The goal of Near North Health’s Health Education and Promotion program is to improve health outcomes by empowering patients to be effective partners and to take an active role in managing their health. The program promotes healthy lifestyle and disease prevention/management through outreach, workshops, individual counseling, and single-session or multi-session group classes. These activities provide education, increase awareness, and offer support and self- management tools to assist participants in adapting healthy behaviors to manage their health and/or disease.

Activities are focused on the following topics:

  • Pre–Diabetes
  • Type 1 & 2 High Blood Pressure/Hypertension
  • High Cholesterol Overweight/ObesityStress
  • Coping/Management
  • Exercise/Meditation
  • Healthy Eating

Near North Care Coordinators will:

  • Work with patients to develop individualized healthcare plans
  • Work with providers to schedule appointments and obtain required referrals for needed
  • Provide ongoing case management services
  • Participate in systematic efforts to monitor the appropriateness of treatment

Clinical Nutrition

NNHSC’s registered dietitian provides both individual and group nutrition counseling and follow up to clients (adults and children) in need of nutritional therapy for weight management and other conditions to include but not limited to diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and HIV/AIDS.

Breastfeeding Peer Counseling Program

This peer counseling program provides each WIC participant the education and support she/they need to achieve their breastfeeding-related goals. NNH uses “Loving Support Through Peer Counseling: A Journey Together,” a training curriculum developed by USDA Food and Nutrition Service. We combine peer counseling with ongoing breastfeeding support to help the participant explore breastfeeding, and if desired, keep breastfeeding as long and as comfortably as possible.

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

The WIC program provides nutrition education, nutritious foods, breastfeeding support and referrals to health care and other social services to infants, children under the age of five, pregnant women, breastfeeding women and postpartum women. Please call or visit one of our WIC locations nearest you.