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4th Funding Cycle Funded Projects


The Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program is pleased to announce funding awards totaling $6,368,224 for 24 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 11 Development proposals received funding awards totaling $539,128.

View development project progress updates.

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 13 Impact proposals received funding awards totaling $5,829,096.

View impact project progress updates.

The response generated by this 4th Request for Proposals (RFP) was impressive, with over 300 community and Medical College of Wisconsin partners submitting 95 Notices of Intent intended to impact residents throughout Wisconsin communities (view full report). Of these, 86 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.

 

Development Awards  

 

Project Title A School-Based Intervention to Increase African-Americans and Latinos in Health Professions
Description Little is known regarding effective interventions for increasing the numbers of Latino and African-American health profesionals; we hypothesize that AA and Latino middle school students' interest in the health professions will increase following a school-based intervention. [Read More]
Award Amount $50,000
Community Partner Milwaukee Public Schools
Academic Partners John Meurer, MD, MBA; Tarik Walker, MD, MPH; Laura Cassidy, PhD - Pediatrics

 

Project Title Building Capacity for Promoting Population-based Prevention Strategies in Wisconsin
Description The goal of this project is to build capacity within Wisconsin's independent public health institute so that it can best carry out its mission of inspiring Wisconsin's business and policy leaders to adopt effective population-based prevention strategies. [Read More]
Award Amount $50,000
Community Partner Institute for Wisconsin's Health, Inc.
Academic Partner Timothy Corden, MD - Pediatrics

 

 

Project Title Caring for Those Who Share: Improving the Health of Wisconsin Blood Donors
Description This proposal aims to identify and prevent treatable disease in prospective Wisconsin blood donors who are not allowed to donate because of anemia, through the use of an interventional tool and increased awareness about the need for further evaluation. [Read More]
Award Amount $49,959
Community Partners National Anemia Action Council, Inc.; BloodCenter of Wisconsin
Academic Partners Kenneth G. Schellhase, MD; Anne Marbella, MS - Family and Community Medicine

 

 

Project Title Circles of Sisters: Enhancing Family Development with Doula Care for Beloit Teen Mothers and their Children
Description This planning project will develop community partnerships and conduct a needs assessment to explore the feasibility of implementing a doula program for teen mothers in Beloit in order to address health disparities and increase maternal and child health. [Read More]
Award Amount $49,501
Community Partners Beloit College; Community Action - HUB Connections; Family Services of Southern Wisconsin & Northern Illinois, Inc.; Beloit Area Community Health Center
Academic Partners Emmanuel Ngui, DrPH, MSc; Alicia Cortright, MPH - Pediatrics

 

 

Project Title Fostering Hope
Description The project aims to improve the foster care model by developing teams from faith communities that assist quality foster parents in their vocation, thus decreasing their attrition rate and consequently enhancing the well being of youth in foster care. [Read More]
Award Amount $50,000
Community Partners Colarelli Family Foundation; Children's Service Society of Wisconsin; Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare; Children's Hospital and Health System
Academic Partner Lynn Sheets, MD - Pediatrics

 

 

Project Title School Nursing: The Tipping Point for Health for Vulnerable Families
Description School nurses are pivotal to helping students and families address health concerns and establish lifelong healthy behaviors. This project builds a diverse and knowledgeable school nurse work force, concentrating on the needs in Milwaukee Public Schools. [Read More]
Award Amount $50,000
Community Partners University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Milwaukee Public Schools
Academic Partners Staci Young, PhD - Family and Community Medicine

 

 

Project Title The Great Lakes Environmental Health Project
Description Empowering WIC families to reduce exposure to environmental health risks through health assessment and educational initiatives that will ultimately reduce health disparities in children. [Read More]
Award Amount $39,760
Community Partners University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; West Allis Health Department
Academic Partner Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH - Pediatrics

 

 

Project Title The Medically Fragile Foster Child – Improving Health Status Through Education and Community Linkages
Description This project will identify gaps in knowledge, communication, and system navigation among medical providers, families and child welfare workers serving medically fragile foster children, toward creation of a curriculum to improve skills and cross system collaboration. [Read More]
Award Amount $50,000
Community Partners Milwaukee Child Welfare Partnership for Professional Development; Helen Bader School of Social Welfare; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare; Department of Health and Family Services
Academic Partners Elizabeth Moberg-Wolff, MD; Maria Ocasio-Silva, MD - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Lisa Zetley, MD – Pediatrics; Dawn Bragg, PhD

 

 

Project Title The Wisconsin Community Health Worker (CHW) Network
Description This project will establish the Wisconsin Community Health Worker (CHW) Network to cultivate training and networking opportunities for CHWs and their supporters throughout Wisconsin. [Read More]
Award Amount $49,912
Community Partners Northern Wisconsin Area Health Education Center; Wisconsin Area Health Education Center
Academic Partners Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH - Pediatrics

 

 

Project Title Well City Milwaukee: Creating a Workable Plan to Evaluate a City-Wide Worksite Wellness Initiative
Description Well City Milwaukee will assist employers to deliver results oriented wellness programs as a strategy to enhance the health and wellbeing of their workforce, manage health care expenditures and raise awareness of the importance of healthy lifestyles. [Read More]
Award Amount $49,996
Community Partners YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee; City of Milwaukee; Greater Milwaukee Committee; Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce; Wellness Council of Wisconsin
Academic Partner Jane Morley Kotchen, MD, MPH - Population Health

 

 

Project Title Wisconsin Well Water: Planning Web-Based Resources to Promote Safe Drinking Water for Wisconsin Residents
Description This project aims to increase the capacity for systematically delivering information to support household water management decisions among Wisconsin residents that are responsible for their drinking water safety with a goal of reducing water related illness. [Read More]
Award Amount $50,000
Community Partners Central Wisconsin Groundwater Center, University of Wisconsin Department of Life Sciences Communication, and University of Wisconsin School of Nursing
Academic Partners

Syed Ahmed, MD, MPH, DrPH; Melissa Holmquist - Family and Community Medicine

 

Impact Awards

 

 Project Title Elder Community Health Upholders
 Description This partnership of nine Milwaukee churches and five health organizations will uphold the health of our most vulnerable, medically underserved communities through culturally aligned elder health ministries and new health advocacy and leadership practices. [Read More]
 Award Amount $441,187
 Community Partners American Cancer Society, Midwest Division, Wisconsin; Arthritis Foundation Wisconsin Chapter; American Heart Association; Christ Presbyterian Church; Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church; Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church; Tabernacle Community Baptist Church; Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church; Victory Missionary Baptist Church; Monumental Missionary Baptist Church; St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church; Incarnation Lutheran Church; Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-Southeast Wisconsin, Inc.
 Academic Partners Jeffrey Morzinski, PhD, MSSW; Karen Krause-From; Alan Wells, PhD, MPH—Family and Community Medicine

 

 

 Project Title Emergency Department (ED) to Primary Care Medical Home Referral and Retention Project
 Description Milwaukee Health Care Partnership (MHCP) plans to implement and evaluate the ED to Medical Home Referral and Retention Project for the dual purposes of ED diversion and linking low-income patients to primary care medical homes in Federally-Qualified Health Centers. [Read More]
 Award Amount $450,000
 Community Partners Milwaukee Health Care Partnership; Westside Healthcare Association, Inc.; Health Care for the Homeless of Milwaukee, Inc.; Milwaukee Health Services, Inc.
 Academic Partners Eric Gass, PhD; Marie Wolff, PhD—Family and Community Medicine

 

 

 Project Title Healthy Youth: Strong and Connected
 Description Our objective is to decrease violent, intentional injuries and improve mental health by providing the Staying Alive violence prevention curriculum to 4,500 6th grade children in Milwaukee Public Schools via firefighters, community workers and teachers. [Read More]
 Award Amount $449,203
 Community Partners Milwaukee Public Schools; Milwaukee Fire Department; Children's Service Society of Wisconsin (Project Ujima)
 Academic Partners Marlene Melzer-Lange, MD; Dawn Zahrt, PhD—Pediatrics

 

 

 Project Title Integrating and Mapping Community Health Assessment Information
 Description To develop an automated web-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) infrastructure for public health staff, researchers and students that can provide convenient mapped population health information from a variety of data sources to support community health improvement planning. [Read More]
 Award Amount $450,000
 Community Partners Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Division of Public Health
 Academic Partners Emmanuel Ngui, DrPH—Pediatrics, Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children; Peter Layde, MD, MSc; Emily McGinley—Population Health

 

 

 Project Title Johnsons Park Health Alliance: Building a Culture of Community Sufficiency for Health in the Fond du Lac and North Avenue Neighborhoods
 Description We aim to reduce socioeconomic and health disparities in an urban, African-American, Milwaukee neighborhood by strengthening a community-based health coalition and implementing programs to promote healthy life skills and community self-sufficiency. [Read More]
 Award Amount $450,000
 Community Partners Fondy Food Center, Inc.; Walnut Way Conservation Corporation; Johnsons Park Neighborhood Association; Seedfolks Youth Ministry
 Academic Partners Linda Meurer, MD, MPH; Syed Ahmed, MD, MPH, DrPH; Melanie S. Hinojosa, PhD; Melissa Holmquist, MS—Family and Community Medicine, Center for Healthy Communities

 

 

 Project Title Kenosha County Suicide Prevention Initiative
 Description The purpose of this project is to prevent suicide and non-fatal suicide attempts in Kenosha County by increasing access to mental health care, increasing awareness and education and reducing access to lethal means. [Read More]
 Award Amount $450,000
 Community Partners Kenosha County Division of Health; Mental Health America of Wisconsin
 Academic Partners Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH; Ann Christiansen, MPH; Amy Schlotthauer, MPH— Emergency Medicine

 

 

 Project Title Making Milwaukee Smile
 Description This project will implement a major recommendation of the oral health action plan, Healthy Teeth = Healthy Kids to provide primary, secondary and tertiary level care by a consortium of organizations utilizing a school-based oral health care model. [Read More]
 Award Amount $446,519
 Community Partners Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin; Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Dental Center; Columbia St. Mary's; Marquette University School; Milwaukee Health Services Inc.; Milwaukee Public Schools; Southeast Dental Associates
 Academic Partners Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH; Tifany Frazer, MPH—Pediatrics

 

 

 Project Title Nurturing Healthy Youth Leaders Through Faith-Based Partnerships
 Description This project will expand a successful faith based partnership to increase leadership capacity and address health needs of Milwaukee youth through mentoring programs with lay health advisors. [Read More]
 Award Amount $450,000
 Community Partners Holy Cathedral Church of God in Christ Word Hope Ministries; City of Milwaukee Health Department; Greater Bethlehem Temple Church; Christ Temple Church of God in Christ; Ebenezer Church of God in Christ; Mason Temple Church of God in Christ; New Hope Missionary Baptist Church; Parklawn Assembly of God; Cross Lutheran Church; Holy Temple First Born Missionary Baptist Church; Liberty and Truth Ministries; New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church; Christ Tabernacle Church of God in Christ; Christ Tabernacle Ministries
 Academic Partners Staci Young, PhD; Melissa Holmquist, MS—Family and Community Medicine

 

 

 Project Title Partnership for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in Western Wisconsin
 Description This project seeks to impact morbidity and mortality from chronic disease through increased disease prevention and health promotion activities for the mostly rural underserved population in four western Wisconsin counties. [Read More]
 Award Amount $449,730
 Community Partners Viterbo University; La Crosse County Health Department; Monroe County Health Department; Vernon County Health Department; Trempealeau County Health Department; St. Clare Health Mission
 Academic Partners Marie Wolff, PhD—Family and Community Medicine

 

 

 Project Title Riverwest Health Initiative (RHI)
 Description Riverwest Health Initiative II will continue its community health improvement process by implementing and evaluating interventions that target health priorities identified in Riverwest's strategic health plan and continue building community health capacity. [Read More]
 Award Amount $448,961
 Community Partners COA Youth and Family Centers; Columbia St. Mary's; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing
 Academic Partners James Sanders, MD, MPH—Family and Community Medicine

 

 

 Project Title Salud de la Mujer: Community Developed Materials to Increase Health Literacy in a Latino Community
 Description The primary goals of this project are to increase the health literacy and knowledge of health resources for women and families in a predominantly Latino community. [Read More]
 Award Amount $449,971
 Community Partners United Community Center
 Academic Partners Melanie S. Hinojosa, PhD; Syed Ahmed, MD, MPH, DrPH; Linda Meurer, MD, MPH; Melissa Holmquist, MS—Family and Community Medicine

 

 

 Project Title Transforming the Continuum of Behavioral Health Crisis Care: The Milwaukee Crisis Resource Center
 Description The Crisis Resource Center (CRC) will improve the care of people experiencing psychiatric crises by providing recovery-driven, crisis prevention and intervention services, which will empower individuals to achieve and maintain mental health stability. [Read More]
 Award Amount $450,000
 Community Partners American Red Cross; Aurora Behavioral Health Services; City of Milwaukee Police Department; Justice 2000, Inc.; Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division; National Alliance of the Mentally Ill of Greater Milwaukee; Our Space, Inc.; Transitional Living Services, Inc.; United Community Center, Inc.; Warmline, Inc.; Wisconsin Community Services, Inc.
 Academic Partners Jon Gudeman, MD; Jon Berlin, MD—Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

 

 

 Project Title Using Social Network Testing (SNT) to Increase HIV Testing in Vulnerable Populations in Wisconsin 
 Description New approaches are needed to identify HIV-positive individuals who have not been previously tested. We propose to expand an existing Social Network Testing (SNT) pilot program to improve diagnosis of HIV in vulnerable populations. [Read More]
 Award Amount $443,525
 Community Partners AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin
 Academic Partners John J.W. Fangman, MD—Medicine

 

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