{"id":890,"date":"2025-03-28T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/?page_id=890"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:28:42","slug":"center-for-community-action","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/center-for-community-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Community Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The Community Action team focuses on translating IACH research and insights into tangible community initiatives. By working directly with local organizations and stakeholders, we co-design and evaluate interventions that address pressing social drivers of health. Our efforts in this center emphasize practical, community-driven solutions and foster partnerships that drive <\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">meaningful change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>IACH, in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/livewellgreenville.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LiveWell Greenville<\/a>, was recently awarded a five-year grant of $5 million from the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.heart.org\/news\/20m-community-driven-research-funding-aims-to-reduce-inequities-improve-health-outcomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<\/a> to advance community health research. Furman is one of only three universities selected to participate in this prestigious network, alongside Yale University and UC-San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>This funding will support initiatives aimed at enhancing community involvement in health issues, with a focus on reducing chronic disease rates and mortality in communities facing barriers. The grant will also support post-doctoral training for health professionals. A key outcome of the project will be the development of a comprehensive roadmap that other cities can use to implement community-based participatory research and involve community members in health-related policy decisions, including transportation, housing and food access.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-livewell-greenville-receive-5-million-grant-to-improve-community-health-research\/\"><strong>Read the news release here!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Action team focuses on translating IACH research and insights into tangible community initiatives. By working directly with local organizations and stakeholders, we co-design and evaluate interventions that address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":944,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-890","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/890\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/institute-advancement-community-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}