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Success Stories by Source: Rural Monitor Newsletter, Summer 2005

  • Healing Center Helps Children
    June 2007
    Dedicated to enriching the lives of children with disabilities in middle Georgia, The Healing Center provides financial assistance in physical, occupational, music, massage, speech, hippo, aquatic and mental therapies.
  • Public Health Certificates Offered Online
    June 2007
    The Tennessee Department of Health created an online training program where department staff can earn certificates in applied epidemiology, health leadership or healthcare management.
  • SPARC Project Saves Women's Lives- Connecticut
    June 2007
    SPARC, a nonprofit health organization, began a program to administer flu shots and at the same time helped women find a mammogram provider to prevent cancer.
  • Dancing to Deter Diabetes
    June 2007
    The "Reach Out" project in rural Lake County, California, helps diabetics learn about nutrition and medication, and they dance.