Maine Health Access Foundation Awards $1,250,000 to Community-Led Organizations

MeHAF is pleased to announce $1,250,000 in funding for 17 Community Responsive Grants. The Community Responsive Grants program focuses on funding projects that are community identified and led to address barriers to achieving health equity. Grantees include Aroostook County Action Program, Defend Our Health, Hand in Hand/Mano en Mano,  Healthy Peninsula, In Her Presence, Maine…

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Addressing Health-Related Social Needs to Improve Rural Health in Maine: Ideas to Action

Written by Andrew Coburn, PhD, Research Professor Emeritus, Muskie School, University of Southern Maine and Deborah Deatrick, MPH, Public Health Consultant With funding from the Maine Health Access Foundation, we have recently completed a report that calls for a rural, community-based demonstration to test better ways of aligning funding and services to address health-related social…

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