Key Partners and Stakeholders:

One-Year Report

Read more about ROCK PCI here:

Programs like ROCK PCI are made possible due to outside support. Learn more about how you can help fund these types of programs HERE, or make your gift to Family Medicine HERE.

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Rockingham County Primary Care Initiative - Department of Family Medicine

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Program goals Rockingham County's rate of primary care physicians per capita is much lower than neighboring counties-39 percent lower than the state average of 7.6 physicians per 10,000 residents. The county has higher rates of heart disease, diabetes, chronic lower respiratory diseases, and cerebrovascular disease when compared to state averages.

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Chatham County HealthDepartment, Chatham Housing Initiatives, Communities in Schools of Chatham County, Salvation Army of Chatham County