Aug 12, 2025

Tammy Walker Cancer Center receives grant to better address chronic disease risk reduction

Posted Aug 12, 2025 5:16 PM
Tammy Walker Cancer Center 
Tammy Walker Cancer Center 

Kansas Department of Health and Environment

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s (KDHE) Community Health Promotion program has announced the recipients of this year’s Chronic Disease Risk Reduction (CDRR) Community grant.

In total, the State Fiscal Year 2026 CDRR program covers: 15 grantees, 25 counties and 1,972,817 Kansans (65.5 percent of the total Kansas population). 

The CDRR Community Grant Program provides funding, training and technical assistance to communities to address chronic disease risk reduction through evidence-based strategies that impact tobacco use, physical activity and nutrition.

Strategies include reducing secondhand smoke exposure, preventing youth from using tobacco, promoting tobacco treatment and the Kansas Tobacco Quitline, increasing physical activity, and improving community nutrition. 

“This program helps grantees show the power of local partnerships in creating long-term health improvements,” Mende Barnett, KDHE Section Director for Community Health Promotion, said. “We’re excited to continue this work together to reduce chronic disease and strengthen communities.

The 2026 CDRR Grantees and the counties they cover include:

  1. Cherokee County Health Department (Cherokee county).
  2. Crawford County Health Department (Crawford county).
  3. United Way of the Flint Hills (Lyon county).
  4. Edwards County Economic Development (Edwards and Hodgeman counties). 
  5. Finney County Community Health Coalition (Finney, Morton, Scott, Stanton counties). 
  6. Harvey County Health Department (Harvey county).
  7. Johnson County Department of Health and Environment (Johnson county).
  8. Medical Society of Sedgwick County (Sedgwick county). 
  9. Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department (Douglas county). 
  10. Marion County Health Department (Marion county). 
  11. Mitchell County Regional Medical Foundation (Mitchell, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln, Ottawa, Republic and Smith counties).
  12. Reno County Health Department (Reno county). 
  13. Tammy Walker Cancer Center (Saline county).
  14. Shawnee County Health Department (Shawnee county). 
  15. Unified Government of Wyandotte (Wyandotte county). 

Learn more about the CDRR Community Grant Program at kdhe.ks.gov/1063

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