Listed Below are  Programs and Services:
 

Health educators provide one-on-one and group education and counseling sessions to promote healthy lifestyles from nutrition and exercise to tobacco cessation. The programs offered are designed to:

• address tobacco use through advocacy, training and community education (Project ASSIST and Tobacco.Reality.Unfiltered)
• improve eating habits and health through education, advocacy, counseling, and training (numerous Nutrition Services).
• improve health behaviors by facilitating a community collaboration of local groups, agencies, and individuals (Mecklenburg Healthy Carolinians);
• promote exercise and healthy eating for young children (Color Me Healthy) and families (Families Eating Smart and Moving More) and child care centers (Nutrition and Physical Activity Self Assessment for Child Care NAP SACC) ; and
• promote exercise for senior's by offering a video exercise program for older adults and those with limited mobility [All Bodies Like Exercise! (ABLE!)].

• Provide physical activity and healthy eating tools and resources for the community (Fit City Challenge), families (Fit City for Fit Families) and worksites (Fit City Worksite Wellness).

Health educators provide one-on-one and group education and counseling sessions to promote positive family planning and reproductive health behaviors. The programs offered are designed to:

• increase youth awareness of child abuse and neglect (Child Abuse and Neglect );
• prepare expectant women and their support person (Childbirth Classes );
• inform community on topics of  family planning, contraception and sexuality education (Family Planning/Contraception/Sexuality Education Program);
• prevent unintended pregnancy (Male Involvement Program);
• promote responsible male decision making (The Male's Place); and
• reduce risk behaviors for HIV infection, AIDS and sexually transmitted disease (STD/HIV/AIDS Prevention Education and Outreach Program).

Program Manager - Jon Levin, M.P.H., Health Educator, 704-336-4669
Health Promotion Supervisor - Marquis Eure, M.P.H., C.H.E.S., Health Educator, 704-336-6163