September Partner Highlight
Community Health Endowment
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Health and the City
The journey is the thing
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Community Health Endowment
Place Matters Map informs funding
Since 1987, the Community Health Endowment of Lincoln (CHE) has provided $37 million in grants to support health related projects in the Lincoln community.
To prioritize funding in the areas of most need, CHE undertook an annual health mapping project, Place Matters. The latest updates represent the significant trends that will influence Lincoln’s housing, workforce, health, transportation, and infrastructure in the coming decades.
CHE's new funding priorities were informed by the Place Matters data and aim to increase health equity for all. Learn more about the new priorites and the Place Matters map in CHE's September highlight.
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Breaking Up the Daily Grind
We live in a busy time, often zooming in our cars from point A to point B - rarely taking time to enjoy the natural world around us.
With some good weather left, we’ve still got opportunities to enjoy the outdoors and improve our mental and physical health while we’re at it. It can be as simple as finding active ways to everyday places.
Walking with our kids to school, biking to the grocery store to pick up a few things, or parking a few blocks from work and walking the rest of the way - it's all good because the journey can be the thing, not just the destination.
Read more in our latest Health and the City column in the Lincoln Journal Star. Cowritten with LNKTV Health.
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September Partner Highlight
MilkWorks
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MilkWorks Grows, Evolves
and welcomes new director
Between the pandemic and the infant formula shortage, 2022 has been a tough one for new parents.
In addition to their already robust support services, MilkWorks has introduced a wide variety of virtual services, including telehealth lactation care, to help meet the challenges new moms have been facing in reaching their breastfeeding goals. MilkWorks continues to expand, offering breastfeeding support services in several smaller communities, as well.
MilkWorks also welcomed a new executive director this year, Tiffany Uher, to help further organizational growth. Learn more.
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COVID Isn't Over ...
and it's particularly dangerous for those 65 and over. Age is the number one predictor or hospitalization and death. Boosters for this age group are especially critical.
Learn more from Dr. Katelin Jetelina, Dr. Rauner's favorite go-to source for the latest COVID information.
COVID 19 Information/Resources
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Streets Alive!
is Just Weeks Away
Streets Alive!, our free movement and wellness festival, will be outdoors again this year, hosted for the first time by the University Place neighborhood, on Sunday, September 25, from 1- 4 PM.
Lots of new and fun things this year - including a soccer clinic, and tasty delights from UNL Dairy and The Corner Kitchen. If you're participating in this year's festival, look for exhibitor, food vendor, and performer instructions and set up information in another e-newsletter, coming soon.
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LNKTV Health - View What's New
Safe Kids Lincoln Lancaster County continues their video series that helps parents keep kids safe at home or elsewhere with tips to prevent Poisoning Hazards.
Find more LNKTV Health videos:
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Asian Community Center will host the Harvest Moon Festival, Sept. 10, 4 - 7 PM at Antelope Park Band Shelter. Music, dance, food, kids' activities, and health fair. Learn more.
El Centro de las Americas is hosting Latino Festiva on Sept. 22, 2 - 7 PM at Antelope Park, Latin music, dance, food, games, and free health resources. Learn more.
NeighborWorks Lincoln celebrates neighborhoods at their Annual Opening Doors benefit, Sept. 22, at the Lincoln Children's Zoo, 4-6 PM. Tickets are required, register by Sept. 9. Learn more.
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Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving and protecting the health, wellness, and fitness of Lincoln's children, families, and seniors.
We work to improve wellness policies and conduct community level health research. We collaborate with community partners to promote healthy weights through good nutrition and fitness, improve child and maternal health by supporting breastfeeding, create better patient outcomes by increasing cancer screening and vaccination rates, improving chronic disease management, increasing preventative outreach, and standardizing clinical practices. During public health crises like the COVID 19 pandemic, we help to protect community health by providing science and evidence-based information.
Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln also works to improve health equity in our community, addressing disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest burden of chronic disease. Systemic racism is also a threat to community health. We stand in solidarity with everyone who is fighting for greater equality and justice for all.
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Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln
4600 Valley Road Ste. 250 Lincoln, NE 68510
Phone: (402) 430-9940
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