CDC Dedicates More Than $1 Million To Savannah Area in the Fifth Year of REACH Grant Funding

Healthy Savannah and the YMCA of Coastal Georgia are pleased to announce that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has affirmed that $1,086,000 in Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) grant funding will be made available over the next year to reduce health disparities and increase access to health and nutritional resources across African-American and Hispanic/Latino Americans in across Savannah and Chatham County.

On October 1, the local organizations entered their fifth year as administrators of the five-year $3.4 million REACH grant, awarded in 2018.

Get all the details from the Savannah Tribune…

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Slow Cooker Southwest Chicken

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Canyon Ranch Institute Healthy World Scholarship Awardees

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Healthy Savannah Invites You to Faith Walk 2026

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Young men across our area learned more about their health and protecting themselves from HPV

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Healthy Savannah tackles summer COVID wave with awareness campaign

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Healthy Savannah’s Faith and Health Coalition to Host 4th Annual Faith Walk at Lake Mayer on May 3rd

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NewZO Passes!

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GALLERY: Healthy Savannah annual breakfast

(WSAV) — Healthy Savannah held their annual breakfast, and Bunny Ware was there to capture every moment.

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