Allegany Franciscan Ministries’ 2007 Major Grant Program awarded a total of $1,292,500 in Palm Beach, Martin, and St. Lucie counties to support programs and initiatives that increase access to culturally competent healthcare services and improve the overall health status of racially, ethnically and culturally diverse populations in the three-county region.
All 'Bout Children, West Palm Beach
Building Social/Emotional Wellness (two year grant) $193,000
This program will provide early childhood mental health prevention and intervention services on-site in child care centers for "at-risk" ethnic minority, low income children (birth to five). Services will also provide training and education to their teachers and families to promote consistent social and emotional wellness. The project will reduce the incidence and prevalence rates of social/emotional disorders, behavioral and learning problems and strengthen family emotional wellness in this vulnerable target population. Indigenous natural helpers who are sensitive to the cultural nuances will be recruited from the neighborhood and trained to assist with the children and families.
American Heart Association, West Palm Beach
Search Your Heart & Power to End Stroke (two year grant) $165,000
This program provides health screenings, risk-factor consultations, presentations and materials on cardiovascular disease and overall wellness for minority participants at Palm Beach area churches/community centers. African Americans are at risk more profoundly than the general population for cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes. The program works to improve these disparities by utilizing an empowerment model to address prevention of cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension and cholesterol by promoting healthy eating and exercise and providing practical solutions to challenges of healthy living.
Caridad Center/Migrant Association of South Florida, Boynton Beach
Volunteer Medical Interpreter Assistance and Training $40,000
The Volunteer Medical Interpreter Assistance and Training Program has been modeled on Bridging the Gap (BTG) medical interpreter's training developed by the Cross Cultural Healthcare Program in Seattle, Washington. Funding will be used to train medical interpreters in Spanish and Haitian-Creole. Interpreters will provide assistance in clinical encounters at the Center. Caridad Center will collaborate with Intercultural Family Health Education Center (an organization that primarily serves Haitian populations) on referrals and follow up.
Catholic Charities Diocese of Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens
Healthier Living: Self Management Program (three year grant) $237,000
Healthier Living is a disease management program that will operate in Indiantown (Martin County) and Fort Pierce (Saint Lucie County), to offer a system of coordinated healthcare interventions and communications for populations with conditions in which patient self-care efforts are significant. The Healthier Living program is a new initiative designed to work with youth and adults of all ages who have a chronic disease or condition. The program has been designed to assess individual patients based on risk level. It offers evidence-based instruction in chronic disease self-management, and furnishes disease specific information and lifestyle improvement education.
Florida Community Health Centers, West Palm Beach
Health Navigators $64,500
This program will increase access to healthcare services by expanding its "Health Navigator" program to the communities of Indiantown (Martin County) and Fort Pierce (St. Lucie County). The target population for this program is predominantly low-income, uninsured persons who are eligible for health and social service assistance primarily though Florida's State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP, i.e., KidCare, Healthy Kids) and Medicaid programs. This medically vulnerable population includes a high percentage of people who work in the agricultural industry and do not speak or read English as their primary language. With this funding, the program will be able to employ bi-lingual Health Navigators to conduct face-to-face, one-on-one, interviews with patients to enroll them in a myriad of health benefits; and assist patients in accessing needed care.
Haitian American Association Against Cancer, Miami
Cancer Intervention Program Planning Grant $35,000
This planning grant will assist the organization in replicating its breast cancer outreach and education program for Haitian women in Palm Beach County. The program operates successfully in Miami, FL. The funds will support the agency in conducting a community environmental scan of current services and gaps specifically for breast cancer in Haitian populations; forge partnerships with other providers who can assist those women who are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer; and ensure medical follow-up.
Intercultural Family Health Education Center, West Palm Beach
Kimbe Ayisyen an Sante/Keep Haitians Healthy $35,000
This program will offer health care services for uninsured Haitian adults and families by coordinating three levels of support: community outreach, health navigation and disease management. These three components will help people become more health literate, achieve greater self-sufficiency in obtaining healthcare, control their chronic disease and prevent long-term complications, address issues of cultural beliefs and values in healthcare encounters, obtain and take medications, and adopt a healthy lifestyle. The program will also focus on establishing a medical home for the clients.
Latin American Immigrant and Refugee Organization (LAIRO), West Palm Beach
Celebra la Vida con Salud (Celebrate Life with Good Health) Planning Grant $35,000
This planning grant will allow the organization to more fully develop its health education and outreach strategies for Latino and Hispanic populations in Palm Beach County. The planning grant will also provide time for greater development of the program design and integrating the healthcare component into LAIRO’s other organizational services; and to develop significant strategic alliances to ensure the success of referrals and linkages for medical care.
Martin County Healthy Start Coalition, Stuart
Pre-Natal Outreach & Education $103,000
The Martin County Healthy Start Coalition, in partnership with the Christian Community Care Center, will establish a Wellness Center to ensure that all mothers have every opportunity to give their baby a healthy start through access to services, education and support. Locating the Center in the area of greatest need based on available data, the partners will expand access to prenatal care to 90-100 uninsured women in Martin County, specifically the communities of Port Salerno, Golden Gate and Hobe Sound. The primary target populations are African American and Hispanic women who are uninsured and/ or undocumented.
Project Response, Fort Pierce
HIV Navigators (three year grant) $198,000
This program will provide Creole- and Spanish-speaking case managers to serve as "HIV Navigators," who remove barriers to care experienced by African American, Haitian and Hispanic clients living with HIV/AIDS. The program will provide interpretation services for clients; advocate for clients at medical appointments and appointments to secure public benefits; help clients formulate questions for their physicians and ensure meaningful communication between physician and client occurs; assist clients to understand the importance of taking HIV medicines correctly and instructing them how to do so; setting up pill boxes; educating clients about HIV disease.
Toward a More Perfect Union, West Palm Beach
Cultural Competency Training for Grantees $75,000
This initiative will support the development, implementation and evaluation of a cultural competency curriculum designed specifically to reach providers of health and human services. Grantees of Allegany Franciscan Ministries in Palm Beach County are required to participate in the training.
The following courses will be offered to grantees of Allegany Franciscan Ministries:
CCTP 101: This hands-on, two-day motivational journey helps participants increase awareness of their own cultures and the cultures of others, and to understand the dynamics of difference.
CCTP 102: As graduates of CCTP 101 develop cultural knowledge they become more accepting of differences and begin to incorporate and celebrate diversity. The journey continues with CCTP 102, a one-day workshop in which participants focus on the Power Model and the influence of cultural context on cross-cultural communications.
Executive Director Training: Designed to establish a clear and shared understanding of the concepts of diversity and culture, the goal of this one-day workshop is for executive leaders to understand what their staff members have learned in CCTP 101 so that they may make organizational and policy changes addressing with cultural competency.
Tykes and Teens, Stuart
Martin & St. Lucie County Cultural Competency Training $102,000
This initiative will support the development, implementation, and evaluation of a cultural competency curriculum designed specifically to reach providers of health and human services in Martin and St. Lucie counties. The courses described above in the Toward A More Perfect Union grant description will be offered through this initiative.
United Way of St. Lucie County, Ft. Pierce
St. Lucie County Comprehensive Community-wide Assessment $10,000
This planning grant was awarded to assist a group of public and private funding partners in St. Lucie County in undertaking a comprehensive community-wide assessment of current health, human, social and public safety services, and the unmet needs in St. Lucie County. This county-wide comprehensive assessment will assist the community in general in their efforts to develop strategies that address issues and need.
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