Service and Program Directory

Expanding education to increase community support for breastfeeding families.

Focuses on reducing perinatal health disparities. A healthy pregnancy is one of the best ways to promote healthy families in Mecklenburg County.

Offers free and low-cost breast screenings, pap tests and follow up for qualified residents. 

Offers many services, including Children’s Developmental Services Agency and Women, Infants & Children (WIC). 

Provides care management to support families with children ages zero to five, who need access to health care and social supports. 

Provides care management services for high risk pregnant women. 

Assists licensed child care centers to establish policies and procedures to promote and improve the health and safety of children ages zero to five. 

Ensures a coordinated community response through professional relationships to children and families experiencing neglect, abuse, and exposure to violence and other trauma.

Provides early childhood intervention in our community as part of the statewide NC Infant-Toddler Program.  

Offers reproductive life planning; screening for sexually transmitted infections and breast and cervical cancers; immunizations; refugee health; tuberculosis control; and pediatric dental care.

Investigates, reports and controls the spread of reportable general category communicable diseases and outbreaks, provides consultation services to medical providers, childcare providers, schools, veterinarians, & businesses; investigates human animal bites and animal exposure to rabies, and monitors health services in adult day health facilities. 

Provides case management of in-home services for disabled adults and medically fragile children to live safely at home and avoid placement in an institution. 

Supports priority communities to address health inequities through public health education and culturally relevant resources. 

Cultivates a collaborative environment to better align community health worker program initiatives in Mecklenburg County through the assembly of stakeholders that are deeply invested in the profession.

Through collaborative community partnerships and intensive training, CIT improves communication, identifies mental health resources for those in crisis, and ensures officer and community safety.

A community effort founded to slow the spread of HIV in Mecklenburg and the surrounding counties.

Preventing the spread of disease and promoting personal safety through proper sanitation, safe food, clean water, the management of disease-carrying pests and proper disposal of waste.

Reviews and grants approval for plans to construct and operate any new or remodeled establishment. 

Provides comprehensive family planning and reproductive health services.

Provides plan review, permitting and evaluation of restaurants, temporary food services, meat markets, hotels, hospitals, nursing homes, child care centers, and schools and investigates child led poisoning cases. 

Increasing and improving healthy food environments and strengthening healthy food access.

Provides plan review, permitting and evaluation of onsite wastewater (septic) systems and private wells and reduces exposure to contaminated groundwater.  

Supports grassroots initiatives that benefit communities through a shared sense of collective action to create health change using funding approved by the Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners.

Examining how you live impacts your health and can even determine how long you will live and the quality of life you will experience.

Linking you to healthcare and psychosocial services to ensure timely and appropriate level of care.

Providing education programs focusing on reducing risk factors for HIV infection and STIs and testing and counseling in clinic and community settings.

Providing prevention education, testing, and treatment services for Mecklenburg County.

Free on-site screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. 

Improving birth outcomes, reducing infant mortality and improving health among children aged zero to 5.

Provides routinely recommended vaccines for all age groups as well as specific vaccines for high-risk groups. 

Provides quality-assured laboratory procedures in support of all Public Health clinical services and Communicable Disease Control. 

Provides plan review, permitting, and evaluation of child care and adult day service centers, family child care homes, lodging establishments, public and private school buildings, care institutions (nursing homes, hospitals, assisted-living facilities), residential care and local confinement facilities, and mental health, disability, and substance abuse facilities.  

Providing early and regular prenatal and postpartum care to protect the health of mothers and children.

Assures accuracy and integrity of patient record information and responds to request for copies of patient records. 

Serves Mecklenburg County residents needing to obtain a certified or uncertified birth or death certificate that was registered in Mecklenburg County.

Creates smiles by promoting proper brushing and flossing and comprehensive dental treatment for uninsured and underinsured children ages 1-17.

Provides plan review, permitting and evaluation of public and residential swimming pools. 

Ensures readiness among staff as we prepare for, respond to, and recover from public health emergencies through coordinated training, planning, and exercises.

Investigates animal-inflicted injuries to humans and/or their pets (e.g., bites, scratches), provides consultative services to the public and medical community regarding zoonotic diseases and rabies exposures, and works closely with Animal Care and Control of Charlotte, Huntersville, Cornelius, and Matthews. Rabies Surveillance.

Provides communicable disease screening and referral for follow-up medical care for refugees.

Funds services available to HIV-positive residents that meet eligibility requirements.

Supports communities in creating opportunities for children to increase their daily physical activity by safely walking, biking, and rolling to, from, or at school!

Helping nurses and nutritionists provide preventive, consultative, and direct health services during the school day for students attending Charlotte- Mecklenburg Schools (CMS). 

Provides investigation, sexually transmitted infections in order to control major epidemic threats to the community.

Increasing and improving the number of tobacco-free environments and preventing youth tobacco use.

Using specialized programming to address the needs of this population and the national epidemic of children exposed to violence.

Gives parents the practical skills they need to build strong family relationships, manage and prevent misbehavior problems.

Provides services to persons suspected of or diagnosed with TB or to those who request a TB skin test or need screening.

Engaging and training members of faith-based organizations, small businesses, and community partners in strategies to prevent chronic disease through a faith-based community engagement initiative. 

Aims to reduce violence in Mecklenburg County by collaborating with County, City, partners, and community to increase opportunity and build healthier, more resilient communities.

Provides basic nutrition services to eligible pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants and children up to age 5.