The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District's Wellness and Health Promotion Division is a grantee of the Illinois Department of Human Services' Personal Responsibility Education Program or PREP. Through the PREP grant, CUPHD's health educators teach the Making Proud Choices! curriculum in area middle schools and high schools. Typically, this consists of a health educator having a guest speaking role during students' regularly scheduled health class. Making Proud Choices! is an 8 hour, age-appropriate, evidence-based sexual health curriculum for 12-18 year-olds. At the completion of the MPC curriculum, youth will have:

CUPHD health educators are grateful to deliver CUPHD's Comprehensive Sex Education Programming to over 1,000 Champaign County youth each year, and we look forward to continued expansion of sexual health education and services.

CUPHD is also the chair of the Coalition for Comprehensive Sex Education (CCSE). CCSE is a group of health professionals, youth-serving organizations, parents, teachers, and students that meets quarterly to address the sexual health needs of the community, particularly among youth.

Pursuant to the fundamental philosophy of the American constitutional form of government, it is declared to be the public policy of the State of Illinois that all persons are entitled to full and complete information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts and policies of those who represent them as public officials and public employees consistent with the terms of this Act. Such access is necessary to enable the people to fulfill their duties of discussing public issues fully and freely, making informed political judgments and monitoring government to ensure that it is being conducted in the public interest.

To assure compliance with State of Illinois law as well as to promote transparency concerning Champaign-Urbana Public Health District operations, the District provides the following information regarding the Freedom of Information Act. Due to impacts caused by the COVID-19 virus, there may be delays in processing requests. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please know that we are doing everything we can to mitigate delays.

At Champaign-Urbana Public Health District we believe that all people have an equal right to health, safety and well-being. We will strive to model respect, compassion and integrity while providing services that are both innovative and adaptive to the culturally diverse population we serve. We will protect and promote the health and well-being of the community and position ourselves to respond to current and future public health challenges by building collaborative partnerships, continually measuring and improving effectiveness, maintaining sustainability and demonstrating transparency.

Parents bring their children to us for immunizations, dental care, blood lead tests, baby care and developmental testing. They rely on the Health District for guidance on proper car seat installations. They come to us for help with KidCare and FamilyCare medical insurance applications.

Champaign-Urbana Public Health District works in a systematic way to address public health emergencies within Champaign County utilizing the Incident Command System (ICS). As the Emergency Support Function(ESF) #8 lead for Champaign County, the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District works closely with local, state and federal partners to restore communities to pre-incident conditions and to lessen the effects of public health emergencies, whether they be natural, technical or man-made.

The list of services goes on and on. Each of the Health District divisions - Administration; Community Health Nursing & Clinical Services; Community Health Surveillance, Planning & Education; Dental Health; Environmental Health; Family Health; and HIV/STD/TB Prevention & Management - serves a unique public health function. All programs within these divisions are designed to address health priorities in the Champaign-Urbana community.

We have a contractual relationship with the Champaign County Public Health Department Board of Health, which provides funding to support services to ensure food and water protection, safe sewage, and investigation and mitigation of communicable diseases to county residents outside Champaign and Urbana.