The CHC serves as a hub for partnerships supporting research, education and outreach to enhance the health of individuals and communities locally, regionally and globally.
The CHC operates under three pillars by providing education, community engagement, and research in support of healthy people in healthy places. Through these pillars, CHC will advance meaningful place-based community health strategies that are holistic, sustainable and just.
Values
The CHC is committed to
- Building community capacity to support healthy, sustainable environments and healthy behavior choices
- Equipping students with the skills to develop and implement innovative health behavior change programs grounded in science and evidence-based practice
- Supporting transdisciplinary collaboration between PSU’s clusters and community partners
- Ethical principles & practices, including health equity, professionalism, humility, diversity, communication, and community engagement within a social justice framework
- Policy development through application of empirical research findings and evidence-based practice
Goals
- Establish an advisory board that is made up of community partners, faculty and students that inform all three pillars at each stage
- Establish a group of affiliate faculty for collaborative research and projects
- Engage students in skill building through coursework, opportunities to conduct research and project implementation
- Provide leadership, consultation, and organizing to community-based efforts to build health for all
- Integrate ethical principles & practices into all CHC efforts
- Secure external funding for Center efforts
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Contact Us
D&M 426
Phone Number:
(603) 535-2578
Email:
psu-chc@plymouth.edu
Mailing address:
PSU Center for Healthy Communities ALLWell North
17 High St., MSC 34
Plymouth, NH 03264
Research & Internships
The Center for Healthy Communities is engaged with, and helps to support, research efforts in the area of health and wellness. Much of this research is translational in that is seeks to translate findings into practices that engender positive health outcomes for our community along with other populations. We are strong advocates of community-based participatory research that involves community members as active participants in the research process (i.e., identifying research questions, gathering data, aiding in data analysis and developing and implementing interventions out of the results).
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Education
The Center for Healthy Communities functions to serve as the hub for the Health & Human Enrichment Cluster. The link below provides more information about our academic programs for undergraduate and graduate students.
Cluster Learning Model
Partners & Consultation
One of our main roles at the CHC is to partner with various community organizations, to assist them in any way that we can to promote healthier living in our surrounding community. We are currently expanding our network of partners across a wide variety of applications of our assets. We also provide consultation through research and education.
We are participating in the the HEAL NH Healthy People in Healthy Places project, especially in the advocacy of working towards making “the active choice the easy choice” for rural residents( see http://www.healnh.org/).
“Healthy communities” are those which provide equity of access to all forms of health promoting activities.
Key Partnerships
- Common Man Family of Restaurants
- D Acres of New Hampshire
- Healthy PSU
- Lakes Region Community Services
- Local Foods Plymouth
- Mid-State Health Center
- North Country Health Consortium
- Speare Memorial Hospital
- The Circle Program – Circle Trot & Triathlon
- Whole Village Family Resource Center
- Eco-Learning Gardens (ELG)
Affiliates
Affiliates of the CHC are comprised of faculty and staff of the Health & Human Enrichment Cluster. These affiliates contribute their important work and their involvement to the university and the community.
- Courtney O’Clair, BS
- Ryanne Carmichael, PhD, CSCS
- Irene Cucina, DPE
- Christian Bisson, EdD
- Julie Bernier, EdD, ATC
- Julie Fagan, MSN, RN
- Donna Driscoll DNP, RN, CEN
- Mardie Burckes-Miller, Ed.D. CHES, CEDS, FAED
- Stephen V. Flynn, Ph.D., LPC (CO), LMFT (NH, CO), NCC, ACS
- Mike Mariska, PhD, LCMHC
- Sean Collins, PT, ScD
- Cheryl Coker, PhD
Organizations
- Katie Bush
- Beth Wheeler
- Michael Watto
- Tracey Woods Robinson
- Susan Amberg
- Paul Brochu
- Jess Dutille
- Stephen Flynn
- Diahnne Thompkins
- Denise Normandin
