Topic Pages: Outreach

On this page:

• Tools
• Success Stories
• Funding
• Publications
• Journals

Tools

• The Health & Literacy Special Collection
  Contains health curricula for literacy classes, resources to provide basic health information in simple language, resources in languages other than English, information about the link between literacy & health status, and links to organizations dedicated to health and literacy education.
  Sponsoring organization: National Institute for Literacy
• Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) Program
  Works to stimulate the birth and growth of parent-to-parent interventions that improve health and child development for low-income families in urban and rural areas.
• Covering Kids & Families Communications Action Center
  Tools and training opportunities that organizations can use to promote low-cost and free health coverage to uninsured families.
  Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Success Stories

• Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker Program
  The Vanderbilt Center for Health Services’ Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) program provides early intervention services to low income families in Nashville as well as other urban and rural areas in Appalachia and the Mississippi delta, including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

Funding

• Charles A. Frueauff Foundation Grants
  Awards grants in the areas of higher education, social services, health and hospitals.
      Geographic Coverage: The Foundation awards grants in 26-29 states.
      Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
      Sponsor: Charles A. Frueauff Foundation

Publications

• Annual Report 2005: Fresh Ideas for Rural Development
  Discusses the Southern Governors' Association's vision and leadership for the South.
  Sponsoring organization: Southern Governors' Association
  Date: 2005
  Format: PDF
  
• Social Marketing and Institutionalization of the Initiative
  Contains information on conducting a social marketing effort (e.g., promoting awareness, interest and behavior change), and planning for the long-term sustainability of the effort.
  Format: HTML
  

Journals

• Journal of Rural Health
  Offers research of projects to improve rural health, statistics, and mathematical models. Provides summaries of recently published rural health research. Provides links to author, subject and abstract indexes.
  Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
• Rural Monitor
  Newsletter containing information regarding a variety of successful programs throughout rural America including news, research, and funding.
  Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
• State Rural Health Newsletters
  Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center