Collaborative Research

This webpage showcases NCCHW’s products across initiatives and includes publications in the academic literature, population assessment reports, evaluations, policy briefs, conference presentations, and trainings among other outputs. 

 

Community Health Workers

  • Website – Community Health Workers: A Unique and Vital Part of the Western North Carolina Social and Health Care Systems, Year 3 Initiative Evaluation
  • Video – Envisioning Elemental Care: Multimedia Messages of Community Health Workers. An extended cut of the film is available here.
  • Report – Evaluation of the Western North Carolina (WNC) Community Health Workers (CHWs) Initiative – Community Health Workers provide comprehensive care and comprehensively care
  • Evaluation – Existimos para ellos/We exist for them: An Evaluation of the Community Health Workers (CHWs) as Culturally-Responsive COVID Support in WNC Communities Initiative
  • Presentation – Evaluating community health worker initiatives with a community based participatory research and action model: 2021-2023

Social Isolation and Social Connectedness

  • Publication – The Social Bridging Project: Intergenerational Phone-Based Connections With Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Older Adult Wellbeing

  • Report – 2023 Focus Groups to inform the North Carolina Division of Aging and Adult Services’ Development of a Multisector Plan for Aging

Peer-Led College Health Promotion

  • Report – Student Health Ambassadors at Residential Campuses Contribute to Safer Campus Living and Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Public Health Workforce Development

  •  Literature Review – In collaboration with the North Carolina Institute for Public Health (NCIPH) NCCHW reviewed 16 real-world examples of how Local Health Departments are improving how they serve their communities and to better understand what a culture of quality improvement looks like.

Results-Based Accountability

  • Presentation – Introduction to Results-based Accountability
  • Video – Results-Based Accountability Training
  • Handout – RBA Framework: Common Language For Today
  • Handout – Performance Measures Grid
  • Presentation – Building the Bridge between Clinic and Community: Using Results-based Accountability to Help Improve Birth Outcomes. View the full sample RBA Elevator Speech here.
  • Video – City of Asheville RBA 101
  • Handout – WNC Healthy Impact Handout for “My RBA Speech”
  • Poster Presentation – Finding Focus in the Joyful Complexity
  • Presentation – The Joyful Complexity of Measuring Social Determinants of Health

Evidence-Based Programs

  • Article – Senior Seminar Scholars: UNC Asheville Seniors Consistently Make a Mark on Campus and in the Community
  • Article – Reach and Impact of In-Person and Remote Delivery Formats of Walk with Ease
  • Publication – A Statewide Approach to Falls Prevention: Widespread Implementation of A Matter of Balance in North Carolina, 2014–2019
  • Presentation – A Training Academy Model: Bringing CDSME to the Community and the State of North Carolina
  • Website – Standing Strong NC Website
  • Website – Healthy Aging NC Website

Brain Health

  • Data Brief – BOLD NC 2023 Dementia Caregiver Data Brief
  • Data Brief – 2020 Subjective Cognitive Decline Data Brief – North Carolina
  • Title – The North Carolina Dementia and Brain Health Outreach and Awareness Toolkit

Understanding Attitudes Towards Violence

  • Survey – Buncombe County Attitudes Towards Violence Survey
  • Presentation – Designing trauma-Informed teams and data practices: Analysis of the Attitudes Towards Violence Survey (ATVS) Project in Buncombe County, North Carolina
  • Presentation – Cross-agency collaboration to develop the “attitudes towards violence survey” and inform prevention and treatment efforts
  • Fact Sheet – Buncombe County Sexual Assault Fact Sheet 2020
  • Fact Sheet – Buncombe County DV Fact Sheet 2020
  • Fact Sheet – Buncombe County Child Abuse Fact Sheet 2020

Storytelling

  • Presentation – Data as Storytelling: Using Data to Improve Program Quality

Key Issues related to WNC Health Policies

  • Website – WNC Health Policy Initiative Website 
  • Blog Post – Envisioning Elemental Care: Multimedia Messages of Community Health Workers
  • Postcast – Child and Maternal Health in WNC – WNC Health Policy Podcast Ep. 1
  • Postcast – School Meals for ALL NC – WNC Health Policy Podcast Ep. 2
  • Podcast – Sexual Violence & Human Trafficking – WNC Health Policy Podcast Ep. 3
  • Blog Post – In The News: NC Medicaid’s Healthy Opportunities Pilot
  • Blog Post – New Resources for Healthy Aging and Social Determinants of Health
  • Postcast – PSA: Radon in WNC
  • Blog Post – Radon in WNC: Know Your Risks

Campus Health

  • Publication – Student Health Ambassadors at Residential Campuses Contribute to Safer Campus Living and Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Presentation – Maximize Your Health and Wellness: Health Promotion On and Off Campus
  • Report – COVID-19 and Health Disparities in WNC

Substance Use

  • Report – McDowell Substance Use Task Force Strategic Plan
  • Presentation – Leveraging Cross-institutional Academic Collaboration to Build Collective Impact within a Community-based Substance Misuse Coalition
  • Report – McDowell Partnership for Substance Awareness Community Voices Research Final Report
  • Report – Mcdowell Partnership for Substance Awareness, Inc Strategic Plan 2022-2026

Family and Child Health

  • Assessment – Community assessment in partnership with the Verner Center for Early Learning
  • Billboard – Initiative to Address Childhood Obesity in McDowell County, NC
  • Report – Rainbow In My Tummy Expansion Feasibility Study: Increasing Access to Healthy Foods and Wellness in Early Care and Education Programs across Buncombe County
  • Report – Arts For Life Program Evaluation Methods and Results
  • Assessment – 2019 Verner Center for Early Learning Community Assessment
  • Poster Presentation – Getting Urban Kids in Nature: An Evaluation of the Kids in Parks TRACK Trail
  • Assessment – 2020-2021 Health and Wellness Community Assessment Update: Impact of COVID-19 and resilience factors for pregnant persons and families with young children in Buncombe County, North Carolina
  • Blog Post – Racism is an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)

Resiliency