Project Overview
1st Funding Cycle Implementation Award Project Start Date: 5/1/2005 Project End Date: 6/30/2008
Project Goal Statement: The Riverwest Health Initiative is a grassroots coalition working to create a healthier community by addressing a range of factors that affect the overall well-being of residents' lives. The project aims to prepare and analyze community health profiles by conducting a community health assessment, identifying and prioritizing community strengths and needs, developing a strategic health plan to address community needs, and identifying health improvement efforts for the top health priorities. A community health liaison will facilitate community engagement and provide referrals. The project will increase community coalition participation; increase parent education of healthy lifestyles and resources; ensure immunizations at Franklin Pierce and Fratney schools and participating Children's Outing Association (COA) Centers; decrease rates of reported juvenile crime and substance abuse; increase the number of community youth linked to a medical home; and, increase the number of children birth to three years attending COA's Centers that receive developmental screenings.
Award Amount: $450,000
Community Partners: Primary Community Partner: COA Youth and Family Centers Additional community partner organization names:
Academic Partner: Primary Academic Partner: Jim Sanders, MD, MPH, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Project Progress Summary Reports: Project Progress Report Summary March 2005 - June 2008 Project Final Report Summary
Affiliated Web Pages: COA Youth and Family Centers Columbia St Mary's Family Health Center Franklin Pierce School OW Holmes Elementary School Peace Learning Center University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, College of Nursing University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Riverwest Pierce Community Nursing Center
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