NCACH is hiring a Recovery Coach Coordinator position for the North Central Region. This is a full time professional position to develop and coordinate the Recovery Coach Network as a part of North Central Accountable Community of Health’s health improvement efforts across Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan Counties. The Recovery Coach Network program provides peer [...]
We are grateful for our NCW Essential Workers! As a way of saying "thanks," NCACH has launched a special campaign to pay it forward to the people who are helping keep us safe, fed, and able to stay home and stay healthy! Look for a free poster in your local paper to display [...]
NCACH is granting $150,000 to community groups, schools, and nonprofits through our new COVID-19 Community Support Fund, which awards up to $5,000 for projects and initiatives that promote communities staying home and staying healthy. This funding is for critical equipment or resources that support communities who are isolated or social distancing, and/or supporting essential workers [...]
The COVID-eo contest is a special new opportunity for local youth to get involved in COVID-19 community education! NCACH and our partners are seeking video submissions from local K-12 students in Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan Counties showing one or more ways to "Stop the Spread of COVID-19." Over 100 prizes available, including Chromebooks, smartwatches, [...]
March 22, 2020 Dear NCACH Partners, We are in a very unusual time in our region as everyone is mobilized to stop the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). We recognize that many of you are on the front lines of this crisis, working to provide our communities with the critical healthcare and support services they [...]
March 03, 2020 -- After much consideration, the North Central Accountable Community of Health (NCACH) has decided to discontinue the contract held with Action Health Partners to implement the Pathways Community HUB. This decision was largely impacted by the Washington State Health Care Authority’s (HCA) recent decision to no longer support the Pathways Community HUB [...]
February 4, 2020 – For immediate release The North Central Accountable Community of Health (NCACH) Governing Board passed a motion to allocate $350,100.00 in award funding to three finalist applicants to support health and wellness initiatives across North Central Washington at their monthly board meeting held on Monday, February 3. This funding, called Coalitions for [...]
December 18, 2019 -- The North Central Accountable Community of Health (NCACH) awarded $58,540 in Rapid Cycle Opioid Project funding to support local opioid response efforts to partners throughout Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan Counties this month. The Rapid Cycle Opioid Project funding model was developed by the NCACH Regional Opioid Stakeholders Workgroup to address the [...]
For immediate release - December 16, 2019 The North Central Accountable Community of Health (NCACH) is accepting applications from qualified agencies interested in implementing an awareness and education campaign/program on the opioid use and prevention in Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan Counties. Through cross-sector, regional collaboration, NCACH is working to improve community health in North [...]
As told to NCACH's Communications and Engagement Manager, Sahara Suval: Going upstream of addiction is arduous work. Like Sisyphus rolling the boulder for eternity, one must tread against the current - heaving and pushing - and hoping for a breakthrough. And then, a call or story breaks that yet another life has been taken too [...]