One State. Three Plans. Six Zones. Twenty-Two Nations. FFH is the statewide rural workforce + population health partner — ready today.
An Arizona-headquartered, woman + physician co-led private/public partnership reaching every rural county at $1 per Arizonan per year — with a $2M/yr platform layer that AHCCCS, OEO, ADHS, and ABOR all use. Administrative tools for state & agency teams. Public-facing tools, trackers, and a student-produced magazine with QR codes reaching every rural family.
Three Coordinated Plans Are Hitting At The Same Time
RHTP funds the federal pass-through. ABOR funds the loan assistance. ACE funds the cross-agency efficiency. All three describe the same statewide ecosystem and need the same delivery layer. Katie's role at OEO sits squarely on the workforce vertical that touches all three — making this conversation the highest-leverage pre-RGA window FFH has.
Plan 1 · Federal · Awarded
AHCCCS RHTP
CJ Loiselle (PI) · Roberta Harrison (AHCCCS) · Mary Foote (OEO) · Debbie Johnston (ADHS)
$166.99M Year 1 · ~$967M / 5yr
$47.1M OEO Workforce (Katie's portfolio)
$32.1M Education & Training Expansion (CC/Univ/HOSA/AHEC)
$8M Financial Incentives + 5-yr service tracking
$2M Rural Innovation Learning Network (RILN) — direct FFH fit
RGAs go live this summer. Year 1 obligations by Oct 30, 2026.
Plan 2 · State · Pending
ABOR FY 2027 Budget Request
Chad Sampson (ABOR Exec Dir) + 3 university presidents
$110M new ask · $181M total GF
$30M AMPLA (MD, RN, NP, PA, PT/OT, dental, BH) — 4-yr AZ work commitment
Cross-agency platform thinking is the natural answer to "simplify"
The seat Katie sits in
Katie Belous · Sector Workforce Strategies Administrator · AZ OEO
Reports through Mary Foote (OEO Director). Was previously Research Analyst on the Pipeline AZ project — meaning she helped build the platform that now reaches 300,000 Arizonans through K-12, community colleges, and employers. Pipeline AZ alumna → OEO sector workforce strategist → controls how the $47.1M RHTP workforce dollars get sector-aligned across rural AZ.
Why this is the highest-leverage workforce conversation FFH could be having
Katie's job is sector strategy — figuring out how the workforce dollars flow into healthcare sector pipelines. The RHTP Approved Budget Narrative lists community colleges, universities, AHEC, HOSA, K-12 CTE, provider associations, healthcare training vendors, regional coalitions, and tribal entities as eligible. That's a procurement design problem. FFH already has the network spanning all of those — Katie's question is "who can deliver this across all 12 LWDBs at once without each region reinventing the wheel?" FFH is that answer.
The FFH Operating System
Six Gears Plus the Hub — All Six Already Standing
Every gear has a Katie-relevant workforce angle. The Hub is the PHIT Engine that connects all of them into the flywheel that gets smarter every cycle. Hover or click any gear — Dr. Rob and Coach Lucy will surface the Problem, the Solution, and live links.
Hover or tap any gear — every module connects to the Hub and to its neighbors. Maximum force, minimum silo.
The Statewide Architecture
All Zones Fully Mapped. Every Director Seat Populated.
FFH's Chamber of Health architecture aligns to AZ@WORK's 12 LWDBs AND to AzRHA's rural footprint AND to AHCCCS's GSA structure. One operating layer · three procurement vocabularies · all 15 counties + 22 Tribal Nations covered.
Level 1 · State
🏛️ AZ Chamber of Health™ Coach Lucy · State Chamber of Health Coach
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Level 2 · 3 Super-Regions + Rural TEAM cross-cut
🌲 North AZ Flagstaff Metro + Z1 + Z2
🌵 Central AZ Phoenix Metro + Z3
🌅 Southern AZ Tucson Metro + Z4 + Z5 + Z6
⛯ Rural TEAM All 6 zones (cross-cut)
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Level 3 · 3 Metros + 6 Rural Zones
METRO · Flagstaff Coconino + Yavapai
METRO · Phoenix Maricopa + Pinal
METRO · Tucson Pima
Z1 · NW Rural Mohave + La Paz
Z2 · NE / Navajo Apache + Navajo
Z3 · Central Rural Yavapai + Gila
Z4 · SE Rural Cochise + Santa Cruz
Z5 · E Frontier Graham + Greenlee
Z6 · SW Border Yuma + Tohono O'odham
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Cross-Cutting Layer
🪶 22 Federally Recognized Tribal Nations · all invited · sovereignty by design · +5% RGA evaluation bonus
Every Director seat at every level is populated. Every zone has a designated Zone Coach who reports to the Super-Region + Rural TEAM. Every county appears in exactly one zone. No gaps.
North Super-Region · Flagstaff Metro + Zones 1 & 2
🌲 North AZ Chamber of Health™
Anchored by NAU, Coconino Community College, Northern Arizona Healthcare, and the largest tribal land base in the United States (Navajo Nation). Three LWDBs · Five counties · Six Tribal Nations.
Flagstaff Metro
L3 · METRO · NORTH
Counties
CoconinoYavapai (metro seats — Sedona, Verde Valley)
LWDB
AZ@WORK CoconinoCoconino County Career Center
Major Health
Northern Arizona HealthcareFlagstaff Medical Center · Verde Valley Med · TIHA
Major K-12
Flagstaff USDPage USD · Williams USD
Higher Ed
Northern Arizona UniversityCoconino Community College
Director SeatFlagstaff Metro Coach · NAU/CCC liaison
PHIT51Developing
Zone 1 · NW Rural
L3 · ZONE 1 · NORTH
Counties
MohaveLa Paz
LWDB
AZ@WORK Mohave/La PazMohave County Community Services
Major Health
Kingman Regional Medical CtrValley View · Havasu Regional · La Paz Regional
Major K-12
Lake Havasu USDKingman USD · Bullhead City · Parker USD
Higher Ed
Mohave Community CollegeArizona Western College (La Paz)
Director SeatZone 1 Coach · Mohave / La Paz Rural Lead
PHIT42Developing
Tribal partners in zone: Fort Mojave · Hualapai · Kaibab Band of Paiute · Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT, La Paz)
Zone 2 · NE / Navajo Nation
L3 · ZONE 2 · NORTH
Counties
ApacheNavajo
LWDB
AZ@WORK Northeastern AZNavajo County host · NACOG region
Major Health
Summit Healthcare (Show Low)Tséhootsooí Med Ctr (IHS) · Little Colorado Med Ctr (Winslow)
Major K-12
Show Low USDSnowflake USD · Window Rock USD
Higher Ed
Northland Pioneer CollegeDiné College (Tribal) · NAU satellites
Director SeatZone 2 Coach · Navajo + Hopi Liaison
PHIT38At Risk
Tribal partners in zone: Navajo Nation · Hopi Tribe · White Mountain Apache · Zuni (partial) · San Juan Southern Paiute
Central Super-Region · Phoenix Metro + Zone 3
🌵 Central AZ Chamber of Health™
Anchored by Banner Health, HonorHealth, Dignity Health/CommonSpirit, ASU, the Maricopa Community College District, and the densest urban-rural transition in AZ. Three LWDBs · Three counties · Six Tribal Nations.
Phoenix Metro
L3 · METRO · CENTRAL
Counties
MaricopaPinal (metro/growth)
LWDBs
Maricopa Cty + City of Phoenix + Pinal Cty3 separate LWDBs
Mesa USD · Phoenix UnionChandler · Gilbert · Deer Valley · Casa Grande
Higher Ed
ASU · Maricopa CCs (10 colleges)GCU · Central Arizona College (Pinal)
Director SeatPhoenix Metro Coach · 61% of AZ population
PHIT62Developing
Zone 3 · Central Rural
L3 · ZONE 3 · CENTRAL
Counties
Yavapai (rural)Gila
LWDBs
AZ@WORK Yavapai · NE AZ (Gila)NACOG region
Major Health
Yavapai Regional Med Ctr (Dignity)Banner Payson · Verde Valley Med
Major K-12
Prescott USDHumboldt USD · Payson USD · Cottonwood-Oak Creek
Higher Ed
Yavapai CollegeEmbry-Riddle · Prescott College · Eastern AZ College (Gila)
Director SeatZone 3 Coach · Verde Valley + Tonto + Payson
PHIT58Developing
Tribal partners in zone: Yavapai-Apache Nation · Yavapai-Prescott · Tonto Apache · Fort McDowell Yavapai (Maricopa-adjacent) · San Carlos Apache (Gila portion)
Southern Super-Region · Tucson Metro + Zones 4, 5, 6
🌅 Southern AZ Chamber of Health™
FFH's home base — Pima County, 100% school-district penetration. Plus border health, ag workforce, mining communities, Tohono O'odham. Six LWDBs · Six counties · Five Tribal Nations.
Tucson Metro
L3 · METRO · SOUTH
Counties
PimaFFH home county
LWDB
AZ@WORK Pima CountyPima Cty Community & Workforce Development
TUSD · Amphi · Sunnyside · Vail100% district penetration achieved
Higher Ed
University of ArizonaPima Community College
Director SeatTucson Metro Coach · Coach Lucy (founding base)
PHIT47Developing
Zone 4 · SE Rural
L3 · ZONE 4 · SOUTH
Counties
CochiseSanta Cruz
LWDBs
SE AZ (Cochise) + Santa Cruz CtySEAGO + Santa Cruz Cty
Major Health
Canyon Vista Med Ctr (Sierra Vista)Copper Queen (Bisbee) · Mariposa CHC · Holy Cross (Nogales)
Major K-12
Sierra Vista USDDouglas USD · Nogales USD
Higher Ed
Cochise CollegeU of A South
Director SeatZone 4 Coach · Border + Ft. Huachuca
PHIT49Developing
Tribal partners in zone: Pascua Yaqui (Tucson area)
Zone 5 · East Frontier
L3 · ZONE 5 · SOUTH
Counties
GrahamGreenlee (smallest in AZ)
LWDB
AZ@WORK SE AZSEAGO admin
Major Health
Mt. Graham Regional Med CtrSan Carlos Apache Health Care Corp
Major K-12
Safford USDThatcher USD · Pima USD · Morenci USD
Higher Ed
Eastern Arizona College(Thatcher main campus)
Director SeatZone 5 Coach · Mining + Tribal
PHIT46Developing
Tribal partners in zone: San Carlos Apache (Graham/Pinal portions)
Zone 6 · SW Border
L3 · ZONE 6 · SOUTH
Counties
Yuma(+ Tohono O'odham as tribal-specific)
LWDB
AZ@WORK Yuma CountyYuma Cty Workforce Development
Major Health
Yuma Regional Medical CenterSunset Health · Regional Ctr for Border Health
Major K-12
Yuma Union HSDCrane ESD · Gadsden ESD · Yuma Elementary
Higher Ed
Arizona Western CollegeNAU-Yuma · U of A Yuma
Director SeatZone 6 Coach · Border + Ag workforce + Bilingual EN/ES
PHIT44Developing
Tribal partners in zone: Tohono O'odham Nation · Cocopah · Fort Yuma-Quechan
Cross-Cutting Layer · Sovereignty by Design
All 22 Federally Recognized Tribal Nations
Tribal Nations participate as sovereign partners — full data sovereignty, government-to-government consultation, Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board protocols. +5% evaluation bonus on every RGA application. Every tribe has a designated Chamber of Health seat AND a tribal-specific PHIT panel layer.
Navajo Nation
Apache · Navajo · Coconino
Tohono O'odham
Pima · Pinal · Maricopa
Hopi Tribe
Navajo · Coconino
San Carlos Apache
Gila · Graham · Pinal
White Mountain Apache
Navajo · Gila · Apache
Gila River Indian Community
Pinal · Maricopa
Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Maricopa
Ak-Chin Indian Community
Pinal
Fort McDowell Yavapai
Maricopa
Yavapai-Apache Nation
Yavapai
Yavapai-Prescott
Yavapai
Hualapai Tribe
Mohave · Coconino · Yavapai
Havasupai Tribe
Coconino (Grand Canyon)
Kaibab Band of Paiute
Mohave · Coconino
Colorado River Indian Tribes
La Paz
Quechan (Fort Yuma)
Yuma
Cocopah Indian Tribe
Yuma
Fort Mojave Indian Tribe
Mohave
San Juan Southern Paiute
Coconino
Pascua Yaqui Tribe
Pima
Tonto Apache Tribe
Gila (Payson)
Zuni Tribe
Apache (partial AZ)
Important for Katie's lens: The 19 Tribal Nations LWDB (NTNWDB) is the only Native-led WDB in the United States — and several tribes participate in BOTH the NTNWDB AND their county LWDB. FFH's tribal participation is designed to honor both pathways simultaneously without forcing a choice.
The Data Layer
PHIT Scorecard Systems — Live, Zip-Level, Already Rolling Up
Every county, every Tribal Nation, every zone has its own live PHIT Score. 141 panels covering health, workforce, broadband, prevention, rural-schools. Drillable from state → super-region → zone → county → zip. Every Director gets the dashboard their seat needs to see.
62
Maricopa
61% of state
47
Pima
FFH home
54
Pinal
Fastest growing
58
Yavapai
Verde Valley
51
Coconino
½ land mass
42
Mohave
NW rural
44
Yuma
Border ag
49
Cochise
Border + Ft Huachuca
38
Navajo
Tribal-overlay
34
Apache
Lowest density
43
Gila
Payson/Globe
46
Graham
Mining + EAC
47
Greenlee
9K residents
51
Santa Cruz
Nogales
40
La Paz
17K · smallest
Every county above is ALSO a Director seat at Level 3, a row in the Directors' Table CRM, and a slice of the Workforce Service-Commitment Tracker through 2032. The same data layer powers leadership decisions, citizen-facing engagement, and CMS audit reporting.
Two Layers · One Platform
Tools for Administrative Teams + Public-Facing Resources for Citizens
The same $1-per-Arizonan investment delivers both what state staff need to manage rural workforce funding AND what citizens need to discover careers, track their own health, and engage with prevention. No "agency-only" walls between the two.
Layer 1 · For Administrative Teams
What state & agency staff get
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Directors' Table CRM
Pre-populated Top 200 leaders + every K-12 / CC / Univ contact across all 12 LWDBs. Director coins reward Recruit · Invite · Connect activity.
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PHIT Dashboards (zip → state)
Live county + tribal scoring; workforce, broadband, prevention overlays. Drillable for every Zone/Metro Coach.
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5-Year Service-Commitment Tracker (through 2032)
Automated compliance for every RHTP financial-incentive recipient — solves OEO's biggest operational deliverable.
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Project Manager · IDEAS Workbook
Kanban + List + Calendar views, shared across agencies, with embedded compliance reporting.
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Multi-Agency Hub
AHCCCS + OEO + ADHS + ABOR all see the same dashboards instead of emailing spreadsheets — ACE "simplify" pillar served.
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Audit-Ready Compliance Layer
DATA Act-grade source attribution on every asset. CMS Single Audit-ready by design.
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K-12 Rooftop Reach & Engagement Dashboard
Live school-by-school deployment heatmap across all ~700 AZ K-12 campuses + 230+ districts. Tracks year-round student platform contributions, QR scans, classroom engagement, Live It tracker uptake, Coach Lucy AI sessions, bingo-card completions, and Annual Showcase Magazine delivery — district-by-district, sourced end-to-end. Built-in tracking = built-in OEO + ABOR reporting.
Every AZ school district hosts student-empowered digital platforms (web, social, video, podcast) that showcase student inputs continuously throughout the year — capped off by an Annual Showcase Magazine in print delivered to every rural rooftop. Distributed through AZ TEA, AZ SHAPE, AZ Rural Schools Assn., and the Chamber of Health Directors in every county. Every QR scan + classroom touchpoint sources into PHIT panels in real time.
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Live It Trackers (Citizen-Facing)
Self-managed health metrics that feed (with consent) into county-level PHIT panels.
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VIVA Video Series + Train-the-Brain Library
Statewide health storytelling. Every video has a QR-bridge to print, podcast, social, and classroom curriculum.
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Earned It · Spin 4 Rewards
Gamified incentive system that rewards prevention behaviors with real-economy benefits.
The school-side workforce play: 100% K-12 rooftop reach is also 100% K-12 career-pathway awareness — Tier 3 ($3M–$3.7M) RHTP funding for HOSA / AHEC / CTE expansion delivered through a channel that's already standing.
The Reach Engine · Year-Round + Annual Showcase
Student-Empowered Platforms All Year. Annual Print Showcase to Every Rural Family.
Workforce development AND health literacy AND family engagement in one continuous, student-driven product line. Students produce throughout the year on FFH digital platforms (workforce pipeline). The annual print Showcase reaches every rural rooftop (omni-media capstone). QR-bridged to digital, no-broadband friendly, source-tracked end to end.
Year-Round · Digital
Student-Empowered Platforms
Every rural school district hosts student-run digital channels — web journalism, video segments, podcast episodes, social posts, photo essays, health-literacy explainers. Students contribute continuously throughout the academic year, paid in stipends + certifications + portfolio credits.
▸ Real workforce experience — journalism, video, design, audio production
▸ Standards-aligned to NHES, ISTE, SHAPE, NGSS, ASCD
▸ Coach Lucy + Dr. Rob AI editorial mentorship
▸ Every contribution sources to district + zone PHIT panels
Annual · Print Showcase
The Annual Showcase Magazine
Once a year, the best of the year's student-produced work is curated into a print Showcase Magazine — one per Zone — delivered to every rural rooftop via school districts, libraries, county health departments, faith leaders, and Chamber Directors.
▸ Every page = a QR portal back to digital
▸ No-broadband-friendly omni-media capstone
▸ Bilingual EN/ES + tribal-language editions per zone
▸ Source-tracked attribution on every QR — DATA Act-grade
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What every QR opens · year-round + on the annual print
Live It Tracker · Career Pathway in 60 seconds · Coach Lucy AI · Chamber Director contact · Tribal-language version · STEAM TEAM signup · Family health-literacy quick-win.
Every QR is an onboarding moment — the citizen drops into FFH's universe wherever they are in the journey, and the platform meets them there.
Why this is the Katie play: The year-round student platforms are a real workforce-development pipeline — students gain journalism, video, design, podcast, and digital-media credentials they can stack onto health-career pathways. The annual print Showcase is the omni-media artifact that reaches no-broadband rural families. Together they deliver three RHTP outcomes from one product line: Workforce Training Hub experience + Omni-Media reach + PHIT data collection — zero new cost beyond the platform.
Specifically for Katie's Sector Workforce Strategy
Four Plays That Move The $47.1M OEO Portfolio Faster
Katie's job is figuring out HOW the workforce dollars flow into sector pipelines. Each play below is a turn-key way FFH accelerates her sector strategy without disrupting Pipeline AZ, AZ Healthcare Careers, or any other OEO partner already in motion.
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The 5-Year Service-Commitment Tracker — through 2032
$8M Financial Incentives + Provider Upskilling + Residency Support all require tracking 5-year rural service commitments through 2032. OEO will need a tracking platform. The four professional associations OEO selects to administer disbursement will need a tracking platform. FFH offers this as turn-key.
Recurring SaaS revenue through 2032
2
The Healthcare Career Pathway Awareness Engine
RILN Tier 2 ($500K–$600K) literally describes "marketing campaigns, digital media, and event coordination" for healthcare career awareness. FFH delivers: omni-media production + student magazine + Reality Health Games + Coach Lucy career pathway content. Pipeline AZ provides the matching rails; FFH provides the awareness vertical.
RILN Tier 2 direct fit · $500K–$600K
3
The Community College + University Partnership Bench
Tier 1 CC ($12M) + Tier 2 Univ ($17.5M) prizes flow through eligible institutions — FFH is the workforce training partner on those applications. Pre-line up Pima CC, Coconino CC, Yavapai College, Mohave CC, Cochise College + UA, NAU, ASU with FFH curriculum + tracker tools before RGAs drop.
Partner on $20M+ of joint applications
4
The Regional Convenings + Chamber of Health Activation
RILN Tier 3 ($250K–$300K) funds "regional virtual and in-person convenings" — Chamber of Health is literally that, scaled across 3 Super-Regions + 6 Zones with Director-level pre-population already done. Plus the $5M Shared Services Consortiums maps to Chamber-as-coalition framing under the AHCCCS direct portfolio.
RILN Tier 3 + Shared Services up to $5M
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Bigger Than Arizona · The National Rural Health Transformation Footprint
Arizona Is The Beachhead. Ohio + Pennsylvania Are Live Markets Behind It.
CMS’s $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation Program funds all 50 states. FFH already has live, deployed state pages for every CMS award — and three of them are already active markets where FFH has named partners, decision-makers identified, and pre-RGA conversations underway. Katie’s OEO conversation IS one of three currently moving in parallel.
The Force for Health · National Rural Health Transformation Tour
Every CMS RHTP state mapped. Every market a beachhead for the same operating system.
FFH’s Rural Health Transformation Tour is the multi-state operating layer — 26 state pages live, National Directors Table, Funders Workforce Pipeline, and a National RHT CRM seed already built. Arizona is the proof point; the rest of the country is the addressable market for co-commercialization.
Multi-state momentum = co-commercialization economics for Arizona. If FFH delivers Year-1 results inside Mary + Katie's OEO portfolio, the same operating system gets licensed to OH (Appalachian), PA (VBP-native), and the other 24 mapped states. Arizona doesn't pay alone — Arizona's success generates licensing revenue that back-fills sustainability and reduces the per-Arizonan cost over time. That's the five-sided upside flywheel in geographic motion.
The Per-Capita Math
$2M / yr Platform Layer · $1 / Arizonan Citizen Activation · No Big Capital Raise
~$7.4M total program activating health literacy, 5-yr commitment tracking, Chamber convenings, K-12 → workforce pipeline. Cost-shared across agencies + foundations + matching federal — NOT a new appropriation.
Long-tail ROI
6:1 → 38:1
Documented prevention ROI per CDC, Trust for America's Health, RWJF. PHIT Engine flywheel makes system cheaper to run year-over-year. Co-commercialization revenue back-fills sustainability.
The Five-Sided Upside
① Decision-ready data day one · ② Healthcare workforce acceleration · ③ Citizen-serving platform with long-tail ROI · ④ Co-commercialization — no big capital raise · ⑤ PHIT Engine flywheel — full circle. The trial pays for itself during, after, beyond, and across the period of performance.
What I'd Love To Walk Out Of This Meeting With
Three Asks for Katie
1
A Joint Pre-RGA Conversation
A working session between FFH, Katie's sector strategy team, and (when ready) Mary Foote — to sketch how the $47.1M workforce portfolio gets sector-aligned across the 12 LWDBs using shared platform infrastructure instead of 12 separate rebuilds.
2
A Memorandum of Coordination
An OEO ↔ FFH Foundation MOC referenced in OEO's upcoming RGAs — so the procurement language reflects the cross-cutting platform infrastructure already in market. Pre-RGA architecture lock.
3
FFH-Led Application with Partners Tucked Behind
Confirmation that FFH-led RGAs and subaward applications can carry trusted workforce partners as line-item subrecipients — preserving continuity of in-market platforms (including those approaching funding sunsets) without requiring partner orgs to approach OEO directly. FFH is the prime; partners come in behind, with appropriate conflict-of-interest separation.
The Line
"You have $47.1M in workforce funding and a 7-month execution window. The Approved Budget Narrative names PHIT-style dashboards, omnimedia awareness, regional convenings, and 5-year service tracking as deliverables. FFH has all four already standing — an Arizona-based, woman + physician co-led private/public partnership aligned to all 12 LWDBs and all 22 Tribal Nations. We're here to make your year-one obligation easier, not to ask for a check."
The Force for Health® Network · Statewide Rural Workforce + Population Health Briefing · Prepared for Coach Lucy Howell · May 2026
An Arizona-headquartered, woman + physician co-led private/public partnership for population health.