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What is Crossworks?

Crossworks is a nonprofit, 501c3 organization that since 1999 has served the people of Nash, Edgecombe, and the surrounding counties.

Our Mission

Crossworks is a North Carolina faith-based non-profit that provides health and nutrition education to fight chronic disease in Nash, Edgecombe and the surrounding area. Our goals are to:

  • Encourage people to move toward healthy lifestyles
  • Improve self-management skills of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer
  • Provide services aimed at dispelling hunger and its root cause—unemployment
  • Seek food, funds, and resources to aid emergency food providers
  • To reach the community with the life giving message of good nutrition and various forms of nutritional services that will improve the health and well-being of our community
  • To help families that suffer from lack of food and joblessness to not only acquire good food, but to also gain access to jobs and a future of economic independence through various forms of educational, self-help and biblical teachings

SWEET RELIEF

Diabetes Self-Management Program

Sweet Relief is an accredited diabetes program developed for adults diagnosed with Type I, Type II, and gestational diabetes. Read more...

Are you ready for some “Sweet Relief”? Download the brochure to learn about the services we offer and to get started.

HEALTH CORNER

Health Corner
  • Upper limit for sugar intake may be too high, suggests study

    Consuming 25 percent of daily calories in the form of added sugars – in line with the government recommended maximum – could increase risk factors for heart disease, according to a new study. Read more...