Humana, a Louisville-based health insurance company, and the Humana Foundation, have announced 23 grants totaling $12.9 million in support of mental health and nutrition programs for seniors and school-aged children in Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.

Recipients of mental health related grants include: Big Brothers Big Sisters of America ($4.9 million), which will initiate and expand mental health programs that include mental health first aid training for mentors and related coursework for youth, and the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, Home of the Innocents, and Fund for the Arts, which will receive grants of $750,000 each to help combat loneliness and depression.

Recipients of nutrition and food security-related grants include San Antonio Food Bank ($1.05 million), which will provide clinicians to screen seniors for food insecurity; YMCA of Greater San Antonio ($400,000), which will expand its nutrition and cooking classes for seniors; and Feeding South Florida ($250,000), which will focus on seniors of color with chronic diabetes and hypertension.

“The Humana Foundation is dedicated to building partnerships that help drive change and advance health equity,” said Humana Foundation CEO Tiffany Benjamin. “We’re investing in new programs with trusted community partners who are innovating and scaling their services so that more school-aged children and seniors can reach their full health potential.”

For a complete list of grantees, see the Humana website.

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