Shelby County Community Health Foundation funding priorities:

• Support for the Shelby County Adult inmates and juvenile detainees healthcare needs
• Projects and programs that emphasize preventive health care and creative ways of solving long-standing health and wellness concerns
• Health-related education services and programs for children and youth
• Substance abuse prevention – drugs and alcohol

Organizations are encouraged to propose collaborations and partnerships with others and to demonstrate the coordination of services and cooperation of agencies.

Some of the entities funded this past year include:

• Adaptive Aquatics
• Cahaba Valley Healthcare
• Chelsea Senior Center
• Central Alabama Wellness
• ClasTran
• Columbiana Senior Center
• Community Corrections
• Community of Hope Health Clinic
• Family Connection
• First Battalion of Shelby County
• Impact Alabama
• Kid One Transport
• Middle Alabama Area Agency (M4A)
• Safehouse
• Shelby County Drug Free Coalition
• Shelby County Inmate Heath Care
• Shelby County Mental Health Court
• Shelby County Schools
• Shelby Emergency Assistance
• Sight Savers of Alabama
• Southeast Shelby Rescue
• The Arc of Shelby County