Partnership For Better Health

Programs: The partnership for better health ("foundation") provides funding for grants and initiatives that seek to eliminate health disparities and address the roots of health issues, toward ensuring that all people have the chance to enjoy healthy lives. Our grants and inititatives focus on three priority areas: 1. Build healthy communities: we support decisions, conditions and systems change efforts that enable people to live healthier lives in their schools, workplaces,homes, and neighborhoods. 2. Ensure access for all: we invest in grants and initiatives that increase access to medical, dental, and behavioral health services for individuals throughout our region, especially those who are most vulnerable to poor health. 3. Strengthen health capacities: we strive to advance the ability of organizations and partners to engage in comprehensive strategies that improve health. Together, with many others in our region, we seek to foster a vibrant culture of learning, growth and collaborations. Toward these goals in 2017-2018, the foundation provided nearly 1,900,000 in grants and other assistance to 56 local organizations. Overall, 30% of this amount focused on primary health care, 17% on oral health, 27% on nutrition/physical activity/tobacco cessation, and 16% on behavioral health. Several programs at sadler health center received 24% of the total grants and initiative funding for health services that include primary care, dental care, behavioral health counseling, tobacco cessation services,and healthy rx prescription services, which has secured over 35 million in free prescriptions in eleven years. In perry county, a 100,000 grant to hamilton health center facilitated their opening of a new community health center in newport. Additionally, 205,000 in grants went to a range of local programs that focus on nutrition and healthy food access. Other assistance to local organizations focused on increasing access to healthcare and affordable housing, addressing opioid addiction, and advancng high-quality youth development programs. The foundation's strategic approach includes coalition building, policy advocacy, public education and nonprofit capacity building. We serve as a catalyst, advocate and collaborator to make health a shared priority, toward establishing our communities as the healthiest in the nation.