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STEPS highlights decade of resident-led health projects, seeks sustainability after Ovid fire
Summary
Project director Theresa Lahr told the Seneca County Board that Seneca Towns Engaging People for Solutions (STEPS) has run resident-driven health projects since 2013, funded through a Greater Rochester Health Foundation initiative; the program is shifting leadership and seeking sustainability after a large fire in Ovid.
Theresa Lahr, project director of Seneca Towns Engaging People for Solutions (STEPS), told the Seneca County Board of Supervisors that the resident-led program has spent more than a decade running community health projects in the southern end of the county and is now working on a leadership transition and sustainability plan after a major fire in Ovid.
STEPS launched in December 2013 as part of the Greater Rochester Health Foundation’s Neighborhood Health Status Improvement initiative, a multi-phase grant program that, Lahr said, represents about $2,000,000 of investment over roughly 11 years. The project focuses on the towns of Covert, Lodi, Ovid and Romulus, covering about 166 square miles of South Seneca County, Lahr said, and supports small resident-driven…
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