EVANSVILLE — Thanks to a recent $3 million federal grant, the Welborn Baptist Foundation is working to strengthen public health efforts in Southwestern Indiana.
Welborn is one of 40 organizations around the country — and the only one in Indiana — that recently received a combined $70 million in Community Transformation Grants. The Welborn grant covers seven counties: Vanderburgh, Warrick, Dubois, Gibson, Pike, Posey and Spencer.
The two-year grant program, administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focuses on health promotion and chronic disease prevention in communities with fewer than 500,000 people.
With its funding, Welborn will focus on tobacco-free living; active living and healthy eating; high-impact quality clinical preventive services; and promoting healthy and safe physical environments.
This grant is a follow-up to a previous $2.5 million CDC grant that Welborn received in 2010, said grant director and Welborn employee Andrea Hays. That
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