2011 Minority Health Grants
The Minority Health Grant Program is targeted to racial/ethnic minority
community-based organizations and tribes in Wisconsin. The mini-grants are
intended to help improve the health status of economically disadvantaged
racial and ethnic minority group members in Wisconsin by implementing
evidence-based or promising practices programs to improve at least one
critical socioeconomic determinant of health. The funded projects must
demonstrate the potential to produce tangible, measurable outcomes through
effective partnerships with other community-based organizations at the
state and local level and non-healthcare partners such as faith-based
organizations, educational institutions, neighborhood associations, or
other non-traditional programs.
Projects for the 2011 grant program address the following:
Implement evidence-based programs to improve socioeconomic determinants of
health or reduce health disparities.
2011 Minority Health Grantees
Community-Based Chronic Disease Management Project (Columbia St. Mary's
Foundation)
Columbia St. Mary's Foundation established the Community-based Chronic
Disease Management (CCDM) project in 2007 to increase access to primary and
preventive health services for vulnerable people in locations they already
frequent, such as churches and food pantries. The project uses a nurse-led
delivery model to screen and manage chronic diseases such as hypertension,
diabetes mellitus type II and high cholesterol. By promoting low-cost
medicine, nutrition and education, CCDM has succeeded in reducing major
risks and preventing complications, such as stroke and heart attack, within
Milwaukee's impoverished, central city African American population. The
results have been impressive, with success rates in disease management at
92% for high cholesterol and 83% for diabetes. Additionally, 71% of
patients have lowered their blood pressure, while 79% of patients who were
unaware of their condition at diagnosis reported an increase in knowledge
regarding the impact of health behaviors after participating in the
program.
The project plans to use the Minority Health grant to address the
Healthiest Wisconsin goal of reducing disparities by working toward the
following outcomes:
- Prevention of health disparities arising from undertreated
chronic diseases in Milwaukee's impoverished, central city African American
population.
- Demonstration of an evidence-based, sustainable prevention model
for reducing health disparities related to undertreated chronic diseases
replicable throughout Milwaukee and other Wisconsin communities.
Partnerships will include a physician and physician residents from the
Medical College of Wisconsin; Community Health Ministry Nurses;
UW-Milwaukee nursing students; New Life Presbyterian Church and the
Wisconsin Northwest Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ Churches as
well as other central-city churches in Milwaukee.
Healthy Families/Healthy Communities Project (Dane County Parent
Council)
The proposed Healthy Families / Healthy Communities Project, sponsored
by Dane County Parent Council (DCPC), rests on the foundations of the
federal health and nutrition performance standards of the Head Start
program; the guidelines and principles of the Department of Public
Instruction Even Start Family Literacy program; the health/nutrition goals
of the Salsa, Sabor y Salud curriculum; the domains and objectives of
Healthiest Wisconsin 2020; and the groundbreaking report of the World Health
Organization, The Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts.
Healthy Families / Healthy Communities will utilize the above resources
and guides to address poverty and disparities through nutrition health
education for Dane County's most vulnerable low-income and minority
families. In a series of interactive, intergenerational group meetings,
diverse families will prepare and share healthy meals; children will engage
in age-appropriate nutrition/health learning activities, and adults will
discuss factors that can improve their food purchasing, preparation,
consumption and overall healthy well-being. Families will convene for
enjoyable physical movement celebrations at the conclusion of each session.
Additional staff training will ensure the program is replicable and will
reach a wider community beyond those participating in the two eight-week
sessions.
The project will implement, document and evaluate evidence-based
programming to improve the socioeconomic determinants of health and reduce
health disparities among children and families in Dane County.
Collaboration among DCPC, the Catholic Multicultural Center, the Madison
Urban League, the Early Childhood Initiative and the United Way of Dane
County exists as a community of practice and community of caring. The
shared concerns are the needs of low-income minority children and their
families for economic security, health care, education and housing. Through
recruitment and participation of African American, Latino, and other
members of the community, the project will meet the pillar objectives of
using resources and strategies a) to eliminate health disparities and b) to
reduce discrimination and increase social cohesion.
2012 Minority Health Community Grants
2010 Minority Health Mini-grants
2009 Minority Health Mini-grants
2008 Minority Health Mini-grants
2007 Minority Health Mini-grants
2006 Minority Health Mini-grants
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