The Wellness in Wallaceburg Educational Campaign spotlights services provided by local organizations in the community that are working together to improve your health and well-being.
This week’s spotlight is on the Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit (CKPHU).
What services do you provide?
The CKPHU provides a wide variety of programs and services across many topic areas including environmental health, infant and child health, sexual health, dental health, communicable disease, vaccine-preventable disease, and chronic disease and injury prevention.
Our work is guided by the Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA, 1990) and is centred on health protection, health promotion, and illness, disease, and injury prevention across the lifespan. The Mission of CKPHU is “Working together to build a healthy community”.
Who can access your services and is there a cost?
The Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit provides programs and services to individuals and communities across Chatham-Kent. Some programs are universal in nature, where anyone can use them, whereas others have more specific eligibility criteria to access them. The Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit strives to reduce and eliminate barriers in accessing programs and services.
How do people access your services?
In Wallaceburg, we offer Sexual Health services that can be accessed at the Community Health Centre in Wallaceburg during our scheduled clinic drop-in times, dental screenings in schools, other programs such as Building Healthy Babies, As Parent & Baby Grow, and Baby Weigh-In and Developmental Clinics.
Restaurants, day cares, spas, pools, and other facilities in Wallaceburg are regularly inspected by our Public Health Inspectors.
Many of our other programs and services, including vaccine preventable disease and chronic disease and injury prevention are not Wallaceburg-specific but instead reach Chatham-Kent on a whole.
For more information on how to access our services, visit www.chatham-kent.ca/publichealth or call 519-352-7270.
What is the future direction of services in the Wallaceburg area?
CKPHU will continue to provide programs and services to Wallaceburg residents and the rest of Chatham-Kent to help make health the easy choice for our community. We work through education, skill building, creating supportive environments, and building healthy public policy.
What’s the best advice you can give to people to help them stay well?
Together we can build a better community where we live, learn, work, and play.
