The Haywood Healthcare Foundation Board of Trustees voted at their June meeting to provide $281,431 in grants to 14 agencies for healthcare needs in Haywood County. The following agencies were awarded grants:
The EACH Initiative, Inc to provide mental health counseling to adults and children in the EACH Program (Ending Area Child Homelessness)
Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency to provide
“Pack-n-Plays” for the Safe Seep Initiative
Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency to provide critical dental care to indigent patients
Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency to provide Nicotine patches and gum to adult patients in the HCH&HAS public health clinic
Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market to compensate farmers for their donation of unsold produce or other foods to Haywood Gleaners
Haywood Pathways Center to provide two full-time Peer Support Specialist and one full-time Family Case Manager
Haywood Regional Medical Center Cancer Service to provide nutrition services to patients, with all types of cancer, that don’t have insurance coverage for nutrition while undergoing chemotherapy and radiation
Haywood Regional Medical Center Cancer Navigator to provide gas cards to assist cancer patients which will enable them to get to their numerous cancer care appointments
Helping Hands of Haywood to initiate the newly expanded Life Management Initiative
KARE, Inc. (Kids Advocacy Resource Effort) to address mental health, child maltreatment through prevention, investigation, examinations
Meridian Behavioral Health Services to provide Naloxone Kits (Narcan)
REACH of Haywood County to provide healthy snacks to 7th and 8th graders who are taught the “Safe Dates” Program
Real World Transitional LLC to provide assistance with accessing safe housing in early recovery while seeking employment
Southwestern Child Development Nurse Family Partnership serves lower income first time mothers regardless of age – provides books for the client to read to their children, toys to help the mother work with the child to promote developmental skills, purchase car seats, diapers and wipes
The Haywood Healthcare Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit foundation, is committed to improving healthcare for underserved individuals and families in Haywood County through educational programs, grants, scholarships and leadership opportunities.