Sentences with phrase «funding local health centers»

This story has been updated to correct an error about the amount of funding local health centers receive from the federal government.

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In response to his call for «a broad new mental health program,» Congress appropriated funds to stimulate state and local action in creating intensive treatment centers and to encourage research on mental retardation.

Funding under the AFLA went, as Congress intended, to a wide variety of recipients including state and local health agencies, private hospitals, community health associations, privately operated health care centers, and community and charitable organizations, many of them with ties to religious denominations.

If there is not a local diaper bank near you, the website suggests you contact a local social service agency such as a women's shelter, food pantry, church, publicly - funded daycare center or public health clinic to ask for support.

If no banks are located, the Huggies website lists community social services agencies such as local women's shelters, publicly funded daycare centers, or public health facilities as being possible helpful resources.

The 75 Morton Community Alliance and the Community Board 2 Schools and Education Committee are seeking funds from local officials for a $ 1 million green roof, and Councilman Corey Johnson secured funds for a community - based health center in the basement.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Since then, Stefanik has delivered a steady stream of funding to local health care centers and has made funding Children's Health Insurance Program, which offers coverage to low - income residents, a leading health care centers and has made funding Children's Health Insurance Program, which offers coverage to low - income residents, a leading Health Insurance Program, which offers coverage to low - income residents, a leading issue.

But, Poloncarz quickly added that the amendment is attached to a health care bill that would cause grave harm in Erie County, increasing the number of people without health insurance and thereby burdening local hospitals — and especially the county - funded Erie County Medical Center — with patients with no way to pay their bills.

The National Head Start Association has criticized a letter sent by the Department of Health and Human Services to Head Start grantees in March suggesting that local Head Start centers cope with a 1 percent cut in the program's funding for fiscal 2006 by re-evaluating staffing levels and fringe benefits, rather than by cutting student enrollment.

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The Planned Parenthood Action Fund and local Planned Parenthood political organizations are fighting back against these attacks in statehouses and courtrooms, and working with legislative champions to introduce bills to expand access to reproductive health care — all while more than 600 Planned Parenthood health centers care for patients across the country.

So things like health center policies, services, and costs vary depending on local and state laws, funding, and the particular needs of the community.

Three community health centers and two local Healthy Start Coalitions were awarded state funding to expand or establish Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) programs to serve first - time mothers living in low - income communities.

This funding for family planning services, which was repeatedly vetoed by Governor Christie despite the passionate efforts of legislative champions, supports preventive reproductive health care services like cancer screenings, birth control, and STD testing and treatment at New Jersey's family planning providers, including Planned Parenthood health centers and other local community providers.

When a local Planned Parenthood health center closes, women may face long trips to access a publicly funded clinic, creating a barrier to scheduling and keeping health care appointments.

Nationwide, there are approximately 10,700 safety - net health centers providing family planning services.1 (A safety - net family planning center is a health center that provides contraceptive care, using various federal, state and local funding streams to offer reduced - cost or free services.)

● A new priority list when it comes to distributing Ohio's share of federal planning funds that puts Planned Parenthood last in line behind state and local agencies, nonpublic federally qualified heath centers and community action agencies, and nonpublic entities that also provide comprehensive primary and preventive health care.