Community Partners

The Suffolk Partnership for a Healthy Community (the Partnership) was founded in 1998. Our mission is to coordinate the resources of our community in a collaborative effort to improve the mental, physical, socioeconomic, and spiritual health of all its citizens. The Partnership focuses on strengthening the local community health system – all public, private and voluntary entities, as well as individuals and informal associations – that contribute to the delivery of community/public health services and to the improvement of the community’s health and overall well-being. Volunteer opportunities are available at the Western Tidewater Free Clinic, which the Partnership established, the Suffolk Community Garden Project and the Healthy Eating Committee.

Volunteer Hampton Roads works to strengthen area nonprofits through training and volunteerism. Their services include Nonprofit Training, Corporate Programming and Volunteerism. Under the Nonprofit Training umbrella, they offer a Nonprofit Leadership Development Center.

Gates Partners for Health is a partnership that brings together public health departments, hospitals, health and human service agencies, schools, churches, cooperative extension, businesses, civic groups, media, community members and elected officials to address North Carolina’s 2010 health objectives. At the local level the coordinate efforts within the community to implement broad interventions that can target changes. Through a collaborative leadership and planning process, community health improvement activities and services target vulnerable populations, reduce duplication, mobilize resources, and enhance the community’s ability to be responsible and accountable for the health and well being of its residents.

Access Partnership is a community collaboration of medical providers, charities, universities, churches, civic groups, free clinics, community health centers, departments of health, city community service boards and social services departments, and a broad representation of volunteers and medically indigent consumers. Access Partnership is dedicated to bringing health care to all residents of Greater Hampton Roads so that anyone in need of care will not have to go without.

The Planning Council The Planning Council's mission is to plan, develop and manage human services to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve. The Planning Council is a member of the National Association of Planning Councils and the United Way of South Hampton Roads. Every year we touch thousands of lives: preventing homelessness; licensing and training child care providers; offering crisis intervention and connections to resources; helping parents balance work and family; and working with communities to solve human service problems.