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Prevention Services Division
We can help make you, your family, your school, your workplace, and your community healthier.
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Tobacco Education
Tobacco Health Educators can assist multi-family housing communities, businesses, or organizations in adopting a smoke-free policy for their facility. Services include consultation, materials, sample documents, staff/resident presentations, and cessation program referrals.
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Teen Pregnancy Prevention
As part of the Statewide Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) funded Cochise County to deliver an Abstinence Plus Program by trained Health Educators.
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Health Policy Initiative
This program is designed to assist and train organizations on how to enhance their existing wellness policy or fully develop a policy. We can offer ideas on how to improve student/employee health.
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Chronic Disease Education
In partnership with Duet, CHSS offers Finding Meaning and Hope, a free, virtual or in-person ten-part video discussion series based on the book Loving Someone Who Has Dementia: How to Find Hope While Coping With Stress and Grief, by Pauline Boss, PhD. The video series is the basis for structured weekly conversations led by trained facilitators.
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Overdose Prevention Program
The Overdose Prevention Program aims to reduce opioid overdoses and overdose fatalities within Cochise County.
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WIC Supplemental Nutrition Program
Discover more information regarding community resources that ensure healthy pregnancies, purchasing healthy food for your family, and more.
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Health Start Home Visiting
The Health Start Program promotes healthy pregnancies and births. We bring program services to county residents in the comfort of their own homes through home visitation or virtual visits or we can provide visits out in the community.