Tag: Health Equity Zones
These Providence residents were asked how best to spend $1M in...
If you were given $1 million to improve the health and wellness of the people in your neighborhood, how would you spend it?
That question...
RIDOH, EOHHS launch participatory spending pilot program
PROVIDENCE – Residents in two health equity zones now have the opportunity to help decide how to spend nearly half a million dollars in...
EOHHS, RIDOH select six teams for Rhode to Equity initiative
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Executive Office of Health & Human Services and the R.I. Department of Health jointly announced Tuesday that six teams participating...
Four new health equity zones created as part of expansion pilot
PROVIDENCE – A pilot program backed by a national philanthropic organization is supporting the expansion of health equity zones across the state.
Four additional HEZs...
RIDOH seeking proposals for new or broadened health equity zones
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health has announced plans to distribute $1 million in funding to health equity zones looking to expand boundaries...
DHS, DOH partner to award preschool-development grants
PROVIDENCE – As a result of a partnership between the R.I. Department of Human Services and the R.I. Department of Health, five health equity...
DOH announces 3 more Health Equity Zones
PROVIDENCE – Three Rhode Island communities have been established as Health Equity Zones by the state’s Department of Health.
East Providence, Cranston and the West...
Health Equity Zones encourage community buy-in
Studies have increasingly found that social determinants, such as where you live and who you socialize with, have a lot to do with how...
R.I. Health Department seeks proposals for $1.4M Health Equity Zone funding
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health has $1.4 million to enhance the state’s nine current Health Equity Zones, as well as add new ones,...