Success Stories by State: Alabama

• Healthy Schools - Healthy Kids
  May 2009
  The project was designed to reduce alcohol, tobacco, and drug use; to address unsafe sexual behaviors; and to improve healthy diets and physical activity among children and adolescents.
• Monroe Health Foundation Dental Clinic
  May 2009
  Good oral health habits can be developed at an early age. However, many children and adolescents living in rural areas do not have sufficient access to affordable dental health services. This is especially true in the area surrounding Monroeville, Alabama, where children and adolescents covered by Medicaid experienced numerous barriers to receiving oral health education and treatment services.
• Rural Alabama School Sets High Standards
  December 2007
  Dedicated teachers, and a "sense of community" figures prominently in the academic success of the rural Fruithurst elementary school.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• East Central Mental Health-Mental Retardation, Inc.
  January 2007
  East Central Mental Health-Mental Retardation, Inc., has initiated a partnership of community agencies committed to the development and implementation of a comprehensive, countywide health risk prevention and outreach project.
• Rural Assistance Program for Churches and Schools
  January 2007
  The Rural Assistance Program for Churches and Schools (RAPCS) will provide access to health care for disadvantaged populations in Green, Sumter, and Marengo Counties. These counties are ranked among the poorest in the State and the Nation.
• Sylacauga Alliance for Family Enhancement Program
  January 2007
  The goal of this project is to increase the quality and years of life for individuals of the target population of under and uninsured residents of Talladega County, Alabama with chronic diseases of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Diabetes and/or Hypertension.
• For Our Children
  July 2005
  The project objective was to provide improved health care services to 2,500 K - 12 students by using grant funds to provide a full-time Registered Nurse and one dedicated social worker to local public schools.