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Burke County accepts 2025 Community Health Assessment highlighting housing, substance use and mental health
Summary
The board accepted the 2025 Community Health Assessment documenting local data and priorities: affordable housing and homelessness, substance use disorder, and mental health. The CHA used resident surveys (492 responses), focus groups and secondary sources; next steps include a 2026 CHIP and a state of county health report in 2027.
Burke County commissioners accepted the 2025 Community Health Assessment (CHA) at their Nov. 17 meeting after a presentation by Miranda Smith, public health educator.
Smith said primary data were collected April–June 2024 with 492 resident survey responses and three focus groups (cultural diversity, people experiencing homelessness and faith-based…
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