{"id":421,"date":"2026-04-09T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/?p=421"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:08:23","slug":"abacus-partnership-highlight-the-healthy-vets-community-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/2026\/04\/09\/abacus-partnership-highlight-the-healthy-vets-community-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Abacus Partnership Highlight: The Healthy Vets Community Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\"><a class=\"ProsemirrorEditor-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthyvets.unc.edu\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/healthyvets.unc.edu\/\">The Healthy Vets Community Project<\/a>, housed within UNC\u2019s Gillings School of Global Public Health, aims to enhance community capacity to support Veterans and their families by reducing barriers to care and improving Veteran health across the Veterans Integrated Service Network-6 (VISN-6) region, the VA&#8217;s Mid-Atlantic health care network serving all of North Carolina and most of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/services\/\">Abacus<\/a> provides evaluation expertise, working collaboratively with the Healthy Vets team to design and implement a learning\u2011focused evaluation approach. Building on a successful partnership during the first project phase, <em>Building Veteran Healthy Communities<\/em>, Abacus and the team now continue their work together in Phase 2 through the Healthy Vets Community Project. Together, the partners use evidence to inform decision\u2011making and amplify the project\u2019s impact over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Healthy Vets Community Project, housed within UNC\u2019s Gillings School of Global Public Health, aims to enhance community capacity to support Veterans and their families by reducing barriers to care and improving Veteran health across the Veterans Integrated Service Network-6 (VISN-6) region, the VA&#8217;s Mid-Atlantic health care network serving all of North Carolina and most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/2026\/04\/09\/abacus-partnership-highlight-the-healthy-vets-community-project\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Abacus Partnership Highlight: The Healthy Vets Community Project\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24653,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,6,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evaluation","category-news","category-partnerships","category-services","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1466\/2026\/04\/Official-New-Logo-2.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1466\/2026\/04\/Official-New-Logo-2-300x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1466\/2026\/04\/Official-New-Logo-2.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1466\/2026\/04\/Official-New-Logo-2.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1466\/2026\/04\/Official-New-Logo-2-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"Circular blue logo with text that reads the Healthy Vets Community Project. 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