Block Grant TACMP050009

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program to the Cambridge Public Health Commission, doing business as the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). This 4-year grant aims to address health inequities and improve health outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities in CHA's service area by increasing access to high-quality healthcare. Specifically, the project will...

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health awarded a $600,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.137 Community Programs to Improve Minority Health) to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. to implement the "Inverting the Burden of Navigating Health and Social Services with Community Resource Hubs: A Metro-Wide Patient-Centered Social Needs Referral Network" project. The project aims to improve hypertension control and address food insecurity and other...

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health awarded a $533,333 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program to the Arizona Community Health Workers Association, Inc. (Azchow) for the "Salud en Accion" (Health in Action) initiative. This 4-year grant supports a collaborative network of community partners, including Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Cochise County Health and Social Services, and the University...

This $465,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) aims to compare the effectiveness of technological (text messaging) and relational (community health worker outreach) approaches to support families who have missed scheduled well-child visits. The key objectives of this 2-year exploratory study are to: 1) demonstrate the feasibility of integrating a new...

The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program to the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) in Nashville, Tennessee. The 4-year grant, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028, will fund the "Healthy People Nashville" project. This project aims to increase access to food and quality healthcare, particularly in historically...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), provides $781,238 to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct a 4-year mixed methods study. The study aims to: 1) describe current trends in school-based health center (SBHC) staffing models and practices nationally and create a classification system to strengthen future research, design,...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health awarded a $2,400,000 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program to the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA). The project, titled "Care Coordination in Rural School-Based Health Centers for Improving Health Outcomes," aims to embed care coordination in 11 school-based health centers across New Mexico and West Virginia to serve Hispanic, Native American, rural...

The Tufts University School of Medicine will provide a Community Health Worker Training Program titled "Community Health Workers Engaging in Integrated Care" (COHERE) through this $4,999,888 Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals. The three-year grant period began on September 15, 2022. The program aims to increase diversity among community health workers and improve healthcare...

This $11,879,155 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), supports the establishment of the NYC Center for Minority Health, Equity, and Social Justice at the City College of New York (CCNY). The key objectives of this 5-year award are to: 1) conduct three R01-level research projects focused on health disparities in end-stage kidney disease,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), will support a research project titled "Community Health Worker Implementation of Transdiagnostic Evidence-Based Treatment in Spanish: Advancing Mental Health Equity for Latine Parents." The $708,048 award, effective September 19, 2024, aims to evaluate the implementation of community health worker...