The charity said it had not given Syrian or Russian authorities GPS coordinates for the hospital in Idlib province and other medical facilities it works with in the region for fear that they would become military targets, writes the Associated Press. Joanne Liu, the organization’s international president, said “deliberate attacks” against hospitals have become routine in the Syrian conflict and the country’s health-care system “has collapsed” as a result.

Within the week, both Mary and Jim were in long-term care facilities.

Unfortunately, the prior facility where Mary was staying did not have understanding about dementia care, Miller said, so Mary was transferred to Signature because of the memory care unit and the support he family receives.

Since neither Mary nor Jim have adult children, the Millers went through the legal steps to gain power of attorney for their aunt and uncle.

Social Entrepreneur Leila Janah | Wells College The founder of international ventures Sama Group and Laxmi will give the keynote address for Wells’ 2016 Entrepreneurship Week

The Sullivan Center for Business and Entrepreneurship at Wells College presents a talk by noted social entrepreneur Leila Janah, founder of Sama Group and Laxmi and World Economic Forum Delegate. Admission is free, and all are welcome.

Leila Janah is the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a company working to reduce global poverty and suffering through social ventures that provide meaningful work and medical treatments in places with high unemployment and poverty, including slums and rural communities in East Africa, South Asia, and the Americas.

Wells College promises a relevant liberal arts and sciences education.

KCAIC programs are designed to promote partnerships, enhance community and economic development, encourage risk and innovation, maximize statewide impact and highlight the role the arts play in all areas of community life. By funding a variety of professional and organizational development opportunities that impact cultural programming, these grants support initiatives that use the arts to enhance community vitality, revitalize neighborhoods, generate local business, create and preserve job opportunities and impact tourism.

The Arts Integration Program (AIP) grants support the role the arts play in all levels of education, community service and workforce development. This program provides funding for educational institutions, arts organizations and community service non-profits to use the arts to increase student success, foster creative thinking, develop critical job skills and enhance community development.

The film will be used to create a new category of the next annual Lid-Off Film Festival in Lucas titled “Community Challenge” comprised of locally sourced films featuring Kansas communities.

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Southeast CASA Receives Grant Award From Dakota Hospital Foundation – Yankton Press & Dakotan: Life
Southeast CASA Receives Grant Award From Dakota Hospital Foundation

VERMILLION a Southeast CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) was recently awarded a $2,000 grant from Dakota Hospital Foundation. SE CASA applied for grant funding from Dakota Hospital Foundation during their fall 2015 open grant period. The training to become a CASA volunteer advocate is extensive, so we greatly appreciate that the Dakota Hospital Foundation is supporting Southeast CASAas efforts in Clay County to recruit and train the very best people to do this important work,a said Sherri Rodgers-Conti, Program Director, Southeast CASA

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Recuperative Care is a program that provides short-term medical care and case management to homeless persons who are recovering from an acute illness or injury and whose conditions would be exacerbated by living on the street or in a shelter.

Tom’s condition was terminal, it didn’t change the fact that he needed care and that recuperative care was going to be the most compassionate and cost-effective solution. Homeless patients often die on the very streets they live on and healthcare providers, without appropriate discharge options, are often forced to make the difficult choice to return homeless patients to the street without the benefits of follow-up care.

Through its recuperative care and bridge housing programs, NHF plans to place 100 homeless individuals into permanent housing and 50 individuals into permanent supportive housing in the next year and a half.

Innovations in Health Equity and Health Philanthropy | Stanford Social Innovation Review Innovations in Health Equity and Health Philanthropy Our goal in this supplement is to lift up new
voices and approaches in health equity and
to highlight the work of funders and community
organizations that use health equity
as a lens for grantmaking and partnerships. Even in the 19th century, the lack of
health equity in the United States was a subject
of concern for advocates, scholars, and
health professionals. Washington commented
publicly on the high rate of preventable
death among blacks, and in 1915
he organized National Negro Health Week,
hoping to generate broad support for improving
black health. Black public health
leaders sustained this effort by continuing
to promote National Negro Health Week
for several more decades. The Affordable
Care Act (ACA) promises to expand the number
of Americans eligible for these and other
preventive health services, but it is not a given
that health disparities will decrease as a result.

Simply put,
disadvantaged social groups systematically
experience worse health or greater health
risks than more advantaged social groups.

The concept of the social determinants
of health, introduced by the World Health
Organization (WHO) about a decade ago,
has been an important tool for explaining
how the social and economic structures
that shape how people live also affect their
health.

Access to high-quality health services
is just one of several contributors to good
health status. There was
an emphasis on primary prevention (such as
community health education and screening),
improvements in the delivery of health care,
and use of data to track trends and outcomes.

With growing evidence of the social determinants
of health, health funders began
to focus their attention on “upstream” strategies
for example, improving housing or
increasing access to education alongside
continued “downstream” work to improve
health-care services.

Post-ACA, many health funders continue
to support health system reform as one
strategy for eliminating health disparities.

Other funders are taking a broader
view that addresses inequalities by moving
beyond health care and, in some cases,
outside the health sector.

Health funders who have partnered with
non-health organizations are an example of a
growing interest in working across sectors to
improve health equity. Many health funders
recognize that in low-income urban neighborhoods,
community development offers a vital
pathway for improving the underlying conditions
that shape health. The fund supports development of federally
qualified health centers in underserved areas,
as well as affordable housing that incorporates
health programs for low-income residents. If successful, these grantmaking strategies
could potentially lead to larger wins and could
be an opportunity for health philanthropy to
broaden its sphere of influence outside the
boundaries of the traditional health sector.

Because health equity is ultimately part
of the larger issue of social and economic
inequality, worsening economic inequality
in the United States threatens health
philanthropy’s ability to make meaningful
improvements. By catalyzing the power of people to make change, community organizers equip
people at every level to overcome the myriad barriers to health.