Lincoln Health Foundation

Exciting news, Grambling community! Today, we have the incredible Health Hut on-site, thanks to the generous funding from the Lincoln Health Foundation. This mobile health clinic is here to lend a helping hand and make a positive impact on our community's well-being.

The Health Hut is a game-changer when it comes to accessible healthcare. It brings a wide range of services right to our doorstep, making it easier for everyone to prioritize their health. Whether you need a check-up, preventive screenings, vaccinations, or even just some health advice, the Health Hut has got you covered.

What makes this initiative even more special is that it is completely funded by the Lincoln Health Foundation. Their dedication to improving the health and well-being of our community is truly commendable. We are incredibly grateful for their support and the opportunity it provides us to take charge of our health.

So, if you've been meaning to schedule a doctor's appointment or have any health concerns, now is the perfect time to visit the Health Hut. Take advantage of this incredible resource that is right here in our own backyard. Let's prioritize our health and show our gratitude to the Lincoln Health Foundation for their unwavering commitment to our community.

Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity – head down to the Health Hut today and take that important step towards a healthier and happier you. Your well-being matters, and together, we can make a difference in the health of our community.
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We are very excited to help our great city with the opening of another phase of Rock Island Greenway!

Have you heard that Phase III of the Rock Island Greenway is open? What a great way to get outside and enjoy our beautiful parks and trails. Start at Cook Park and ride or walk through Downtown Ruston all the way to Tennessee Ave. Special Thanks to BCBS Louisiana Foundation and Lincoln Health Foundation and the grants that were awarded to The City of Ruston to make this happen.

In light of the toll COVID-19 has had on Louisiana, Family Counseling Center is offering FREE counseling sessions!

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We LOVE The Health Hut, our newest Grantee Spotlight! You can learn more about them & the services they provide in our community at the link below.

http://www.lincolnhealth.com/spotlight/

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Up With People is coming to Ruston this month!

Up with People is a travel-based educational organization whose mission is to inspire young people to make a difference in their world. UWP works to break down cultural barriers and create global understanding through travel, experiential learning, performing arts, and volunteer service.

UWP is in need of beds for 78 PARTICIPANTS! Please help us spread the word and get friends and family to sign up to host 1 or more participants!

Here is the direct link to sign up: https://upwithpeople.org/host-family-form/

Host families will receive 2 complimentary tickets to the show! All you need to be a host family are:
• a place for the participant(s) to sleep
• breakfast (cereal, yogurt, etc.) in the morning and most dinners
• local transportation

The Up with People participants will be gone from 8am-6pm every day doing community service work in the community and workshops in the schools!

Please help us show these students how warm and welcoming Ruston, LA is!!

Host Family Registration - Up with People Host Family Registration English City you'd like to host in:*Host family living is one of the most exciting and rewarding components of the Up with People program. The partnership between local families and Up with People cast members creates a true global community. Together you will learn from and...

RUSTON! If you or anyone you know is in need of tornado recovery assistance, it's available!

Details in comments! Please spread the word!

Our first ever grantee spotlight goes to Life Choices of North Central Louisiana! We love you and are grateful for your impact in our community!

http://www.lincolnhealth.com/spotlight/

Spotlight GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT Life Choices is a non-profit reproductive health care services provider that offers services to women and men who find themselves in unplanned pregnancies. Services Provided through Grant Mentoring of Moms and Dads Program (Year 9) $61,000.00 The Mentoring…

Free counseling provided by FCC!

In light of the tragedy that our City recently experienced, we will be offering several free therapy sessions for the public over the next few days. We hope you will take advantage of these wonderful opportunities!

A big thanks to Jessica Williams for providing trauma yoga and the Family Counseling Center for providing therapy sessions.

We are gearing up for our 2019 Annual Public Meeting! The meeting will be at the Lincoln Parish Library Community Room on May 30th at 4:00! Please come hear about the impact Lincoln Health Foundation and our supported organizations are having in our community! Refreshments will be provided!

Louisiana Tech University is pleased to announce its first annual "Health and Medical Communication Symposium" to be held at the Tech Pointe Building on the campus of Louisiana Tech University on Thursday, 21 March 2019 from 9:00am-5:00pm.

Registration is free to all, but space is limited, so please contact Kirk St.Amant at [email protected] to reserve your spot.

Information on the Symposium can be found online at

-- https://lahealth2019.weebly.com/

and the program of speakers and topics covered can be found online at

-- https://lahealth2019.weebly.com/program-and-schedule.html

Questions and requests to register should be sent to Kirk St.Amant at [email protected]

2019 LOUISIANA SYMPOSIUM ON HEALTH & MEDICAL COMMUNICATION

Happy New Year! The Lincoln Health Foundation Board of Directors would like to congratulate Mark Taylor on his new position as Chairman of Lincoln Health Foundation's Board of Directors. We would also like to welcome new board members, Dr. Marvin Green and Eldred Hardison! Dr. Green and Mr. Hardison fill the Director positions vacated by Dr. Allen Herbert and John Belton, whose terms expired on October 1st. We are very grateful for the nine years of dedicated leadership they provided the Foundation. We are looking forward to another successful year of improving health care and outcomes for residents of Lincoln Parish!

Get the freshest food available, and double your spending power when using you EBT card at the Ruston Farmers Market!

Using your Louisiana Purchase EBT card at Ruston Farmers Market is easy, and thanks to a grant from the Lincoln Health Foundation, Ruston Farmers Market is able to double your tokens up to $10 per market day. So if you plan to spend $20 at the market, your card will only be debited $10! Or said another way, if you ask for $10 to be withdrawn from your card, you'll be given $20-worth of wooden tokens.

Come to the information booth for details.
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In July, we approved the grant renewal for the Lincoln Parish School Board HEALS (Health Enterprise to Assist Lincoln's Students) initiative for the amount of $310,916.98. This grant will help provide students of the Lincoln Parish school system with access to needed healthcare, providers, & other basic services that are not readily accessible due to family socioeconomic status & other related challenges. This is the tenth year the foundation has helped fund this grant.

Several of our grants have recently been renewed for another year! Here are the grants that were approved last week --

Linking the Parish, Inc. (The Health Hut) - Year 8 - $650,000.00
Ruston Farmers Market - SNAP Initiative - Year 3 & 4 - $4,600.00
United Way - Boys & Girls Club (Summer Feeding) - Year 7 - $15,000.00
City of Ruston (Economic Development Council) - Year 1 - $250,000.00

Huge thank you to everyone who came out to our annual public meeting last week! We are so excited about the future of our community!

LHF Annual Public Meeting will be TOMORROW at 4PM at the Lincoln Parish Library Community Room! Come learn more about this foundation & our initiatives to make Lincoln Parish better!

Next Thursday, May 17th, we will have our annual public meeting at the Lincoln Parish Library at 4PM! See you there!

We are gearing up for our annual public meeting! Come out to the Lincoln Parish Library Community Room on May 17th at 4PM to hear what we have been doing in the community, learn about our future plans, and ask questions! Dr. Jackie White will be our guest speaker! We hope to see you there!

GREENWAY MARKS MILESTONE
Health foundation grant to aid accessibility
By Nancy Bergeron
Ruston’s Rock Island Greenway project marked another step forward Thursday with the official announcement of a $1 million Lincoln Health Foundation grant that will help fund a network of sidewalks and bike lanes connecting to the greenway.

“It’s allowing access to health care services. It’s allowing access to the programs we provide in (the south) part of town. It gets at this whole wellness idea,” Lincoln Health Foundation CEO Norman Hanes said about the project that’s taking the old Rock Island Railroad bed and turning into turning it into an active transportation path through Ruston.

Thursday’s ceremony was held along the segment of the greenway, that when complete, will connect California Avenue through to the southern city limits at Tennessee Avenue. In order to get to the site, participants walked the first 1,300 feet of sidewalk that joins Vaughn Avenue to the greenway.

This story printed in today's edition of the newspaper and can be found in full online at rustonleader.com/node/83897

Leader photo by NANCY BERGERON - Lincoln Health Foundation Chief Executive Officer Norman Hanes talks about the foundation’s support of Ruston’s Rock Island Greenway project during Thursday’s official announcement of a $1 million LHF grant for the project.

Mayor Ronny Walker, City of Ruston Experience Ruston Friends of the Rock Island Greenway

Lincoln Health Foundation Board of DirectorsNancy Smith, MD- PresidentWilbert Ellis, Vice ChairJames Davison, Secretary / TreasurerAllen Herbert, MD - Physician Rep.John BeltonSonja CardwellWillie WashingtonMark TaylorJo Tatum

Lincoln Health Foundation strives to help provide health services to the indigent in our community. These are just some of the organizations we work with that make our community a better & healthier place for all:

Life Choices
Health Hut
Seeker Springs
United Way
Elisha Ministries
Lincoln Parish School Board
Louisiana Tech University
LA United Methodist Children & Family Services

To read more about these organizations & our other grantees, please visit lincolnhealth.org.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Our annual meeting, which is open to the public, will be held on May 17th in the Lincoln Parish Library Community room. We are looking forward to telling everyone in the community what we have been working on & what is to come! See you there!

http://www.lincolnhealth.com/about.php

A link to read more about the history of Lincoln Health Foundation, how we are funded, & our incredible board of directors

Lincoln Health Foundation - About Us Lincoln Health Foundation is a non-profit foundation operating in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. It was incorporated under the non-profit laws of the State of Louisiana on July 18, 1996. Its stated purpose is found in Article 6 of its Articles of Incorporation. Part of that purpose is to use its present...

So far in 2018, we have renewed 5 amazing grants to help better our community! These phenomenal programs are helping so many people in our area!

-Family Counseling Center - Mental Health Services Initiative - Year 6
-Seeker Springs - "Team Up" Program at I.A.Lewis School - Year 7
-United Way - Boys & Girls Club - Triple Play - Year 7
-Life Choices - Growing Great Kids - Year 8
-Life Choices - Mentoring of Moms & Dads - Year 8

To learn more about The Lincoln Health Foundation & read about our funded grants, visit our website!

lincolnhealth.com

As Lincoln Health Foundation begins its 8th year of funding health-related initiatives, we would like to thank the following grantee organizations who advance the Foundation’s mission of improving health care and outcomes for residents in Lincoln Parish:

 Health Hut (Medical Mobile Clinic)
 Life Choices (Home-based parental & childhood development and mentoring programs)
 Louisiana Tech (Preschooler Nutrition, Health Education and Elementary Nutrition Programs)
 Louisiana Tech (Community Health Education Seminars)
 Lincoln Parish Schools (Access to School Nurses and Student Health Programs)
 Boys & Girls Club (Exercise and Fitness Education / Summer Feeding Program)
 Seeker Springs (Life Skills Training for At Risk Students)
 Ruston Farmer’s Market (Access to Healthy Foods)
 Elisha Ministries (Homeless Health Services)
 Louisiana Methodist Family Counseling Center (Mental Health Services)
 Lincoln Parish Hunger Task Force (Childhood Hunger Initiative)
 United Way of Northeast Louisiana (Initiatives Administration & Coordination)

Since 2008, Lincoln Health Foundation has funded more than $10 million in initiatives designed to address identified health-related challenges in Lincoln Parish.

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