Humana Foundation Awards $15.2M in Grants to Support Emotional Health and Nutrition Programming and Research
16 Octubre 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Grantees span four geographies – Kentucky,
Florida, Louisiana and Texas – and include new recipients of the
Foundation’s Health Equity Innovation and Research Funds
The Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Humana Inc.
(NYSE: HUM) for the past 43 years, today announced grants for 2024
in service of the Foundation’s health equity mission. The
investment, totaling $15.2 million, spans the Foundation’s focus
geographies – Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana and Texas – and provides
support to seniors and school-aged children in living connected,
healthy lives.
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Older Adult Technology Services (OATS) will receive $2.5 million
through the Humana Foundation Health Equity Innovation Fund to
develop an in-person and online experience to educate audiences on
the difficulties seniors and their caregivers face in recognizing
and addressing social isolation and loneliness. Three additional
grants from the Health Equity Fund in the amount of $750,000 each
will support: Well-Being and Health Equity In the World Institute
in developing a framework to support equitable grantmaking in
health equity; Bread for the World in researching the impact of the
racial wealth gap on how people engage with food systems; and the
United for ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed)
Project founded by United Way of Northern New
Jersey in identifying mental health provider shortages in
Kentucky.
“Social isolation is a hidden crisis for older adults, and
technology can help older adults and caregivers recognize the signs
and find solutions to overcome loneliness,” said Tom Kamber,
executive director of OATS from AARP, “This commitment from the
Humana Foundation offers a major investment in creating practical
tools that will have wide application in reconnecting older adults
to social and community networks.”
Research grants totaling over $2 million were awarded to seven
different universities. Led by diverse researchers, four research
teams will investigate the effectiveness of interventions in
shaping a healthier approach to nutrition, and three will study the
emotional health of seniors and school-aged children.
- Tulane University (Principal
Investigator: Lu Qi, MD, PhD) – To test a culinary education
intervention to improve cardiometabolic and emotional health
outcomes among diverse seniors.
- University of South Florida (PI:
Khary Rigg, PhD) – To adapt and test a nutrition education
intervention for lower resource seniors with behavioral health
conditions.
- University of Virginia (PI: Kelley
M. Anderson, PhD, MSN, RN) – To assess a comprehensive food
pharmacy program for rural seniors with cardiovascular
conditions.
- University of Kentucky (PI: Alison
Gustafson, PhD, MPH, RD) – To test a family level nutrition
security intervention among lower resource families with
nutrition-related conditions.
- Indiana University Bloomington
(PI: Anna S. Mueller, PhD) – To better connect school staff and
marginalized students for suicide prevention.
- Indiana University Indianapolis
(PI: Silvia M. Bigatti, PhD) – To test a culture and
family-centered program to promote emotional health among Latinx
youth.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill (PI: Erin Kent, PhD) – To test a supportive
intervention for caregivers of diverse senior patients with cancer
and diabetes.
“The Humana Foundation is committed to collaborating with
partners that make positive impacts toward helping seniors and
school-aged children reach their full health potential,” said
Tiffany Benjamin, CEO of the Humana Foundation. “This year, we’re
continuing to invest in partnerships with trusted organizations and
institutions that are approaching these complex issues with
innovative programs and solutions to help drive change and advance
health equity.”
Grants awarded in Kentucky include $3 million to longtime
partner Volunteers of America for its Mid-States partnership with
the Louisville Metro Government to build a Community Care Campus
where unhoused individuals can access family shelter, affordable
housing and health support. Adventurous Minds Produce Extraordinary
Dreams (AMPED) received $500,000 to scale the social and emotional
well-being policies and practices within their youth programs.
In Louisiana, Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans
and Acadiana received $240,000 to continue to deliver nutritious
food to seniors, building on $575,000 in previous grants. Florida
nonprofits Pine Castle Inc. and NAMI (National Alliance on Mental
Illness) Hillsborough received additional funding to enhance
isolation-preventing initiatives for seniors with intellectual
needs and support underserved populations with Mental Health First
Aid trainings, respectively. The Education Fund Inc. was awarded a
$600,000 grant to address mental health and nutrition barriers to
equitable health for children.
The Foundation’s grants in Texas will address mental health
challenges among school-aged children. Meadows Mental Health Policy
Institute will build a coalition of community- and school-based
clinicians to provide evidence-based care to traumatized or
bereaved youth in Greater Houston, and Chosen Care Inc. will
promote healing among older youth in foster care in Houston and San
Antonio.
Additional 2024 grants include:
Kentucky
- Armed Services YMCA of the USA – For their afterschool program
for military children
- Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana – To create and maintain a
youth mental health center
- Friendship Bench – To determine the feasibility of implementing
the Friendship Bench mental health program in Louisville
Florida
- 2nd Mile Ministries – For a program to prevent senior isolation
through virtual socialization
- Gilda’s Club of South Florida Inc. – To support cancer
patients, family members and caregivers
- Human Services Network Inc. – For Meals on Wheels service to
homebound seniors
- Northeast Florida Area Agency on Aging – To provide family
caregivers with free respite services
- Saving Our Seniors Inc. – To deliver fresh food and host pop-up
markets across Central Florida
- Seniors in Service of Tampa Bay Inc. – For volunteer
companionship for seniors and veterans
- The Promise Fund of Florida Inc. – To enroll seniors in food
delivery and cooking programs
- Village South Inc. - To teach proven ways to deal with adverse
life experiences proven ways to deal with adverse life
experiences
- Lola & Saul Kramer Senior Services Agency Inc. - To provide
Adult Day Care Program for seniors who do not qualify for Florida’s
Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
Louisiana
- Friendship Bench – To determine the feasibility of implementing
the Friendship Bench mental health program in New Orleans
- Southwestern Louisiana Area Health Education Center Foundation
– For a project empowering underserved youth to become wellness
advocates in their communities
Texas
- Spring Branch Community Health Center – For a mental health
center in at least one area high school with a high population of
children struggling with mental health
To learn more about the Humana Foundation’s health equity
mission, visit HumanaFoundation.org.
About the Humana Foundation
The Humana Foundation was established in 1981 as the
philanthropic arm of Humana Inc. and is focused on health equity,
working to eliminate unjust, avoidable and unnecessary barriers in
health and healthcare. The Foundation fosters evidence-based
collaborations and investments that help people in underserved
communities live connected, healthy lives. As a steward of good
health, the Foundation creates healthy emotional connections for
people and communities and is shaping a healthier approach to
nutrition to support lifelong well-being. For more information,
visit humanafoundation.org.
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