2006 Grant Awards

Asian Family Services, Inc.
(Hartford)

To integrate health-related policy issues into the community dialogue during the political season in 2006.

Association of Yale Alumni in Public Health
(New Haven)

30,000

To conduct an assessment of the policy, practices and procedures for recruiting and retaining historically under-represented faculty members at the Yale University School of Public Health.

Bridges ... A Community Support System
(Milford)

To integrate health-related policy issues into the community dialogue during the political season in 2006.

To establish a Racial Justice Leadership Initiative in Hartford.

To lead a statewide advocacy coalition of senior citizens and people with disabilities who are concerned about the new federal prescription drug program, Medicare Part D.

Organizational Leadership Capacity Grant to support transformational leadership in health and health-related nonprofits aimed at ensuring the quality of services and improved health outcomes.

To support the Connecticut Center for Effective Practice’s activities to enhance Connecticut’s capacity to improve the effectiveness of treatment provided to all children with serious and complex emotional, behavioral and addictive disorders.
 

General support for a program that provides vision care to Connecticut's vulnerable populations.

Citizens for Economic Opportunity
(Farmington)

To integrate health-related policy issues into the community dialogue during the political season in 2006.

To develop an evaluation plan for the Mayor's Diabetes Awareness Initiative.

To act as fiscal agent for the Connecticut Health Foundation's 2007 Leadership Fellows Program.

To act as fiscal agent for the Connecticut Health Foundation's Leadership Fellows Program, a one-year knowledge and skill-building program designed to create leaders, who will pursue careers in public policy, public health practice, community advocacy, academia, or any other related field.

To integrate health-related policy issues into the community dialogue during the political season in 2006.

To reduce health disparities in underserved, high risk diabetic patients by integrating the latest concepts in telephonic disease management from the commercial health market in New Britain and Meriden clinics.

To increase access to dental services for children insured under HUSKY.

To engage and retain underserved and medically transient African-American and Hispanic North Hartford clients in diabetes prevention and management through their Family Diabetes Prevention Program, an educational outreach program.

Organizational Leadership Capacity Grant to support transformational leadership in health and health-related nonprofits aimed at ensuring the quality of services and improved health outcomes.

To pretest a Social Determinants of Health Equity Index instrument, and use the results to inform planning and advocacy efforts of community health needs.

To integrate health-related policy issues into the community dialogue during the political season in 2006.

To translate a 30-minute documentary about the effects of financial barriers to health care into Spanish, and develop and expand its educational outreach program.

Organizational Leadership Capacity Grant to support transformational leadership in health and health-related nonprofits aimed at ensuring the quality of services and improved health outcomes.

Connecticut Center for Patient Safety
(Statewide)

To integrate health-related policy issues into the community dialogue during the political season in 2006.

To enhance its communications capacity to promote universal healthcare coverage in Connecticut.

General support to improve urban environments and reduce environmental health disparities through grassroots education and advocacy.

To increase public will about the value of "prevention" in an effort to facilitate policies and support for broad-based prevention initiatives for children and youth through an intensive public awareness campaign.

To act as fiscal agent for the Connecticut Health Foundation's support of the Hartford Health Disparities Collaborative, a mayor's Healthy Communities Initiative.

To improve state data collection and planning efforts to impact racial and ethnic health disparities.

Connecticut Department of Public Health
(Statewide)

To conduct a data collection project on the oral health status of 9,100 pre-and elementary school children, which will be used to inform programmatic interventions and policy development.

Organizational Leadership Capacity Grant to support transformational leadership in health and health-related nonprofits aimed at ensuring the quality of services and improved health outcomes.

A planning grant to develop, with two partner organizations, an application to establish a Federally Qualified Health Center to serve the Greater Danbury area.

To conduct the Community Health Center Dental Practice Assessment Project to increase access and improve financial stability.

To integrate health-related policy issues into the community dialogue during the political season in 2006.

To support its health-related research and dissemination efforts.

To support its nationwide grant-making association activities.

To support the Teaching and Reaching Excellence Together Program (TARGET), an after-school substance abuse prevention program for youth ages 6 to 13.

Organizational Leadership Capacity Grant to support transformational leadership in health and health-related nonprofits aimed at ensuring the quality of services and improved health outcomes.

To adapt the Chronic Care Model for diabetes prevention in a high risk, adult, female, Hispanic population in New Haven.

Organizational Leadership Capacity Grant to support transformational leadership in health and health-related nonprofits aimed at ensuring the quality of services and improved health outcomes.

To act as fiscal agent for Danolas Productions to produce a documentary film, Darkest Hours, which provides an in-depth look at the crisis in children's mental health care.

Organizational Leadership Capacity Grant to support transformational leadership in health and health-related nonprofits aimed at ensuring the quality of services and improved health outcomes.

To help local grassroots family support groups, coalesce parents and other caregivers to identify system issues that will be used to build a public policy agenda.

To design a publication, "A Guide to Women's Health Rights in Connecticut."

Foundation for Educational Advancement
(Simsbury)

To integrate health-related policy issues into the community dialogue during the political season in 2006.

To expand its continuum of care to include pediatric dentistry in Windham County.

To increase access to dental services for children insured under HUSKY.

Organizational Leadership Capacity Grant to support transformational leadership in health and health-related nonprofits aimed at ensuring the quality of services and improved health outcomes.

To provide partnership support for this nationwide grant-making association.

To support its nationwide grant-making association activities.

Greater Hartford Legal Aid, Inc.
(Hartford)

To support general operations to implement a comprehensive set of services (litigation, consultation, education and advocacy) to ensure the rights of the historically underserved and unserved.

Griffin Hospital - Healthy Divas
(Lower Naugatuck Valley)

24,853

To implement a culturally and linguistically responsive health education and support program for Latinas.

To test the effectiveness of a health literacy-based educational intervention among congestive heart failure patients through an experimental design.

Hispanic Health Council
(Hartford)

To develop a policy and advocacy division (Latino Policy Institute) within the organization.

To update its Community Indicators Report.

Part of a national funding partnership to create a national roundtable on racial and ethnic health disparities. The round table is designed to stimulate action, further the development of programs and strategies, and foster emerging leadership.

To support accounting operating expenses.

LEARN -- The Southeast Mental Health System of Care
(Old Lyme and New London)

120,000

To identify and improve services for children with severe mental health problems and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment and service planning.

Organizational Leadership Capacity Grant to support transformational leadership in health and health-related nonprofits aimed at ensuring the quality of services and improved health outcomes.

To support physicians of color, and their efforts to maintain and increase the diversity of health care providers in Connecticut.

To address community medical interpretation needs through organizing and advocacy, and partnering with local health care institutions.

400,000
over 26 months 

To expand and integrate physical activity into academic settings in 18 schools. Health teams, based on the Healthy School Model, will be developed at the school level to monitor the intervention and improve health through programs, policies and practices.

To evaluate its Youth Health Service Corps program intended to expose historically under-represented high school students to opportunities in the health professions through service learning.

To develop a new program to improve the mental health of children ages 5 to 8 through screenings and early interventions.

40,000

To use the internet to bring Connecticut-based news on health to its residents. It also will allow the end-line user to respond through a special “activist tool kit,” which allows the reader to take action on an issue or story. This project also is funded by the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut.

To support general operations.

To support general operations.

To provide technical assistance to develop a strategic plan and program to pilot a "church without walls," as part of its Faith & Family Initiative.

To provide bilingual labor, delivery, and lactation education and support to Spanish-speaking expectant and new mothers. 

To implement components of the Chronic Care Model to improve quality of diabetes care and prevention at six adult medicine clinics with a focus on African-American men.

To support The Partnership Safe Grounds Campaign, whose goal is to stop exposure to lawn pesticides and products in Connecticut in an effort to decrease morbidity and mortality associated with these chemicals.

To provide support and advocacy for gay youth in Connecticut.

Organizational Leadership Capacity Grant to support transformational leadership in health and health-related nonprofits aimed at ensuring the quality of services and improved health outcomes.

67,366
over 18 months

To train general dentists across the state to increase their effectiveness in providing pediatric dental care to children.

To conduct a study of a prenatal nutritional intervention as a model to help prevent early childhood caries, an infectious gum disease that is transferred from mother to child.

To support general operating expenses, which will be used to address education and early detection of breast and cervical cancer among low-income and uninsured women.

Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center
(New Haven)

25,000

To integrate health-related policy issues into the community dialogue during the political season in 2006.