Great Rivers United Way’s Community Health focuses on three main areas:
- Responding to community needs
- Providing training for Community Health Workers
- Connecting individuals to resources, healthcare, and one another
Community Health includes the following programs at GRUW:
- Community Care Program
- Community Health Worker Training
- Community Needs Assessment
- Nourishing Futures
- Providers and Teens Communicating for Health (PATCH)
Funders
These Community Health programs are funded by corporate committments, as well as federal and state grants. Our current funders are:
- Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW)
- Emplify Health-PASS Clinic
- Equitable Recovery Program from the State of Wisconsin
- Glendenning Family Foundation
- Maternal Health Innovation Plan
- Quartz Health Plan
- United Healthcare
- United Way Worldwide
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Private donations are also accepted – to support this work, check the “Community Health” box under “Designations” when giving online or via a pledge form.
To learn more about Community Health (formerly Great Rivers HUB), please see our 2024 Impact Report (pdf).
Community Health Staff
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Lindsey Purl, MPH Community Health Director lpurl@gruw.org (608) 796-1400, ext. 116 |
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Danielle Krozel, MPH Community Health Strategist dkrozel@gruw.org (608) 796-1400, ext. 115 |
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Aron Newberry Workforce Development Manager anewberry@gruw.org (608) 796-1400, ext. 108 |
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Chris Burks Community Health Program Manager cburks@gruw.org (608) 796-1400, ext. 109 |
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Jennifer Roberts, CLC, CPST Community Health Program Manager jroberts@gruw.org (608) 796-1400, ext. 110 |
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April Fair Community Health Worker afair@gruw.org (608) 796-1400, ext. 118 |