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Contact Us
Main Office
Larkin at Exchange
726 Exchange Street
Suite 518
Buffalo, NY 14210-1485
ph: (716) 852-3030
fx: (716) 852-3131
Syracuse Office
431 E. Fayette Street
Suite 250
Syracuse, NY 13202
ph: (315) 671-0057
fx: (315) 218-7314
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Our Work
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Living, Learning, Lasting, Leading
The Health Foundation for Western and Central New York (formerly theCommunity Health Foundation of Western and Central New York) is committed to improving the health and health care of the people and communities in our regions.
The Foundation’s decision to focus primarily on frail elders and young children living in poverty has kept us in touch with the people living in our communities and the impact of our funding decisions on them. Further, our added focus on growing health capacity within these communities, and concentrating our resources on 16 specific counties, maximizes this impact.
We collaborate with community partners to strengthen the health care system, bolster community supports, promote education and advocacy, and encourage individual behavior change. We emphasize the importance of learning from our individual and collective experiences and that these learnings are strengthened by, and contribute to national best practices.
The impact, collaborations and best practices we’ve created are most valuable if they are sustainable or replicable. We promote quality and performance improvement in the organizations and programs that we fund so they are built to last.
Finally, leadership and collaboration are key to achieving overall change in our communities. Our foundation goals cannot be met without the full participation of community leaders, non-profits and providers, and our investment in their capacity to lead important change will broaden, deepen and magnify the financial investments we make. We are, absolutely, all in this together.
Our Focus Areas
Frail Elders: Creating Options for Dignified Aging
We have long been focused on improving the quality of care for frail elders in our communities. Recently we have begun to see that, as important as that work is, we need to make a greater investment in deferring the consequences of frailty and postponing its onset. To do this, we need to both increase the opportunities and supports for people to remain more independent and we must reduce the triggers of decline such as falls, poor transitions of care and ineffective management of multiple medications.
Young Children Living in Poverty: Building Blocks for Healthier Kids
Young children living in poverty are our priority because they are one of the most vulnerable groups of people in the regions we serve. The concentration and culture of poverty impacts individual families, children and community institutions that serve them, such as schools and recreation programs. HFWCNY is now focusing on children birth to five because of their particularly high vulnerability and because of the importance of the early learning experiences and significant developmental milestones to be achieved during these years.
Growing Community Health Capacity
Our Foundation recognizes that the health and health care of frail elders and children in communities of poverty cannot improve without bolstering the communities within which they live and the health care systems which serve them. Programs funded through this focus area are designed to create a positive learning climate which fosters improved learning skills and capacity of individuals, and stronger, more effective and innovative organizations. They strive to increase and sustain collaborative activity, and foster communities and systems that embrace continuous learning.
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