Written by TJ, Featured in Winona Radio, February 7, 2022 WINONA, Minn. (KWNO)-The Winona County Community Health Needs Assessment has been sent to various residents in Winona County. Live Well Winona’s Venessa Southworth encourages recipients of the survey to fill it out. She says the results from the 71-question survey inform initiatives health leaders in the county focus on. “The ... read more
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Winona County Community Health Needs Assessment underway
Featured in The Winona Post, January 25, 2022 Community members throughout Winona County may receive one of the needs assessment surveys sent to randomly selected households. The survey is administered by a third party, and responses are anonymous. Survey results provide a better understanding of the health of the Winona County residents. Many community organizations will use the survey results ... read more
Stories for Good: Winona Community HUB links agencies to help
Written by Jack Ramsland, Community Connecter at Family and Children's Center, Featured in Winona Daily News, November 1, 2021 Are you or someone you know struggling with homelessness, food insecurity or mental health? The Winona Community HUB is a local program linking multiple agencies to connect people to programs and services, provide health education and help people on a pathway ... read more
Stories for Good: Live Well Winona building a hub for health
Written by Vanessa Southworth, featured in Winona Daily News, January 24, 2022 Live Well Winona is a community health hub dedicated to supporting healthy activities and lifestyles in and around the Winona region. Live Well Winona has a mission to engage the community in a culture of wellness that is distinctively noticeable and results in people who live longer, better lives and are ... read more
Winona Community Hub Helps Connect Those In Need With Local Services
Written by Rachel Mergen, Winona Daily News, February 14, 2020 Community organizations are working together in Winona to help area residents find the resources they need to live healthier lives with the help of the new Winona Community HUB. “It’s really ensuring that there’s not duplicated care and that nothing falls through the cracks,” Kelly Fluharty, care transformation manager ... read more
Winona Wellbeing Collaborative Launches Community Hub to end Hunger for Area Children
By Mackenzie Davis News 8000 Article Link WINONA, Minn. (WKBT) - A team of local organizations is working on putting an end to the issue of nearly 5,500 Winona residents going to bed hungry. The Winona Community HUB is the result of a collaboration between Winona Health, Winona County Human Services, Winona Volunteer Services, Project FINE, Winona Area Public Schools, Live Well Winona, ... read more
Play Streets & Touch a Truck – 2018
Written by: Tesla Mitchell, Winona Daily News Downtown Winona was filled with laughing kids, inflatable slides, honking horns, and lots of trucks to touch, as hundreds gathered in the streets for Touch a Truck and Play Streets on Saturday. "The weather is perfect for it," Winona resident Katie Freitag said with a smile behind her aviator glasses as her 3-year old daughter Mae Belle ... read more
Volunteer of the Month: Miller Mentoring continues 17-year success of developing relationships
Written by Samantha Stetzer, Winona Daily News, January 1, 2018 Homework and a game of Uno have become a common part of Bob Deter’s Tuesday afternoons. It’s not the big, travel-filled afternoons the financial executive for a global company has always done, but it’s certainly his way of paying the good fortune life has awarded him back, Deter said. So when he retired six years ago and ... read more
Volunteer of the Month: Red Kettle Campaign is ‘such a simple way’ for local volunteers to make a big impact
Written by: Samantha Stetzer Winona Daily News Dec 3, 2017 For the first time, Robert Bergsrud stood in the doorway of Hy-Vee on Tuesday from the morning into the afternoon, methodically clanking a bell, his cane propped up in a cart. After an interruption from a reporter, a little girl asked him where the “dinging” was, to which Bergsrud replied with a swift ring of his bell, much to the ... read more
November Volunteer of the Month: Local Man Supports Winona Volunteer Services
Article written by Samantha Stetzer, Winona Daily News, November 6, 2017 Bob Leaf leaves his house at 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday and treks to Hy-Vee and Midtown Foods to bring a bread delivery to Winona Volunteer Services, ensuring those who use the volunteer and charity organization’s services have bread and bakery items. He also mows the organization’s lawn and picks weeds ... read more