Success Stories by Topic: Community development

• Neighborhood Meth Watch Community Policing Project
  September 2009
  Adelante Juntos Coalition (AJC) designed and implemented the Neighborhood Meth Watch Program in many of the rural communities of Pinal County, Arizona.
• 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.
• Valley Health Exchange Network
  July 2009
  The main goal of this project was to help create a community-based health care system that was better equipped to meet the health care needs of a more racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse population in rural Virginia.
• Ajo Diabetes Outreach and Education Program
  July 2009
  The project used community-based educators and promotores to help medical providers educate patients and to conduct community outreach about diabetes.
• North Idaho Partners in Care
  July 2009
  This project used a mobile clinic to reach remote, underserved rural areas in the region. The project has emerged as a model of community cooperation and persistence in addressing unmet health care needs in a large, rural, underserved area.
• Salina Area Health Network
  July 2009
  This outreach grant allowed this community to enjoy longer hospital hours, more services and more qualified staff.
• Toombs Teen Health Collaborative
  July 2009
  Organizations throughout the region joined forces to create the Toombs Teen Health Collaborative in an attempt to reduce teen pregnancy, reduce repeat births by teens,and to implement a system to improve community-based health care services to teenagers.
• Charlie's Place: Targeting Adolescent and Community Health
  May 2009
  Charlie’s Place was established to promote healthier lifestyles among the county’s adolescents.
• Midwest Medical Center- Galena, Illinois
  February 2008
  Midwest Medical Center was the first Critical Access Replacement Hospital to open its doors in the State of Illinois. They overcame a tremendous amount of challenges to improve and save health care in this small rural and tourist community.
• Affordable Workforce Housing in Blackduck, Minnesota
  June 2007
  An urgent need for affordable workforce housing in Blackduck, Minnesota was solved by an ambitious four-year project to build a 21-unit subdivision by 2005.
• Dickenson County Virginia Child Care Center
  June 2007
  Several organizations in Dickenson County Virgina worked together to build a state-of-the-art child care facility to serve workers at technology-based customer-service call centers.
• Better Health for the Delta
  December 2006
  The Southeast Louisiana AHEC grantee for the Louisiana Mississippi Delta initiative combined our activities during Phase I and Phase II with the Robert Wood Johnson RWJ) Southern Rural Access Grant Program (SRAG) rural loan fund component and created "Better Health For the Delta".