Targeted grant funding is coming to the United Way of the Flint Hills.
The amount hasn’t been specified, but the United Way has secured funding through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Chronic Disease Risk Reduction Community grant as part of KDHE’s Community Health Promotion program. The grant offers money, training and other technical assistance so communities can work to reduce tobacco-related chronic disease risk. This involves reducing secondhand smoke exposure, stopping youths from using tobacco, highlighting treatment and the Kansas Tobacco Quitline, improving nutrition at a community level and bolstering physical activity — all focal points of Healthier Lyon County for years before it became a United Way Community Partner.
This comes as the United Way is into the first week of its Day of Giving effort through Sept. 9 and with the entity’s annual fundraising campaign kickoff Aug. 21. More information about the United Way is online at unitedwayoftheflinthills.org. More information about the KDHE Chronic Disease Risk Reduction Community grant is online at kdhe.ks.gov.
