Center for Community Health and Education

Center for Community Health and Education (CCHE)

JANET GARTH, MPH • Manager • jag9007@nyp.org

Mission and Goals

The Center for Community Health and Education (CCHE), in partnership with Columbia University Irving Medical Center, has provided comprehensive medical, mental health, and health education services to adolescents and adults in Northern Manhattan and the Bronx for over 40 years . We advance service innovations through community partnerships, research, and teaching . CCHE comprises:

• The Family Planning Practice and its co-located Young Men’s Clinic . • Seven School-Based Health Centers serving 23 New York City intermediate and high schools . • NYPeers, a teen peer education and leadership program . • Community- and classroom-based health education and adolescent pregnancy prevention programming .

Our goals are to:

• Provide comprehensive women’s and young men’s healthcare services . • Provide primary healthcare services to adolescents that include medical, mental health, and health education .

• Prevent early childbearing and delay initiation of first intercourse .

• Increase the use of effective contraception among sexually active men and women who are not seeking pregnancy . • Reduce the transmission of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV . • Support the healthy transition from adolescence to adulthood .

CCHE collaborates with local New York City public schools; the Columbia University Irving Medical Center Departments of Population and Family Health, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Family Medicine, Psychiatry, and Ophthalmology; and the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, as well as many community-based organizations .