Westchester Community Foundation awarded a $30,000 grant to a group that created HealthYI, a mobile app designed to improve health care literacy among low-income young adults.
The group, Young Invincibles, is a millennial research and advocacy organization that works to advance economic opportunity for young adults. The funds will help with the distribution of HealthYI among millennials in Westchester County.
The HealthYI mobile app is designed to help young adults, including many of whom have signed up for their own insurance plan for the first time, utilize their new coverage. It will help them find doctors, encourage them to take advantage of free preventive care and answer FAQs.
With the fund, Young Invincibles also will lead a Westchester health care literacy project that includes outreach and education at community health centers and organizations throughout the county. The presentations will use infographics, one-page fact sheets and video to help young adults understand basic concepts of health care coverage.
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