Community and Clinical Connections for Prevention and Health Resources

Resources to help in reducing obesity, diabetes and heart disease in North Carolinians of all ages.

General Resources

NC Resources

Breastfeed NC - Breastfeed NC offers evidence-based information and resources to help new mothers, and those who support them as they begin and continue to breastfeed.

CCCPH Fact Sheets - can be found on the data page.

Farm to ECE Connections - The NC Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) Connections Map is an innovative tool that highlights and facilitates direct connections between child care sites and farmers in North Carolina.

Health Education Brochures - content designed to help people eat healthy, know their health numbers, and learn ways to successfully prevent and manage diabetes and hypertension.

Key Steps to Creating a Community Connections Map - The NC Farm to ECE Connections Map was developed to bridge gaps between farmers and child care centers, support access to local foods, improve children’s nutrition, and foster meaningful community partnerships. This article also outlines the key steps to creating a community connections map, including data collection, stakeholder input, and sustainable planning, demonstrating how such tools can strengthen local food systems and deepen community ties.

Med Instead of Meds - offers seven simples steps for eating the Mediterranean way for better health.

Natural Learning Initiative - applies community-based, equity-driven design thinking to creating healthy natural play and learning environments, where all children and their families can thrive and learn healthy life habits.

Recognizing ECE’s Advancing Children’s Health Habits (REACH) - A recognition program based on the evidence-based practices of Go NAPSACC, encouraging ECE programs to show how they meet key practices in the areas where they excel.

National Resources

American Diabetes Association - seeks to prevent and cure diabetes, and improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

American Heart Association - Information for patients, caregivers and health care professionals on reducing disability and death from heart disease and stroke.

Million Hearts - Million Hearts® focuses on implementing a small set of evidence-based priorities and targets that can improve cardiovascular health for all.

National Center for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion - CDC patient education materials.

Cardiovascular Health

Blood Pressure Log - This trifold card can be professionally printed for pharmacists to use with customers that may be at risk for high blood pressure. Spanish version of Blood Pressure Log.

Blood Pressure Training Curriculum for the Dental Team - This free curriculum teaches how to manage dental care in patients with high blood pressure.

Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less - is a real-time online weight-management program that uses strategies proven to work for individuals who want to lose weight, maintain a healthy weight or learn healthier lifestyle habits.

Get to Know Your Cholesterol - 8-1/2″ x 11″ brochure with information about cholesterol and its affect on cardiovascular health. Cholesterol brochure in Spanish.

Get to Know Your Cholesterol – Trifold brochure - Trifold brochure with information about cholesterol and its affect on cardiovascular health. Trifold brochure in Spanish.

Know Your Health Numbers - Your health numbers can tell you about your risk for chronic disease such as diabetes and heart disease. Health Numbers flyer in Spanish.

Manage Your Blood Pressure brochure - Information about and ways to lower your blood pressure. Blood Pressure brochure in Spanish.

QuitlineNC - provides free cessation services to any North Carolina resident who needs help quitting tobacco use.

Pharmacy Locations providing self-measured blood pressure with Clinical Support (SMBP) - SMBP, when combined with clinical support, can help reduce the risk of illness or death from high blood pressure.

Diabetes Prevention and Management

DiabetesFreeNC.com - learn more about prediabetes and find a CDC-recognized diabetes prevention program in North Carolina.

Diabetes North Carolina - offers resources for public health professionals, consumers and health care providers.

DiabetesManagementNC.com - learn more about diabetes management and find diabetes self-management education and support services in North Carolina.

Eat Smart, Move More, Prevent Diabetes - is a CDC-recognized online provider of the National Diabetes Prevention Program. The program focuses on evidence-based strategies to achieve a healthy weight and prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Manage Your Diabetes - This guide is designed to help people with diabetes get the best care possible at the best price possible. Manage Diabetes Guide in Spanish.

QuitlineNC - provides free cessation services to any North Carolina resident who needs help quitting tobacco use.

Physical Activity and Nutrition

Color Me Healthy - is a program developed to reach children ages 4 and 5 with fun, interactive learning opportunities on physical activity and healthy eating.

Eat Smart, Move More North Carolina - provides programs and tools designed for professionals and community leaders to promote healthy eating and physical activity.

Healthy Eating Made Delicious - Recipes, inspiration and techniques for the Mediterranean-style eating pattern to promote health and decrease risk of many chronic diseases. Healthy Eating guide in Spanish.

Move More, Walk Now – Engage Your Community - provides tools, resources and communications to support walking, biking and rolling in your community.

My Eat Smart Move More - offers simple solutions for everyone on how to eat smart and move more.

North Carolina’s Plan to Address Overweight and Obesity: Balance how we eat, drink, and move. - was developed by Eat Smart, Move More North Carolina to offer overarching goals and measurable objectives for anyone working in the area of overweight and obesity prevention.