Around the Country: Finding New Ways to Meet Oral Health Needs in Rural Areas
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Reports that dentist shortages are prompting rural doctors and nurses to provide dental care themselves. Describes programs in Maine and Iowa in which oral health services are not provided by dental care professionals.
Journal citation: Volume 2010 Issue Summer
Date: 08 / 2010
Around the Country: I Wish I Was in Dixie County Walks
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Highlights Dixie County Walks, a six week walking challenge in Florida.
Journal citation: Volume 2011 Issue Winter
Date: 02 / 2011
Around the Country: Psychiatrists Offer “Face-to-Face” Sessions Via Technology in Washington State
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Describes the San Juan County Telepsychiatry Project, which allows patients to speak with psychiatrists without having to take a ferry or drive all day to the mainland.
Journal citation: Volume 2010 Issue Fall
Date: 11 / 2010
Around the Country: The Benefit Bank Gives Families a Financial Boost
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Highlights the Benefit Bank of South Carolina, who links low-income residents to public funds that often go unused and unclaimed.
Journal citation: Volume 2011 Issue Winter
Date: 02 / 2011
Around the Country: U.S. Pacific Islands Helping Hearts
Author(s): Hope Hanson
Highlights the CDC's Pacific Emergency Health
Initiative which provides training as well as AEDs to U.S. Pacific Islanders.
Journal citation: Volume 2006 Issue Spring
Date: 06 / 2006
Around the Country: Virginia Free Clinic Provides Multiple Health Services Under One Roof
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Describes how Virginia's Giles Clinic is providing free medical, dental and mental health care to uninsured residents, many of whom had gone years without primary care.
Journal citation: Volume 2010 Issue Fall
Date: 11 / 2010
Best Practices & Success Stories: A Guidebook for Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Coordinators
Draws on the experiences and advice of some of the more experienced Flex Coordinators to provide practical strategies and advice to help their fellow Flex Coordinators succeed in managing a State Flex Program.
Date: 04 / 2010
Building Healthier Schools: Local Collaborations to Promote Nutrition and Physical Activity
Compilation of innovative approaches to collaboration and creative health-promoting activities that resulted from local health department school partnerships.
Date: 02 / 2007
Case Studies on Transit and Livable Communities in Rural and Small Town America
Author(s): Sean Barry
Collection of 12 case studies providing examples of how small cities, towns, and rural regions across the country are transforming themselves into more livable communities.
Date: 09 / 2010
Challenges for Human Services: Getting Human Services to Rural Communities
Author(s): Kathleen Belanger
Describes how rural children and families can receive the help they need in their own communities despite a tough economy. Partnerships and collaborations among human services entities, like Family Resource Centers in Humboldt County, California, help keep some services local.
Journal citation: Volume 2011 Issue Winter
Date: 02 / 2011
Community Paramedics Widen Medical Services in Rural Areas
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Highlights how rural communities in Colorado and Minnesota are training paramedics to also provide home care, immunizations, and other health services.
Journal citation: Volume 2010 Issue Fall
Date: 11 / 2010
Compendium of Best Practices/Models - Innovations to Strengthen Rural Health Care: Rural Technology, Training, and Workforce Development
Document Developed by NRHA's National Rural Task Force. Highlights workforce programs in California, Mississippi, and New Mexico.
Date: 09 / 2010
Compendium of Best Practices/Models That Work in Rural Workforce Development
Developed by NRHA's National Rural Task Force. Highlights rural workforce programs in Alaska, Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, South Carolina, and West Virginia.
Date: 09 / 2008
Compendium of Rural Best Practices/Models: Communities Along the Border, Including Practices in Clinical Setting
Representation of NRHA's Border Health Initiative's activities to encourage the development of quality health care services for rural populations along the U.S.-Mexico border. Compendium is intended to highlight communities along the border with models that can be built upon and can be used by federal agencies, states and local health and health-related agencies for setting priorities for rural border communities.
Date: 12 / 2010
Connecting the Dots: A Guide for Connecting with Your Department of Transportation
Author(s): David Cole
Presents methods for problem solving, building stronger state and local partnerships, and understanding the unique opportunities that transportation and economic development projects bring to rural regions and communities. Describes programs and partnerships established by the Maine Department of Transportation.
Date: 09 / 2011
Delivering Free Healthcare to Rural Central Appalachia Population: The Case of the Health Wagon
Author(s): Teresa Gardner, Paul Gavaza, Paula Meade, Donna Adkins
Describes the Health Wagon, a full mobile medical clinic delivering free health care to those in rural Southwest Virginia in Central Appalachia.
Journal citation: Volume 12 Issue 2035
Date: 03 / 2012
Dynamics of Sustainability: A Primer for Rural Health Organizations
Provides information and case studies on sustainability for rural organizations that are starting new programs.
Date: 02 / 2012
Entrepreneurship Education: Learning By Doing
Describes six successful youth entrepreneurship
programs and the national resources available
to help a community cultivate entrepreneurs.
Expanding Mobility Options for People with Disabilities: A Practitioner's Guide to Community-Based Transportation Planning
Designed for communities to use in planning activities when improving transportation options for people with disabilities. Provides a model approach for community-based transportation planning that incorporates methods and activities rural communities can implement.
Date: 04 / 2005
Exploring the Role of Regional Transportation Projects as Rural Economy Drivers
Describes case studies in Alabama, Oregon, and Vermont that demonstrate successful partnerships between regional development organizations (RDOs) and local governments in transportation-led economic development projects.
Date: 2011
Fresh Promises: Highlighting Promising Strategies of the Rural Great Plains and Beyond
Author(s): Jon M. Bailey, Kim Preston
Describes successful rural development efforts by individuals, communities, and organizations. Includes programs from around the country addressing agriculture, the environment, small business and other topics.
Date: 10 / 2004
From Hospitals to Healthcare Coalitions: Transforming Health Preparedness and Response in Our Communities
Summarizes progress that States and hospitals, along with the public health and emergency management communities made from 2007-2009 in the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP). Serves as a guide in healthcare preparedness and response successful models and as an educational tool for legislators, funding recipients and other key stakeholders.
Getting Children Where They Need to Go
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Discusses the importance of public transportation in rural areas and how many rural children would not get to Head Start, doctors' appointments, day care or other services without it. Highlights Sweetwater Transit Authority Resources (STAR) in Wyoming which provides transportation for riders of all ages.
Journal citation: Volume 2007 Issue Winter
Date: 03 / 2007
Getting Youth to the Workplace: Youth Employment Transportation Briefs 1-4
Provides a compilation of documents addressing rural youth employment transportation barriers, initiatives, funding and success stories.
Date: 11 / 2007
Good Practice: Treating Underserved Dental Patients While Staying Afloat
Author(s): Scott, Mary Kate
Outlines techniques and tools related to creating a strategic plan, the reimbursement process and payer mix, achieving a smooth patient flow and staffing patterns, the importance of effective business systems, and implementing new technologies and clinical programs. Website also offers access to an audio clip of three dentists describing their experiences with treating uninsured and Medi-Cal patients and how they were able to improve their practices.
Date: 08 / 2008
Grantee Directory: Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program 2010-2013
Contains a directory of the Delta States Rural Development Grant Program in the 2010-2013 funding cycle, including contact information for each grantee. The Delta States region consists of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.
Date: 2011
Healthy Indian Country Initiative Promising Prevention Practices Resource Guide: Promoting Innovative Tribal Prevention Programs
Highlights promising prevention programs within Indian Country. Guide begins the process of identifying, developing, and looking at Tribal community promising prevention practices with the intent to allow other communities to replicate these practices.
Date: 12 / 2009
Highlighting Model Communities: Bear Lake Memorial Hospital Montpelier, Idaho
Describes how this frontier Idaho community overcame barriers and built a health care system and revived its economy.
Date: 2008
Highlighting Model Communities: Hidalgo Medical Services Lordsburg, New Mexico
Describes how this frontier New Mexico community overcame barriers and built a health care system and revived its economy.
Date: 2004
Humboldt County, California: A Promising Model for Rural Human Services
Author(s): Mario Gutierrez, Kathleen Belanger, Jane Forrest Redfern, Larry Goolsby, Jocelyn Richgels
Summary of an in-depth assessment of the Humboldt County, CA fully integrated health and human services delivery model, which included multiple extended site visits to Humboldt County in 2010 by the Rural Human Services Panel, RUPRI and others.
Date: 02 / 2012
Impact and Innovation: Effective Models and Practices in Serving Older Adults - Case Studies
Successful case studies that provide reinforcement and motivation to nonprofit human service organizations that use the social work profession to respond to the needs of older adults in both urban and rural settings.
Date: 01 / 2010
Increasing Access to Dental Care in Medicaid: Targeted Programs for Four Populations
Author(s): Andrew Snyder
Describes strategies used by several states to better address the oral health of young children, pregnant women, people with developmental abilities, and people living in rural areas.
Date: 03 / 2009
Innovations in Reducing Preventable Hospital Admissions, Readmissions, and Emergency Room Use: An Update on Health Plan Initiatives to Address National Health Care Priorities
A review of successful health plan programs to revitalize primary care, improve care coordination, and help patients avoid adverse health events.
Date: 06 / 2010
Innovative Programs Aim to Prevent Premature Births
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Outlines programs in North Carolina and Georgia that help women carry their pregnancies longer, working to fight the trend that preterm births and infant mortality are higher in rural areas.
Journal citation: Volume 2010 Issue Summer
Date: 08 / 2010
Intervention Programs Target Childhood Chronic Disease
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Highlights health intervention programs, such as the CARDIAC Project in West Virginia, who are using school screenings to identify children at-risk for heart disease and diabetes.
Journal citation: Volume 2011 Issue Winter
Date: 02 / 2011
Lessons & Concepts for Advancing Community Wind
Author(s): Morgan Winters, Ryan Stockwell, Dan Thiede
Describes the concept and structure of "community wind" as well as the process involved in starting a wind energy program. Case studies explored include those in rural Minnesota and South Dakota.
Date: 12 / 2009
Making it Work: Combating Rural Homelessness
This entire issue of Rural Voices is dedicated to the topic of rural homelessness. Highlights some of the innovative ways rural homeless providers are accessing and using
resources in Michigan, Minnesota, California, Georgia, and Kentucky.
Date: 2007
Making Places for Healthy Kids: An Environmental Scan of Places Designed for Children to be Active
Examines eight efforts to make changes in the environment that create opportunities for children to be more physically active in their daily lives, such as completing sidewalks for safe routes to school, building parks conducive to children's play and planting urban gardens to promote regular exercise and healthy eating.
Date: 02 / 2005
Medicaid-Funded Long-Term Supports and Services: Snapshots of Innovation
Author(s): Gretchen Engquist, Cyndy Johnson, William Courtland Johnson
Identifies high-quality and cost-effective strategies for urban and rural areas when addressing the full range of clinical and long-term supports and services (LTSS) needs of Medicaid beneficiaries.
Date: 05 / 2010
Medical Home Gets Updated: Improving Outcomes While Reducing Costs
Author(s): Anna C. Spencer
Reports on new models for medical home primary-care case management programs.
Journal citation: Volume 29 Issue 511
Date: 03 / 2008
Medical Homes Offer Comprehensive Care Approach
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Describes the successes experienced by two health care centers that offer medical home services to their patients. Advocates in the Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) and the Lakewood Health System in Staples, Minnesota describe their programs.
Journal citation: Volume 2009 Issue Spring
Date: 05 / 2009
National Rural Alcohol and Drug Abuse Network Awards for Excellence 2004: Submitted and Award-Winning Papers
Describes effective and innovative models of substance abuse treatment and prevention services in rural populations. Includes seven papers submitted to the 2004 National Rural Alcohol and Drug Abuse Network (NRADAN) Awards for Excellence.
Date: 2006
Network Sourcebook, Vol. 1, 1997-2000
Detailed descriptions of 27 network development grant projects funded during the 1997-2000 period. Includes project description and contact information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 05 / 2001
Nonprofit Sustainability: Doing More With Less
Author(s): Stephanie L. Geller, Lester M. Salamon, Sharon Wise, Kim Schaffer, Marlene Anglin, Tanisha Smith, Robin Kees, Tuan Ngo, Kim C. Datwyler, Dana Pancrazi
This issue of Rural Voices focuses on nonprofit sustainability. Illustrates what organizations can do and are doing to survive the economic recession to include developing partnerships and encouraging volunteerism that can help sustain housing and other human services programs.
Journal citation: Volume 14 Issue 3
Date: 10 / 2009
Older Worker Employment Transportation Briefs: Strategies for Transportation Providers
Author(s): Pamela Friedman
Discusses the types of transportation challenges faced by older workers and outlines several strategies and model programs that transportation providers can adopt for their rural communities.
Date: 01 / 2008
Oral Health: Preventing Cavities, Gum Disease, and Tooth Loss Success Stories, 2010
Describes successful oral health programs in Arkansas, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
Date: 2010
Oral Health: Preventing Cavities, Gum Disease, and Tooth Loss Success Stories, 2011
Describes successful oral health programs in Maine, New York, and North Dakota involving dental sealants, water fluoridation, and state policies respectively.
Date: 2011
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 4, 1994-1997
Detailed descriptions of 81 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 1994-1997 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 09 / 1998
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 6, 1996-1999
Detailed descriptions of 25 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 1996-1999 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 04 / 2000
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 5, 1995-1998
Detailed descriptions of 25 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 1995-1998 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 01 / 2000
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 7, 1997-2000
Detailed descriptions of 45 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 1997-2000 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 03 / 2001
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 8, 1998-2001
Detailed descriptions of 13 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 1998-2001 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 03 / 2002
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 9, 1999-2002
Detailed descriptions of 38 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 1999-2002 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 04 / 2003
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 10, 2000-2003
Detailed descriptions of 63 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 2000-2003 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 07 / 2004
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 11, 2001-2004
Detailed descriptions of 18 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 2001-2004 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 07 / 2005
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 12, 2002-2005
Detailed descriptions of 28 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 2001-2004 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 06 / 2006
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 13, 2005-2008
Detailed descriptions of 29 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 2005-2008 period. Includes project description and contact directory information. Includes index of health topics addressed by each project.
Date: 11 / 2008
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 15, 2007-2010
Detailed descriptions of 27 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 2007-2010 period. Includes project descriptions and contact directory information.
Date: 11 / 2010
Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 14, 2006-2009
Detailed descriptions of 65 rural health outreach grant projects funded for 2006-2009 period. Includes project description and contact directory information.
Date: 04 / 2010
Profiles of Innovative Rural Vanpool Programs
Describes successful vanpool programs serving rural communities or commuters that have incorporated approaches such as: partnerships, outreach, and third-party operators to meet the needs of providers and participants.
Date: 06 / 2009
Rural Development and the Recovery Act: Working For Rural Communities
Reports on how the USDA Rural Development distribution of loan and grant funds provided to the agency through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has helped the Nation's rural residents.
Date: 10 / 2010
Rural Diabetes Care Management Programs: An Inventory of Sample Programs in Six States
Author(s): Roslyn S. Fraser-Maginn, Anne M. Skinner, Sue Nardie, Keith J. Mueller
Developed to share key contact and program information with organizations that are interested in starting a chronic disease management (DM) program in their facility.
Date: 12 / 2005
Rural Fundraising: Success Stories for CASA/GAL Programs
Author(s): Kim Klein
Describes basic principles of rural fundraising and successful fundraising strategies.
Contains examples of successful strategies.
Date: 2006
Rural Health Network Development Grantee Directory, FY 2001
Contains a directory of rural health network development projects made possible due to grants from the Office of Rural Health Policy for the years 1999, 2000, and 2001.
Date: 2001
Rural Health Network Development Grantee Directory, FY 2002
Contains a directory of rural health network development projects made possible due to grants from the Office of Rural Health Policy for the years 2000, 2001, and 2002.
Date: 2002
Rural Health Network Development Grantee Directory, FY 2008
Contains a directory of rural health network development projects made possible due to grants from the Office of Rural Health Policy for the years 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Date: 08 / 2008
Rural Health Network Development Grantee Directory, FY 2009
Contains a directory of rural health network development projects made possible due to grants from the Office of Rural Health Policy for the years 2007 and 2008.
Date: 05 / 2009
Rural Health Network Development Grantees by State: 1999-2003
Contains a list of rural health network development grantees and outlines their proposed projects.
Date: 2003
Rural Health Outreach Grantee Directory, FY 2003
Contains a directory of rural health outreach grantees from the Office of Rural Health Policy.
Rural Health Outreach Grantee Directory, FY 2006
Contains a directory of rural health outreach grantees from the Office of Rural Health Policy.
Rural Health Outreach Grantee Directory, FY 2007
Contains a directory of rural health outreach grantees from the Office of Rural Health Policy.
Rural Health Outreach Grantee Directory, FY 2009
Contains a directory of rural health outreach grantees from the Office of Rural Health Policy.
Date: 2009
Rural Housing Programs That Work
Special edition of Rural Voices highlights rural housing programs (USDA RD Sections 502 & 523) that work. Articles focus on expanding homeownership, promoting affordability, creating jobs and stabilizing families and communities.
Journal citation: Volume 15
Date: 2011
School-Based Programs Help Children Shape Up
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Highlights schools who are working nutrition education and increased physical activity into their curriculums in an effort to combat childhood obesity.
Journal citation: Volume 2011 Issue Winter
Date: 02 / 2011
State Flex Programs: Most Significant Achievements and Success Stories, 2009: A Compilation of the State Flex Programs’ Most Significant Achievements and Success Stories
Describes the most significant achievements and success stories from various State Flex Programs.
Date: 01 / 2009
Stretching Ties: Social Capital in the Rebranding of Coos County, New Hampshire
Author(s): Michele Dillon
Reports on how rural New Hampshire's, Coos County used rebranding as an economic development strategy to create strong personal and institutional relationships within their community.
Date: 10 / 2011
Using Health IT: Eight Quality Improvement Stories
Author(s): Melanie Au, Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Grace Anglin, Andrew Clarkwest
Highlights health information technology (HIT) successes including rural projects funded by the Transforming Healthcare Quality through Information Technology program.
Date: 09 / 2010
