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Community -Based Public Health Initiative 3 <br />Summary of North Carolina Consortium Project <br />B ack around <br />• Initial application /concept submitted about a year ago <br />• Kellogg accepted fifteen out of 108 applications for a planning year <br />• The past year has been spent planning the project with the grant <br />application due on April 30 <br />• Kellogg has brought together six representatives from each of the <br />fifteen consortia for six three -day training sessions (the Detroit session <br />being the last), designed to help consortium members understand <br />dimensions of the project Kellogg wishes to see included <br />• Kellogg's goal is to change relationships and practices between <br />communities, local public health practice agencies, and academic <br />institutions, so that local communities are empowered to solve their <br />own problems <br />• Kellogg specified that they would like to see a focus on minority health <br />and upward mobility of minorities <br />North Carolina Consortium <br />• Consortium consists of eleven members: <br />-Joint Orange - Chatham Community Action (a community organization) <br />- Strengthening the Black Family, Inc., (a community organization) <br />- Chatham County Health Department <br />-Lee County Health Department <br />- Orange County Health Department <br />-Wake County Health Department <br />- Orange- Chatham Comprehensive Health Center (primary care center) <br />-Wake Health Services (primary care center) <br />-Wake Area Health Education Center <br />- UNC School of Public Health <br />- LNC School of Medicine <br />• Each county, and each of the broader organizations (SPH, Wake AHEC, <br />School of Medicine) was asked to prepare a proposal for meeting the <br />goals of the project in their own county or organization. <br />• The School of Public Health was represented in planning groups for all <br />four of the counties involved. <br />• A common thread in each of the county proposals is one of using some <br />form of lay health advisors or community advocates as a continuing <br />contact point between agencies and the broader community, always <br />seeking to expand the base of community people involved. <br />• The strength of the North Carolina proposal lies in the diversity of <br />counties participating in the project, especially in terms of the <br />preparedness or readiness of the health agencies and the /a community <br />in each county to participate. <br />• The least developed counties in terms of community readiness are Lee <br />and Chatham counties, with those counties at the very beginning stages <br />