As you get ready to celebrate father’s day, remember June 14th-20th is Men’s Health Awareness Week. The purpose of Men’s Health Week is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. This year, men’s mental health is a primary focus. Men’s & boys’ … Read more
June 27th is National HIV testing day. National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) is a day to encourage people to get tested for HIV, know their status, and get linked to care and treatment. This year, we encourage you to become familiar with the HIV.gov service locator. By visiting https://locator.hiv.gov/, you can find HIV testing services (including self-testing), STI testing services, … Read more
Dr. Jennifer Tourville featured on the East Tennessee Report with Kim Hansard. The interview was conducted in April 2021 on opioid epidemic in East Tennessee and Narcan training. Here is the interview.
May is National Foster Care Month, a time to recognize the nearly 413,000 youth under 18 who are in foster care in America and who need a permanent, loving family. More events, activities and resources are available at here.
May 31st 2021 is World Health Organization’s No Tobacco Day. If you are a tobacco user, we would like to encourage you to take some time to visit the Commit to Quit page and read 100 reasons to quit, browse the quitting toolkit, and take the pledge here.
This week is Children’s Mental Health Awareness week hosted by the National Federation of Families. There is a variety of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week activities, worksheets and videos for children and youth of all ages (including teenagers) available at here.
National Youth Violence Prevention Week is scheduled for April 12-16, 2021. Founded in 2001, National Youth Violence Prevention Week (NYVPW) is a time for youth to lead communities on effective strategies to prevent youth violence. The campaign is a week-long event with each day of the week corresponding to a specific challenge for communities. Join … Read more
National Public Health Week is April 5-11 2021. The theme for 2021 is Building Bridges to Better Health. Public health is also a big part of RCORP-ETC’s OUD prevention and intervention efforts. Making communities safe and healthy is public health’s top priority. COVID-19 has made that even more important. Even though we won’t gather in … Read more
The National Institute on Minority Health and The Office on Minority Health is focusing on the disproportionate impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on racial and ethnic minority and American Indian and Alaska Native communities and underscore the need for these vulnerable communities to get vaccinated as more vaccines become available. This year’s National Minority … Read more
April is National Minority Health Month. This month we would like to highlight health disparities faced by minorities in the United States by sharing some disheartening statistics released by the CDC and SAMHSA. African-Americans make up only 17% of the population, but comprise 32% of COVID-19 related deaths. Although overall infant mortality rates have fallen over … Read more
