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Growing Healthy

Minds Bodies Spirits

Supporting innovative, collaborative initiatives for the health and wholeness of all Kansans

Areas of Focus

Access to Care

Early Childhood Development

Healthy Congregations

Good Neighbor Experiment

Applications due: ongoing – next online and in-person cohorts start January 2022. The Health Fund is excited to partner with NeighboringMovement.org and the Lilly Endowment to offer Great Plains United Methodist Churches a special opportunity for current or new signup Healthy Congregations (HC) teams to participate in the The Good Neighbor Experiment (GNE) at no ...

Kansas child care needs more than a Band-Aid

This opinion piece by Health Fund President and CEO David Jordan and Kelly Davydov, president and CEO of Child Care Aware of Kansas, originally appeared in the Wichita Eagle on Sunday, October 24. Every Kansas child deserves quality early learning experiences to improve school readiness and ensure student success. Unfortunately, access to high-quality child care ...

Evaluating ABC’s Impact in Kansas

Results of the three-year Kansas ABC Early Childhood Initiative are in. Funded by five foundations, the initiative hoped to expand early childhood service capacity in Kansas by promoting widespread screening for toxic stress, training more providers in the ABC intervention, and evaluating the effectiveness of integrating an evidence-based intervention into the array of early childhood ...

Women & Children First

Addressing maternal and child health disparities in Kansas This opinion piece by Health Fund President David Jordan originally appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of Kansas Child magazine. All Kansans should get to live in communities where good schools, healthy environments, safe homes, quality jobs, and access to health care and high-quality goods and services ...

How We Fund

UMHMF funds projects that benefit the health of Kansans in three focus areas: Access to Care, Early Childhood Development, and Healthy Congregations. Before filling out a grant application, the first step is to contact a program administrator to see if your project fits our mission.

Growing Healthy

Supporting innovative, collaborative initiatives for the health and wholeness of all Kansans

Areas of Focus

Good Neighbor Experiment

Kansas child care needs more than a Band-Aid

Evaluating ABC’s Impact in Kansas

Women & Children First

How We Fund

Measured Impact

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Growing Healthy

Supporting innovative, collaborative initiatives for the health and wholeness of all Kansans

Areas of Focus

Good Neighbor Experiment

Kansas child care needs more than a Band-Aid

Evaluating ABC’s Impact in Kansas

Women & Children First

How We Fund

Measured Impact

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