HHS Region 2
New Jersey
Tri-County Community Engagement Project of ACHENJ/CLC
Essex, Ocean, & Union Counties, NJ
Cohort 13 - 2024
NLAPH
Overview
Our team seeks to diverge and alter the current opioid crisis in Ocean County, NJ through multiple interventions including education, improved access to community resources, and collaboration and engagement of our local and regional partners.
Our project aims to increase awareness and implement programs to reduce opioid addiction within our selected population of young adults. This project will facilitate access to and increase awareness of community resources to support prevention and/or recovery from adverse events associated with the opioid crisis.
Team members
Walter Okoroanyanwu (Team Coordinator)
NEMA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Planning Council
Joel Torres
Essex County Health Department
Michael McLarnon
Ocean County Health Initiatives, Inc.
Eileen Fishman
Essex County Health Department
Roberto Beniot
United Way of Greater Union County
North Jersey Health Collaborative [The Heart of ALICE: Reducing Heart Disease Risk in the ALICE Community]
Morris County, NJ
Cohort 3 - 2014
NLAPH
Overview
The North Jersey Health Collaborative will use their AHLP to identify the target population, engage partners in the development and implementation of intervention to reduce heart disease-related risk factors by 5%, and build capacity among participating organizations to increase interventions by 10%. The AHLP aims to reduce heart disease risk in asset-limited, income-constrained, and employed (ALICE) residents.
Team members
Chris Kirk
Atlantic Health System
Peter Tabbot
Rockaway Twp. Div. of Health
Kiran Handa Gaudioso
United Way of Northern NJ
Arlene Stoller
Morris County Office of Health `
Greater Mercer Public Health Partnership
Mercer County, NJ
Cohort 2 - 2013
NLAPH
Overview
This partnership will:
Improve access to quality mental health and substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery services
Improve the health and well-being of the community by advocating for sustainable healthy lifestyle choices
Engage the community to prevent and reduce chronic disease incidence and morbidity (e.g., cancer, diabetes, heart disease, asthma)
Increase the overall health and well-being of county residents by enhancing safe, accessible, and affordable transportation options for people to move easily and freely within and between county communities
Team members
Antonia Lewis
United Way Greater Mercer
George DiFerdinando
UMDMJ School of Public Health
Diane Grillo
RWJ University Hospital
James Brownlee
City of Trenton
Don't Wait -- Vaccinate!
East Orange, NJ
Cohort 1 - 2012
NLAPH
Overview
The Don’t Wait – Vaccinate! team will work on an applied learning project that tackles the important community health issue related to immunizations with the goal of improving community public health outcomes. Increasing immunization rates in East Orange will help protect community members from vaccine-preventable diseases including whooping cough and measles, which have caused outbreaks in New Jersey.
Team members
Shazia Aslam
Newark Community Health Centers, Inc
Karen LaRussa
East Orange Health Department
Jane Sarwin
Gateway Northwest Maternal and Child Health Network
Joe Schwab
University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ - NJ Medical School
Utilizing GIS to Implement Childhood Lead Poisoning Outreach
Burlington County, NJ
Cohort 1 - 2012
NLAPH
Overview
The project seeks to implement a new screening methodology which will incorporate the use of GIS mapping to aid in identifying high-risk neighborhoods for targeted screening and outreach. This endeavor will aid in facilitating a primary prevention approach to lead poisoning in children less than five years of age and decrease the likelihood children will suffer from negative neurobehavioral impacts of lead that can severely undermine their future.
Team members
Holly Funkhouser
Burlington County Health Department
Trina Gipson-Jones
TCNJ
April Lyons
Virtua Health Promotion Services
Jeff Grosser
Burlington County Health Department