Northern Arizona Healthfields Community Partnership
Partnership: This network of Arizona individuals, agencies, and nonprofits is dedicated to creating healthy, livable spaces for at-risk communities.
Goal: To improve access to healthcare and healthy food in federal “medically underserved” areas To promote safe land reuse throughout AZ for many widespread hazardous sites
Community and population:
5 community areas of northern Arizona: cities of Flagstaff, Winslow, and Holbrook; counties of Navajo and Coconino all below state poverty level; Navajo County highest is at 38.5% below poverty level
Largest minority groups: American Indian/Alaska Native and Hispanic/Latino
Percentage of persons under 65 without health insurance:
9.7% to 17.3%
- Brownfields and other types of potentially hazardous sites throughout rural and urban areas
- Many brownfields and land reuse sites with petroleum contamination, which must be removed to reuse the sites
- Potential for many brownfields sites to be cleaned up and reused as playlots, corner stores, and agriculture/community gardens
- Federal medically underserved areas (MUAs) in majority of state and large regional areas with medically underserved
populations (MUPs)
BROWN assistance and collaboration
- Funding options and resources related to food (food deserts, healthy food access, community food markets)
- ATSDR soilSHOP
- $200,000 in EPA funding awarded to Phoenix, resulting in 42 brownfield site assessments
- $130,000 ATSDR Community Health and Land Reuse funding awarded to ADHS for health assessments and education at 42 sites
- $95,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funding awarded to AHI stakeholder to expand AHI
References:
U.S. Census. (2019). Quick Facts. Retrieved from: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/
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