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Analyze the effectiveness of incentives and service delivery models that support rural professional placement and community resilience.
Collaborate with local and state leaders to identify and promote programs that enhance access to essential services in rural areas.
Prepare students to understand and address rural service gaps by integrating policy analysis, community engagement and workforce development into academic programs that support resilient rural communities.
Through her work with the LSU AgCenter’s Healthy Communities Program, Quincy Vidrine has helped form a coalition in Franklin Parish that is making a real difference in the quality of life in the town and villages that dot the parish. New festivals, farmers markets and town events fill the parish calendar. Park improvements draw families to once neglected areas. Grant-funded programs are making the areas more pedestrian-friendly.These community-wide improvements have been instrumental in helping individuals make their own positive changes, which is at the heart of the LSU AgCenter’s Healthy Communities initiative.
Vidrine’s work is transforming rural health from the ground up. By building coalitions, helping communities secure grants, and empowering individuals to take ownership of their well-being, she’s helping Franklin Parish become a model for how rural populations can overcome health disparities. Her efforts are not only improving access to nutritious food and safe spaces for physical activity, but they’re also fostering a culture of resilience, collaboration and long-term change.
AgCenter offers financial disaster resilience tools and resources for local governments.
Leveraging its statewide network, AgCenter seeks to boost rural communities, economies.
(03/19/25 Organizers in several of the rural towns and villages that dot Franklin Parish have banded together to improve quality of life in their communities.
Cities like Abbeville have been making strides by engaging the community, developing plans and securing funding to bring complete streets to life in their town.
(06/13/24) Safe and active ways to get to everyday activities was the focus of the second Louisiana Rural Complete Streets Summit.
Rice prices have risen as American rice acreage has dropped, but growers are facing higher production costs, said LSU AgCenter economist Michael Deliberto.
