By Scierra Bratton
ALLEGRO FOUNDAITON
The Allegro Foundation partnered with the Charlotte Hornets at its Community Corner on Monday, March 9 during the Los Angeles Lakers game. As a champion for children with disabilities, the Allegro Foundation combines movement instruction with medical and educational expertise, creating new techniques to teach children with disabilities and enhance their quality of life. The Allegro Foundation serves children with intellectual disabilities, down syndrome, orthopedic challenges, spina bifida, autism, cerebal palsy, learning disabilities, muscular dystrophy and visual and hearing impairments. All programs are FREE of charge and meet once a week for 30 minutes during the school day. The programs offered by the Allegro Foundation reinforce the academic skills and lessons students learn in their classroom by combining the cognitive and muscle memory to stimulate sequential and conceptual learning, problem-solving skills and communication. Since 2003, the Allegro Foundation has served thousands of children with disabilities in more than 20 Charlotte-Mecklenburg elementary schools and Title 1 Pre-K. For more information, please contact Amy Silverman at amys@allegrofoundation.net or visit www.allegrofoundation.net.
CHARLOTTE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC
The Charlotte Community Health Clinic will partner with the Charlotte Hornets at its Community Corner tonight during the Chicago Bulls game. Charlotte Community Health Clinic (CCHC) has provided high quality medical care to low-income (200% of federal poverty guideline), uninsured residents of Mecklenburg County for more than a decade. CCHC’s mission is to improve the health of its patients by engaging the community and its resources to provide quality, low-cost, compassionate healthcare. Using a medical home model, CCHC provides ongoing patient care, prescribed medications, behavioral health services, laboratory services, diagnostics (such as x-rays, MRI), eye, specialty care referrals, women’s and children’s clinics and health education. Over the years, CCHC has grown from an episodic and acute care clinic to a preventative, primary care clinic specializing in chronic disease management. In 2014, the Clinic provided nearly 21, 000 patient visits for more than 5,000 adults and children. CCHC does not discriminate against any race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion or sexual orientation as it strives to serve as many low-income, uninsured Mecklenburg County residents as possible. At the Community Corner tonight, Hornets fans will have the opportunity to receive information about good health, weight loss, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Hornets fans will also be able to participate in CCHC’s spinning wheel game for the opportunity to win giveaways. Two volunteer nurses will also be offering free blood pressure screenings for adults. You can learn more about CHCC by visiting its website at www.charlottecommunityhealthclinic.org/.