Community Adaptation of the New Hope Project to Improve Economic Stability in Cleveland County, NC

Financial stability allows families access to safe housing, healthy foods, and other necessities, engage fully in their communities, and plan for the future (2019). This project focuses on addressing economic stability in Cleveland County, North Carolina. Children living in poverty are less likely to eat healthy foods, experience higher rates of neglect and abuse, low academic achievement, obesity, behavioral problems, and other issues which may follow children from their youth into adulthood (Haynie, 2014). The program, administered through the Cleveland County Health Department, will seek to increase wages in families of color by providing them with paid job skills training and higher wage job placement through an already existing and successful job training program. This initiative will achieve greater equity in Cleveland County and lessen the already exacerbated health disparities that exist in the community by allowing program participants to contribute more to the Cleveland County community and economy.Master of Public Healt