(SAVANNAH, GA) Healthy Savannah and the YMCA of Coastal Georgia are inviting community members, church and health ministry leaders, community service providers and others interested in health equity to consider joining its Community Health Advocate (CHA) training program. An upcoming […]
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(SAVANNAH, GA) Healthy Savannah and the YMCA of Coastal Georgia are pleased to announce an appreciation celebration of participants in the organizations’ Community Health Advocate Program will be held on November 12, The event is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. at
Healthy Savannah encourages opportunities for physical activity through trail use as the construction of Truman Linear Park Trail’s final stretch is set to begin. (SAVANNAH, GA) When Savannahians go to the polls on November 8, one of the issues they’ll
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(SAVANNAH, GA) Healthy Savannah and the YMCA of Coastal Georgia are pleased to announce that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has affirmed that $1,086,000 in Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) grant funding will be
(SAVANNAH, GA) Healthy Savannah is working with Charles T. Brown’s Equitable Cities to take a closer look at how parks in several of Savannah’s priority neighborhoods can better serve the surrounding community. “We selected six parks across Savannah that include
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25 emerging leaders begin training on September 12. An online public forum is scheduled for November 14 to discuss Environmental and Transportation Justice. (SAVANNAH, GA) Healthy Savannah is pleased to announce that Ashley Rainge-Shields, director of Fund Development and Communications,
$7000 in funding distributed to faith community partners for projects, events and programs that include COVID/FLU awareness activities. (SAVANNAH, GA) Healthy Savannah is providing $7000 in grant funding to support six Back-to-School and other community events planned by faith community
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Nearly half of respondents indicated they would walk or bike to work, school and shopping if there were bike paths and sidewalks. (SAVANNAH, GA) Savannahians want more community-based solutions that promote healthy food and physical activity where they live, work
(SAVANNAH, GA) 35,000 Savannahians live more than a mile from a grocery store. In Chatham County, 17.6% of all residents are food insecure and 21.8% of children are food insecure. “Food insecurity is real in Savannah and Chatham County and
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(SAVANNAH, GA) Healthy Savannah is pleased to announce it has received the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2022 REACH Lark Galloway-Gilliam Award for Advancing Health Equity Challenge. The award recognizes extraordinary individuals and entities whose work has contributed
