CABARRUS PUBLIC HEALTH INTEREST
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Mission Statement
To preserve, advance, and enrich public health in Cabarrus County
About This Cause
At Cabarrus Public Health Interest (CPHI), our vision is to create a community where every member achieves their best health. We do this by promoting and encouraging public and private support for Cabarrus Health Alliance (CHA), the public health department for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. CPHI's financial support serves as a supplement to the resources available to CHA. To date, our main programs center on advancing equity, raising awareness, and stewardship. Our advancing equity program supports harm reduction. People in recovery, nurses, and trained volunteers provide wound care education, overdose reversal medications, communicable disease testing, and clean injection supplies. They offer facilitated referrals to substance use treatment, detox, employment, and housing. A Certified Peer Support Specialist works with each individual to set their harm reduction and self-care goals and helps establish Wellness Recovery Action Plans, an evidence-based practice found to improve progress in recovery. Last year, we supported 520 individuals through 3,513 encounters. To date, our team has distributed over 8,000 overdose reversal kits, contributing to over 3,500 overdose reversals. We raise awareness primarily through our annual CHASM Summit. The CHASM Summit highlights the importance of incorporating equity-based practices into public, private and non-profit work to address individual and systemic health disparities. By hosting a diverse sector of speakers, the conference challenges attendees to assess their own agency practices and exchange ideas, promote change, and improve community health outcomes. CPHI stewards the overall health and wellness of Cabarrus residents through a number of programs. Since 2005, our Cabarrus County and Kannapolis City School Nurse Program has helped provide care for thousands of students throughout the school day by preventing, identifying, managing, and responding to health-related problems and injuries. Funds support full-time nurses for every school, and cover the cost of medical equipment and supplies. CPHI supports CHA’s Dental Mobile Unit to provide high-quality, comprehensive services to uninsured or underinsured students. Students get linked to a new dental home while getting the dental care they need at school. Finally, discounted Lifestyle Medicine, cooking classes, and free community yoga are offered to the community throughout the year.