By Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
· by Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW), an initiative of the North Carolina Council of Churches, is designed to bridge issues of faith, health, and justice. We partner with faith communities […]
By Nicole Johnson, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Nicole Johnson, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
Have you noticed what happens when you step outside? Your breathing regulates, your mind clears, sometimes a solution to a thorny problem strikes in a eureka moment. The health benefits […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
The NC Council of Churches was recently awarded an eighteen-month grant to promote compassionate solutions, based on health and human dignity, to the opioid crisis in North Carolina. This work […]
By Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
· by Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW), an initiative of the North Carolina Council of Churches, is designed to bridge issues of faith, health, and justice. We partner with faith communities […]
By Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
· by Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
May is Mental Health Month. This offers intentional opportunity to think proactively about mental health, its impact on our lives and communities, and create ways to destigmatize related issues. I […]
By Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
· by Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW), an initiative of the North Carolina Council of Churches, is designed to bridge issues of faith, health, and justice. We partner with faith communities […]
By Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
· by Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
As Mother’s Day approaches, we honor, remember, and celebrate all of the strong women in our lives. Women have proven throughout history that they are the backbone of society. Eleanor […]
By Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
· by Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
The Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW) Summer Mini-Grant Cycle is now open. Mini-grants are a great way to support programs in your health ministry that engage church congregants and […]
By Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
· by Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
As I work with various communities, a returning issue I hear about is the first 2000 days of a person’s life. I first learned about this number, 2000, at the […]
By Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
· by Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW), an initiative of the North Carolina Council of Churches, is designed to bridge issues of faith, health, and justice. We partner with faith communities […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
The staff of the NC Council of Churches is delighted to welcome Josie Walker and Karen Richardson-Dunn to the Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW) team. Josie Walker is the […]
By Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
· by Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW), an initiative of the North Carolina Council of Churches, is designed to bridge issues of faith, health, and justice. We partner with faith communities […]
By Katie Withers, NC State MSW Intern
· by Katie Withers, NC State MSW Intern
There are less than two weeks remaining to apply for a Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW) Mini-Grant. Congregations that are members of the PHW Collaborative are able to request […]
By Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
· by Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
This flu season is notably harsh and even deadly in some circumstances. According to North Carolina Health Officials, as of January 25, there have been 21 flu deaths in our […]
By Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
· by Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW), an initiative of the North Carolina Council of Churches, is designed to bridge issues of faith, health, and justice. We partner with faith communities […]
By chris
· by chris
The Wild Goose Festival is a 4-day art, music, and story-driven transformational experience grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Come to not only learn from incredible speakers, but also to engage […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
If you do not have insurance through an employer or other group plan, the Affordable Care Act continues to provide an option. Though battered, up to and including, appeals to […]
By Josie Walker, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Josie Walker, PHW Regional Coordinator
It isn’t too late to practice prevention. In North Carolina alone, an estimated 750,000 people have been diagnosed with diabetes. An additional 280,000 may have diabetes but are undiagnosed. Already […]
By Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
· by Lindsay Barth, Event Coordinator & PHW Communications Associate
Open enrollment to sign up for or renew health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) began November 1 and ends December 15, 2017. The ACA Marketplace allows individuals to […]
By Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
It has been a little over a week since our third PHW Faith and Health Summit, themed “Making Connections: We’re Worth It.” The day began with worship and a keynote […]
By Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director
· by Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director
After failing to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration now has its sights set on our Clean Power Plan. For this one, they won’t have to […]
By Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
· by Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
Partners in Health and Wholeness invites you to join us in Greensboro on Friday, October 20, for our Faith and Health Summit. There will be excellent workshops on many relevant […]
By Michelle Peedin, Program Coordinator, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Michelle Peedin, Program Coordinator, Partners in Health and Wholeness
On Thursday, October 19th Partners in Health and Wholeness will host our 2017 Faith and Health Summit. Thursday’s events include a community gardens and permaculture tour throughout the city of […]
By Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
· by Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Our work at Partners in Health and Wholeness, and with the NC Council of Churches, begins with the hope to see all North Carolinians […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to be one of the most divisive laws passed in the United States in recent history. After several failed attempts by Congress this year […]
By Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and we want to hear what you have to say. The theme of this year’s PHW Faith and Health Summit is, […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
We find ourselves in a better place than we might have been when it comes to health care policy. Remaining ever vigilant and recognizing that there is still much work […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
The U.S. Senate’s vote this afternoon moves the debate forward to potentially repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. What that will look like is anybody’s guess. Senators Burr and […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
It appears that the U.S. Senate will vote today on some sort of health care action. What they’ll be voting on, however, is unclear even to some of them. This […]
By Michelle Peedin, Program Coordinator, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Michelle Peedin, Program Coordinator, Partners in Health and Wholeness
More than 10,000 individuals and 50 organizations have signed a petition asking Governor Cooper to revoke the world’s largest wood pellet manufacturer’s flawed air quality permit in Richmond County. At […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
No one seems completely clear on whether the Senate will vote next week on health care or what they will vote on if they do. That might be deliberate in […]
By Andrew Hudgins, Program Associate for Operations
· by Andrew Hudgins, Program Associate for Operations
Yesterday, the Senate unveiled a revised version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act. According to a report from our friends at the North Carolina Justice Center the changes, and their […]
By Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director
· by Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director
“Biomass” may sound like a clean idea, but it actually means cutting down and turning trees into fuel pellets to be burned for energy — creating more carbon pollution than […]
By Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
· by Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
Presented with a new state budget that, whatever its occasional virtues, is mainly about easing tax burdens on the well-off while grinding opponents of legislative Republicans into the dirt, Democratic […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
Would you be Surprised to know 97 percent of online pharmacies are illegitimate? The North Carolina Council of Churches has joined with Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and the Secretary […]
By Andrew Hudgins, Program Associate for Operations
· by Andrew Hudgins, Program Associate for Operations
Late yesterday afternoon the Congressional Budget Office released their score of the Senate’s proposed health care plan and the numbers are extremely troubling. As our friends at the North Carolina […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Members of the United States Senate have released their proposed health care plan, all 142 pages of the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017” developed in secrecy, with a score […]
By Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
· by Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
By now the strategy is familiar – the strategy used by the N.C. General Assembly’s Republican chiefs to try to make a fundamentally flawed state budget appear, well, not that […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
As the Senate continues its secret deliberations on a health care plan that will effect all Americans, the potential impact on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
The Council’s commitment to health care as a basic justice issue dates back decades. Significant progress toward health care for all was made with the Affordable Care Act, progress toward […]
By Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director
· by Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director
We were already living in a time of profound consequence. President Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement means that while the needs of our endangered climate are increasing, […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Consider the shame of the North Carolina General Assembly working to rush through a bill that weakens gun laws as National Gun Violence Awareness Day approaches. It is right up […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
For more than two decades, the NC Council of Churches has called for access to health care for all. The score from the Congressional Budget Office makes it undeniably clear […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Plenty of analysis is already happening around the 2018 budget proposal out of the White House. The Washington Post provides two helpful graphics here and here. More is being written […]
By Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
· by Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
So, the question as always comes down to one of vision. The elected chieftains who decide how much money North Carolina’s state government will spend, what it will be spent […]
By Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
The next Partners in Health and Wholeness Mini-grant Cycle will begin June 5. Interested congregations must apply to join the PHW Collaborative (previously PHW Certification) by May 31 to be […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director [For more information on bills, including committee referrals and re-referrals, texts of bills, procedural histories, and recorded votes, go to the General Assembly website […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
The passage of the American Health Care Act by the House of Representatives reflects a political choice on a life-or-death matter. If House members truly believed that this was the […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director [The deadlines for the introduction of most new bills have now passed, and we are in Crossover Week. By the end of the week, […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
The public is opposed to efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act, but some members of the U.S. House of Representatives seem determined to forge ahead anyway. The latest version […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director [For the latest committee referrals and re-referrals, go to the General Assembly website www.ncleg.net. There you can also find the texts of bills, procedural […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Congressional leaders are still in their home states for their spring recess, but your voices are still important. Please attend town halls held by our elected leaders, and please request […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director Newly Introduced Bills BUDGET AND TAXES H 540, Teachers & State Employees Pay Raise, would give annual raises of $2,400 to teachers and other […]
By Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
· by Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
North Carolina’s failure under Republican leadership to improve low-income residents’ access to health care via the Medicaid program has been like a persistent, throbbing pain in the state’s civic and […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director Bills are being introduced at a rapid pace as the Senate’s deadline for new bills has passed and the House’s deadline on non-money approaches. […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Every state legislator should be required to listen to the stories shared at a press conference organized this week by North Carolina advocates for health care. Anyone opposed to Medicaid […]
By Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director
· by Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director
This week, Donald Trump issued an executive order to turn back the clock on the climate progress we have made over the past decade. In addition to directing the EPA to […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Thank you for every call, email, and letter to Congressional leaders that led to today’s decision to pull the American Health Care Act without a vote. Those committed to a […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
The budget blueprint for 2018 released by President Trump on Thursday cuts a wide swath through programs that serve women, people of color, those of low income (for poor women […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director Newly Introduced Bills CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE JUSTICE H 233, Ban the Box, would govern how state and local governments could use criminal histories in […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Around the release of the alt-health plan currently making its way through Congress, several elected leaders have gone where elected leaders sometimes go – blaming the poor for being poor. […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Despite evidence that the Affordable Care Act is more popular and more needed than ever, some Republicans in Congress have proceeded with partisan plans to repeal Obamacare while dismantling Medicaid […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
The political situation at the national level has occupied the time and attention of many faithful progressives. Each day has brought with it more reasons to be concerned for our […]
By Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
We are pleased to introduce the PHW Collaborative. Mostly, it is a change in the name, so if your congregation has been a part of the Partners in Health and […]
By Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
We are pleased to introduce the PHW Collaborative. Mostly, it is a change in the name, so if your congregation has been a part of the Partners in Health and […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director Newly Introduced Bills ENVIRONMENTAL CARE H 171, Change Exclusion for Solar Energy Systems. Current law provides an 80% exclusion from property taxation for the […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Partners in Health and Wholeness is hiring for two new regional coordinators, one to serve in the Charlotte area and the other in the Wilmington area. Both positions are open […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
The Council has added two new staffers in recent months. Andrew Hudgins is our Program Associate for Operations, and Michelle Peedin is our Program Associate for North Carolina Interfaith Power […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Our friend Rob Schofield over at Policy Watch wrote a column on Tuesday that was as vitally important in its truth-telling as it was hard to read for the future […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
The Affordable Care Act is still in place for 2017, and as our friends at the NC Justice Center remind us, nothing has changed for this year. Plans, prices, deadlines, […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
At another time in my life, I would not have spent most of Saturday occupying my tiny square of personal space in the heart of Washington DC, literally shoulder to […]
By Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
· by Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
For many of us, these are troubling times as Donald Trump ascends to the nation’s highest office. We can hope for the best but it’s hard not to anticipate the […]
By Joy Williams, Former PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Joy Williams, Former PHW Regional Coordinator
Pizazz. Laughter. Friends. Singing. These words describe the Healthy Churches 2020 National Conference. But, did you know that a faith and health national conference even exists? Healthy Churches 2020 held […]
By Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
In the past Partners in Health and Wholeness had a program dedicated to helping worshipping communities promote breastfeeding and support breastfeeding mothers. This week, the most prominent religious leader in the world, the […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Groups at the state and national level continue to mobilize around concerns about President-Elect Donald Trump’s stated policy objectives and choices for cabinet posts. The NC NAACP, Interfaith Power & […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
On Friday, the House of Representatives voted to continue the process that could ultimately repeal the Affordable Care Act. Activists across the nation were already planning Day of Action events […]
By Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
We are excited to announce that we are now accepting mini-grant applications. Congregations who were certified in 2016 (and have not already received a grant from the last cycle) are […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
PHW-certified congregations across North Carolina are eligible to apply for a mini-grant to assist in furthering their commitment to health and wholeness. Mini-grant application periods are open twice a year; […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Two of the Partners in Health and Wholeness program’s regional coordinators have been honored recently. Joy Williams has been named a 2017 Rural Health Fellow by the National Rural Health […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
The Council is hiring a full-time program associate to support Partners in Health and Wholeness and North Carolina Interfaith Power and Light. The full job description is posted below and […]
By Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
· by Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
The amount of grassroots, efficient, and sustainable Kingdom work happening in North Carolina is astounding. People across our state are working together in various communities to promote health and wholeness. […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Looking ahead to 2017, there is much more work for the Council to do than we ever imagined. Please join us. Your financial support helps us continue what began in […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
We are living in unsettling times. Progress we once thought inviolable now feels threatened. One constant is the NC Council of Churches and our commitment to a more just, united, […]
By Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
· by Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
Community leaders continue to work endlessly to save the Pungo Hospital in Belhaven. Please join clergy and those concerned for justice this Wednesday, December 21, 10 a.m., at the Wake […]
By Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
· by Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
Partners in Health and Wholeness ambitiously endeavors to work for and toward issues of mind, body, and spirit with faith communities. The words ‘health’ and ‘wholeness’ are truly huge words, […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By Nina Voli, Duke Divinity School Intern Although the Affordable Care Act expanded health care coverage to millions of Americans, the Supreme Court ruled that state enrollment in Medicaid expansion was optional. […]
By Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
· by Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
As the 2016 campaign season grinds along the final stretch toward Election Day on Nov. 8 – and with thousands of North Carolinians already having cast their ballots – we […]
By Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
· by Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
The Partners in Health and Wholeness program originally had an October 31 deadline for our 2016 certification applications. However, due to the severity of Hurricane Matthew, we are extending our […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW) offers an annual certification program to congregations across the state. Churches participating in PHW actively demonstrate their commitment to improving their health as well […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
By Kaitlyn Brodar, PHW Intern As the health lead for Concord UMC in Graham, NC, Donna Poe spends most of her time in the garden. Even as we were talking, […]
By Nicole Johnson, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Nicole Johnson, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
“Partners in Health and Wholeness, an initiative of the North Carolina Council of Churches, is designed to bridge issues of faith, health and social justice.” These are the words that […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
By Kaitlyn Brodar, PHW Intern I recently had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Norma Boone, the health lead at Corinth AME Zion Church in Siler City, NC. The church […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
By Kaitlyn Brodar, PHW Intern St. Philip’s Episcopal Church is a gold-level PHW congregation in Durham, North Carolina. While the health ministry team and pastors have promoted health in a […]
By Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
By Kaitlyn Brodar, PHW Intern The Soul Harvest Apostolic Church is a gold-level PHW congregation that has been certified since 2012 and is firmly committed to healthy eating. They have […]
By Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
Did you know that August is National Breastfeeding Month and that this week is World Breastfeeding Week? Breastfeeding has some important health implications for both mom and baby. It also […]
By Nicole Johnson, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
· by Nicole Johnson, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness
July 16, 2016 is the 2-month mark since Regional Coordinator for Western North Carolina became my full time position with the NCCC’s Partners in Health and Wholeness Initiative. This is significant […]
By Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
New York City’s Health Commissioner, Dr. Mary Bassett, recently published a blog on the Huffington Post about Gun Violence as a public health issue. It is essential that we pay […]
By Liz Millar, Medicaid Expansion Project Coordinator
· by Liz Millar, Medicaid Expansion Project Coordinator
All children deserve to have a strong start in life and the chance to become a happy, healthy, productive adults. Infant mortality rates, or the number of infants who die […]
By Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Shannon Axtell Martin, PHW Regional Coordinator
What does it mean to eat faithfully? This is a deeply personal, yet essentially communal question that we often don’t take the time to consider. Delving into this question, however, […]
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