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Back to School Community Health Fair in August Was a Huge Success
The C. W. Williams Community Health Center hosted its appreciation events, free health screenings and much more.
5th annual Back to School Community Health Close to 2,000 people attended the C. W. Williams annual
Fair on August 10 to mark National
Health Center Week (August health fair, which provided back to school and sports physicals,
4-10). The event was part of a immunizations, free book bags and school supplies, more than
national campaign to increase 40 vendors, free food, games, raffles, pony rides and fun for the
awareness of the many ways entire family.
community health centers (CHCs)
are providing affordable healthcare C. W. Williams is part of a nationwide network of locally-run
across the country. A host of events that health centers that serve more than 28 million people nationwide
celebrated health centers being “rooted and 550,000 people in North Carolina, many of whom live in
in communities” were held throughout remote and rural communities. C.W. Williams and many other
the week nationwide, including health fairs, North Carolina Community Health Centers address not just
physical and behavioral health needs, but the roots of many
visits by Members of Congress and state officials to health centers, health issues (called social determinants of health), such as access
resource fairs, back-to-school events, farm-to-table dinners, patient to food, housing, transportation and other factors that affect
health and wellness.
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