Grant Highlights
Health
Established in 1952, the school focuses on educating socially responsible mental-health practitioners, providing holistic services to underserved communities, and advancing social justice, primarily through its Institute on Social Exclusion. Funding supports the institute’s professional conference “The Social Determinants of Mental Health: From Awareness to Action.”
The senior center offers a continuum of services, such as advocacy, mental health, and case management, to adults with severe mental illness and other disabilities, as well as caregivers and their families. A two-year grant supports a demonstration project designed to improve health outcomes for foster-care home residents with severe mental illness who suffer disproportionately from diet-related chronic diseases.
The agency’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program has reduced lead hazards for Alameda County children through remediation efforts, home evaluations, case management, and training in lead-safe construction practices. Grant assistance helps the Get the Lead Out coalition strengthen its infrastructure, extend its advocacy and educational outreach to day laborers, and support the enforcement of lead-safe regulations for renovations.
The department designs and delivers community-health services and programs and serves as the lead agency for the Food to Families initiative. This three-year grant supports the initiative, which is aimed at reducing the risk of obesity, improving access to healthy foods, and fostering community activities that support the health of African American and Latino pregnant women.
The association is the world’s oldest, largest, and most diverse organization of public health professionals. This two-year grant supports the environment section’s activities, including lectures, scholarships, and educational sessions at the association’s annual conference.
The clinic, which has been delivering free, comprehensive medical services to uninsured, low-income Arlington County residents since 1994, handled 10,000 patient visits and filled 15,000 prescriptions last year. This two-year grant helps to implement a multiyear medical transformation project designed to integrate new electronic systems that expand patient access to high-quality care.
The system serves more than 45,000 medically underserved patients through its six community health centers and six school-based clinics. This planning grant enables Baltimore Medical to collaborate with key government and community agencies on developing a strategy for elevating the role of community health care in Maryland’s health-system reforms.
The center has provided health services to medically underinsured communities for nearly 40 years, and is partnering on a model project to develop a community-based leadership organization. This three-year grant supports the leadership organization, which aims to ensure that comprehensive health and fitness services are available to vulnerable residents of Sheldon Township.
The private, nonprofit academic medical center in Boston’s historic South End is New England’s largest safety-net hospital. A two-year grant enables the Medical Legal Partnership for Children program to expand and increase the sustainability of its national center and affiliated programs, which utilize legal aid to augment primary-care services to low-income children and their families.
The private, nonprofit academic medical center in Boston’s historic South End is New England’s largest safety-net hospital. A four-year grant enables the National Center for Medical Legal Partnership to build the capacity, effectiveness, and funding resources of local and regional medical-legal partnerships, which help to remove legal and social barriers to health care for low-income children and their families.