Community Health

icon_ch100 NACCHO’s community health team supports local health department programs and services focused on promoting health and preventing disease through:

The development of resources and tools;

Provision of technical assistance, continuing education, and capacity building support through demonstration projects; and

Facilitation of peer exchange of best practices and tools.

Community health projects address a wide variety of health promotion and disease prevention issues, including chronic disease, HIV/STI, other infectious diseases, injury, adolescent health, reproductive health, immunization, tobacco, primary care, and mental health.

Featured Program: HIV & STI Prevention

Demonstration Sites

NACCHO's Adolescent HIV/STI and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Project provides local health departments and their school and community partners with capacity-building assistance and financial support for HIV/STI and unintended pregnancy prevention through its Local Health Department (LHD) Demonstration Sites Program. The overarching goal of the Demonstration Sites Program is to build the capacity of all LHDs to prevent adolescent HIV, STIs (sexually transmitted infections), and/or unintended pregnancy in their communities. From 2004–2010, NACCHO’s Adolescent HIV/STI and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention LHD Demonstration Sites Program has funded 12 LHD demonstration sites. More »

Funding Opportunity

The purpose of the Health Resources and Services Administration's New Access Points funding opportunity is to establish health service delivery sites to improve the health of the nation's underserved communities and vulnerable populations by assuring access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary healthcare services. Organizations eligible to compete include public or nonprofit private entities, including tribal, faith-based, and community-based organizations. Applications are due by Nov. 17, 2010.