Archive for June, 2010

Building Community

Collaboration, especially in rural communities with limited resources, is a vital component of community development.  No one can do it on their own.  This report from last fall describes that importance and has a great example of a successful collaboration to develop a rural health network.  We believe that economic/community development and health care are [...]

June 17, 2010 · KJacobson · 2 Comments
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Safety Month

June is National Safety Month; appropriate for the summer.  The National Safety Council has produced several dozen health and safety fact sheets on topics such as fireworks safety, home fire prevention and safe bicycling.  They have a whole series on agricultural safety.  There are some great ideas here to develop a community safety campaign.  There [...]

June 14, 2010 · KJacobson · No Comments
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Dental Care

I’ve been pretty busy the last couple weeks and haven’t really had the time to post.  I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.  I haven’t written about oral health in a while and there are several funding opportunities you should know about. A few months ago the Pew Center on the States released [...]

June 4, 2010 · KJacobson · One Comment
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