The Cleveland County Health Department Health Education Program provides education, promotion and prevention services to residents of Cleveland County. Following are many of the services that the Health Educators provide:

• Provides education to patients in Maternity Clinic
• Provides Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs
• Prepared Child Birth Classes
• Assist Community Groups to assess problems such as traffic safety, teen pregnancy, violence prevention and cardiovascular disease
• Available for Community Health Programs and School Health Programs
• Cardiovascular Disease Prevention/ Temple Initiative (contact us)
• Provide educational support to all units in the Health Department
• Coordinates the Health Disparities (contact us) grants funded by the Health and Wellness Trust Fund
• Roots and Wings program

Substance abuse prevention services are contracted by the Cleveland County School System through funding from a Safe and Drug Free Schools Grant and are supported by funds from the Cleveland County United Way.

If you have questions or concerns about these programs or would like more information regarding these programs in your child's classroom, contact Vonn McGee by E-mail or at 704-484-5103.

The Community Organization for Drug Abuse Prevention (CODAP) services is a department within the Health Education/Health Promotion Unit of the Cleveland County Health Department dedicated to prevention and intervention of substance abuse prevention programs in a school setting.