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Grant period: 2017-2020
The Empowered Communities for a Healthier Nation Initiative seeks to reduce significant health disparities impacting racial and ethnic minorities and/or disadvantaged populations through implementing evidence-based strategies with the greatest potential for impact. The program is intended to serve residents in communities disproportionately impacted by the opioid epidemic; childhood/adolescent obesity; and serious mental illness.
Empowered Communities Initiative projects begin September 2017 and end June 2020.
Mariposa Community Health Center, Inc.
Obesity
Nogales
AZ
$349,446
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation
Long Beach
CA
$350,000
The Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc.
Opioid
Atlanta
GA
The University of Chicago
Serious Mental Illness
Chicago
IL
$334,620
The Community Clinic, Inc.
Silver Spring
MD
$349,722
Boston Medical Center Corporation
Boston
MA
$349,734
Regents of the University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
MI
$349,978
Mississippi State Department of Health
Jackson
MS
The Institute for Family Health
New York
NY
$349,260
Community Prevention Partnership of Berks County
Reading
PA
$349,707
Meharry Medical College
Nashville
TN
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg
TX
$344,689
Virginia Department of Health
Richmond
VA
City of Huntington
Huntington
WV
Marquette University
Milwaukee
WI
Total
$5,227,156
Grant Period: 2017-2022
The AI/AN Health Equity Initiative supports the tailoring or development, and implementation, of evidence-based models and/or promising practices to help address trauma (historical and generational) existing in AI/AN communities through innovative programs that: 1) employ culturally appropriate and effective public health interventions designed to improve the physical, social, emotional and cultural well-being of AI/AN adolescents (ages 12 to 16 at the beginning of the program); 2) build and strengthen cultural competency among healthcare professionals and paraprofessionals serving AI/AN adolescents, their caregivers and communities; and 3) disseminate evidence-based practices to accomplish these goals.
AI/AN Health Equity Initiative projects begin July 2017 and end June 2022.
Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, Inc.
Albuquerque
NM
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
Mashantucket
CT
$335,449
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
La Conner
WA
$275,000
Total: $960,449
Grant Period: 2017-2021
The MYVP II program supports project interventions tailored to at-risk racial and ethnic minority and/or disadvantaged at-risk youth (ages 12-18 at the beginning of the project). These projects require coordinated, multi-discipline approaches that address: public health, education, and public safety concerns; disparities in access to public health services; social determinants of health; and risk and protective factors. MYVP II builds upon lessons learned from MYVP grants originally funded in FY 2014 and is intended to identify innovative approaches to significantly reduce the prevalence and impact of youth violence among racial and ethnic minority and/or disadvantaged at-risk youth.
MYVP II projects begin July 2017 and end June 2021.
Center for Self Sufficiency
$413,433
Clayton County Juvenile Justice Fund, Inc.
Jonesboro
$425,000
Gang Alternative, Inc.
Miami
FL
Kentucky State University
Frankfort
KY
$345,640
Loyola University of Chicago
Rhode Island Department of Health
Providence
RI
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway
NJ
$369,439
Saint Louis County Department of Public Health
Berkeley
MO
$424,997
University Auxiliary and Research Service Corporation
San Marcos
University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
Lawrence
KS
Total: $4,103,509
Grant Period: 2017-2018
The Lupus Program seeks to reduce lupus related health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations disproportionately affected by this disease by: (1) implementing a national health education program on lupus; and (2) developing, piloting and assessing clinical trial education interventions for health care providers and paraprofessionals focusing on improving recruitment and retention rates in clinical trials for racial and ethnic minority populations affected by lupus.
Lupus Program projects begin July 2017 and end June 2018.
City
State
Funding Level
American College of Rheumatology
$525,000
National Association of State Offices of Minority Health
Indianapolis
IN
$300,000
New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
East Windsor
$325,000
Northwestern University
Evanston
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Oklahoma City
OK
Total: $2,000,000
The purpose of the Partnership program is to demonstrate that multi-partner collaborations that address social determinants of health and have a nationwide or regional reach, focus or impact can efficiently and effectively do one of the following: (1) improve access to and utilization of care by racial and ethnic minority and/or disadvantaged populations; (2) increase the diversity of the health workforce through programs at the high school or undergraduate level that focus on racial and ethnic health disparities and health equity and which include mentoring as a core component; or (3) increase data availability and utilization of data that increases the knowledge base regarding health disparities and facilitates the development, implementation and assessment of health equity activities.
Partnership program projects begin July 2017 and end June 2022.
Boat People SOS, Inc.
Falls Church
$400,000
National Hispanic Medical Association
Washington
DC
Northeastern Vermont Area Health Education Center, Inc.
St. Johnsbury
VT
$399,982
Southcentral Foundation
Anchorage
AK
$327,295
University of Washington
Seattle
Total: $2,327,277
