by Jonathan Stewart; Transformations in Public Health, Summer 2005
Recent developments at the Area Health & Safety Council and Donna Tighe of Greater Derry Community Health Services are featured in the Summer 2005 edition of "Transformations in Public Health", a publication of Turning Point.
Excerpt:
"Residents of the Town of Derry and nine other communities of southeastern New Hampshire will soon have a new public health unit, thanks to the Turning Point Initiative. "Turning Point started this whole thing," said Donna Tighe, executive director of Greater Derry Community Health Services (CHS), about this significant development in New Hampshire's public health system.
The new regional public health resource grew out of the Area Health and Safety Council, started in 2001 by Tighe and other local community partners with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The council began as a demonstration program for improving local public health services through collaborative, systemsbased approaches involving the broad public health interests in the region. The council will become a division within the town government, but a Regional Advisory Council of appointed representatives from each of the ten towns, along with representatives from area schools and health and human service agencies, will continue to provide a collaborative approach to addressing regional public health issues."
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