Success Stories by Source: Outreach Sourcebook, Vol. 13, 2005-2008, Office of Rural Health Policy

• South Georgia Regional Dental Health Initiative
  July 2009
  The South Georgia Regional Dental health Initiative was designed to provide on-site dental health prevention education in each of the five counties through a full-time Dental Hygienist and dental clinic services one day a week in dental clinic located in Turner County.
• The East Central Georgia Regional Teen Wellness Coalition
  July 2009
  The Initiative increased awareness and access to health promotion services by providing ongoing leadership training regarding healthy lifestyles for local youth; encouraging these youth to take a leadership role in planning, implementing and monitoring local health promotion/education projects; and supporting these youth as they plan and coordinate an ongoing local healthy lifestyles education outreach campaign for the youth in our service area.
• Mendocino County Health Department
  July 2009
  The project was designed to address adolescent substance abuse by providing youth with knowledge, refusal skills, and opportunities to bring positive change to their communities.
• White River Rural Health Center, Inc.
  July 2009
  The objective of this grant application was to identify and provide effective self-management education to adults with Diabetes, especially the elderly, in the target service area with the establishment of a “Diabetes Center”.
• Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association, Inc. Project
  January 2007
  This partnership project was developed to impact dementia service and availability in a sixteen county area in northern Wisconsin.
• Ho-Chunk Nation Youth Fitness Project
  January 2007
  The need for this project was to address the overweight/obesity problem for Native American children ages 6-18 through an after-school based program involving fitness, nutrition and wellness (selfesteem) components.
• People Incorporated of Southwest Virginia Project
  January 2007
  The goals of the project are to improve the overall health of low-income families in the four rural counties, increase physician knowledge of community-based resources to support low-income patients' self-efficacy, and provide community-based experience to medical residents.
• Recycle for Life Program
  January 2007
  The Recycle for Life program provides better mobility, comfort or a sense of well being to people with disabilities in need of assistance obtaining durable medical equipment and assistive devices - giving them an opportunity to have a better life.
• Border Area Mental Health Services, Inc. Project
  January 2007
  The main goals of the project were to increase access to appropriate levels of care for mental health and/or substance abuse services,to increase capacity to provide services to individuals with substance abuse and/or mental health disorders; and to improve access to and management of psychotropic medications.
• Livingston County Department of Health Injury and Illness Prevention Project
  January 2007
  In this injury and illness prevention project, the Livingston County Department of Health and its partners seek to maximize the health and quality of life of rural, community-dwelling older adults and will implement a system based on emergency medical services (EMS) to screen, identify, educate, and refer rural-dwelling individuals at risk for preventable conditions.
• Northern New Mexico Rural Infant Mental Health Consortium Project
  January 2007
  The Northern New Mexico Rural Infant Mental Health Consortium project will provide access to mental health services for high-risk families with young children, from birth to age 5.
• Southern Hills Leadership and Resiliency Initiative
  January 2007
  The goal of the Southern Hills Leadership and Resiliency Initiative (SHLRI) is to reduce use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by students in five communities in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota.
• Wellness Interventions Lasting a Lifetime (WILL) Project
  January 2007
  The Wellness Interventions Lasting a Lifetime (WILL) project-designed to encourage wellness and healthy lifestyles-will provide education on disease management and prevention to North Dakota residents of Cavalier County, the northwest section of Pembina County, and the northern portion of Ramsey County.
• Rural Outreach for Improvement of Chronic Disease Management Project
  January 2007
  The focus of the Rural Outreach for Improvement of Chronic Disease Management Project is implementation of a chronic disease management program for individuals with diabetes,chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure in rural southwestern New Hampshire.
• Alcona Citizens for Health, Inc.
  January 2007
  The project provided new psychiatric services at four clinics and added two new behavioral health consultants and neurological health services to address the needs of the substantial elderly population.
• Butte Consortium for Sexual Abuse Prevention
  January 2007
  The Butte Consortium for Sexual Abuse Prevention was formed to address child sexual abuse in Butte and southwest Montana, where the incidence of sexual abuse is unusually high.
• Claiborne County Rural Health Care Services Outreach project
  January 2007
  The Claiborne County Rural Health Care Services Outreach project will operate three school-based health clinics to provide primary health care, prevention services, and health education on topics such as diet, nutrition, exercise, high-risk behavior prevention, and tobacco use prevention to students in grades K-12 in the Claiborne County Public School District.
• Huron-Sanilac Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Project
  January 2007
  The Huron-Sanilac Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Project will aggressively seek to reverse the declining number of active EMS providers in this rural area of Michigan.
• Lafayette County 4 Health Project
  January 2007
  The project will incorporate community education and outreach approaches to connect vulnerable, low-income populations to an integrated network of local health and social support services.
• Mahnomen County Mental Health Consortium
  January 2007
  The Mahnomen County Mental Health Consortium will focus on at-risk children and adolescents and their families, while expanding access of the general population to short-term outpatient services to ensure earlier intervention for individuals and families.
• Mercer County Behavioral Health Outreach Project
  January 2007
  The Mercer County Behavioral Health Outreach Project sought to increase access of children and isolated rural farm families to behavioral health care by providing outreach and education resources and promoting greater community involvement in an integrated network of services.
• Womens Health Project
  January 2007
  The overall goal of the program is to foster increased capacity and resources to assure rural health delivery of quality programming for women's health, including family planning and risk reduction services in three counties in north central Minnesota.
• Worcester County Health Department (WCHD) Aging Initiative
  January 2007
  This project, Worcester County Health Department (WCHD) Aging Initiative [formerly ACCESS] proposed to expand services that promote independent, unrestricted living for Worcester County’s aging population.
• The Healthy Community Coalition
  January 2007
  A multi-dimensional community-wide initiative promoting healthy life choices was implemented in Greater Franklin County, Maine.
• Dubach Health Outreach Project
  January 2007
  The purpose of this health outreach project was to access a multidisciplinary community-based intervention to combat obesity and related chronic diseases in Dubach and the neighboring communities.
• Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project
  January 2007
  Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project is a health education and screening project targeting obesity and related diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke in at-risk African American adolescents and adults in the parishes of Bienville, Lincoln and Jackson.
• Healthy Families Active Youth Rural Health Care Services Outreach Project
  January 2007
  Healthy Families Active Youth is a health promotion and fitness project that targeted elementary school children and their parents in two towns in rural southwest Idaho to prevent and treat pediatric obesity.
• Floyd County Dental Clinic
  January 2007
  The Floyd County Health Department Regional Dental Health Clinic was designed to provide access to oral health services in the following areas: Preventive care, restorative care, emergent care, nursing home services, fluoride varnish care, conscious sedation, and services under general anesthesia for five counties in Northwest Georgia.