1. Community Service Navigators Building Capacity for Health, Safety and Wellbeing

2. Community Needs Identified Community Listening sessions input for improving Health & Human Services: invest in staff training strengthen service coordination improve access to services & multiple access sites

3. Community Needs Identified strengthen information dissemination 9 of 10 Buncombe County residents surveyed in Community Health Assessment said they want to see our county become a healthier place to live

4. Small, everyday choices can seem unimportant. But they add up. And ultimately they can affect you and your family’s health safety and wellbeing. So choose better health. Choose to keep your family and your community safe. Choose better training and education. Because when you choose a better future here, this community has your back.

5. Community Service Navigators Goal- to connect citizens with health & human services that will increase access to opportunities & choices that promote health, safety & wellbeing Target population- citizens with multiple or complex needs who are struggling to get by & have significant barriers to accessing health or social services to address these needs

6. Enhancing Choices for Our Citizens Safety, health & wellbeing start within our families, schools & neighborhoods Many citizens can’t afford medical care or have difficulty locating or getting to health or social service providers Everyone should have the opportunity to make choices that lead to health, safety & wellbeing

7. Enhancing Choices for Our Citizens Social factors like income, education & ethnicity mean some people are more vulnerable to poor safety & health outcomes Rural residents have fewer options for services and/or challenges in identifying & accessing resources

8. Benefits of Community Navigators Strengthen a community’s capacity to support citizens Identify, leverage & mobilize community assets Empower citizens & communities as change agents Build & enhance collaborative partnerships Increase opportunities for choices that promote health, safety & wellbeing regardless of income, education or ethnicity Reduce over utilization of more costly services

9. Buncombe County Sustainability Goals Community Citizen Participation in Community Decisions ▪ Healthy People ▪ Equity in Access ▪ Safe, Low Crime Communities ▪ Healthy Environments Environment Economy

10. Pathway Program 23 Pathways Topics: NC Driver LicenseIncome SupportHeat and Utilities Food securityHousingEmployment Child CareEducation/GEDLegal Services Behavioral HealthHomelessness PreventionPharmacy/Medications Child SupportHousingPregnancy Dental CareMedical DebtSubstance Abuse Special Health CareTranspirationDisability Income/Appeal Domestic ViolenceHearing and Vision

11. Partnerships Manna and Buncombe County Service Foundation Partnership POP-UP Markets Current Locations: Aston Park Towers- APD and BCHHS Bartlett Arms Apartments-BCHHS Wesley Grant-ABIPA Candler-ABCCM West Shiloh Community-ABIPA Pisgah View Apartments-SPARC

12. Navigator Locations & Partnerships Pisgah View Apartments- SPARC Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministries Deaverview, Erskine, Walton and Livingston Apartments- ABIPA Shiloh Community-ABIPA and BCHHS Big Ivy Community Center- Barnardsville YWCA ABCCM- West and South

13. THANK YOU!