Healthier WI Partnership Program

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6th Funding Cycle Funded Projects

The Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program announced funding awards on November 19, 2010 for up to $2.85M for 6 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 $200,000 per award. The following 3 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 $750,000 per award. The following 3 Impact proposals received funding.

The 6th Request for Proposals (RFP) generated responses from over 250 community and Medical College of Wisconsin partners submitting 95 Letters of Intent intended to impact residents throughout Wisconsin communities. Of those, 32 projects were invited to submit a full proposal. Those 32 proposals met technical eligibility requirements and underwent competitive merit review by a National Review Panel and the MCW Consortium on Public and Community Health. The projects awarded funding are listed below in alphabetical order. For additional information on any of HWPP's funded projects, please complete the Information Request form.

 

Development Awards  

  
Project Title
 Community MedShare Prescription Assistance Project
Description This project will increase access to free or low-cost medications for more than 10,000 working and uninsured individuals in Milwaukee through expansion of the Community MedShare Program and targeted activities including use of trained volunteers. [Read More]
Award Amount $200,000
Community    Partners Bread of Healing Clinic, Inc.; The Free and Community Clinic Collaborative; MCW Saturday Clinic for the Uninsured; Greater Milwaukee Free Clinic; UW Milwaukee House of Peace Community Nursing Center; Salvation Army Homeless Clinic; Marquette Women & Children's Clinic
Academic Partner Staci Young, PhD - Family and Community Medicine
Project Progress Community MedShare Prescription Assistance Project will increase access to free or low-cost medications for more than 10,000 working and uninsured individuals in Milwaukee.  [Read More about project progress 2/1/2011 - 9/30/2011]

 

 

 

Project Title Developing a Novel Intervention to Improve Health Literacy among Wisconsin Latinos
Description To develop and evaluate the outcomes of a novel intervention to improve diabetes knowledge, knowledge retention, and screening behaviors among Latinos. [Read More]
Award 
Amount		 $200,000
Community Partner United Community Center (UCC)
Academic Partners Elaine Drew, PhD; Ruta Brazauskas, PhD - Institute for Health and Society
Project Progress Developing a Novel Intervention to Improve Health Literacy among Wisconsin Latinos will bridge the divide between the Latino population and access to accurate and understandable information about diabetes risk and prevention. [Read More about project progress 2/1/11 - 9/30/11]

 

 

 

Project Title Patient at Risk: Wisconsin's EIF Repository Program for Children with Special Healthcare Needs
Description To further develop Wisconsin's web-based Emergency Information Form (EIF) Program for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and to promote and train a critical mass of families, support organizations, and medical personnel in its use.  [Read More]
Award Amount $199,935
Community       
Partners		 Wisconsin Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics Foundation (WIAAP Foundation); Wisconsin Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC); General Federation to Women's Club - Oconomowoc Junior Woman's Club; Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; American Family Children's Hospital; St. Mary's Hospital; St. Joseph's Children's Hospital; Gundersen Lutheran Hospital; St. Vincent's Hospital; Regional Centers for Children & Youth with Special Health Care Needs; West Allis Fire Department; Baraboo District Ambulance Service; Waukesha Fire Department
Academic Partners Kenneth Yen, MD, MS; Sara Slowik, PA - Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)
Project  Progress Patient at Risk Program will develop a web-based Emergency Information Form for children with Special Healthcare Needs (CSHCN) and promote and train a critical mass of families, support organizations and medical personnel in its' use.  [Read More about project progress 2/1/2011 - 9/30/2011]
Impact Awards

 

 

Project Title Community-based Chronic Disease Management (CCDM)
Description CCDM will effect prevention of complications by screening for/managing hypertension, diabetes, and obesity at churches and food pantries that serve Milwaukee's poor and by promoting low-cost medicine, nutrition, and education in a tiered community model. [Read More]
Award Amount $ 750,000
Community Partner Columbia-St. Mary's Hospital
Academic Partner Jim Sanders, MD, MPH - Family and Community Medicine
Project Progress Community-Based Chronic Disease Management (CCDM) is designed to
increase access to primary and preventive health services by bringing
services to vulnerable people in locations they are already frequenting,
such as food pantries.  [Read More about project progress 2/1/2011 - 9/30/2011]

 

 

 

Project Title Developing a School Health Services Assessment and Related Resources
Description To increase the competency and capacity of local school health services systems. [Read More]
Award  Amount $ 740,963
Community Partners Wisconsin Public Health Association; Wisconsin Association of School Nurses; Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards; Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators; Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction; Wisconsin Division of Public Health
Academic Partner Marie Wolff, PhD -  Family and Community Medicine
Project Progress Developing a School Health Services Assessment Tool and Related Resources will increase the competency and capacity of local school health services systems by drafting, piloting, finalizing, implementing and evaluating a school health services quality assessment tool which will be complemented by resources, templates and educational materials to address priorities identified through the assessment results. [Read More about project progress 2/1/11 - 9/30/11]

 

 

 

Project Title Healthy Families, Healthy Communities Barron County
Description Improve health of rural communities, families, and individuals in Barron County through collaborative partnerships and interventions to increase levels of physical activity and healthy eating patterns and decrease overweight and obesity. [Read More]
Award Amount $750,000
Community Partners Healthier Cumberland Coalition; 3-M; Augustana Lutheran Church; Barron County Department of Health and Human Services; Barron County Safe and Stable Families Coalition; Boys and Girls Club of Barron County; Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESA) 11; Cumberland School District; Cumberland Memorial Hospital, Lakeview Medical Center, Luther Midelfort - Northland, Rice Lake Area Free Clinic, Rice Lake School District, University of Wisconsin Extension - Barron County; Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College, Aging and Disability Resource Center of Barron County
Academic Partners Jane Morley Kotchen, MD, MPH - Institute for Health and Society; Thomas Chelius, MS - Clinical Translational Science Institute
Project  Progress Healthy Families, Health Communities Barron County will improve the health of rural communities, families and individuals in Barron County through collaborative partnerships and interventions that will increase levels of physical activity, healthy eating patterns and decrease overweight and obesity. [Read More about project progress 2/1/11 - 9/30/11]
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