2022 News and Events
McDowell organizations and artists raise awareness of childhood hunger
Click above to read the article about the work of community partner West Marion Inc. The NCCHW Culture of Results team has beens supporting this team’s work for four years.
November is National Family Caregiving Month and caring for your loved one means helping prevent a major cause of serious injuries — falling.
Click above to read the article written by Ellen Bailey, Senior Project Manager, Falls Prevention, for the recent AARP publication.
Rural-urban outcome differences associated with COVID-19 hospitalizations in North Carolina
Click above to read abstract.
The Social Bridging Project: Intergenerational Phone-Based Connections With Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Click above to read abstract co-authored by NCCHW staff.
Risk of Falling Increases with Age; Prevention Tools Can Help
Click above to read this article written in collaboration with Ellen Bailey, the Falls Prevention Program Manager with NC Center for Health and Wellness for the National Coalition on Aging (NCOA).
2021 News and Events
Practice Report: Student Health Ambassadors at Residential Campuses Contribute to Safer Campus Living and Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Click above to read abstract about the collaborative approach taken by six residential institutions of higher education (IHE) and MAHEC and to mitigating COVID-19 infection rates on campus.
Program helps colleges like UNCA navigate health issues such as COVID-19
Click above to read the article on how the Student Health Ambassador Program at UNCA is impacting Western North Carolina.
NCCHW & Buncombe Community Health Assessments
2020 News and Events
Racism is an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)
Click here to read this blog post that was developed in collaboration with Emma Olson, the Director of Partnerships and Evaluation with the NC Center for Health and Wellness at UNC Asheville. Several JIF students and faculty also contributed including Sarah Verbiest, Katherine Bryant, and Quinton Smith.
N.C. Center for Health and Wellness at UNC Asheville Awarded Three-Year $1.2 Million Grant
The North Carolina Center for Health & Wellness (NCCHW) at UNC Asheville has received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living to extend its evidence-based falls prevention programs partnership and network across the state. The integrated Networks Grant follows a 2017 award. of $600,000 to NCCHW which expanded access and utilization of the programs across 18 counties in Western North Carolina. Click on the title above to read the full article.
2019 News and Events
2018 News and Events
Amy Joy Lanou Appointed to Lead N.C. Center for Health & Wellness at UNC Asheville
Communicating Resiliency Video Series
Check out Communicating Resiliency, our new short video series (2-3 min each). The goal of this project is to create a targeted public health communications campaign to raise awareness about trauma—what it is, its impacts, and how to build resilience—in Buncombe County and across Western North Carolina.
If you enjoy the messages, please share and help us build a more #resilientWNC.
Many thanks to our interns, partners and community members who contributed their time, guidance, expertise and passion to this project.
Mothering Asheville
The NCCHW Culture of Results Initiative is currently working with Mothering Asheville to strengthen our ability to implement strategies to reduce infant mortality among Black women in Buncombe County. Currently, we are training SistasCaring4Sistas, the Black doulas, to help them evaluate their impact as they work in low income housing areas to provide care to pregnant mothers and babies.
To read full article, click here.
NCCHW Receives 2018 Walk with Ease Mini Grant
The Walk With Ease group walking program encourages people with arthritis to start walking and stay motivated to keep active. Educational materials and tools supplement the group classes, and are used for the self-directed version of the program. The North Carolina Center for Health and Wellness recieved a 2018 mini grant from Osteoarthritis Action Alliance so that we can continue to provide this program for citizens in our community.
To read full article, click here.
NCCHW at UNCA Receives Major Grant to Combat Arthritis
The North Carolina Center for Health & Wellness at UNC Asheville (NCCHW) has received a major grant from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to initiate and support arthritis awareness and programs for people with arthritis in communities across the state. The grant will provide $250,000-500,000 annually for five years with a goal of reaching more than 174,000 North Carolinians.
To read full article, click here.
2017 News and Events
NCCHW Selected to be Part of the 2017 National Council on Aging Network Development Learning Collaborative
The North Carolina Center for Health and Wellness at UNC Asheville (NCCHW) has been selected as one of 10 organizations nationally to participate in the year-long Network Development Learning Collaborative supported by the National Council on Aging (NCOA). Participation in the learning collaborative will support NCCHW’s efforts to serve as a center of evidence-based healthy-aging programming and form a network hub of local organizations and health care providers.
To read full article, click here.
Falls Prevention Grant
The North Carolina Center for Health & Wellness (NCCHW) at UNC Asheville received a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to expand access to and utilization of evidence-based falls prevention programs across 18 counties in Western North Carolina.
To read full article by UNC Asheville, click here.
To read full article by Mountain Xpress, click here.