Midwest Partnership recently sent out their January newsletter.

 

The group included reminders on their annual dinner that will be later this month, along with announcing a childcare ready meeting that will be held at the Stuart Public Library on January 13th from 9-11am. They also shared that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is able to award up to $200,000 per year for a recruitment and training program lasting two years for emergency medical services personnel in rural areas that are looking to focus on substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. Eligible applicants must be rural EMS agencies operated by local or tribal governments, or be non-profit EMS agencies in rural areas, and applications can be submitted from now until the deadline of March 20th.

 

Midwest Partnership also announced that Region XII Council of Governments had developed a new Homes for Iowa unit in Menlo, and that Stuart had been named a 2024 Community Visioning Town by Iowa’s Living Roadways Community Visioning Program. They announced that Casey had also been awarded $328,599 in Community Development Block Grant funds from the Iowa Economic Development Authority, which will be used to help with water system improvements.