TODAY @ NOON! AETNA awards $50,000 grant to FICS

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Press Release

For Immediate Release: December 1, 2004

Contact: Alayne

Unterberger, 813.477.2882

FICS AND AETNA PARTNER ON HEALTH

PROMOTION

TAMPA, Fla. – Please join the Florida Institute for

Community Studies in celebrating our new partnershhip with the AETNA

Foundation as we collaborate on the 2 year, 50,000 dollar grant to fund

the One Goal -Many Voices project. This project empowers health promoters

and outreach workers across Florida to help them design and implement

specific training to help them help their own communities. Mr.

Gomez, Health Promoter with the program Pocos Hijos Para Darles Mas, led

the Florida Institute For Community Studies to apply for this funding.

“Health Promoters are the advocates for the whole community. No one else

knows the issues like we do because we are out there every day. Sometimes

people need extra training,” said Mr. Gomez.

The

outreach workers, health promoters, the press and the public are invited

to attend a big check presentation on Friday, December 3rd at

noon at 202 S. 22nd St. Suite 106, Tampa, Fl 33605 .

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Cesar Chavez: " It's ironic that

those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables,

and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left

for themselves. "

Maya Angelou: " If you don't like something, change it. If you can't

change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. "

Alayne Unterberger, MA

Executive Director, Florida Institute for Community Studies, Inc.

(FICS)

Main contact: (813) 477-2882 (cell) or (813) 248-3427 (248.FICS)

(office)

FAX: (813) 248-3230 E-mail:

alayne@... Website:

www.ficsinc.org