$8K in expenses

COMMUNITY WELLNESS AND PREVENTION: HCC continues to have a full schedule of outreach events on our mobile health unit where staff provides education and free screenings. We held 75 regularly scheduled and special outreach events with an engagement of over 1,684 community members providing health services and education. Staff setup tables at 16 locations in greater Franklin County including senior housing and food pantries. This past year we provided 228 blood pressure checks, thirty-three cholesterol test and 56 body composition analyses for the community and distributed 52 emergency food and hygiene bags through our mobile health unit.HCC Community Health Worker team has been providing resources each day to our community. The Community Health Worker team received 936 referrals for assistance, with 68% of these referrals (636) focusing on Social Drivers of Health (SDOH) needs, connecting vulnerable individuals to vital resources like housing, transportation and nutritious foods. The outreach and access team continues to work on their patient panels with 475 enrolled onto the Community Health Worker patient panels with 117 proactive outreach phone calls made to patients.HCC staff provided education and free screenings at the following community events and locations:- Franklin County Children's Task Force Festival- Local Food Pantries and Good Shepherd Food Distribution Site - Franklin Memorial Hospital - Hope Harvest Community Garden - Livermore Falls Town Office- French Falls - Home Visits- Local churches and church groups- Eustis Town Office- RSU #9 Schools- Spruce Mountain Schools- SAD #58 Schools- Rangeley IGA- Fotter's Market, Eustis- Edmund's Market, Phillips- Trenten's Market, Kingfield

$33K in expenses

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY/NUTRITION/SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION (STOP)Funding for HCC's Project STOP grant in FY23 was used to continue to support the ongoing efforts of preventing the onset and reducing the progression of substance use in Greater Franklin County. Funding from the grant specifically impacted youth, young adults, and adults in the service area. These funds support staff time to train two staff members to facilitate the evidence-based program, Botvin Life Skills Training (LST) for both middle school and high school students. The LST program is comprehensive, dynamic and developmentally designed to promote mental health and positive youth development, while helping young people resist substance use and other high-risk behaviors. Several cases of LST students books, LST training sets for trainers, and class supplies to support the implementation of the LST program were purchased. With the purchased materials, HCC facilitated the LST program to all middle school students at Day Mtn. Regional Middle School in Strong, ME. STOP grant funds were used to support the transportation and hotel costs for 11 students from Rangley Lakes Regional School to attend the Annual Maine Youth Action Network's (MYAN) Annual Maine Youth Leadership Conference in November. The conference is designed for young people by young people to learn and talk about issues and topics meaningful to youth. Discussion topics included youth leadership, restorative practices in schools, mental health and wellness, school climate and issues that influence youth substance use rates. Successful efforts for medication safety including distribution of disposal bags, medication safety boxes and social media through Maine CDC's Eye open campaign reaching over 2,600 community members and one hundred seventy safe storage lock bags were disseminated to families, individuals in non-traditional roles and other community members. MaineHealth received the Maine CDC's Maine Prevention Network grant for the Western Public Health District, with HCC as the District Lead. This lead to many new programs for staff.