As they approach the end of their grant periods,
these Local Initiative Funding Partners projects
offer a verbal snapshot of their successes, challenges,
lessons learned and future plans. Read their one-page
reports and their dramatic
stories.
All reports are in pdf format requiring Adobe
Reader, a free download available here.
Neighborhood Health Initiative
in Des Moines, IA employs Community Health
Advocates to ensure comprehensive, neighborhood-based,
culturally competent, and accessible health care
services for Hispanic, African American, Asian,
and other underserved and vulnerable populations. (Graduate
Report) (Graduate
Story)
Healthy Generations in
Washington, DC provides comprehensive
primary health care for adolescent parents and
their children in the same setting. The program
targets low-income minority families with limited
access to care and strives to strengthen adolescent
parenting and improve outcomes for children and
parents. (Graduate
Report) (Graduate
Story)
Abrienda Puertas in Boca
Raton, FL is a specialized program to
educate the Spanish-speaking community about
hospice services and to provide culturally sensitive
end-of-life care to terminally ill Hispanic people
and their families. (Graduate
Report) (Graduate
Story)
The Black Bag Project
in Lincoln, NE provides home-based medical
care to chronically ill elderly people. (Graduate
Report) (Graduate
Story)
Healthy Hair Starts with
a Healthy Body in Ann Arbor, MI is a salon-based
campaign dedicated to lowering rates of chronic
kidney disease, diabetes and hypertension among
African American adults. (Graduate
Report) (Graduate
Story)
Strengthening New Mexico
Families in Santa Fe, NM simultaneously
addresses the child development and health care
needs of New Mexico’s rural families by
incorporating nurses with specialized training
into multi-disciplinary center-based and home
visiting programs in predominantly Latino and
Native American communities.(Graduate
Report) (Graduate
Story)
Madre Angela Dental Clinic
in Milwaukee, WI is a community partnership
of health providers and volunteers committed
to improving access to oral health services for
adults and children with limited resources. (Graduate
Report) (Graduate
Story)
Rochester's Child Care
TeleHealth Access Network in Rochester, NY reduces
the health, educational, social and economic
impact of illness among inner-city children through
a network of telemedicine links that allow physicians
or nurse practitioners located at remote medical
offices to make diagnosis and treatment decisions
for children in child care centers. (Graduate
Report) (Graduate
Story)
YAVAPAI County Mental
Health Services for the Uninsured in Prescott,
AZ integrates mental health services into
community primary care clinics. (Graduate
Report) (Graduate
Story)
Bridging the Gap in Indianapolis,
IA increases HIV counseling and testing
in communities of color by utilizing non-traditional
and alternative outreach to the identified population
and provides HIV care coordination. (Graduate
Report)
Injecting Drug Users Health
Project in San Diego, CA provides medical
care, field-based case management and other harm
reduction strategies to injecting drug users,
their partners, and adult family members. (Graduate
Report)
Kapi'olani Child At-Risk
Evaluation (CARE) Program in Honolulu, HI promotes
and provides comprehensive medical evaluations
and forensic services to children entering foster
care and to children at risk for maltreatment. (Graduate
Report)
Putnam County Rural Health
Clinics in Baxter, TN increases accessibility
to primary health care services in rural Middle
Tennessee for people who are uninsured, underinsured,
and from immigrant families regardless of their
ability to pay. (Graduate
Report)
Client Advocate Program
in Fort Wayne, IN provides psychosocial
support to people with cancer, their families,
and the community by providing direct case management
and linkage to community resources. (Graduate
Report)
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