Empowering Healthy Lives
Good health is essential for individual success and a thriving community. Healthy kids are more likely to succeed in school. Healthy adults are more productive at work. The whole community will flourish when all our residents have access to safe physical activity, healthy foods and quality health care.
WHAT WE DO
Access to Health Care
Creating or Increasing access to medical care, dental care or mental health services, receiving necessary prescriptions, health aids, hearing aids or eyeglasses.
Healthy Living
Create or increase healthy eating or physical activity opportunities, increase healthy habits and change lifestyles, provide a safe home and community.
HOW WE DO IT
The FamilyWize Prescription Assistance Program saves up to 75% on prescriptions for anyone, whether insured or not, living in Northwest Louisiana. Last year, 1,878 residents saved $110,401 on their prescriptions.
Sights and Sounds Program provides financial assistance to children in Caddo or Bossier parish schools, who have been identified as needing an eye or hearing exam and/or prescription glasses or hearing aids.
Funded Nonprofit Organizations
Louisiana Association on Compulsive Gambling
324 Texas Street
Shreveport, LA 71101
318-674-9756
Martin Luther King Health Center & Pharmacy
865 Olive Street
Shreveport, LA 71104
318-227-2912
The Philadelphia Center
Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission
P.O. Box 3949
Shreveport, LA 71133-3949
318-227-2868
St. Luke's Episcopal Mobile Medical Ministry
PO Box 53074
Shreveport, LA 71135
318-423-8556