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Get Healthy Idaho: Building Healthy and Resilient Communities Funding Opportunity

On Oct. 13, 2020, the Department of Health and Welfare welcomed communities across Idaho to apply for funding from Get Healthy Idaho (GHI). Get Healthy Idaho provides a unique opportunity to effectively invest in innovative solutions that address the root causes of poor health unique to each community through collaboration, combining resources and aligning goals.

Through this funding opportunity, the Department aims to work with community leaders and change agents in one Idaho community to catalyze upstream, community-driven solutions to address the factors that shape health outcomes and impact hopeful futures.

On Dec. 14, 2020, the Department awarded the first round of GHI funding to the Western Idaho Community Health Collaborative (WICHC), to address persistent health challenges faced by the most vulnerable members of Elmore County, including mental and behavioral health and diabetes.

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Get Healthy Idaho:

Building Healthy and Resilient Communities

Get Healthy Idaho is a community-driven, placed-based health initiative. Changes in the way Idaho funds and addresses population-level prevention and health promotion strategies are taking place in order to improve health outcomes, lower healthcare costs, reduce health disparities and improve health equity across Idaho.

Using the Idaho Division of Public Health's vision, and by combining resources and aligning goals with statewide and community partners, the department has a unique opportunity to invest in bold and innovative solutions that address the root causes of poor health affecting entire communities and, ultimately, individuals, families and children.