Rural Reporter
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Rural Health Care Providers Receive Boost
Rural facilities located across Wisconsin have received funds to support education and training opportunities for "high need, high demand" advance practice clinicians such as medical assistants, mental health counselors-in-training, and nursing assistants. Providers receiving these grants include Aspirus hospitals in central Wisconsin, Hospital Sisters Health System/Prevea Health in northeast Wisconsin, Marshfield Clinic Health System in Marshfield, and SSM Health in the south-central part of the state. The grants are distributed by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
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New Report Finds Workforce Housing Shortage
Wisconsin is failing to keep up with a demand for housing to shelter the state's growing workforce, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Realtors Association. How did we get here? The report cites a lack of supply, rising construction costs and outdated regulations as root causes, resulting in rising prices, decreasing homeownership and decreased affordability. Housing construction and subdivision activity, the report claims, have not recovered from the Great Recession and remain historically low.
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Lawmakers Approve Funding for Farmer Mental Health Program
State lawmakers approved funding Wednesday for a program aimed at supporting Wisconsin farmers' mental health, remedying a situation in which the release of funding appropriated in the biennial was stalled by the state's budget-writing committee.
Representatives on both sides of the aisle blamed the other side for the way the situation has been handled, reports Wisconsin Public Radio.
The $200,000 in now-approved funding will go toward vouchers and workshops for farmers, families and partner organizations. The workshops will focus on stress management, coping and grieving, financial planning and farm succession planning. (Photo: Scott Goodwill on Unsplash)
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Nearly 50,000 Wisconsin Children Unvaccinated for Measles Start School
The number of measles cases in the United States is at its highest number in 27 years. Experts say close to 50,000 children in the state are not vaccinated. And while the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) is normally required by schools, students can be exempt from vaccination requirements for personal convictions, religious reasons or for medical reasons. The number of exemptions has climbed more than 9 percent over the past three school years, reports News 8000. (Photo by ibrahim-boran on Unsplash)
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Inside the Struggle to Keep Teachers at Rural Schools
From Wisconsin to New Hampshire, Illinois to Montana, rural districts are struggling with how to recruit and retain teachers, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Teacher departures in both rural and urban schools have continued to accelerate in the years since Wisconsin overhauled its teacher labor laws. But in rural locations like Wabeno, it's far harder for the district to fill the teacher shortage. (Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash)
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Community Grants - Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation (Deadline: 12/31/2020)From helping to build a new children’s hospital in New Jersey to enhancing mental health services for people living in remote, rural counties of Alabama, funding helps give hope where and when it’s needed most. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Funding »
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RGK Foundation Grant Program (Deadline: 12/31/2020)The Foundation's current interests in the broad areas of Education, Community, and Health/Medicine. Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis. Funding »
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Developing Healthy Places - Kresge Foundation (Deadline: 12/31/2020)Healthy Environments aims to improve the health and well being of vulnerable children from low-income families by making the places they live, learn and play safe and supportive of overall good health. Funding priorities are clean air, safe and healthy housing and schools, and safe, accessible, and inviting outdoor play spaces – all advanced with community engagement, citizen leadership and cross-sector alliances. Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis. Funding »
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Milton & Phyllis Berg Respite Care Grant - Alzheimer's Foundation of America (Deadline: 12/01/2019)Funding helps alleviate the cost of respite care for families caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Funds may be used for in-home care, adult day programs or other types of respite. In addition, a select number of the grants—the Phyllis and Milton Berg Family Respite Care Grant—are awarded in memory of the deceased parents of Barry E. Berg. Applications accepted on an ongoing basis, Spring and Fall deadlines. Funding »
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National School Lunch/After School Snack Program – USDA Food and Nutrition Service (Deadline: 12/31/2020)This is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Funding »
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Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program (REDLG) - USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service (Deadline: 12/31/2020)The primary objective of the program is to promote rural economic development and job creation projects. Assistance provided to rural areas, as defined, under this program may include business startup costs, business expansion, business incubators, technical assistance feasibility studies, advanced telecommunications services and computer networks for medical, educational, and job training services and community facilities projects for economic development. Applications accepted on an ongoing basis. Funding »
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Loan Guarantee Program for Facility Projects – HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care (Deadline: 12/31/2020)The overall goal of this Federal Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) is to assist Health Centers in accessing lower cost capital for medical facility improvements.These guarantees are made available: "for loans made by non-Federal lenders for the construction, renovation, and modernization of medical facilities owned and operated by health centers...". This program will be limited to providing loan guarantees of no more than 80 percent of the loan principal amount. Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis. Funding »
