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5th Funding Cycle Funded Projects

Posted on April 3, 2009

The Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program is pleased to announce funding awards for up to $1.1M for 8 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 $40,000 per award. The following 5 Development proposals received funding.

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 $300,000 per award. The following 3 Impact proposals received funding.

This 5th Request for Proposals (RFP) generated responses from over 300 community and Medical College of Wisconsin partners submitting 99 Notices of Intent intended to impact residents throughout Wisconsin communities. Of these, 79 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 Faith Community GYM: Guiding Youth Movement for Sustained, Healthy Futures
Description This partnership will increase fitness activities within a large, faith-based community in Milwaukee, while building capacity to reduce health risks by training youth, family and volunteers to embed and sustain running and fitness in their community. [Read More]
Award Amount $40,000
Community Partners Milwaukee Area Technical College; Greater New Birth Church
Academic Partners Jeffrey A Morzinski, PhD, MSW; Melissa Holmquist, MS - Family and Community Medicine

  

Project Title Cross Cultural Strategies to Address the Healthcare Needs of the Hmong Community in Milwaukee
Description The goal of this project is to develop cross cultural strategies to address the healthcare needs of the Hmong community in Milwaukee, WI with regard to mental health and preventable diseases. [Read More]
Award  Amount $40,000
Community Partner Shee Yee Community of Milwaukee, Inc.
Academic Partners Melanie Sberna Hinojosa, PhD; Alan Wells, PhD - Family and Community Medicine

 

Project Title Dryhootch: Veterans using peer support to make sure their comrades get the care they need
Description Despite significant, often service-related, health problems, returning veterans and their families underuse available healthcare and social resources. We will explore the use of trained peer counselors to facilitate use of these services. [Read More]
Award Amount $40,000
Community Partners Dryhootch of America, Inc.; Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
Academic Partner Jeff Whittle, MD, MPH; Medicine

 

Project Title Open Wide: Expanding Oral Health Primary Prevention Opportunities through Partnership
Description The intent of the planning grant is to expand the competencies of nurse case managers to confidently include oral health prevention and promotion services in their work with low income, disabled women and their children. [Read More]
Award Amount $40,000
Community Partners Marquette University; S. E. T. Ministry
Academic Partner Sheri Johnson, PhD - Pediatrics

 

Project Title Sowing seeds to grow healthy communities: a school garden pilot project
Description Concerned about the high rate of obesity and chronic disease in the population, community partners in Buffalo and Pepin Counties want to educate children and families about nutrition and healthy food choices by implementing a school garden pilot project. [Read More]
Award Amount $39,957
Community Partners Pepin County Health Department; Buffalo County Department of Health and Human Services; St. John Lutheran Church; Pepin Area School District; Cochrane-Fountain City School District; University of Wisconsin Extension
Academic Partner George Jacobson, PhD - Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

 

Impact Awards

Project Title Changing the Culture of Risky Drinking Behavior: Underage Access
Description The purpose of Changing the Culture of Risky Drinking Behavior: Underage Access is to reduce underage access and use of alcohol in La Crosse County by translating evidence-based strategies into action according to a community-developed strategic plan. [Read More]
Award Amount $300,000
Community Partners La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium; Coulee Council on Addictions; CESA #4; City of La Crosse Police Department; La Crosse County Health Department
Academic Partners Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH; Ann Herbst, AA - Emergency Medicine

 

Project Title Collaborative Response to the Growing Wisconsin Health Workforce Crisis
Description This project addresses the health workforce shortage threatening our most vulnerable communities by providing the data collection and forecasting critically needed for workforce planning. [Read More]
Award  Amount $300,000
Community Partners Wisconsin Health Workforce Data Collaborative; Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative; Wisconsin Medical Society, Inc.
Academic Partners Peter Layde, MD, MSc; Jenny Her - Population Health

 

Project Title Nuestros Niños Nuestro Futuro (Our Children Our Future)
Description Project will address mental health problems experienced by students exposed to violence through implementation of an evidence-based behavioral intervention program and build sustainable school capacity to support good mental health for children. [Read More]
Award Amount $300,000
Community Partners La Causa, Inc.; Milwaukee Public Schools; Milwaukee County Wraparound Program; 16th Street Community Health Center; United Migrant Opportunity Services (UMOS); Child and Adolescent Inpatient Services Milwaukee County; Mobile Urgent Treatment Team
Academic Partners Julia Dickson-Gomez, PhD; Laura Glasman, PhD; Angel Rosado; Cheryl Sitzler, MA - Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

 

 

 

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