Community Partnerships

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Community Health Education and Promotion (CHEP) recognizes the importance of community partnership in promoting change and equitable access to a healthy lifestyle. Within our community, there are organizations and individuals that have inimitable insight and knowledge supporting the program’s efforts.  Lee County’s CHEP program acknowledges the vast network of community partners that support our efforts to facilitate change.

Current and previous collaborators include, but are not limited to:

• Lee Community Action Network
• LEEding Towards Wellness
• Local churches, congregates, pastors, and faith-based networks
• Local non-profit organizations including Partnership for Children and Families, United Way of Lee County, The Salvation Army, El Refugio, El Vinculo Hispano, Veternation, Helping Hands and others.
• Local healthcare providers
• North Carolina Cooperative Extension
• The Enrichment Center of Lee County
• City of Sanford
• Central Carolina Community College
• Central Carolina Hospital
• Sandhills Center
• Daymark Recovery Services
• Sandhills Opioid Response Consortium
• FirstHealth of the Carolinas
• Lee County Schools
• Daycare and Childcare Centers
• Sanford Police Department
• Lee County Sherriff’s Office
• Salvation Army’s Navigation Center
• Christian United Outreach Center
• Habitat for Humanity
• Bread of Life Ministries
• S3 Housing Connect

CHEP actively seeks new partnership to collaborate with a diverse pool of community members and organizations for effective change. If you are interested in outreach, health education, or other areas CHEP may be able to assist with, please contact , Health Education by email at Health@leecountync.gov.