Our Work
We connect underserved communities to vital resources through direct outreach. Our efforts include installing smoke alarms and providing fire safety education with the Red Cross, promoting healthy food access in partnership with Root Causes, and delivering tailored resource packets door-to-door to help residents access healthcare, housing, and other essential support.
Duke Root Causes
Partnership
Root Causes, a Duke Root Causes program, works to address upstream drivers of health by connecting patients to essential resources beyond the clinic. Through our partnership, Project Haven supports Root Causes’ Food is Medicine pilot, funded by Molina Healthcare, which provides medically tailored food to patients with chronic conditions. Our team conducts delivery coordination calls and builds relationships with participants, while also extending support beyond food by navigating patients to additional resources such as housing assistance, transportation, and healthcare services.
NC Department Of Corrections
Partnership
The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction oversees correctional facilities across the state, where many individuals preparing for release face significant unmet needs related to housing, food, healthcare, and employment. Through our partnership, Project Haven uses the GettingOut platform to directly reach individuals nearing reentry. By distributing flyers and NC 211 marketing materials to facility tablets, we provide clear, accessible information on available community resources. Through this effort, we have helped navigate nearly 100 individuals leaving incarceration to critical services that address urgent needs during reentry.
NC 211 Collaboration
Resource Navigation
NC 211 provides communities across all 100 counties in North Carolina to verified resources for basic needs, such as housing and utility assistance, food, healthcare, transportation, and more. Powered by United Way, anyone in North Carolina can make a free and confidential call to 2-1-1 (or 888-892-1162). A trained Community Resource Specialist will listen, identify needs, and connect callers to local resources that fit their situation.
Project Haven is proud to announce a partnership with NC 211 to provide community outreach efforts. Through reaching out to churches, food banks, schools, shelters, our vision is to identify communities and underrepresented populations to provide access to resources by referring them to NC 211.
Sound The Alarm partnership
A nationally conducted CPSC survey estimated 20% of households with alarms had none that worked, and a more recent National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) survey found that while 94% of homes have alarms, more than a third of them are inoperable due to dead batteries. Two-thirds of fire deaths occur in homes without smoke alarms or with non-working ones.
As a result, Project Haven partnered with the Red Cross and Eno Fire Department to install over 30 smoke detectors in 100+ homes, these communities were identified by the Fire Department as having high rates of house fire incidents as a result of having no or outdated fire alarms.
Community Resource Packet Distribution
An ongoing initiative delivering door-to-door resource packets in local neighborhoods, connecting residents with information on health services, safety programs, and essential community support.
