TALKING HEALTH
This month’s summit focuses on community wellness by
J enny C allison T erah H oobler
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aking health care accessible and affordable to everyone is a big hill to climb, but the YWCA Lower Cape Fear hopes that an event this month will raise awareness about the barriers to equitable health care and help area leaders map out a path up that hill. Supported by a grant from United Healthcare, the YWCA is hosting a daylong event May 19: Health Summit-Empowering and Building Healthier Communities. Its agenda is ambitious. “The purpose of the summit is to empower the community to take charge of their own health,” says VELVA JENKINS, CEO of the YWCA Lower Cape Fear. “I’m not sure if this kind of thing has been done in Wilmington before, but we’ve been working toward this for the past year. Our signature sponsor, United Healthcare Services, gave us $20,000 to develop and execute a health literacy campaign targeting women and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) MAY 2022
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