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Healthier, Smoke-Free Communities are possible with exciting new grant opportunities!

We need our community more now than ever. From a global pandemic, to the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, to increasing rates of chronic disease, we must work together to address some of the issues that have been troubling our community like obesity and tobacco use. By empowering communities through policy, system, and environmental change (PSE), we can continue to address these issues head on through some exciting grant opportunities!

Brittani Nelson

Let’s Talk About The Health Equity “Elephant” in the Room

My skin color affects everything about my livelihood, even my quality of life and health status, just as it does for people who look like me. See what I mean here. Yeah, that “elephant.” People experience different outcomes because of their skin color. Do you see how best friends Jennie and Mary Anne were both diagnosed with breast cancer but had completely different health outcomes?

Kori Lannaman

LHCC’s Latest Grantees to Nourish Louisiana’s Health

Lots of people start off a new year with a resolution to eat healthier. We’re no different, only LHCC is helping the whole state do that by putting our money where our mouths are by awarding more than $34,000 to 14 grantees across the state, all of whom are working to improve community food systems so that we can all eat healthier.

Laura Ricks

Walking The Walk In Southwest Louisiana

We all know what Southwest Louisiana has been through over the last few months. As if a pandemic and its consequences haven’t been hard enough, Southwest Louisiana has been punched again and again by storms, including Hurricanes Laura and Delta. When you have to reach into the Greek alphabet to start naming storms, you know it’s been a bad season. 

Laura Ricks

LHCC Helps North Louisiana Go Smoke-Free & Get Down In The Dirt

The Louisiana Healthy Communities Coalition is overjoyed to help and highlight the people up in north Louisiana fighting our twin chronic disease monsters, tobacco and obesity - those creeping, almost unseen causes of most death and disease. People are doing it by going back to the beginning and creating environments where people can be healthy by default – way before doctors, medicine and other scary, expensive treatments need to be called in.

Laura Ricks

Apply For A LHCC Mini-Grant By Dec. 9 and See What Else We Are Doing!

LHCC, in its latest round of mini-grants, is providing communities grants of $1,000 to $3,000 - this time specifically to help people get healthy foods. The application deadline is Dec. 9 and the effort must be some type of policy, systems or environmental change (PSE).

LHCC's Recommendation to The Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Taskforce

The pandemic has revealed just how necessary the work that we do is needed. LHCC believes it's time to put research into action and sent the following letter and recommendations to the newly formed Health Equity Task Force, urging them to take actionable step.

Louisiana, The COVID-19 Storm Is Here

Folks, it's GO time. To all of you who understand just how serious this pandemic is, and are taking steps to slow and stop its spread by staying home, and practicing social distancing, THANK YOU!

Laura Ricks

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