Newsletter Articles

This week, NCDHHS Secretary Sangvai read the book Stand Tall by Molly Lou Melon, a book about self-esteem and resilience, to a group of students at Creekside Elementary School in Durham.

February is Marfan Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness about Marfan syndrome, which is a genetic condition that affects the body’s connective tissue.

Gov. Stein has proclaimed Feb. 6 as National Wear Red Day — bringing awareness to heart health and the importance of prevention, education and early action.

The application period is now open for the 2026 cohort of NCDHHS' Experiential Learning & Opportunity Internship Program (ELOIP).

This week, NCDHHS held a media availability to highlight the importance of vaccinations in North Carolinians' overall health and well-being.

NCDHHS' Office of Rural Health staff give back by volunteering at the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC.

NCDHHS and the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities are celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October by highlighting the contributions people with disabilities are making in workplaces across North Carolina.

September is National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month. Sickle cell disease is a group of conditions that affect hemoglobin, which allows red blood cells to carry oxygen to all parts of the body. Red blood cells that contain sickle hemoglobin are inflexible and can stick to blood vessel walls, causing a blockage that slows or stops blood flow.

On Aug. 25, NCDHHS’ Deputy Secretary of Health, Debra Farrington, attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the completion of ECU Health’s new Behavioral Health Hospital in Greenville. The ECU Health Behavioral Health Hospital is scheduled to welcome patients in September with 144 beds to serve both adults and children.

Seven of North Carolina’s local Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) agencies have been nationally recognized as 2025 WIC Breastfeeding Award of Excellence recipients by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), honoring their outstanding efforts to support breastfeeding families across the state.

This week, NCDHHS hosted an event celebrating 35 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The landmark legislation was passed on July 26, 1990, to expand access and opportunity for all Americans with disabilities.

How telecommunications has changed since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and how it continues to improve, to help people who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing and DeafBlind.

On June 20, NCDHHS Secretary Sangvai attended and spoke at the Pride Month celebration held at the Governor's Executive Mansion in Raleigh.

This week, NCDHHS leadership came together at the i2i conference to talk about the Olmstead Plan. This plan helps people with disabilities get the support they need to live the lives they want in their communities.