Barber County United

Barber County United is a community coalition for providing opportunities to strengthen our community as we work together throught a coordinated and partnered effort to better serve and meet the needs of individual, families, and organizations. The accelerator grant funds were to create new or additional daycare facitilties and to support those facilities through offering training, curriculums, programs, tool kits, etc. The counties served by the accelerator grant are Barber, harper, and kiowa counties.

Barber County United is a community coalition for pathway to a healthy Kansas. The pathways initiative known as pathways to a healthy Kansas combines community-wide evidence based solutions and promising practices for improving active living, healthy eating and tobacco prevention to make a large impact across multiple sectors in communities. The program provides community coalition with the tools and resources needed to engage their communities and remove barriers to healthy living. The pathways to a healthy Kansas encourages community coalitions to identify the strategies that will work best for their residents and community cultures taking into account how their projects impact populations of focus and raising up those voices to advance health equity and improve the overall health of their community.

To provide opportunities to strenghten our community while working together through a coordinated and partnered effort to better serve and meet the needs of individuals, families and organizations. To impire and ignite our community by connecting people to services, ministries, and organizations aimed at enhancing relationships and enriching lives.