{"id":1301,"date":"2020-03-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2020-04-16T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T17:00:25","slug":"healthy-congregations-retreat-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/healthy-congregations-retreat-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Congregations Retreat Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>April 16 update: Healthy Congregations COVID-19 Response Grants available<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Health Fund staff and directors have been closely monitoring the rapidly developing situation with the spread of novel coronavirus and increasing incidence of COVID-19.&nbsp; With protecting the health of our participants foremost in mind, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/hcr\">2020 Healthy Congregations Retreat<\/a> (previously scheduled for April 23-25).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Our Board of Directors has authorized re-purposing of funds which would  have supported the retreat to instead support COVID-19 response grants to current Healthy Congregations churches.  <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/hc-covid-19-response\/\">Information on how to apply is available here<\/a>. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>We are sensitive to the impact cancellation of the April dates may have on teams seeking <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/healthy-congregations\/\">certification training<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/healthy-congregations\/\">Healthy Congregations<\/a> program grant renewal, and on those planning to participate in the special opportunities such as <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/good-neighbor-experiment\/\">Good Neighbor Experiment<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/healthy-congregations\/strengthening-families-program\/\">Strengthening Families Program<\/a> training.&nbsp; We are currently exploring alternative options for these programs and will update as information becomes available.  <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>For participants who had already registered for the 2020 retreat, we have reached out directly, and your registration deposits have been returned\/refunded.&nbsp; If you have questions, please contact us at healthfund@healthfund.org.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 16 update: Healthy Congregations COVID-19 Response Grants available Health Fund staff and directors have been closely monitoring the rapidly developing situation with the spread of novel coronavirus and increasing incidence of COVID-19.&nbsp; With protecting the health of our participants foremost in mind, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Healthy Congregations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}