EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Paso del Norte Health Foundation is awarding more than half a million dollars in grants to seven Borderplex regions working to improve health.<\/p>\n
A total of $557,902.83 was awarded to help support efforts in three priority areas, health leadership, disease prevention and management and healthy living. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur region\u2019s health depends on strong leadership, prevention efforts, and daily healthy choices,\u201d Paso del Norte Health Foundation CEO Tracy Yellen said.<\/p>\n
Health leadership focuses on providing equipment to healthcare and nonprofit leaders with the tools and training needed to strengthen organizations such as BorderRAC (awarded $25,000), Fundaci\u00f3n Paso del Norte para la Salud y Bienestar, A.C. (awarded $15,991.97) and United Way of El Paso County (awarded $118,396.96).<\/p>\n
The disease prevention and management area focuses on supporting efforts to help community members prevent or manage diabetes, along with expanding access to mental health and emotional well-being resources. Organizations such as UTHealth Houston was awarded $70,013.96 to focus on these efforts. <\/p>\n
Action for Healthy Kids was awarded $233,500 to provide at least 2,000 parents and caregivers, school personnel and community practitioners with information to prevent vaping and tobacco use. <\/p>\n
Reconnecting with the Disconnected was awarded $25,000 for leadership development and community engagement. The award will also help the organization focus on a clean-up program for at-risk youth, truancy prevention and community service engagement directed by either the school system or the courts.<\/p>\n
Texas A&M University Colonias Program was awarded $70,000 to help provide parents and caregivers with bilingual education about youth vaping prevention.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis funding supports the hands-on work happening across our community to prevent disease, improve mental health, and strengthen local leadership,” Yellen said. “Together, we are creating lasting impact across the region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Paso del Norte Health Foundation is awarding more than half a million dollars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-181906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}