Public Health Community Resource Directory Available Online

COURT HOUSE – Are you looking for low cost vaccines? Senior care and referral services? Counseling and behavioral healthcare? Support groups? All of this information and much more is now available on-line on the Cape May County Department of Health’s website cmchealth.net.
The county’s Department of Health works with community partners throughout Cape May County to produce a comprehensive and current Public Health Community Resource Directory. Freeholder Gerald Thornton announced that these resources are now on-line, in addition to the printed directory that is also available. Thornton said, “For people that have access to the internet, this offers a one-stop shop to find out about public health resources and programs that are available in our county,”
To get to the on-line directory, go to cmchealth.net, and click on Public Health Resources under the heading ‘In Your Community’. The directory is interactive and organized by content area – you can click on one of the topics, ranging from cancer programs to women’s health and see a list of resources on that topic. Kevin Thomas, Health Officer added, “We hope that by using the resource directory, people will find out about programs and resources that they didn’t know were available. We have a lot of public health services in Cape May County that aren’t known to everyone who can benefit from them.”
As an example, under Maternal Health, there are six resources that offer services in family planning, supplementary food programs, childbirth education, prenatal and postpartum care, adoption and foster care. Each entry has a description of the program and how to get more information.
“Although the on-line directory is a wonderful resource for many people, we recognize that not everyone has access to the internet,” said Thornton. Therefore, hard copies of the Public Health Community Resource Directory are available at the Department of Health, in county libraries, municipal buildings and at the Cape May County and Wildwood Chambers of Commerce.
If you are an organization in Cape May County that provides public health services and want to have these services included in the Public Health Community Resource Directory, or if you would like multiple copies of the directory, call 465-1200 or e-mail bb2@njlincs.net.