Community
Health
Creating and promoting healthy communities is the mission of Chesprocott’s Community Health Division. We strive to improve health outcomes in our communities by promoting healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, and linkage to care & support though many of our programs and educational outreach.
Characteristics of a healthy community?
- Quality Education
- Safe and Healthy Homes
- Adequate employment
- Transportation
- Physical activity
- Good nutrition
- Quality Health Care
What are the Outcomes?
- Better Physical Health
- Better Mental Health
- Stronger Community Support
- Cleaner Environment
- More Educational Opportunities
- Chesprocott Health District has a licensed clinic that offers a variety of services that include vaccinations, blood pressure and A1C screening. We belong to the CT Vaccines for Children program where we can offer free or low-cost vaccines to children depending on their insurance status.
- Chesprocott Health District provides seasonal flu vaccine clinics throughout our towns and in our office each fall.
Health Promotion, Educational Opportunities and Outreach
We provide a variety of educational programs including:
Hidden in Plain Sight – a teenager’s bedroom where parents learn how to detect potential drug or alcohol use.
Narcan Training – Chesprocott now offers free Naloxone training. Learn the signs and symptoms of an overdose and save lives!
Matter of Balance – designed to reduce the fear of falling and improve activity levels among community dwelling older adults.
QPR – Question. Persuade. Refer. A program to reduce suicidal behaviors and save lives by providing innovative, practical and proven suicide prevention training.
Change the Script is a statewide public awareness campaign to help communities deal with the prescription drug and opioids misuse crisis.
Our community public health nurse works closely with the Connecticut DPH to collect, review and investigate communicable disease reports to determine health trends, plan educational outreach, and to prevent disease outbreaks.
These diseases include tick borne diseases, influenza, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases. Click here for a full list of diseases.
Every five years we conduct a community health needs assessment of our communities. This assessment identifies key health needs and issues through a systematic, comprehensive date collection and analysis.
Click here to view the 2022-23 Chesprocott Community Health Needs Assessment.
Once the analysis is completed, the data is presented to the communities and the communities determine which health need or issue is a priority. Then CHD will focus community outreach on those determined health needs.
2023-24 Health Needs: Mental Health and Addiction; Obesity; Eating Healthy and Exercising; Oral Health
In collaboration with the Cheshire Chamber of Commerce we hold monthly CHWC meetings, arrange guest speakers and plan community events that are focused on improving the community’s health. New members are always welcomed.
Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases are caused by viruses, bacteria or parasites that are transmitted to humans from animals or insects. Some diseases that originate in animals must be transmitted through a “vector” ( e.g.,mosquito, tick) in order to infect a human.
Click here to learn more.