2025 Social Determinants of Health Cycle
Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas supported nine organizations that received grants this past May for the 2025 Social Determinants of Health cycle.
Social Determinants of Health
The conditions in which you are born, grow, live and work, known as social determinants of health, can impact your overall health. These factors include financial stability, safe housing, access to healthcare, quality education, and good relationships at home, work and within the community.
Recipients of the 2025 Social Determinants of Health grants include:
American Heart Association, Inc.
AHA will expand its Libraries with Heart program to Jefferson County and Southeast Arkansas Library Systems, connecting the communities with supplies, resources and education needed to address hypertension.
Arkansas Emergency Medical Foundation
The Arkansas Emergency Medical Foundation will provide transportation for patients directly to behavioral health facilities so that they can access care in a timely and compassionate manner.
Heartland Forward
Heartland Forward will create an interactive mapping tool to help allocate resources for substance use disorders. With the tool, policymakers and service providers will assess resource and prioritize interventions based on population needs.
Hispanic Community Services, Inc.
Hispanic Community Services will expand two programs: La Escuelita, a bilingual afterschool program and the Hispanic Emerging Leaders Program (H.E.L.P.), a mentorship initiative for high school students. In collaboration with parents, community partners, and local school districts, they aim to prepare more students for their futures.
Lyon College
Lyon College will purchase medical equipment for the Special Needs and Surgical Clinic Space at the new School of Dental Medicine in Central Arkansas.
Margie’s Haven House
Margie’s Haven House will provide safe, affordable housing for victims of domestic violence with its Freedom from Domestic Violence-Safe Housing for Survivors program.
Refuge Village
Refuge Village’s Providence Park is an innovative housing initiative aimed at providing permanent, supportive, and sustainable housing to chronically unhoused individuals. Funding will cover part-time salaries for a mental health professional and peer recovery specialist. They will also purchase equipment for the clinic. Through this community based program, they will launch initiatives for suicide prevention and substance abuse treatment.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas will open its first in-hospital Ronald McDonald House in Central Arkansas, which will offer private rooms, psychosocial support and other amenities.
Serve Northwest Arkansas
A Place to Heal is Serve Northwest Arkansas’ project to provide medical respite care to unhoused clients to recover from an illness or injury.