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GENEROSITY IS CONTAGIOUS:
Highlighting our awesome supporters, like YOU!
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THANK YOU for another amazing year!
Our fiscal year wrapped on June 30th, and our staff gathered to reflect on the year's accomplishments with speakers from our Board (Phil Poley, Andrea Wages, Carmen Hooker Odom, and Anabel Paniagua-Doyle), community partners LISC and United Way of Greater Charlotte, and local government (County Commissioner Mark Jerrell and Public Health Director Dr. Raynard Washington). We concluded the day with volunteer service for our community partners Baby Bundles, Beds for Kids, and Diaper Bank of North Carolina.
We could NOT have provided innovative, responsive, compassionate, quality and affordable healthcare and maternal child health support services to over 7,000 neighbors this past year without YOU, our supporters and donors. THANK YOU!
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Welcome new Board members!
We are thankful to our new Board of Directors members for selecting us for their service: Rodney Gaddy (Retired Attorney); Miguel Guevara (CaroMont Health); Kim Henderson (Mecklenburg County); Erik Lioy (FORVIS LLP); and Jennifer Snow (Atrium Health).
Thank you also to exiting Board member Zack Landry with Novant Health for his service and many contributions.
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Going above & beyond for families
Our friends at Smart Start of Mecklenburg County partnered with us this year to do even more for families with young children. In addition to funding two of our Nurse-Family Partnership nurses, they also funded physical exams for residential daycare workers who were lacking access to affordable healthcare and provided extra dollars for our NFP program to offer additional maternal support such as mental health and doula services.
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Clinic volunteer wins Governor's Volunteer Award
We secretly submitted a nomination for long-time Clinic volunteer Judith Wood for the Governor's Volunteer Award, and she won! We held a small surprise ceremony for her at our office, where she was very humbled and honored to be recognized in this way. Only a small handful of people were chosen from Mecklenburg County, and we were excited for Judith to win. You can learn more about Judith here. Photo: Kaaren Sailer, MD (L) and Judith Wood (R)
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YOUR IMPACT ON OUR PROGRAMS: | |
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Access to Care Services:
Low-Cost Clinic, Physicians Reach Out,
The Bridge (Community-Based Care)
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The Bridge completes first year of service
"The Bridge," our community-based healthcare initiative, just completed its pilot year on June 30th. Leveraging a mobile health unit and our community partners, we served 203 patients in the Grier Heights neighborhood and surrounding area since our kickoff in December. We helped residents improve things like their blood pressure, getting established with an eye doctor and dentist, securing transportation to medical appointments, and reducing ER visits - all at no charge.
Our mobile unit was a consistent weekly presence in the neighborhood, offering health screenings, care coordination and navigation, counseling and mental health support, and connections to community resources. We also coordinated to have other organizations on-site for some of the weeks to share about their services, such as Mecklenburg County Public Health, Project 70Forward, Loaves & Fishes, Legal Aid of NC, WellCare NC, Block Love Charlotte and more.
As we enter our second year, we will continue to serve Grier Heights while expanding into other neighborhoods to serve even more residents, right where they live. Thank you to our partners: Grier Heights, Crossroads Corporation, Project Bolt, ONE Charlotte Health Alliance, UNCC School of Nursing, Next Stage Consulting and YOU who helped to make our first year a success! Learn more about The Bridge and its impact on health.
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Check out the history of our work in Grier Heights
in this short (<2 minute) video:
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Maternal-Child Health Services:
Nurse-Family Partnership & A Guided Journey
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Care Ring hosts its first-ever "Parents' Day" event
On Saturday, June 3rd at Oakdale Elementary School we celebrated the mothers and fathers who participate in our maternal-child health programs - Nurse-Family Partnership and A Guided Journey. In prior years, the organization has hosted Mother's Day events, with fathers welcome to attend. This year, we wanted to make fathers feel even more included and celebrated by holding the event between Mother's Day and Father's Day and calling it "Parents' Day" to honor both. The event was a big success, with over 300 parents and children in attendance, fun activities, and giveaways.
Thank you to sponsor Healthy Blue NC; partners Baby Bundles, Crisis Assistance Ministry, Promising Pages, Atrium Health and Novant Health; volunteers and support from the NFP Community Advisory Board and the community; and Oakdale Elementary School principal Dr. Sharrone Powell for allowing us use of the space. For all the photos and more info, check out our Blog.
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Client Success Story: Latisha with A Guided Journey
Latisha enrolled in AGJ at 25 weeks pregnant with her third child in May of 2022. Latisha had already overcome many obstacles in her life, including homelessness - and was continuing to work on getting back on her feet, but needed a little extra help. Her Community Health Worker, Carolyn, was able to support Latisha by referring her for utility bill assistance and much-needed baby essentials like a car seat, stroller, diapers, bottles and wipes from community partners Crisis Assistance Ministry, MiraVia and Baby Bundles. Carolyn said of her, "Latisha is enterprising, independent and follows through with tasks. If she runs into roadblocks she will try to conquer them, and if she becomes stuck, she will reach out to me and is always appreciative of the assistance offered to her." Latisha is so happy with her experience in AGJ that she called Carolyn's supervisor to tell her how pleased she was with her service, and hopes to remain in touch with Carolyn even after she exits the program.
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CHANGING LIVES, SAVING LIVES:
Welcome our new Physicians Reach Out providers!
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These providers have recently joined PRO and generously agreed
to donate care to at least 66 of our patients this year.
BECOME A PRO PROVIDER.
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Meagan Crook, DO and Jose Delgado-Robles, MD - Cabarrus Family Medicine Prosperity Crossing
Jonathan Walker, MD - Levine Children's Urology
Morgan Stanton, PA, Kimberly Faro, PA, and Michelle Curti, NP - Levine Children's General Surgery
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Peter Salib, MD, Tomas Luley, DO, and Emily Ellington, CNM - Southeast OB/GYN | |
ICYMI: Care Ring in the News | |
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Thank you to our Media Partners who did stories about our work recently.
WBTV for their coverage of our Black Maternal Health Week event and the Black maternal mortality crisis.
WCNC for interviewing our Executive Director about the important need for more community based resource centers.
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Volunteering with Care Ring
We couldn’t do what we do without our volunteers and interns! Whether you’re providing medical support services in our Low-Cost Clinic, helping us execute one of our community events, or calling a patient to share information about an important resource, you will make a big difference in the lives of those we serve! For more information on volunteering with us, check out our website.
For projects you can do at home that would benefit our patients, check out our Share Charlotte profile.
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THANK YOU TO OUR CORPORATE CHAMPIONS
Please support these businesses who support us. Full list here.
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THANK YOU TO OUR CIVIC CHAMPION | Care Ring is grateful for the extremely generous funding from Mecklenburg County government and its citizens as a trusted provider for our neighbors facing the challenges of poverty who need access to medical care. | |
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We're now on Threads!
Find & follow us on Threads, the latest social media app from Meta. As it is a similar platform to Twitter, we will be phasing out our participation in Twitter. Check us out!
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601 E. 5th Street, Suite 140, Charlotte, NC 28202 | 704-375-0172 | www.careringnc.org
Care Ring is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, tax ID# 56-0621073.
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