Community partnerships are authentic connections poised to make transformative change
Community partnerships are supported by Whole Community Connection with one year of leadership development and project funding. WCC Champions are teams of community members from Edgecombe or Robeson County and academic partners from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The funding supports the implementation of their solutions.
MAPSCorps 2.0
This community partnership engages youth in mapping resources, challenges, and solutions within their community and develops their capacity as researchers.
This community partnership increases the capacity of parents of young children living in Robeson County through peer-to-peer support, evidence-based training, and developing a stronger parenting network for parents of children with disabilities and special healthcare needs.
This community partnership focuses on making improvements within the social determinants of health domains of education and health and wellbeing, as well as health care access and quality through on-site school behavioral health services.
This community partnership focuses on rural maternal health and wellbeing and aims to identify, adapt, and develop community informed interventions to reduce maternal and child health inequities.
Supporting Child Mental Health in the Robeson Lumbee Community
This community partnership links parent priorities, baseline data and partnerships for action to support child mental health early in life and prevent the adult health challenges documented in Robeson county.
Reducing Sexual Violence and Increasing Sexual Health Equity in the Intellectual/Developmental Disability Community in Robeson County
This community partnership increases capacity to provide preventive education, equitable sexual health care, and greater awareness of the need for continued efforts to address the epidemic of sexual violence in the I/DD community across the state of North Carolina.
School Meals For All NC (SMFA) Ambassadors Attention NC Youth and Young Leaders (High School) We are working to secure funding for school meals for all so that every child in every public school in North Carolina has access to breakfast and lunch at no cost to their families. Provide community capacity building by convening young leaders across NC, providing policy and system change training for young leaders and utilizing GIS and story mapping to tell stories of the impact of school meals. Your Voice and Leadership is needed! Become A SMFA Ambassador Today! Seeking 10-20 Students across the State: … Read more
Join us for Carolina Engagement Week! February 29, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Zoom Whole Community Connection was established in 2022 to support a healthy, thriving North Carolina through community-academic partnerships. This webinar describes Whole Community Connection, a team-based leadership building model for rural communities, and reflections from community and academic team members. Participants will learn about Whole Community Connection, four community-academic projects implemented in Edgecombe and Robeson Counties and the leadership journeys of local leaders. Watch the Recording
Partnership for Children
210 E. 2nd Street, Lumberton
Join us for Mental Health First Aid! September 13, 2023 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Partnership for Children Are you a provider working within Robeson County and looking for ways to enhance your skills to help support families and fellow co-workers? In the same way CPR training equips an individual to intervene in the event of a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid (MHA) equips participants to assist when someone is experiencing a mental health or substance use related challenge. This 8-hour course is available to those who desire to increase their capacity to identify, understand, and provide … Read more
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