Migrant Health Promotion gets grant to assist Jim Wells County

Migrant Health Promotion (MHP) was one of 18 agencies selected by the Texas Department of State Health Services to receive a Transforming Texas: Healthy People in Healthy Communities grant for a period of up to five years.
The grant is set to cover Jim Wells County as wells Willacy County in the Rio Grande Valley. Texas awarded $6,107,177 in pass-through funds to 18 agencies to support their multi-level, multi-sector approaches to reducing the rate of obesity and reducing death and disability due to tobacco use, heart disease, and stroke in their communities.
Migrant Health Promotion will use its initial $362,264 grant to bring key stakeholders together in Willacy and Jim Wells Counties for the purpose of implementing tobacco-free worksite policies, improving infrastructure to encourage physical activity, and connecting people who suffer from chronic disease with opportunities to learn about disease self-management.
Through its Community Transformation Grants (CTG), The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded approximately $103 million to 61 states and communities throughout the United States to serve approximately 120 million Americans. Awardees include 15 states and communities in the southern United States, an area with the highest rates of obesity and cardiovascular disease in the country and 29 of the nation's large counties and urban areas. In addition, 20 percent of funds are supporting work in rural and frontier populations, which have disproportionate burdens of chronic disease.1
“An overwhelming number of individuals living in rural and border communities in South Texas face severe health disparities and suffer from chronic diseases. Migrant Health Promotion is excited to have this opportunity to work with key stakeholders to improve community health through policy- and environment-level changes,” Gayle Lawn-Day, CEO, Migrant Health Promotion said.
About Migrant Health Promotion
Migrant Health Promotion is a non-profit organization and national leader in health promotion, program development, advocacy, and national policy for farmworker and migrant families. Using the Promotor(a) model, Migrant Health Promotion provides culturally-appropriate health education and outreach and sustainable community development to farmworker, migrant, border, and/or other underserved or isolated communities throughout the nation. To create a local program, Migrant Health Promotion works with community members and organizations to select the most appropriate model and adapt it to the community and to local circumstances. Through increased knowledge and skill building, individuals and families are empowered to live healthy lives. For more information, please visit www.migranthealth.org.


Migrant Health Promotion gets grant to assist Jim Wells County Migrant Health Promotion (MHP) was one of 18 agencies selected by the Texas Department of State Health Services to receive a Transforming Texas: Healthy People in Healthy Communities grant for a period of up to five years. The grant is set to cover Jim Wells County as wells Willacy County in the Rio Grande Valley. Texas awarded $6,107,177 in pass-through funds to 18 agencies to support their multi-level, multi-sector approaches to reducing the rate of obesity and reducing death and disability due to tobacco use, heart disease, and stroke in their communities. Migrant Health Promotion will use its initial $362,264 grant to bring key stakeholders together in Willacy and Jim Wells Counties for the purpose of implementing tobacco-free worksite policies, improving infrastructure to encourage physical activity, and connecting people who suffer from chronic disease with opportunities to learn about disease self-management. Through its Community Transformation Grants (CTG), The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded approximately $103 million to 61 states and communities throughout the United States to serve approximately 120 million Americans. Awardees include 15 states and communities in the southern United States, an area with the highest rates of obesity and cardiovascular disease in the country and 29 of the nation's large counties and urban areas. In addition, 20 percent of funds are supporting work in rural and frontier populations, which have disproportionate burdens of chronic disease.1 “An overwhelming number of individuals living in rural and border communities in South Texas face severe health disparities and suffer from chronic diseases. Migrant Health Promotion is excited to have this opportunity to work with key stakeholders to improve community health through policy- and environment-level changes,” Gayle Lawn-Day, CEO, Migrant Health Promotion said. About Migrant Health Promotion Migrant Health Promotion is a non-profit organization and national leader in health promotion, program development, advocacy, and national policy for farmworker and migrant families. Using the Promotor(a) model, Migrant Health Promotion provides culturally-appropriate health education and outreach and sustainable community development to farmworker, migrant, border, and/or other underserved or isolated communities throughout the nation. To create a local program, Migrant Health Promotion works with community members and organizations to select the most appropriate model and adapt it to the community and to local circumstances. Through increased knowledge and skill building, individuals and families are empowered to live healthy lives. For more information, please visit www.migranthealth.org.
Alice TX Chamber News - June 2012