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Title
DHHS-PUBLIC HEALTH BUDGET AMENDMENT: PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE - LOCAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ($1,413,671)
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SPONSOR
Sponsor
Dr. Iulia Vann
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BACKGROUND
Background
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through the North Carolina Division of Public Health, has awarded Guilford County through State Agreement Addendum 117 the amount of $1,413,671. This award can be expended over the next five (5) years. The award recognizes a history of underinvestment in the public health system and its foundational services, and supplements existing work in Clinical Services, Environmental Health and Workforce Development. In accordance with the non-supplanting provision, these state funds are intended to supplement existing funds and services rather than replace or supplant them.
This funding is to help meet the short-term critical infrastructure needs and to make strategic investments which will have lasting effects on local public health departments in North Carolina. This funding will support the foundational capabilities and the local health department workforce needed to support service areas. Investments and improvements to foundational capabilities will help rebuild and modernize public health departments, positioning local health departments to better serve their communities.
These foundational service areas are core functions of local health departments and include:
1) Preventing the spread of communicable disease,
2) Ensuring food, air and water quality are safe,
3) Supporting maternal and child health,
4) Improving access and linkages to clinical care services, and
5) Preventing chronic disease and injury.
Staff plan to use the new funding to continue one (1) existing position and establish six (6) new FTEs to expand our impact in Environmental Health - Water Quality/Food and Lodging and Clinical Services - Communicable Disease.
Funding will be used to support:
ยท Existing: One (1) ARPA Workforce Development Manager (partia...
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