Central Carolina Community College (CCCC) hosted their first annual employee Breast Cancer Walk as part of October's designation of Breast Cancer Awarenss Month, and invited the LCHD to participate.  This event had an attendance of 29 people including four men.  The LCHD supplied education and educational materials on all usual programs with the additions of Breast Cancer/Cervical Cancer Program (BCCCP) materials.  Although not part of the LCHD CHIP or CHA, BCCCP is part of a healthy community healthy community efforts, and is often associated with nutrition, obesity, and physical activity.

The Lee County Enrichment Center serves the senoir populaton.  LCHD partners with them for many health and wellness promotions. Newly added partnership is a Diabetes Support Group in which the LCHD serves as a group lead to guide the discussion as well as provide follow up information when questions are asked at sesssions that require research.  First session 1/11/2023 attended by six individuals.

"Food is a basic building block of health that affects weight, blood pressure, and countless other health outcomes. Access to healthy food is strongly influenced by where someone lives.  People in rural or underserved areas of North Carolina are particularly affected by lack of access to stores where they can purchase ingredients for healthy meals” (HNC 2030, pg. 56). Limited access to healthy food has been linked to cardiovascular conditions and heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in Lee County (CHA, pg. 145). Additionally, residents who participated in our Community Health Assessment focus groups mentioned food-insecurity and food-deserts as leading issues affecting the lives of youth and seniors in Lee County (CHA, pg. 46, 48).  Lee County continues an upward trend of food-insecurity according to Feeding America, a leading partner in addressing this issue (https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2020/overall/north-carolina/county/lee).