​Building A Healthy Neighborhood

​The Building a Healthy Neighborhood (BaHN) program brings together Rebuilding Together’s strategic community development approach, the Community Revitalization Partnership, and our core practice model, Safe and Healthy Housing. Through Safe and Healthy Housing, we seek to advance health equity by improving health and housing outcomes for our neighbors in need in economically distressed communities. Our experience working in these communities has taught us that systematic, coordinated approaches are needed to improve quality of life at the individual and community level. Accordingly, our Community Revitalization Partnership (CRP) model has called on our organization to adopt a deeper and longer-term (one year minimum) focus at the neighborhood level. By targeting our service delivery in specific neighborhoods and aligning our work more closely with other nonprofit providers and community leadership, Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte improves the health and safety conditions of entire neighborhoods, not just individual homes.

Current BaHN Neighborhood: Lakeview (2021-2022) 
Past BaHN Neighborhood: Druid Hills (2019-2021) 

​Safe At Home 

In response to requests for repairs to help our neighbors age in place or navigate life-altering diagnoses, we're excited to officially launch the Safe at Home program! Safe at Home provides no-cost preventive home modifications to individuals with mobility issues and other disabilities to improve accessibility, reduce falls, increase independence, and facilitate aging in place. Safe at Home focuses on making sure all seniors, individuals with disabilities, and families and individuals who have experienced life-altering diagnoses receive home adaptations to ensure that they can age in place with dignity, safely navigate their homes, and adjust to their new normal. 

These home modifications will include repairs such as…

• Installing grab bars, wheelchair ramps, fire prevention technology elevated toilets, and easy access showers.
• Addressing trip hazards in doorways (installing zero-step entrances) and around the home.
• Improving lighting and air quality through asthma and respiratory-related repairs.
• Providing accessibility modifications that address changing mobility needs and enable independence around the home.
• Ensuring all electrical outlets are able to handle the needs of medical equipment when necessary. 

​She Builds (Launching 2021)

​Women-led and women focused, She Builds provides critical repairs for women-headed households and women-focused community spaces to empower women to maintain safe and healthy homes, make a difference in their communities and build a supportive community network. This program is a collaboration between RTGC, corporate and community leaders who are dedicated to advancing the housing and community issues affecting women. 

Participants come to the builds with a myriad of experiences and skills to share and learn from each another. Programming includes participation in a home or community center renovation led by women, home repair trainings on how to maintain safe and healthy homes and leadership training and mentoring to encourage community participation and empowerment. Participants learn basic carpentry and plumbing skills, electrical safety do’s and don’ts and other on-the-job training while working on these repair projects to improve the health and safety of their own living conditions. Learning how to complete home repairs independently not only saves money but builds confidence in self-sufficiency. She Builds brings women together to support one another and encourages them to be change-makers in their own communities.