The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137) to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. The project, titled "Inverting the Burden of Navigating Health and Social Services with Community Resource Hubs: A Metro-Wide Patient-Centered Social Needs Referral Network," aims to improve hypertension control and address food...
This $204,248 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program aims to integrate climate change data into a regional community health assessment and engage local stakeholders in the rural Appalachian region. The overarching goals are to: Incorporate climate change impacts into the regional community health assessment process to identify climate-sensitive health priorities. Co-design visual storytelling...
The Cambridge Public Health Commission, doing business as Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), received a $600,000 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137). The grant will fund a 4-year initiative to address health inequities and improve health outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities in CHA's service area. The project aims to increase access to high-quality healthcare...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) was awarded a $600,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health's Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137). The funding will be used to establish the Providence Community Advisory Network (Providence CAN), which aims to improve hypertension management and diabetes prevention among Providence residents served by four safety-net clinics and three Providence-based...
This $850,000 Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) will support Healthefficient's "Transforming Oral Health for Communities (TOHC)" initiative. The goal is to improve access to preventive oral healthcare and oral health equity for pregnant women and infants in underserved New York communities. Key objectives include: 1) enhancing state-level policies and scopes of...
The Arizona Community Health Workers Association, Inc. (Azchow) received a $533,333.34 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137). The 4-year "Salud en Accion" (Health in Action) project will partner with Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Cochise County Health and Social Services, and the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension to address social...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health awarded a $593,882.50 Project Grant to the Western Reserve Land Conservancy (WRLC) under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137). The grant project, titled "Restoring Health Equity and Resilience to Cleveland through Vacant Land Improvements," aims to improve health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority communities in Cleveland, Ohio through...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Community Health Centers program (CFDA 93.224), awarded a $588,988 Project Grant to Regional Health Reach Inc., a non-profit community health provider in Rochester, NY. The grant will fund the "Providing Access to Transformational Health Services (PATHS)" initiative, which aims to expand access to and utilization of mental health care and substance use disorder (SUD)...
The Berks Community Health Center (BCHC) has been awarded a $2,002,000 Project Grant under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Healthcare Systems Bureau. The grant funding will support the renovation of a historic building and the purchase of equipment to establish a new community health center in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania. The new community health center will provide critically needed primary care services...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Healthcare Systems Bureau awarded a $1,548,000 Project Grant under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) to Communityhealth NFP, a non-profit healthcare organization in Chicago, Illinois. The grant funding will support the renovation and expansion of Communityhealth's clinic facilities, enabling the organization to enhance its community health worker program and increase capacity to serve uninsured individuals in the local area. By...