The fact is, a mere 20% of a person’s health outcomes comes from traits inherited from our parents and time spent with a healthcare provider.
A whopping 80% is determined by the social and environmental factors we interact with every day.
We interact with hundreds of social and environmental factors every day. From birth these factors begin to compound and play a significant role in our long-term health expectations.
Most find organizing these factors into five broad categories makes them easier to understand and talk about with others.
EDUCATION
The connection between education and health includes issues such as graduating from high school, enrollment in higher education or apprenticeships, educational attainment in general, language and literacy, and early childhood education and development.
SOCIAL & COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Social and community support greatly impact your long-term health outcomes. This factor asks how connected you are to others (your support system) and your community’s social resources, or if they exist. Do you feel like you belong? Do you feel welcome? It covers topics like cohesion within a community, civic participation and discrimination.
NEIGHBORHOOD & BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Adding to how your community makes you feel, the physical factors in your neighborhood and community also impact your health. These factors consider the physical makeup of your neighborhood, including the soundness and safety of your home, the distance you must travel to work, to socialize with friends, your access to quality food, air, shade and water.
ECONOMIC STABILITY
Having adequate financial resources is an important part of being and staying healthy. This factor looks at the connections people have to things like income, cost of living, and their socio-economic status. It includes key issues such as poverty, employment, food security, and housing stability.
ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE
The connection between your access to and understanding of health services plays a huge role in your overall health outcomes. This includes key issues such as access to healthcare, access to primary care, health insurance coverage, and health literacy.
Through Now + Next, we are investing in the people who currently manage our region’s nonprofits, governments, and faith-based organizations (the NOW) and those who looking for meaningful ways to remain engaged in their home community as an alternative to finding what they were looking for in terms of community, financial security, and quality of life in another part of the world (the NEXT).
This unique program offers a diverse group of individuals the opportunity to develop leadership skills to strengthen their professional acumen and collaborative effectiveness. They leave this program with the tools they need to grow the people they serve, resulting in a richer, more inclusive, and connected community.
Grant Distribution Date: December 2022
Number of Partners: 11
Total Funds Invested: $25,000
Grant Distribution Date: Varied
Number of Partners: 2
Total Funds Invested: $10,000
Grant Distribution Date: December 2021
Number of Partners: 6
Total Funds Invested: $385,000
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Grant Distribution Date: June 2021
Number of Partners: 27
Total Funds Invested: $204,222
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Grant Distribution Date: December 2019
Number of Partners: 28
Total Regional Investment: Nearly $1.5 million
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Grant Distribution Date: December 2022
Number of Partners: 7
Total Funds Invested: $185,000
Grant Distribution Date: December 2022
Number of Partners: 4
Total Funds Invested: $162,000
Grant Distribution Date: December 2021
Number of Partners: 24
Total Funds Invested: $22,500
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Grant Distribution Date: December 2021
Number of Partners: 13
Total Regional Invested: More than $470,000
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Grant Distribution Date: December 2020
Number of Partners: 11
Total Regional Invested: Nearly $420,000
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Grant Distribution Date: December 2020
Number of Partners: 14
Total Regional Investment: Nearly $80,000
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