Addressing Hygiene Poverty and Restoring Dignity: A Community Partnership Through Laundry Love

Elizabeth Ablah1, Nadine Long1, Kara Hollins1

  • 1Elizabeth Ablah is with the Department of Population Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City. Nadine Long is with Sauerwein-Long Consulting, LLC, Wichita, KS. Kara Hollins is with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Callie Miller is with Housing Opportunities, Inc, Great Bend, KS. Charell Owings is with United Way of Central Kansas, Great Bend, KS. Kimberly Weaver is with We Are Wyandotte, Community Health Council of Wyandotte County, Kansas City, KS. Jody Love is with the Healthy Bourbon County Action Team, Fort Scott, KS. Clarissa Carrillo Martinez is with the Department of Population Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City. Tatiana K. Darby is with Openfields, Kansas City, MO. Ton Miras Neira is with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Angela Scott is with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Christina M. Pacheco is with the Department of Population Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City. Sarah Finocchario-Kessler is with the Department of Population Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS.

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