FARMINGTON — Nicole Ditata, a program coordinator for Healthy Community Coalition, presented at the Society of Public Health Education’s 60th annual meeting in Philadelphia on Nov. 4-6.

The title of her presentation was A Healthy Community Coalition and a University Health Education Program: Working in Partnership. Maurice Martin, Ph.D., a community health education professor at the University of Maine at Farmington, was also there to answer questions.

The community health work force development project described at the meeting is a three-year project funded by the Bingham Foundation. HCC is partnering with the Community Health Education program at the University of Maine at Farmington to alleviate current and future community health work force and leadership shortages by collaboratively developing a more tailored community health education curriculum, and by subsequently increasing deployment of a competent work force in community health coalitions.

HCC is an affiliate of Franklin Community Health Network. Call 779-2932 or toll free at 1-800-525-3136 for more information.