ST Lawrence County Health Initiative Inc

The Health Initiative was created out of a collaboration by canton-potsdam hospital and claxton-hepburn medical center. Leaders from these institutions brought together over 200 individuals - representing a broad spectrum of the community, including Health, human service, business, government and educatino - to conduct a thorough assessment of Health in st. Lawrence County. The steering committee identified three Health priority areas that needed to be addressed County-wide: access to care; nutrition and physicial activity, and; substance use, focusing on youth tobacco use. The agency was incorporated in 1999 as a free-standing 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization to secure resources and programming to address the identified priorities