QC Community Connect

Virtual Governing Board Elections Interest Meeting
2024-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | North Carolina
Join us for our upcoming Virtual Governing Board Elections Interest Meeting that will be hosted on January 25th, 2024, from 12:00-1:00PM. Gain insights into the election and nomination process, responsibilities of each position, and learn from the experiences of our current Governing Board members. This session is an invaluable opportunity to understand how your involvement can contribute to the success of Queen City Community Connect Coalition.

E-Mail CHWI@MeckNC.Gov for a calendar invite!

February Bi-Monthly Meeting
2024-02-06 11:00 - 12:15, 2025-02-04 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-02-03 11:00 - 12:30 | North Carolina
Join us for our regular bi-monthly meeting! Email CHWl@MeckNC.gov to receive an invitation – we’ll send you the location of this month’s meeting.

Resource Roundup Session
2024-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 | North Carolina
Join Queen City Community Connect Coalition for its first ever Resource Roundup Session! The purpose of Resource Roundups is for a dynamic exchange designed for Community Health Workers (CHWs) to foster resource-sharing and collaborating. During Resource Roundup sessions with QC4, CHWs can share valuable resources they’ve discovered. Additionally, CHWs can express their resource needs, creating a collaborative exchange that strengthens the collective knowledge base and empowers CHWs to better serve their communities. This aims to enhance collaboration, streamline information flow, and ultimately contribute to more effective community health work.

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Resource Theme: Housing

Email CHWI@MeckNC.gov to receive your calendar invite now!

This is a virtual event that will be hosted on MS Teams.

Community Health Workers 101 (CHWs N' Action Webinar Series)
2024-03-13 12:00 - 13:00 | North Carolina
Description:

A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker who is a trusted member of and/or has an unusually close understanding of the community served. This trusting relationship enables the worker to serve as a liaison/link/intermediary between health/social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery. A CHW also builds individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support, and advocacy. In practice, CHW is an umbrella term and includes community health representatives, promotors, peers, and other workforce members who are frontline public health professionals that share life experience, trust, compassion, cultural and value alignment with the communities where they live and serve. CHWs are gaining recognition for the growing evidence that associates them with improved health outcomes. This orientation will explore why CHWs are an expanding profession and some of the benefits of their work.

Objectives:

Define CHWs as a profession.

Identify CHW roles and competencies according to the CHW Core Consensus (C3) Project.

Describe the benefits of adding a CHW to a health and/or social care team.

Distinguish how clinical and community CHWs may operate differently in practice and in scope

Identify how clinical and community settings can collaborate with CHWs.

Target Audience:

Novice and Seasoned CHWs, Practice Administrators, Public Health Practitioners, CHW Supervisors, Health and Social Care Team Members, Public Health Team Members, Community and Clinically Integrated Networks, and others interested in and/or engaged in improving population health.

THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS

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April Bi-Monthly Meeting
2024-04-02 11:00 - 12:15, 2025-04-08 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-04-07 11:00 - 12:30 | 2145 Suttle Ave, Charlotte NC – LUSEA Building 4th Floor | Pine Room, 2145 Suttle Avenue, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Health and Racial Equity (CHWs N' Action Webinar Series)
2024-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 | North Carolina
Description:

This webinar will discuss how community health workers (CHWs) can use their role in their communities to help transform health disparities into equity through interactive, reflective, and peer-to-peer learning. Topics covered will help CHWs advance health and racial equity in the workplace, communities, and within the CHW profession. We will also discuss what it means to move towards “meaningful community engagement,” and ways to engage and elevate dialogue about improved health and wellbeing for communities that experience health inequities.

Objectives:

Define health equity.

Explain how structural racism contributes to health and race inequities.

Describe how CHWs work to achieve health and race equity.

Discuss what health and race equity means for community and population health.

Identify at least one benefit and one tool for conducting meaningful community engagement.

Target Audience:

Novice and Seasoned CHWs, Practice Administrators, Public Health Practitioners, CHW Supervisors, Health and Social Care Team Members, Public Health Team Members, Community and Clinically Integrated Networks, and others interested in and/or engaged in improving population health.

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THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Addressing SDoH to Improve Population Health (CHWs N' Action Webinar Series)
2024-05-08 12:00 - 13:00 | North Carolina
Description:

Social determinants of health (SDoH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. They include things like economic status, education, healthcare access, neighborhood quality, and social support. Evidence is building that these non-medical factors have a significant impact on people’s health. What is the community health worker (CHW)’s role in improving these “upstream” health factors? We will discuss how CHWs influence quality of life issues as defined by the 2022 Mecklenburg Health Opinion Survey (see pages 32-36 of 2022 Mecklenburg County CHA). We will also highlight organizations and programs in Mecklenburg County that are impacting SDoH.

Objectives:

Define SDoH and how it impacts individual, community, and population health.

Describe how CHWs can address SDoH in Mecklenburg County.

Discuss how CHWs work across organizations and professions to connect individuals to programs and services

Examine additional ways that organizations in Mecklenburg County can collaborate with CHWs to continue improving upstream health factors.

Target Audience:

Novice and Seasoned CHWs, Practice Administrators, Public Health Practitioners, CHW Supervisors, Health and Social Care Team Members, Public Health Team Members, Community and Clinically Integrated Networks, and others interested in and/or engaged in improving population health.

REGISTER

THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS

NCCHWA Community Health Worker Advocacy Day
2024-05-15 08:00 - 17:00 | North Carolina
The North Carolina Community Health Worker Association (NCCHWA) invites you to join us on 5/15 from 9am-5pm at the state capitol in Raleigh for CHW Advocacy Day to educate our legislators about the CHW workforce and our impact on communities across NC. Join us to meet with your local representatives, share your story, and highlight the needs of your community.

Your legislators need to hear from you, their constituents! We’ll provide contact info and scripts for how to contact your legislator, training on how to engage with your legislator the day of, and other resources that you can use to engage in legislative advocacy. Your stories are important and need to be heard, and we are here to support you in lifting them up! Sign up here to join us in advocating for CHWs across NC. We can’t wait to see you in Raleigh on 5/15. Please share with your friends and colleagues and contact info@ncchwa.org with any questions.

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June Bi-Monthly Meeting
2024-06-04 11:00 - 12:15 | North Carolina

NCCHWA Region 3 Network Meeting
2024-06-17 11:00 - 14:00 | Goodwill Opportunity Campus Bank of America Room 5301 Wilkinson Blvd Charlotte, NC 28208
The North Carolina Community Health Worker Association is excited to announce their first CHW network meetings across all 6 Medicaid regions of the state. Information about location and dates are on the QR code provided. NCCHWA’s goal is for CHWs to connect, share, and learn from others .

Our network meeting, Region 3, will take place on June 17th.

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August Bi-Monthly Meeting
2024-08-06 11:00 - 12:30 | North Carolina

October Bi-Monthly Meeting
2024-10-01 11:00 - 12:15 | North Carolina

2024 CHWI Annual Forum: Movers & Shakers CommUNITY Forum
2024-11-15 09:30 - 15:30 | Goodwill Opportunity Campus Bank of America Room 5301 Wilkinson Blvd Charlotte, NC 28208
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Description: Join us at the Movers & Shakers CommUNITy Forum, a dynamic event that aims to bring together all community partners in the CHW ecosystem. This year’s forum will:

Understand how state and local partners are building community and strengthening the CHW workforce.

Engage participants in an interactive gallery walk showcasing our published comprehensive action plan, also known as Cultivating Community Change Together: Mecklenburg County’s Community Health Worker Initiative Comprehensive Action Plan to Improve Access to Care.

Explore strategies on how to improve health outcomes in Mecklenburg County with the assistance of CHWs.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in information sharing, interactive activities, and networking opportunities with Mecklenburg County’s CHW ecosystem!

December Bi-Monthly Meeting
2024-12-03 11:00 - 12:15 | North Carolina

June Bi-Monthly Meeting
2025-06-03 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-06-02 11:00 - 12:30 | 2145 Suttle Ave, Charlotte NC – LUSEA Building 4th Floor | Pine Room, 2145 Suttle Avenue, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

August Bi-Monthly Meeting
2025-08-05 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-08-04 11:00 - 12:30 | 2145 Suttle Ave, Charlotte NC – LUSEA Building 4th Floor | Pine Room, 2145 Suttle Avenue, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

October Bi-Monthly Meeting
2025-10-07 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-10-06 11:00 - 12:30 | 2145 Suttle Ave, Charlotte NC – LUSEA Building 4th Floor | Pine Room, 2145 Suttle Avenue, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

December Bi-Monthly Meeting
2025-12-02 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-12-01 11:00 - 12:30 | 2145 Suttle Ave, Charlotte NC – LUSEA Building 4th Floor | Pine Room, 2145 Suttle Avenue, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
