Improving Health for Mothers and Babies Through Care Coordination and Connection
When Kim Ashford, a community health worker with ConnectRx Wisconsin peeks into the stroller and sees six-month-old KaCee Curry babbling and kicking his legs, she breaks into a big smile like a proud aunt.
Improving Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Southwestern Wisconsin
Beginning in 2017, the United Way Great Rivers HUB began tackling the problem of health disparities around childbirth in the La Crosse County area.
Creating a Culturally Vibrant Food System
There was a moment when Gary Besaw knew the work to improve the food systems for the Indigenous people of Wisconsin was paying off, and it happened in the greeting card aisle of the Walmart in Shawano.
Strong Fathers, Strong Families
There were kids and dads everywhere at a pop-up event held on an August afternoon in a vacant lot near Lisbon Avenue and 35th Street in Milwaukee’s Walnut Hill neighborhood.
Meeting the Social and Emotional Health Needs of Wisconsin Teens
Connecting Clinics, Campuses and Communities to Improve Health
From an office in Hibbard Hall on the UW-Eau Claire campus, neuroscience major Samantha Thompson works the phones, looking for resources across central and northern Wisconsin that can help keep people healthy.
Promoting Food Sovereignty Among Indigenous Communities
The Oneida Nation is developing a model of programming that promotes traditional food ways, agriculture, and cultural identity among Indigenous communities as a comprehensive approach to reducing health disparities and improving health and health care.
Barbershop Health Initiative
Aaron Perry and the Rebalanced-Life Wellness Association (RLWA) kicked off their new Community Collaboration Grant: Black Men’s Wellness Sustainable Initiative, a four-year strategy that aims to reduce health disparities that adversely affect black men and boys in Dane County. The initiative builds upon the success of RLWA’s Men’s Health and Education Center, an innovative model that strives to improve health and reduce barriers to health care for black men.
Advancing School-Based Mental Health Care
Advancing School-Based Mental Health in Dane County is a five-year $1 million Community Impact Grant award to the Madison Metropolitan School District that will develop an innovative model to provide care that's easily accessible to students.
Improving Health by Addressing Housing Instability
A grant to Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, Milwaukee’s largest federally qualified health center, supports the organization’s work to build a strong foundation of community health by addressing housing instability in its community.