Category: Decade of Difference

Neighborhood engagement key to healthy communities

By Health Forward Blog Team on May 6, 2016

Editor’s note: In our last feature on our 10-year report, we highlighted the efforts of municipalities that are working toward healthier communities. But neighborhood organizations are creating improvements as well, as you’ll read in this excerpt. Read more about healthy communities. In addition to municipalities, neighborhoods also are stepping up with grassroots solutions to stimulate active […]

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Decade of Difference, Healthy Communities

Decade of Difference: Reaching out to at-risk populations

 Oral health

By Health Forward Blog Team on February 5, 2016

In addition to new general service clinics, the area also has benefited from an expansion in dental care access for special needs and elderly populations. Oral Health on Wheels, a 40-foot mobile dental clinic operated by Johnson County Community College, provides professional dental cleaning and other maintenance services to special needs populations. A dental services […]

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Decade of Difference, Oral Health

A Decade of Difference: Increasing tobacco taxes

 Tobacco taxes 2015

By Health Forward Blog Team on January 27, 2016

Historically, one of the most effective strategies for reducing smoking has been to increase the cost of tobacco through higher taxes. According to the American Lung Association, a 10 percent increase in tobacco cost reduces consumption by about 4 percent among adults and 7 percent among youth. Each year, 6,500 Missouri youth start smoking, while […]

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Decade of Difference, Tobacco

A look back at 2015: Telling a good story

By Jennifer Sykes on January 1, 2016
Communications Director
Health Forward Foundation

Everyone loves a good story. The best part of my job as as the Communications Officer at the Health Forward Foundation is being able to share the stories of our community partners as they work to create healthier communities. This isn’t always easy. While there have never been more ways to reach audiences in today’s digital […]

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A Healthy 10, Behavioral Health Care, Decade of Difference, Health Forward, Healthy Communities, Mental Health Care, Safety Net, Tobacco

A look back at 2015: What we learned about the next Decade of Difference

By Jane Mosley, PhD on December 23, 2015
Director of Evaluation and Learning
Health Forward Foundation

For the past 18 months, Health Forward has been working on a project that examined how we’ve advanced health in our region over the past 10 years. The fruits of that labor is featured on our new website – Health ForwardDecadeofDifference.org. While most of the report focuses on changes that have occurred, we also heard […]

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Behavioral Health Care, Decade of Difference, Healthy Communities, Mental Health Care, Oral Health, Policy, Safety Net, Tobacco

A look back at 2015: Tobacco21|KC a win for public health

 Tobacco21 KC logo

By Jessica Hembree on December 17, 2015
Policy Officer
Health Forward Foundation

On November 19, both Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, passed policies to increase the age of sale for tobacco products from 18 to 21. Having been part of many tobacco fights over the previous 15 years, this one felt different. We were quick to achieve success and fortunate to find a depth and breadth of […]

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Decade of Difference, Tobacco

Thankful for 10 healthy years

 mental health thankful

By Health Forward Blog Team on November 25, 2015

In case you haven’t heard, during 2015, we have been celebrating Health Forward’s 10th anniversary of grantmaking. Whether a celebratory picnic in the park, a luncheon and report looking back on how health has advanced in our region, or through our #AHealthy10 series, we’ve enjoyed looking back on all the amazing work that has been done […]

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Decade of Difference, Health Care, Health Forward

Decade of Difference: Oral health emerges as public health priority

By Health Forward Blog Team on October 6, 2015

Ed. Note: This is a modified excerpt from our Decade of Difference report. Read more about the region’s oral health evolution in our full report. Increased oral care capacity, improved collaboration among safety net providers and a growing awareness of the relationship between oral and general health all have helped push oral health care nearer […]

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A Healthy 10, Decade of Difference, Oral Health

Celebrating a Decade of Difference

By Jane Mosley, PhD on September 18, 2015
Director of Evaluation and Learning
Health Forward Foundation

In 2012, then Health Forward President/CEO Steve Roling was on his way home from a conference when he had an idea, or as Steve promoted them to staff, “an opportunity.” He envisioned a small project looking back at how health has advanced in our region during Health Forward’s first 10 years of grantmaking. There were […]

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Decade of Difference

Looking Back on 10 Years: Healthy Communities Funding Improves Quality of Life

By Roberta Coker on June 3, 2015
Former Chair, Programs and Grant Committee
Health Forward

In 2005 when the Health Forward Foundation was first beginning, the founding board of directors conducted many thoughtful discussions and research to focus the Health Forward’s funding. They selected the three areas of health that remain as the Foundation’s funding priorities: healthy lifestyles, mental health and safety net. While all of these areas are critical […]

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Decade of Difference


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