LiveWell Greenville is thrilled to welcome Yarelia Fuentes to the LiveWell Team as the Pediatric Food and Housing Security Navigator. This is a joint position with Prisma Health aimed at helping families of pediatric patients connect with local services and supports that address food and housing insecurity.
LiveWell Greenville continues to evolve by taking actions that elevate our strategic focus to advance community collaboration, advocate for health equity, and amplify community power. As we celebrate another year, and our tenth anniversary, we reflect on all the collective work that our coalition has accomplished.
In 2019, Greenville County received Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)’s Culture of Health Prize. Stacey Mills, Pastor of Mountain View Baptist Church, a congregation participating in LiveWell At Worship, was in attendance during the award ceremony in Princeton, NJ. He has been asked to announce the winners for the 2020-2021 Culture of Health Prize! Join us as we show our support for him and watch him announce the new prize winners!
LiveWell Greenville and Greenville County team up to fight hunger by distributing 1.2 Million funds in food, infrastructure and more!
In Greenville County and it is now estimated that food insecurity affects almost one in five children. Local backpack food programs are one way to provide needed food to children who would otherwise not have adequate access to food during the weekends or school breaks. A backpack food program requires the cooperation and support of the entire community.
Between 2019-2020, we engaged 20 influential leaders, representing efforts across the many social determinants of health, to explore a broader, bolder strategic plan in collaboration with Tufts University and Boston College.
This process explored the systems in place that impact childhood obesity; considered evidence-based interventions and prioritized the opportunities for change to create a strategic plan for the next 3-5 years.
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