Health
Equity Fund: Awardees Announced!
The Health Equity Fund is pleased to announce the recipients
of its inaugural round of funding. Doctors and Lawyers for Kids and YMCA of
Greater Louisville will each receive a $20,000 grant for their work to address
inequitable barriers to educational success and help create a pathway for
Louisville youth to thrive.
Doctors and Lawyers
for Kids (DLK) is
receiving funding to train staff to implement much-needed special education
advocacy for families navigating poverty. Recognizing the disparity between
case referrals and the number of clients they are able to serve, DLK is
building their capacity to respond to the civil legal issues that keep children
from thriving in school through advanced legal training.
YMCA of Greater
Louisville is receiving funding to support their program, Next Steps Summer
Learning. Running 5 days a week for 5 weeks in the summer, this program has a
specific focus to impact educational achievement for students who have limited
access to costly summer programs. Recognizing that summer is a critical time
for students’ continued learning, the YMCA
chose to develop this program as a resource where students can remain in a
structured, enriching environment with proven positive impact on school year
outcomes.
We celebrate these organizations and their commitment to
improving root causes of health! In addition to funding, each recipient will
participate in two Advancing Racial Equity trainings conducted by the Center
for Health Equity to further support their success in increasing health
equity. At least two additional rounds
of funding are planned in 2019 and 2020.
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The Health Equity Fund is the first of its kind, developed
from the prize money received when Louisville was selected as a Culture of
Health Prize winning community by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2016.
From shared commitments to innovation and collaboration in advancing health
equity, the Health Equity Fund advances evidence-based initiatives to
increasing health equity in Louisville. Building on the findings of the 2017
Health Equity Report, community residents chose education as the focus for the
first round of funding. See more about the full call for applications here.
A special thanks goes out to the Community Foundation of
Louisville, Humana Foundation, Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence, and Metro
United Way for their commitment to the improved quality of life for all
Louisville residents. Others interested
in funding health equity initiatives are invited to contact Aja Barber with the
Center for Health Equity, at aja.barber@louisvilleky.gov.
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