Project Grant G3242628

The Hope Family Clinic received a $1,000,000 project grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to support a local community-based workforce initiative aimed at increasing COVID-19 vaccine access in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. Funded under HRSA's National Organizations of State and Local Officials program, the project will assist state and local authorities in improving public health and building capacity to address public...

The San Juan Basin Public Health was awarded a $911,847 project grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration under the National Organizations of State and Local Officials program. The grant will support a LOCAL COMMUNITY-BASED WORKFORCE TO INCREASE COVID-19 VACCINE ACCESS initiative from July 31, 2021 through December 31, 2022. The purpose of this initiative is to assist state and local authorities in improving public health and addressing...

The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded a $1,000,000 project grant to Fresno Building Healthy Communities through the National Organizations of State and Local Officials program. The grant will support LOCAL COMMUNITY-BASED WORKFORCE TO INCREASE COVID-19 VACCINE ACCESS in Fresno, California from July 2021 through July 2023. Specifically, Fresno Building Healthy Communities will utilize the funding to deliver COVID-19 vaccination access and outreach services through a local...

The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to the Los Angeles County - University of Southern California Medical Center Foundation, Inc. doing business as The Wellness Center. The grant was awarded under the National Organizations of State and Local Officials program (CFDA 93.011) on July 31, 2021 for a period ending July 29, 2023. The grant funds will support a local community-based workforce to increase COVID-19...

The Corporation for National and Community Service awarded $381,698 under the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program (CFDA 94.017) to Civic Ventures' Encore.org program. The funding will support the Encore Intergenerational Vaccine Corps initiative to address urgent COVID-19 vaccination needs in four California counties. Through this May 28, 2021 project grant, Encore.org will recruit, place, and support 325 volunteers, including 250 older adults through RSVP and 75 younger volunteers...

The Prime Healthcare Foundation - Southern Regional, LLC received a $994,198 Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the National Organizations of State and Local Officials (NOSLO) program. The grant will support a LOCAL COMMUNITY-BASED WORKFORCE TO INCREASE COVID-19 VACCINE ACCESS initiative located in Riverdale, GA from July 31, 2021 through July 31, 2023. As the NOSLO program aims to build public health...

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 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, will fund a $2,058,402 initiative to increase respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine uptake among Latino older adults in San Francisco. The key products and services to be delivered include: Adapting a community-based "Motivate, Vaccinate, Activate" intervention, including community health...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $2,065,719 to New York University to conduct a community-based behavioral intervention trial. The study aims to increase COVID-19 and influenza vaccination rates among African American/Black and Latino adults who are not up-to-date on these vaccinations. The project will test the effects of various intervention components, including...

The Indiana Department of Health was awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the HIV Prevention Activities Health Department Based federal grant program (CFDA 93.940) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The program, titled "REACH: Rural Re-Engagement and Care Using CHWs for Persons with HIV," aims to improve HIV care services in rural Indiana communities by employing a community health worker (CHW) home-based approach to enhance re-engagement in care and...