Health Action
In recognition that health is of supreme importance to quality of life, Covenant House works to promote healthy choices and deeper understanding of medical issues.
Through a partnership with Roark Sullivan Lifeway Center, a Registered Nurse pays regular visits to the Covenant House Drop In Center, offering health information, first aid, and medical referrals.
Smoking cessation groups are open to program participants through funding received from the West Virginia Division of Tobacco Prevention. Covenant House's initiative has a special focus on LGBT tobacco users in WV. Click here to check out the related TV commercial that we currently have running during Ellen and Oprah.
As one of the first responders to assist people living with HIV/AIDS in West Virginia, Covenant House continues to promote choices that will control the pandemic and offers educational programs and campaigns toward that end.
In January 2010, Covenant House launched its own local, intensive HIV-prevention programs in Charleston and Beckley -- Mpowerment. Building on a national, research-based model that calls for establishing a process for diffusion of risk-reduction norms (i.e., those supportive of safer-sex behavior), Mpowerment staff coordinates outreach, community-building, and compelling activities for gay and bisexual men.
Since 2009, Covenant House has produced three TV commercials promoting HIV/AIDS awareness or its programs assisting those living with the virus:
African-American women focus (fastest growing demographic for AIDS infection)
