3^rd Funding Cycle Funded Projects

 

Posted on March 16, 2007

The Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program is pleased to announce funding awards totaling $7,037,486 for 29 community - academic partnerships in two categories:

DEVELOPMENT AWARDS - designed to support a range of health promotion or health-related prevention project ideas, including, but not limited to: planning or evaluation activities of a project or partnership, pilot project feasibility testing or implementation of a project, limited to up to $50,000 per award. The following 15 Development proposals received funding awards totaling $742,681.

IMPACT AWARDS - designed to support a range of project ideas, including but not limited to: implementation of a health promotion or health-related prevention project, program and / or partnership with significant impact; or, implementation of capacity building strategies that will have significant impact on a health-related organization, sector, or system, limited to up to $450,000 per award. The following 14 Impact proposals received funding awards totaling $6,294,805.

The response generated by this 3^rd Request for Proposals (RFP) was impressive, with over 300 community and Medical College of Wisconsin partners submitting 91 Notices of Intent intended to impact residents throughout Wisconsin communities (view full report). Of these, 76 full proposals met technical eligibility requirements and underwent competitive merit review by a National Review Panel and the MCW Consortium on Public and Community Health (view full report).  The projects awarded funding are listed below in alphabetical order.

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 Development Awards 

Project Title	Changing the Culture of Risky Drinking Behavior
Description	This partnership will result in the formation of an Alcohol Risk  Reduction Task Force in La Crosse to address the burden of at-risk alcohol use and abuse and injury.
Award Amount	$49,944
Community Partners	The La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium
Academic Partners	Emergency Medicine - Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH; Keri Briel Frisch, MPH

 

Project Title	Community Readiness for LGBT Intimate Partner Violence Support Services
Description	This project will use a Community Readiness Model to determine readiness and capacity of small and large lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities in Wisconsin to address intimate partner violence (IPV). Outcomes include increasing community leadership and connection to IPV services within LGBT communities and a three-year action plan to provide IPV support services based on readiness levels of specific communities.
Award Amount	$50,000
Community Partners	Diverse and Resilient, Inc.
Academic Partners	Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine - Carol Galletly, JD, PhD; David Seal, PhD

 

Project Title	Determining the Status of Wisconsin School Health
Description	This project will assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the current health services infrastructure in Wisconsin schools, and will result in a comprehensive call to action report on the status of school health services, including policy recommendations for key stakeholders.
Award Amount	$50,000
Community Partners	Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards; Wisconsin Association of School Nurses ; Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction; Wisconsin Division of Public Health, Bureau of Health Information; Wisconsin Public Health Association
Academic Partners	Family and Community Medicine - Marie Wolff, PhD

 

Project Title	Development of a Hispanic Health Patient Navigator
Description	The project will build on the demonstrated successes of the patient navigation/ community health worker concept to develop a culturally appropriate model to assist the Fox Cities Hispanic community to access and effectively utilize health care services and to secure implementation funding.
Award Amount	$49,918
Community Partners	CAP Services, Inc.
Academic Partners	Family and Community Medicine - Marie Wolff, PhD

 

Project Title	F4Kids = A Healthier Future
Description	This project aims to empower children to act as change agents to support a healthy cardiovascular lifestyle through an evidenced based comprehensive school health promotion program.
Award Amount	$48,707
Community Partners	Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin; Children's Hospital and Health System; Cudahy Health Department; Lincoln Elementary School; University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; Wee Care Day Care, Inc. - WIC Project
Academic Partners	Pediatrics - Pamela S. Cava, DO

 

Project Title	Farm to Fork: Cultivating Grassroots Capacity to Transform Food Access
Description	This project aims to reduce nutrition-related health risks and disparities in an inner-city, African-American, Milwaukee neighborhood by expanding a community-based health coalition and improving access to nutritious, affordable food through a comprehensive, farm-to-fork strategy and pilot programs.
Award Amount	$49,769
Community Partners	Urban Open Space Foundation, Inc.
Academic Partners	Family and Community Medicine - Linda N. Meurer, MD, MPH

 

Project Title	Milwaukee Alliance for Sexual Health
Description	The goal of this two-phase project is to reduce the rates of sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancies among African American adolescents in the city of Milwaukee. The objectives of phase two are 1) to form the Milwaukee Alliance for Sexual Health (MASH) as a robust network of partners committed to working together toward this goal; and 2) to prioritize and implement recommendations from the Strategic Plan.
Award Amount	$50,000
Community Partners	City of Milwaukee Health Department ; New Concept Self Development Center; Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Division of Public Health
Academic Partners	Pediatrics - Wendi Ehrman, MD; Family and Community Medicine - Seth Foldy, MD, MPH

 

Project Title	Milwaukee County Health Care Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Consortium
Description	The purpose of this project is to create a partnership between health care, local domestic violence agencies, the Milwaukee Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault/Milwaukee Health Department and MCW faculty to improve the emotional and physical health of women in Milwaukee County who are impacted by intimate partner violence.
Award Amount	$50,000
Community Partners	Aurora Sinai Medical Center; Columbia St. Mary's - Milwaukee Campus; Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital; Task Force on Family Violence, Inc.; Wheaton Franciscan Health Care
Academic Partners	Emergency Medicine - Mary Beth Phelan, MD

 

Project Title	Milwaukee Food & Fitness Initiative
Description	The purpose of the Milwaukee Food & Fitness Initiative is to integrate the systems and services of a newly formed coalition of food, fitness, health, academic and community organizations and develop new programs to improve the nutrition and fitness of Milwaukee's urban children and their families.
Award Amount	$50,000
Community Partners	Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee; Fondy Food Center; Growing Power Inc.; Lao Family Community, Inc.; Milwaukee County Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition
Academic Partners	Pediatrics - Joseph Skelton, MD;  John R. Meurer, MD, MBA

 

Project Title	Mi salud - Mi vida: Health Promoter Model for Diabetes Self-Management
Description	We will work together to assess and develop a culturally appropriate diabetes peer health promoter model to facilitate better self-care of diabetes in Hispanic families in Waukesha County.
Award Amount	$49,807
Community Partners	Carroll College, Institute of Hispanic Health and Human Services; ProHealth Care, Hispanic Community Health Resource Center
Academic Partners	Family and Community Medicine - Syed M. Ahmed, MD, MPH, DrPH; Eric Gass, MS

 

Project Title	NEW Leadership Wisconsin: Building Leadership Capacity to Reduce Health Disparities
Description	This MMC/MCW project will promote health improvement in Milwaukee by building health policy leadership capacity; a summer 2008 women's leadership pilot program for college students and MCW students will lead to MMC curricular enrichment and mutual community service learning opportunities.
Award Amount	$50,000
Community Partners	Mount Mary College
Academic Partners	Medicine - Ann M. Maguire, MD, MPH

 

Project Title	Public Health Workforce Development: A Call to Action
Description	This project will develop a deliberate and transparent collaborative plan between statewide public health system partners to advance the state health plan system priority of a diverse, sufficient, and competent public health workforce.
Award Amount	$50,000
Community Partners	Wisconsin Area Health Education Center; Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards; Wisconsin Division of Public Health; Wisconsin Public Health Association
Academic Partners	Population Health - Peter M. Layde, MD, MSc; Kirsten Gruebling, MPH; Jenny Her

 

Project Title	Quality Home Care
Description	The primary purpose of the Quality Home Care Project is to develop and evaluate assessment tools to measure the quality of home care currently being provided in Wisconsin.
Award Amount	$50,000
Community Partners	CAP Services Inc.; United States Department of Agriculture; University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives; University of Wisconsin Center on Wisconsin Strategy
Academic Partners	Population Health - Raymond G. Hoffmann, PhD

 

Project Title	The Journey of HOPE
Description	The major purpose is to build on the successes of Project HOPE by promoting a direction chosen by the Community Advisory Board of improving  health status of participants in the Agape community and by strengthening the community's capacity to address their own health needs
Award Amount	$50,000
Community Partners	Agape Community Center; Cardinal Stritch University
Academic Partners	Family and Community Medicine - Jeff Morzinski, PhD

 

Project Title	Using Social Networks to Increase HIV Testing in Vulnerable Populations
Description	Delay in diagnosing HIV infection leads to increased morbidity and mortality. Universal screening will improve outcomes but those at highest risk are still less likely to be tested. Social networks testing can improve identification of HIV positive patients and deserves further study.
Award Amount	$44,536
Community Partners	AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin
Academic Partners	Medicine - John JW Fangman, MD Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine - David Seal, PhD

Impact Awards

Project Title	Building A Recovery-Driven Continuum of Behavioral Health Care
Description	The intent of this project is to create a recovery-driven continuum of behavioral health care by integrating Peer Support throughout multiple, service delivery systems, which care for individuals with behavioral health needs.
Award Amount	$450,000
Community Partners	Grassroots Empowerment Project, Inc.; Justice 2000, Inc.; Mental Health Association in Milwaukee County; Mental Health Association in Waukesha County, Inc.; Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division; Our Space, Inc.; Social Rehabilitation and Residential Resources, Inc.; The Parenting Network, Inc.; Transitional Living Services, Inc.; Waukesha County Department of Human Services; Wisconsin Community Services
Academic Partners	Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine - Jon Gudeman, MD; Thomas Harding, MD

 

Project Title	Community-based Chronic Disease Management (CCDM)
Description	CCDM will effect prevention of complications by screening for/managing hypertension (HTN), diabetes (DM) and obesity (O) at churches and food pantries that serve Milwaukee's poor African Americans and by promoting low-cost medicine, nutrition, education and exercise in a tiered community model.
Award Amount	$450,000
Community Partners	Columbia St. Mary's
Academic Partners	Family and Community Medicine - James Sanders, MD, MPH

   

Project Title	Early Childhood Integrated Database System (ECIDS): Implementation and Evaluation
Description	The proposed Impact Award project will focus on implementation and evaluate of an integrated database system for young children with disabilities in Milwaukee County, based on the results of a 2005 HWPP planning project, "System Planning for an Integrated Database for Children with Developmental Disabilities."
Award Amount	$449,691
Community Partners	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services; City of Milwaukee Health Department; Milwaukee Center for Independence
Academic Partners	Pediatrics - Christine Cronk, ScD

 

Project Title	Eat Smart
Description	The Eat Smart Program will engage youth and their families in two diverse communities to learn how to grow, harvest, prepare, consume, recycle and study the nutrient value and benefit of food.
Award Amount	$448,243
Community Partners	Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee; Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; Growing Power, Inc.; Milwaukee School of Engineering, Center for Biomolecular Modeling
Academic Partners	Pediatrics- Joseph Skelton, MD

 

Project Title	Faith-based African American Health Network (FAAHN)
Description	The FAAHN will build on existing BHC's Faith-based Community Health Committee to create a communication and support infrastructure to engage the African American community in emergency preparedness, health policy, planning and advocacy to improve community capacity to reduce health disparities.
Award Amount	$447,992
Community Partners	Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin, Inc.; City of Milwaukee Health Department
Academic Partners	Pediatrics - Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH

 

Project Title	Healthy Latino Families: A Nutrition/Exercise Program to Reduce Obesity
Description	This program will modify the middle school meal program to be healthier and infuse more physical activity and targeted health education messages into the curriculum. A family-based early evening education program will help children and parents incorporate these changes into their lives.
Award Amount	$450,000
Community Partners	United Community Center; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Academic Partners	Pediatrics - Christine Cronk, ScD

  

Project Title	Lakeshore Lodge
Description	This project will develop educational activities at Lakeshore Lodge through replication of Center for Healthy Communities health education and leadership programs, create a job training program for mental health consumers, and create a central hub for the mental health community in Manitowoc County.
Award Amount	$449,874
Community Partners	Manitowoc County Human Services Department; National Association of the Mentally Ill-Manitowoc Chapter
Academic Partners	Family and Community Medicine - Marie Wolff, PhD; Eric Gass, MS

   

Project Title	Partnerships to Connect Schools, Health, and Public Health Insurance
Description	This project's objective is to increase the number of eligible children who enroll in Wisconsin's Medicaid, BadgerCare, and Healthy Start ("Family Medicaid") public health insurance programs through closer coordination between these programs and the state's free and reduced price school lunch programs.
Award Amount	$450,000
Community Partners	Community Advocates; Covering Kids & Families-Wisconsin (CKF) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology ; State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services ; State of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction ; University of Wisconsin Extension, Family Living Programs
Academic Partners	Pediatrics - John Meurer, MD, MBA; Injury Research Center - Tim Corden, MD

 

Project Title	PEARLS for Teen Girls High Risk Intervention
Description	The primary purpose of the PEARLS for Teen Girls High Risk Intervention Project is to create an effective and replicable community-based model for improving the health, wellness and safety of extremely high-risk, low-income, African American teen girls within a school setting.
Award Amount	$450,000
Community Partners	Family Leadership Academy (Family Bridges Inc.); PEARLS for Teen Girls, Inc.; Silver Spring Community Nursing Center ; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Urban Community Development ; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing
Academic Partners	Family and Community Medicine - Kevin Izard, MD

 

Project Title	Project Heart: Healthy Empowerment to Access Resources Together
Description	The aim of Project Heart is to expand an existing community academic partnership to implement a health improvement model focused on increased access to health screening, preventive education and advocacy for underserved women who are involved with the criminal justice system in Milwaukee.
Award Amount	$450,000
Community Partners	Bread of Healing Clinic; Community Advocates; Horizons Inc.
Academic Partners	Medicine - Ann M. Maguire, MD, MPH; Population Health - Daniel Eastwood

 

Project Title	Project Respect
Description	Project Respect will develop leadership, capacity and programs at eight Milwaukee neighborhood centers to effectively engage communities in the prevention of risk factors of sexual and intimate partner violence involving adolescents who live in many of the most impoverished areas of our community.
Award Amount	$449,951
Community Partners	City of Milwaukee Health Department; Silver Spring Neighborhood Center; United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, College of Nursing
Academic Partners	Pediatrics - Lynn K. Sheets, MD

  

Project Title	Stop Abuse and Neglect of Elders: Increasing Capacity to Respond
Description	We will improve the health and safety of at-risk elders by increasing awareness, recognition, response and referral of elder maltreatment through a multi-level community-based education program targeting professionals who provide medical, home health and emergency response services to the elderly.
Award Amount	$450,000
Community Partners	Milwaukee County Department on Aging
Academic Partners	Family and Community Medicine - Linda N Meurer, MD, MPH; Syed M. Ahmed, MD, MPH, DrPH; Kevin Hamberger, PhD

 

Project Title	TAP (Targeting Adolescent Problems): Substance Abuse Crisis Hotline and Program
Description	TAP (Targeting Adolescent Problems) will create a curriculum and screening tool, recruit and train volunteers, and conduct community outreach and education to ensure the success of a crisis line for adolescents and young adults experiencing complications due to the use of illicit substances.
Award Amount	$449,694
Community Partners	Children's Health Education Center-Children's Hospital and Health System; Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; Fighting Back, Inc
Academic Partners	Pediatrics - M. Susan Jay, MD

  

Project Title	Waukesha Smiles: Dental Outreach to Low-Income Waukesha Children
Description	The Waukesha Smiles Project will compare approaches to improve oral health habits and increase access to basic dental care for low-income children in Waukesha through a school-based outreach program of oral health promotion, screening and referral.
Award Amount	$449,360
Community Partners	School District of Waukesha; Woodland Dental Group
Academic Partners	Family and Community Medicine - Kenneth G. Schellhase, MD MPH; Patrick Ginn, MD; Susanne Krasovich, MD; Anne Marbella