News from PATH

She's not one to brag, so we'll do it for her! Schell McCall, Executive Director of PATH, has been selected to participate in the Jim Bernstein Community Health Leadership Fellows Program. It's a really big deal! Since 2006, the Bernstein Fellows Program has...

We have just wrapped up our summer delivery season, and while we are still in the process of quantifying our impact, we are pleased to share an update on what we accomplished during this summer's program: Along with our partner agencies, we made 5 deliveries, serving...

Each year, Partners Aligned Toward Health (PATH) sponsors the Toe River Racqueteers Tennis Camp, with the goal of uniting our community through healthy activity. In June, we held the 9th annual tennis camp in both Mitchell and Yancey Counties, and by all accounts it...

Each year, Partners Aligned Toward Health organizes the Burnsville Fit Families (BFF) 5K with the goal of uniting our community through healthy activity. The 8th Annual Burnsville Fit Families 5K – held on Saturday, May 13th – was a great success! In spite of the iffy...

For 20 years, Graham Children’s Health Services (GCHS) has served Mitchell and Yancey county residents with programs and services designed to improve the health of our community. Since 1997, these initiatives and collaborations have included: Toe River Dental Clinic,...

Sam Sirois, who serves as the coordinator of our after school program for Mitchell County middle school students (called Students Taking Active Roles or “S.T.A.R.” for short), was recently honored by the Mitchell County Board of Education for her classroom students'...

This summer, Healthy Yancey (a program of Graham Children's Health Services) launched a new program called The Sizzlin' Summer Series," with the goal of increasing community "connectedness" and physical activity by providing fun opportunities for folks to get active...

Thanks to incredible community volunteers, this summer we delivered 600 boxes of food staples, fresh produce, healthy recipes and children's books to local families.  This is what we heard from some of the recipients of the food boxes... "My son liked to wait by the...