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Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative

The Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI) is a 501c3 Human Rights organization, formed in 2001 to address historical race, class, cultural, religious and gender barriers faced by Black women and young women in the rural U. S. South.

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Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative
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Build Healthy Places Network

Build Healthy Places Network mission is to transform the way organizations work together across the health, community development, and finance sectors to more effectively reduce poverty, advance racial equity, and improve health in neighborhoods across the United States.

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Build Healthy Places Network
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St. Vincent de Paul Pharmacy

The St. Vincent de Paul Pharmacy provides access to prescription medication for those who don't have health insurance and need medication to sustain their health.

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St. Vincent de Paul Pharmacy
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Episcopal Health Foundation: Collaborative Registry

Episcopal Health Foundation’s Collaborative Registry is a searchable database of health-focused coalitions and collaborative efforts across EHF’s 81-county service area. Use the registry to find groups working in your community by filtering results by county, focus area, or health outcome—or search by name or keyword.

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Episcopal Health Foundation
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Love Oak Pharmacy

Love Oak is a rural pharmacy that aims to provide a total health and wellness destination to help others build healthy minds, bodies and spirits.

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Love Oak Pharmacy
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Troy Medical

Troy Medical is dedicated to bridging the gap in healthcare access by connecting top urban specialists to rural communities through innovative hybrid telehealth solutions.

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Troy Medical
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TeleScan

TeleScan software connects healthcare providers with remote perinatal sonographers. These ultrasound experts provide high-quality diagnostics that enable you to identify at-risk pregnancies, intervene early, and improve patient outcomes.

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TeleScan
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Explore Texas Health Insurance Coverage by County

An interactive map using 2024 Open Enrollment Period (OEP) data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shows the share of Texans enrolled in marketplace health care plans, county by county.

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Episcopal Health Foundation
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Panhandle Mental Health Guide

The Panhandle Mental Health Guide is a project of the Panhandle Behavioral Health Alliance. This excellent website connects people in need with the resources that exist for mental health care and addiction in the Panhandle.

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Panhandle Behavioral Health Alliance
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Texas Hill Country Cares: A Faith-Based Disaster Mental Health Toolkit

This toolkit helps individuals, families, neighbors, churches, and community helpers across the Texas Hill Country and beyond care for emotional and spiritual needs after the recent devastating floods.

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Texas Hill Country Cares
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Mental Health Toolkit

Integral Care and NAMI Central Texas have teamed up to create a toolkit designed to help support your mental health year-round.

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Integral Care
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Amid a $7 Million Deficit to Texas’ Suicide Hotline, Thousands of Calls are Abandoned Monthly

The state’s 988 suicide had the nation’s fifth highest rate of abandoned calls in August, the latest data available, amid a multi-million funding deficit that could worsen as federal dollars expire this year.

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Texas Tribune
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St. David’s Neal Kocurek Scholarship Apply by January 3, 2025

The St. David’s Neal Kocurek Scholarship is the largest healthcare scholarship program in the state of Texas. High school seniors from Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties who want to pursue careers in healthcare and plan to attend college in Texas are eligible to apply for up to $60,000 in financial aid over the course of their higher education.

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St. David's Foundation
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Rural Maternal Health: 2025 Maternal Health Rescue Plan

The Rural Texas Maternal Health Assembly respectfully urges the 89th Legislature to enact a modern rural maternal health rescue initiative, centered on consensus-driven reforms that will promote a high-quality, enduring rural maternal health care system that fosters healthy families, sustains strong communities, and promotes economic prosperity today and for future generations.

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Rural Texas Maternal Health Assembly
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The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business

The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country.

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NYT
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USDA Rural Health Program Index

To help identify USDA programs and resources can help improve a rural community’s health, check out the new USDA Rural Health Program Index tool. Rural health programs are the emphasis, but this library is inclusive of all health programs!

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USDA
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$12 Million Investment Going Toward Texoma Mental Health Programs

Residents of Texoma will soon have access to more mental health programs.

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Texoma Health Foundation
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Rural Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Toolkit

This toolkit from Rural Health Information Hub provides evidence-based examples, promising models, program best practices, and resources that can be used by your organization to implement substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs.

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Rural Health Information Hub
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North Texas Hospital Making History with Doctors Who Visit Patients Via Hologram

Crescent Regional has installed its first "Holobox," a 3D, life-sized, holographic display that allows doctors to teleport to the hospital for real-time consults.

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WFAA
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Toolkit: Rural Emergency Preparedness & Response

The Rural Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations implementing emergency planning, response, and recovery efforts in rural communities across the United States.

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Rural Health Information Hub
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Maps: Rural Healthcare Facilities

These national and state maps on rural healthcare facilities show the locations of hospitals, clinics, and other types of healthcare facilities in rural areas, including Rural Emergency Hospitals.

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Rural Health Information Hub
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Research & Insights: St. David’s Foundation

Searchable and sortable library of research and articles aimed at deeping our our collective understanding of health inequities.

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St. David's Foundation
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2-1-1 Texas: Local Information & Referral

Data dashboard compiling high-level, summary information about calls made to Texas 2-1-1, a statewide resource hotline that connects Texans to critical, community-based services like housing, healthcare, mental health support, food assistance, and more.

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United Ways of Texas
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Texas Passes on $450 Million Summer Lunch Program for Low-Income Families

The USDA estimates the families of 3.8 million children could have received $120 per child to cover summer lunches if the state participated in the new $2.5 billion program launching this summer. Texas is one of 15 states opting out.

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Texas Tribune
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The Congregational Collective for Mental Wellbeing

The Congregational Collective exists to equip congregations to become community leaders in mental health and wellness by partnering to build support systems, networks and ministry tools that include educational resources, training, and a network of relationships.

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H.E.Butt Foundation
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Resource Library: Methodist Healthcare Ministries

Online library of how-to guides for organizational capacity building, public policy briefs, commissioned research on health in South Texas, and more.

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Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas
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Rural Communities Face Primary Care Physician Shortag

While rural areas do better at training and retaining a primary care workforce, the growing demand for healthcare still outpaces the supply of doctors.

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Daily Yonder
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Mental Health in Rural Communities Toolkit

This toolkit from Rural Health Information Hub compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations implementing mental health programs in rural communities across the United States.

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Rural Health Information Hub
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Episcopal Health Foundation: Asian-American and Pacific Islander Experiences in Texas

Nearly half of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in Texas say they skipped or postponed medical care in the past year because of cost. This is just one of the findings of EHF's first-ever statewide survey of AAPI health experiences in Texas.

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Episcopal Health Foundation
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Map the Meal Gap

Feeding America has produces Map the Meal Gap and provides estimates of local food insecurity and food costs to improve the understanding of people and places facing hunger and inform decisions that will help ensure equitable access to nutritious food for all.

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Feeding America
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Partnership Opportunities – Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty

The Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty is excited to offer multiple partnership opportunities to foundation partners.

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Baylor Collaborative
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TORCH Hub for Analytics

This integrated platform for healthcare data and engagement tools contains interactive dashboards, maps, storyboards, infographics, reports, data sets and other resources to help you utilize data for strategic growth and collaboration.

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TORCH
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Regional Data on the Texas Panhandle

High-level data on the state of education, healthcare, and economic opportunity in the Texas Panhandle.

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Amarillo Area Foundation
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Mental Health Publications: Hogg Foundation for Mental Health

Publications to promote awareness, encourage dialogue and learning, and share a greater understanding of what creates, influences and protects mental health.

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Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
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Trellis Foundation: Policy Summit 2024 Recap

The Trellis Foundation's third biennial postsecondary policy summit in Austin, TX, on April 19, 2024, delved into mental health and wellbeing as a strategy for student success.

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Trellis Foundation
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Collegiate Edu-Nation Announces Historic Partnership with Texas A&M University System to Tackle Rural One Health Crisis 

This initiative aims to address the critical One Health Crisis in rural areas of Texas and create a sustainable solution through education and community development.

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Collegiate Edu-Nation
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Most Texas border counties lack adequate medical facilities and staff. Local leaders are trying to fix that.

More than 90% of Texas’ 32 border counties don’t have enough primary care services, sites or providers to meet local medical needs, according to federal data.

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The Texas Tribune
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Greenlights Grant Initiative

Greenlights Grant Initiative provides tailored and free resources to assist nationwide school districts access school safety grants.

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Greenlights Grants Initative
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All Eyes on Texas: Community Colleges Focus on Preparing the Workforce of Tomorrow

This new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas examines how the Texas economy is changing and, with it, the state’s need for education and training.

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Dallas Fed
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Policy Brief: Medicare Advantage Growth and its Impact on Rural Healthcare | National Rural Health Association Policy Brief by Kevin Lambing

Kevin Lambing of T.L.L. Temple Founation collaborated with colleagues Carrie Shaver, DHA, FACHE and Lisa Rantz to write a policy paper for the National Rural Health Association. This informative brief highlights the impact of Medicare Advantage (MA) on rural communities

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Rural Health
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Report: Medicaid Pharmacy in Focus: Opportunities to Improve Texans’ Health and Access to Care | Episcopal Health Foundation

According to a new report from Episcopal Health Foundation there is an opportunity for pharmacists to increase access to healthcare in Texas.

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Episcopal Health Foundation
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Libraries for Health: Reimagining Mental Health Care Delivery in Central Texas

Libraries for Health, an initiative designed and funded by Texas Rural Funder St. David's Foundation and in partnership with Via Hope and RAND, seeks to reimagine the delivery of mental health services by building upon a community anchor - a local public library - that is already in place.

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St. David's Foundation
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Explore the Health Snapshot for Your Congressional District

This Dashboard provides actionable measures of health and its drivers calculated at the congressional district level, showing users how their district is doing on health outcomes, social and economic factors, and more.

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Congressional District Health Dashboard
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PLACES: Local Data for Better Health

PLACES reports county, place, census tract, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas data and uses small area estimation methods to obtain chronic disease measures for the entire United States.

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PLACES: Local Data for Better Health
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Northeast Texas School Mental Health Executive Learning Community

The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute is leading a 12-month learning experience that equips districts to effectively develop and implement evidence-based school mental health programs. This opportunity is free of cost thanks to the support of the Texas Pioneer Foundation.

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Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
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Non-Medical Drivers of Health Strategies: Findings from Managed Care Organizations in Texas

Episcopal Health Foundation partnered with the Texas Association of Health Plans and the Texas Association of Community Health Plans to conduct the first ever Texas survey to capture Medicaid health plans activities to address non-medical drivers of health care.

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Episcopal Health Foundation
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Hospital Engagement In The Social Determinants Of Health In Texas: Insights From A National Survey Of US Hospitals  

Episcopal Health Foundation, examines hospital responses of a national survey from the American Hospital Association.

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Episcopal Health Foundation
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Texas Organizations for Rural and Community Hospitals

TORCH is an organization of rural and community hospitals, corporations and interested individuals working together to address the special needs and issues of rural and community hospitals, staff and patients they serve.

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Texas Organizations for Rural and Community Hospitals
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American Cancer Society

The mission of the American Cancer Society is to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

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American Cancer Society
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Marathon Health Center

Marathon Health is a leading clinic provider offering onsite, network, and virtual models, leading to better outcomes and employee health.

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Marathon Health Center
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United Ways of Texas

United Ways in Texas fight for the health, education and financial stability of every person in every community.

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United Ways of Texas
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The American Heart Association

The American Heart Association mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.

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The American Heart Association
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The immunization Partnership

The Immunization Partnership (TIP) leverages a collective knowledge and an unmatched expertise that puts us in the unique position to not only be an effective voice at the Texas Legislature, but to show how others can use their voice, too.

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The Immunization Partnership
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Farm State of Mind Resource Directory

The Farm State of Mind Resource Directory provides dozens of tools and resources to help farmers and their families address stress and mental health concerns.

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Farm Bureau
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Rural Health Literacy Toolkit

Toolkit of evidence-based resources for organizations working to improve health literacy in rural communities across the United States.

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Rural Health Information Hub
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Rural Recovery Ecosystem Index

Interactive map identifying funding (philanthropic and opioid settlement funds) available by state. Also provides detailed information about resources available for substance recovery on a county level. Created by the Fletcher Group.

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Fletcher Group
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Exploring Rural Health Podcast

Monthly podcast from Rural Health Information Hub focused on current issues in rural healthcare and population health.

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Rural Health Information Hub
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Rural Emergency Medical Services and Trauma

Access to Emergency Medical Services is critical for rural residents, but providing pre-hospital services in rural areas is challenging. This resource answers frequently asked questions about rural emergency medical services.

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Rural Health Information Hub
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A Playbook for New Rural Healthcare Partnership Models of Investment

Action-oriented guide for healthcare organizations pursuing rural partnerships - with communities, economic development and other sectors - to support improved community health.

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Building Healthy Places Network
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Rural Matters

Podcast about rural education, business, and health with a mission to increase awareness and expand dialogue on the most important issues facing rural stakeholders.

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Rural Matters
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