Grantee Highlights

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Grantees (Oct. 2023 - Apr. 2024):

Appalachian Kentucky Health Care Access Network

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Change Today, Change Tomorrow

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Hope Center

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Joshua Community Connectors

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Louisville Pride Foundation

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Mental Health America Northern KY & Southwest Ohio

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New Legacy Reentry Corp

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Pathways Inc

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People Advocating Recovery

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Recovery Café

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Voices of Hope

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Appalachian Kentucky Health Care Access Network • Change Today, Change Tomorrow • Hope Center • Joshua Community Connectors • Louisville Pride Foundation • Mental Health America Northern KY & Southwest Ohio • New Legacy Reentry Corp • Pathways Inc • People Advocating Recovery • Recovery Café • Voices of Hope •

  • Louisville Pride Foundation's LGBTQ club outreach program distributed Naloxone that saved the lives of at least three people from fentanyl poisoning.

  • 300 Community Health Workers, Peer Supports, and Mental Health First Aid Responders were trained in stigma reducing interventions.

  • 18 people moved into stable housing through the work of Joshua Community Connectors.

  • Our grantees generated over 10 million stigma reducing impressions on social media.

  • People Advocating Recovery created a toolkit that guides individuals through sharing their personal narratives of recovery from substance use disorder.

  • More than 200 kits with harm reduction supplies were distributed in west Louisville thanks to the work of Change Today, Change Tomorrow.

  • During the winter months, the Hope Center in Lexington intervened on over half of overdoses in the county. There were zero fatalities.

This project was supported by the Kentucky Office of Health Equity via funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE) via Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Grant H79TI085782.

Eastern Kentucky Healthy Kids in School

In 2023 we awarded grants to 6 schools in Appalachian Kentucky to improve physical activity and nutrition for kids. They used the evidence-based Coordinated Approach To Child Health (CATCH) model. The funding period ended in June of 2024. The ‘report cards’ below share some of the successes of the program from four of the participating schools.

Vaccine Grants

  • Kentucky Derby Festival

    In Spring of 2024, The Kentucky Derby Festival hosted two locations where vaccines were administered. At least 400 people received a vaccination and more than half were from traditionally under-vaccinated populations.