Making Clark County a healthier place to grow up — and to live out your life — is the emphasis behind the biggest grants in a big round of giving just announced by the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington.
The local charitable foundation just awarded $590,433 in grants to 38 nonprofit agencies and schools. The Healthy Living Collaborative of Southwest Washington and Clark County Health Department’s ACEs program were each awarded $50,000 — the two largest grants in the whole group.
The Healthy Living Collaborative is a team of community partners that’s seeking to align local policies and systems for the betterment of everyone’s health and the reduction of chronic disease — with a special emphasis on social problems such as poverty that tend to have a major negative impact on health.
The group includes private health care and public health agencies, social service and housing providers, churches, private businesses, public transit, a tribal nation and more. The relatively new group has already deployed community health workers in such places as Vancouver’s Rose Village neighborhood, and other members are looking at public policies at the local and state levels as they relate to topics including healthy eating, active living and elimination of tobacco.
[For more of this story, written by Scott Hewitt, go to http://www.columbian.com/news/...s-on-health-poverty/]
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