Maryland To Fund Wellness Promotion Via Faith-Based Organizations

The State of Maryland plans to fund training on wellness promotion programming for faith-based organizations to equip the organizations for helping their members reduce chronic disease risk factors. These include unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, hypertension, and overweight/obesity. The goal is to support organizations or groups that are already conducting wellness promotion work in faith-based settings and develop sustainable wellness promotion efforts.

According the request for proposals (RFP), which closed January 30, 2017, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) plans to award up to two contracts valued at about $12,500 each. The RFP said DHMH . . .