The Stoughton Area Resource Team, Inc.
(START) provides a safety net for those in crisis. Recently, a 30-year old single father of two struggled to find work, to pay for daycare for his children and to secure a home; so much time was spent homeless and hopeless.
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Stoughton Hospital Foundation
900 Ridge Street
Stoughton, WI 53589
Phone: (608) 873-2328
Contact Name: Laura Mays
Executive Director Foundation/PR/Marketing
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Organization Profile
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| Community Education - 2023 |
Amount Funded: $5,000.00 |
| The estimated implementation timeline is from November to August 2024.
We are planning on increasing classes with a focus on yoga for all ages, senior fitness, balance and more.
Grant funds would allow us to able to offer the Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging’s Stepping On workshop which focuses on fall prevention and their Physical Activity for Lifelong Success Program (PALS) which helps improve fitness and reduces chronic conditions.
Through partnerships, we will be able to increase yoga offerings for people of all ages to help both with improving mental health and reducing chronic conditions.
Healthy grilling classes will provide participants with the knowledge to make healthier choices and assist in reducing chronic conditions.
Additionally, we are planning a Women’s Wellness event with a notable keynote speaker that will focus on improving mental health or reducing chronic conditions.
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| The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic turned our world upside down, altering many aspects of our lives from working to exercising to seeking medical attention. Many aspects of how we deliver care and services changed to protect the public from COVID-19 including community education classes. We went from offering many in-person classes and events to navigating the virtual world of Zoom classes. Not all classes lent themselves to a virtual platform requiring us to temporarily stop offering popular classes such as StrongBodies and Balance classes.
Now that we living in our new normal, we have resumed in-person classes and have noted an increased demand for classes, especially fitness classes.
We would like to be able to offer some classes and events we’ve held in the past and try some new ones. These are all either in partnership with other organizations or conducted by our staff. We estimate that we will be able to help 525 people.
All of the classes and events are centered on community health needs as identified by our community health needs assessment including improving mental health, chronic disease prevention, and injury prevention. Evaluations will be given to all participants to measure progress or learning.
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