By Julie DeJean on April 15, 2021
Chief Executive Officer
The Whole Person
The Whole Person has been providing home modification in the Kansas City area for over five years. The population we serve are people with disabilities. Accessibility is a significant issue for people with physical limitations deal with every day of their lives. It has been a very rewarding experience for all of our staff to […]
By Cori Stites on April 15, 2021
Program Associate
Health Forward Foundation
Join us for our newest blog series Pages with Partners, where Health Forward staff select a book to discuss with a community partner. If you have a book recommendation, fill out the form at the end of this post. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights ActivistBy Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner Judith […]
By Amy Scrivner on February 18, 2021
Director of Development & Communications
BikeWalkKC
If you own a bike, what does it mean to you? For some of us, bikes represent a choice — a recreational choice, a fitness activity option, or a green transportation alternative. Take a minute to imagine if your bike was your only form of transportation. It’s no longer a choice; it’s a necessity. What […]
By Anne F. Rauth, MBA on November 11, 2020
Marketing and Development Director
Mercy and Truth Medical Missions
Mercy and Truth Medical Missions, along with the help from numerous community partners, hosted their third Annual Warm Up Wyandotte/Warm Up Shawnee community events. This year’s event was called: BOO to the Flu because, you guessed it, the event was held on Halloween. Mercy and Truth, along with Advent Health Systems, United Healthcare and Blue Cross/Blue […]
By Michael Kelley on November 10, 2020
Policy Coordinator
BikeWalkKC
Like towns and cities all over the world, Kansas City is experiencing a “bike boom” as the novel coronavirus rages on. With people working from home, kids attending school online, and families fighting cabin fever, many are turning to bikes as a way to get outside, exercise, and experience their neighborhoods. Local bike retailers report […]
By Jessica Kejr on September 17, 2020
Director of Programs and Client Collaboration Initiatives
Harvesters—The Community Food Network
Hunger is a solvable, social determinant of health. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted various factors that drive deep health disparities in our communities. There is a renewed urgency to face these factors directly and address hunger as a health issue in a meaningful way. The 4th Annual Hunger-Free Healthcare Summit will engage in this important […]
By Health Forward Blog Team on September 15, 2020
In 2019, five local artists were commissioned to create works reflecting on racial and economic inequities associated with nutrition assistance programs and how food policy shapes access to healthy food. In this video featuring the entire Art for KC Voices collection, spoken word artist Glenn North shares one of his contributions: The House of Seven […]
By Qiana Thomason on April 23, 2020
President/CEO
Health Forward Foundation
An abundance of national historical data reminds us that in public health, when America catches a cold, people of color catch pneumonia. As coronavirus (COVID-19) rips through our communities, it exposes social injustice and divisions that determine whether people have necessary resources to be healthy. As such, we are paying acute attention to nascent local […]
By Karen Dehais on April 1, 2020
Evaluation and Learning Officer
Health Forward Foundation
Today is a day that comes only once every 10 years: Census Day, when we count everyone living in the United States. It’s quite an extraordinary undertaking. Of course the coronavirus pandemic has most of us thinking about other things. Public health precautions and economic turbulence are necessarily top of mind at this time of […]
By Jason Wesco on October 30, 2019
Executive Vice-President
Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg
“Whatever happened to the idea…that we all do better when we all do better?” — Former Senator Paul Wellstone I live in the poorest town in the poorest county in […]
