Community and Partner Engagement

Purpose

Working Together for Healthier Communities

The Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities partners with various communities and partner groups, including community and faith-based organizations, legislative and policy groups and service providers across North Carolina. These partnerships are crucial to sharing health matters that are important to local communities across the state, identifying solution-seeking approaches to eliminate health disparities, making resource connections to build healthier communities and making plans for action to keep our communities healthy and safe.

Together, we share ideas, connect resources, and create solutions that help every community thrive.

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This webpage will serve as a resource hub for Community and Partnership Engagement, or CPE. This section aims to provide support and information to community-based organizations that work to eliminate health disparities across North Carolina.  

 

Our Goals and Ongoing Work

Goal 1: Building Connections
We partner with community voices, including faith-based and tribal groups, local health departments, community health centers, health workers, educators, and patient navigators that serve historically marginalized populations. These relationships help us build a strong statewide resource network.

Through these connections, we not only strengthen collaboration but also share our reports and findings on health disparities. This helps communities understand current challenges and identify opportunities for meaningful action.

Goal 2: Sharing and Learning Together
We convene networking meetings for partner groups for the purpose of sharing information on best practice models for closing health gaps, emerging public health topics identifying current trends in health disparities in North Carolina, networking and giving input into the development strategies, community-based toolkit resources etc. to be used by CBOs. These network meetings include

  • HMP Connections Network Meeting (Virtual)
  • Strategic Brain Trust Special Sessions
  • Cafecito Spanish Language Townhall


Goal 3: Providing Resources
We develop and share clear communications, educational opportunities, newsletters and toolkits that communities can put into action. Our work also includes training and guidance to help organizations communicate effectively with people of different backgrounds and in multiple languages, ensuring information is accurate, respectful and accessible to everyone.

Goal 4: Lifting Community Voices
We foster opportunities for community-driven leadership, coordination, trusted messenger and advisors on health equity strategies, interventions, policy, systems and environmental changes.

The following are community-based and faith-based organizations that OHE currently partners with:

Community Level:

State Level:


The following are legislative, statewide, and policy organizations that OHE partners with:


The following are service delivery organizations that OHE partners with:


All the organizations listed on this page represent a wide range of communities within North Carolina. Though there are many organizations listed, it may not cover all groups or communities that the Office of Minority Health wishes to partner with. At NCDHHS and OMHHD, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive organization where everyone’s voice is heard. We are always working to update this list and partner with as many communities and organizations as possible.

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