Healthy Personians is a community-based partnership whose priority is to assist the residents of Person County in maintaining and establishing healthy lifestyles. Its community involvement initiative is to address the health issues and concerns of the community. The Healthy Personians Advisory Board serves as the principle governing body for the entire partnership.
WHAT IS OUR MISSION STATEMENT?
“Personians Helping Personians to be healthy”
WHAT IS OUR VISION?
The vision of Healthy Personians is to provide education in the areas of health promotion and disease prevention to the residents of Person County.
We envision........
- Residents living healthy lifestyles
- Addressing residents health concerns
- Community involvement to include relevant agencies, volunteers, etc.
- Educational awareness and promoting disease prevention
HEALTHY PERSONIANS PARTNERSHIP MEMBERS & PROGRAMS
There are currently three working groups within the partnership. The focus areas include fitness and nutrition, infectious disease and teen/adolescent pregnancy prevention. Our current working groups are listed below:
The FAN (Fitness And Nutrition) Club seeks and supports opportunities that encourage physical activity and healthy eating.
The HIV Task force strives to educate the residents of Person County on ways to prevent the spread of HIV.
Person County Adolescent Health Coalition brings together key community leaders to collaborate and implement teen pregnancy prevention programs.
WHY IS HEALTHY PERSONIANS IMPORTANT TO THE COMMUNITY?
The goal of Healthy Personians is to assist in improving the health and well-being of community residents. Preventable diseases account for up to 50 percent of healthcare cost. By modifying, health risk behaviors that cause disease we can improve our health. Taking control of lifestyle factors such as increasing exercise, eating better diets, and practiving abstinence or safer sexual habits could prevent 40-70 percent of premature deaths and/or disease.
WHO PARTICIPATES IN HEALTHY PERSONIANS?
Community leaders, volunteers, hospital staff, health department staff, schools, elected officials, religious groups, businesses and civic organizations are just a few examples of partnership members. The group collaborates to bring resources together to address the health needs of the community.
The Healthy Personians Advisory Board meets in July, October, January, and April on the 2nd Monday @ 11:30 am at the Person County Health Department.
HOW DID HEALTHY PERSONIANS GET STARTED? Healthy Personians started in the year 2000 as a way to address broad-based health needs in the community. With funding assistance from the NC Dept. of Health and Human Services, the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, and local funding, the office is based in the Person County Health Department. Healthy Personians has become an established organization within the community and has been able to provide support to several local partnerships seeking to address health issues.
It follows the Healthy Carolinians model of developing local partnerships to improve the health of all North Carolinians. For more information on Healthy Carolinians visit its web site at:
http://www.healthycarolinians.org.
For more information contact:
Healthy Personians
Person County Health Dept.
355-A South Madison Boulevard
Roxboro, NC 27573
(336) 597-2204