Partnering for Healthy Communities: State Public Health and the YMCA
- facilitated introductions and a dialogue between KDHE and the YMCA,
- identified a gap in the availability of programming for local sub-grantees in Kansas working on required CDC strategies for blood pressure self-monitoring and the opportunity to fill that gap with the YMCA’s evidence-based hypertension management program, and
- created a pathway to achieving the goals of both organizations and sub-grantee communities.
This work not only bridged a gap to accomplishing state objectives related to hypertension and gave the YMCA an opportunity to pilot its program in Kansas communities, it also joined the forces of two organizations poised to make a difference in public health regionally. Even after Ms. Hoppe concluded her work with KDHE, the partnership between KDHE and the YMCA continued.