BASIC NEEDS – HEALTH
UWM will ensure that by 2025, over two million services addressing basic needs will be delivered to our neighbors living in or at risk of poverty.
To foster an integrated and coordinated system of basic need supports to help individuals and families attain their full potential.
Goals:
1. Provide 30,000 quality physical and mental health care services to improve the health of individuals and families
2. Improve access to healthy food for 2,500 individuals.
The Challenge
Living in or at risk of poverty increases the chances of poor health, making access to health care even more important. Connection to quality care improves health by encouraging preventive care and early treatment and also keeps costs down by reducing hospital stays and unnecessary emergency room visits.
Strategies
- Support provision of high quality healthcare and wrap around services across the lifespan to individuals living in or at risk of poverty, with an emphasis on preventive services.
- Provide mental health services for at-risk populations through trauma informed practices.
- Increase knowledge and skills regarding nutrition and preparation of healthy foods.
- Increase availability of nutritious food in food insecure locations and populations.
- Increase knowledge and skills of healthy parenting and childhood development.
2017 Results
29,586
physical and mental health care services were provided.
29,090
people received healthy meals.
Community Care Fund – Basic Needs – Health Funded Programs
Physical Health
Charles Drew Health Center
– Mobile Dental Unit
Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance
– Project AIR
OneWorld Community Health Centers, Inc.
– Community Clinics Care for Children
– Health Outreach and Access for Refugee, Immigrant and Minority Populations
– Health Supportive Services
– Integrated Health Care for Uninsured Adults
Visiting Nurse Association
– Home Health Aide
– Home Health Care
– Maternal and Infant Home Health Care
Healthy Food
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Midlands.
– Basic Needs Health 2018-20
City Sprouts Inc.
– City Sprouts Urban Farming Summer Internship
Latino Center of the Midlands
– Nutrition and Well-Being Program
No More Empty Pots
– The Community Market Basket
Mental Health
Charles Drew Health Center
– School-Based Intervention
Child Saving Institute, Inc.
– Child and Adolescent Therapy
Community Alliance Rehabilitation Services
– Crossroads to Health & Recovery
Completely KIDS
– Mental Health Services (TYPP)
– Professional Counseling – Behavioral Health
Jewish Federation of Omaha
– Mental Health Care and Counseling
Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Inc.
– LFS Behavioral Health Programs
– RSafe Therapies
The Salvation Army-NE
– Community Counseling and Wellspring Program
Family Support
Child Saving Institute, Inc.
– Teen and Young Parent Program (TYPP)
Family Inc.
– Parents as Teachers – Early Childhood Home Visitation
Heartland Family Service
– Community Education
Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Inc.
– Centers for Healthy Families
Nebraska Children’s Home Society Inc.
– Home Visitation – Healthy Families America®
Visiting Nurse Association
– Maternal Child Community Home Visitation
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