By Logan Wells, News Director | Logan@kymnradio.net
Three Rivers Community Action and the Healthy Community Initiative announced this week that the Mobile Home Rehabilitation Initiative, currently administered by HCI will now be managed by Three Rivers Community Action. The initiative had previously been part of Growing Up Healthy, an HCI-supported Program.
According to a statement sent to KYMN, the program was started during the early days of the pandemic, when school was shifted to online learning, school leaders, teachers, and community partners realized that some children’s home environments included barriers to health and safety that extended beyond basic weatherization needs. This, and a lack of contractors and professionals able or willing to work on mobile homes, led to the creation of the Mobile Home Rehabilitation Initiative.
The Mobile Home Rehabilitation Initiative grew out of efforts years ago by Growing Up Healthy and community partners to assist mobile home residents in preparing their homes for winter through actions including the installation of heat tape around water pipes, insulating and making repairs to leaky windows, and installing energy-efficient light bulbs and thermostats. Growing Up Healthy staff also helped residents connect to Three Rivers’ weatherization program.
HCI agreed to pilot the launch of the initiative’s coordinator role, with the expectation that it would continue to work with partners to determine a long-term home for the position.
“Three Rivers Community Action is thrilled to bring Rice County’s Mobile Home Rehab initiative under its umbrella. As a long-standing provider of housing programming in Rice County, we are equipped to provide infrastructure and foundational support that will attract continued resources to sustain the program and serve more families,” said Jenny Larson, Executive Director of Three Rivers Community Action.
You can read the full statement here:
Healthy Community Initiative works to advance health and racial equity by expanding educational and economic opportunity in Rice County by investing in programming that positions youth for positive health, educational completion, career readiness, and economic mobility.
Three Rivers Community Action’s mission is “to work with community partners to address basic human needs of people in our service area, thereby improving the quality of life of the individual, family, and community.” Among the programs that Three Rivers administrators include housing assistance and the Hiawathaland Transit Bus Lines. They serve over 18,000 people across Southern Minnesota.
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