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Core Services

The CEEHD is organized via four core areas to achieve our overall mission and goals.

Administrative Core

The Administrative Core provides infrastructure and resources for the CEEHD and is responsible for the ongoing planning, coordination, oversight, and evaluation of all activities.

Specific activities of the Administrative Core include:

  • Overall CEEHD leadership and coordination
  • Establishing and fostering meaningful and mutually beneficial student community engagement experiences.
  • Establishing and fostering collaborative and mutually beneficial community partnerships.
  • Establishing and fostering collaborative and mutually beneficial participant and stakeholder engagement.
  • Promoting and nurturing interdepartmental, interdisciplinary, and cross-campus communication and participation.
  • Organizing and conducting research development workshops.
  • Convening research teams and developing collaborative grant/project proposals.
  • Assisting with management of extramural funding.

Behavioral Health Services Core

The Behavioral Health Services Core will serve low-income men, women, transitional-aged youth, and veterans from both rural and urban communities in co-occurring behavioral and health disorders such as opioid use, alcohol, and other drug use disorders.

Child/Adolescent Health Services Core

The Traditional Community Engagement Core is responsible for carrying out the mission of CEEHD by promoting equity and social justice in health care delivery, treatment, and outcomes of  students pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.  This is accomplished by leading collaborative efforts that provide needed health equity services, generate and disseminate evidence-based basic and applied health disparities/equity research, policy-relevant solutions, and to educate future leaders who deliberately consider and incorporate equity and social justice in professional practice related to child health.

Specific activities of the Child/Adolescent Health Services Core include:

  • Provide learning experiences and support for undergraduate, graduate students, and junior faculty to develop and increase research capacity and skills.
  • Collaborate with the public school system on support needed to promote child health and wellness.
  • Collaborate with community partners to address food insecurities.
  • Using the mobile units, health sciences faculty, staff, and students provide free preventive health services to members of the community being served. Examples include:
    • Health Screenings (Height, weight, vision, blood pressure, blood glucose, etc.)
    • Referrals to other care providers and community services.
    • Community, Guardian, and Parental health & wellness education.
    • Back to school community events.
    • Health assessments

Traditional Community Engagement Core

The Traditional Community Engagement Core is responsible for carrying out the mission of CEEHD by promoting equity and social justice in health care delivery, treatment, and outcomes of those served. This is accomplished by leading collaborative efforts to provide needed health equity services, generate and disseminate evidence-based basic and applied health disparities/equity research, policy-relevant solutions, and to educate future leaders who deliberately consider and incorporate equity and social justice in professional practice.

Specific activities of the Traditional Community Engagement Core include:

  • Provide learning experiences and support for undergraduate, graduate students, and junior faculty to develop and increase research capacity and skills.
  • Develop and ongoing pipeline of capable and effective researchers and practitioners by fostering student participation in leadership in community engaged activities and experiences.
  • Enhance the translation of research and technological developments to community members and key community stakeholders.
  • Using the mobile units, health sciences faculty, staff, students, and community partners, provide free preventive health services to members of the community being served. Examples include:
    • Health Screenings (blood pressure, cholesterol, BMI, blood glucose, etc.)
    • Referrals to other care providers and community services.
    • Community and Individualized health & wellness education.

Goals

  • Improve health outcomes by increasing access to available services to underserved citizens of East Winston-Salem.
  • Engage in the local community to educate on and address health disparities and social determinants of health.
  • Provide interdisciplinary experiential learning opportunities that promote a health-equity mindset for the next generation of healthcare providers.
  • Promote research and scholarship by and supporting research projects in this area.