7th Funding Cycle Funded Projects

The Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program announced funding awards on October 28, 2011 for up to $4.8M for 13 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 9 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 4 Impact proposals received funding.

The 7th Request for Proposals (RFP) generated responses from over 300 community and Medical College of Wisconsin Partners submitting 75 Letters of Intent intended to impact residents throughout Wisconsin communities. Of those, 34 projects were invited to submit a full proposal. Those 34 met technical eligibility requirements and underwent competitive review by a National Merit 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	Around the Corner to Better Health
Goal	To increase healthy food availability in Milwaukee's central city through community readiness assessments and concomitant strategic interventions based on real community capacity for change.
Award Amount	$199,999
Community Partners	City of Milwaukee Health Department; Lindsay Heights Neighborhood Health Alliance; Walnut Way Conservation Corp.
Academic Partners	Staci Young, PhD and Melissa DeNomie, MS - Department of Family and Community Medicine

Project Title	Fighting Cancer in Wisconsin's American Indian Communities
Goal	To build the public health capacity of Wisconsin’s rural and urban American Indian communities and clinics to accurately target and culturally tailor specific cancer program and services.
Award Amount	$200,000
Community Partners	Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; Red Cliff Community Health Center; Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center; State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services - Cancer Reporting System; UW Spirit of EAGLES; University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center; Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Program; Wisconsin Cancer Council
Academic Partners	J. Frank Wilson, MD - Department of Radiation Oncology; Elaine Drew, PhD, Department of Family and Community Medicine

Project Title	Los Cuidadores Unidos: United Latino Caregivers
Goal	To pilot an innovative, culturally appropriate intervention to improve the health of caregivers of Latino elderly.
Award Amount	$199,941
Community Partners	Centro de la Comunidad Unida - United Community Center (UCC)
Academic Partners	Zeno Franco, PhD and Melissa DeNomie, MS - Department of Family and Community Medicine

Project Title	More Than A Pretty Place: Activating Urban Parks to Improve Community Health and Wellness
Goal	To understand how a new urban park, with complementary outreach and education, affects knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, assets/supports and health outcomes among neighborhood residents.
Award Amount	$199,986
Community Partners	Urban Ecology Center; Menomonee Valley Partners
Academic Partners	Kirsten M. Beyer, PhD, MPH - Institute for Health and Society; Amy Kistner - Department of Family and Community Medicine

Project Title	Reducing Racial Disparities Through Improved Hypertension Control in African Americans
Goal	To develop, implement and evaluate a portable, cost-effective hypertension control strategy in a primary care setting serving low-income African Americans.
Award Amount	$188,955
Community Partners	Westside Healthcare Association; Wisconsin Primary Healthcare Association; Lindsay Heights Neighborhood Alliance; American Heart Association; Milwaukee Area Health Education Center; Center for Urban Population Health
Academic Partner	Theodore Kotchen, MD - Department of Medicine

Project Title	School Community Partnership for Mental Health
Goal	To refine and demonstrate the effectiveness of a collaborative partnership model of mental health promotion and service and to influence systems changes needed for sustainability.
Award Amount	$190,617
Community Partners	Milwaukee Public Schools; Aurora Family Service; Pathfinders; Sebastian Family Psychology Practice; Rogers Memorial Hospital; WI Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics; UW Milwaukee; Planning Council for Health and Human Services; City of Milwaukee Health Department; Wraparound Milwaukee; State Department of Health Services; OptumHealth; Community Connect Health Plan; Children's Community Health Plan; Molina Healthcare
Academic Partner	Sheri Johnson, PhD - Department of Pediatrics

Project Title	Training Lay Trainers: A Strategy to Disseminate Care Coordination Skills to Families of CYSHCN
Goal	To train a cadre of Lay Trainers who are themselves parents of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) to teach care coordination skills and behaviors to other families of CYSHCN using a recently developed care coordination curriculum.
Award Amount	$200,000
Community Partners	WI Dept. of Health Services, Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Education; Children's Hospital of Wisconsin – Special Needs Program; State of Wisconsin Dept. of Children and Families – Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare
Academic Partner	John Gordon, MD - Department of Pediatrics

Project Title	Use of a Lay Health Advisor Model to bring Sexual and Reproductive Justice to Latinos in Milwaukee
Goal	To evaluate the implementation of a Lay Health Advisor Model, including culturally competent social marketing and home health education gatherings, to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes for Latino youth and adults in Milwaukee.
Award Amount	$200,000
Community Partners	Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin; CORE/El Centro; Council for the Spanish Speaking; Holy Angels Old Catholic Church
Academic Partner	Julia Lechuga, PhD - Department of Psychiatry

Project Title	Utilizing Peer Teen Advocates to Increase HPV Vaccination Rates Among Adolescents
Goal	To increase awareness of HPV among urban adolescents in Milwaukee who are high risk for HPV infection morbidity and mortality. The innovation lies in the utilization of peer health advocates and the power of social media.
Award Amount	$200,000
Community Partners	Milwaukee Health Department, Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee
Academic Partners	Denise Uyar, MD - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Staci Young, PhD - Department of Family and Community Medicine

Impact Awards

Project Title	Changing the Culture of Risky Drinking Behavior: Policy Change
Goal	To create a sustainably safe environment for alcohol consumption through changes in local alcohol licensing policies; practices on college campuses, in taverns, and at festivals; and by educating current and future leaders in community collaboration.
Award Amount	$ 750,000
Community Partners	La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium; Coulee Council on Addictions; CESA #4; La Crosse County Health Department; Gundersen Lutheran
Academic Partners	Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH and Donna Peterson, PhD - Department of Emergency Medicine

Project Title	Diversity Matters: Recruting Wisconsin's Future Public Health Workforce
Goal	To increase the diversity of Wisconsin's public health workforce.
Award Amount	$ 749,482
Community Partners	Wisconsin Public Health Association; Wisconsin Division of Public Health
Academic Partners	Peter Layde, MD, Kim Contardi, MPH, CHES and Jenny Her - Department of Emergency Medicine

Project Title	Earlier is Better
Goal	To reduce the dental caries experience of Wisconsin Early Head Start children through evidence-based prevention and educational interventions during Early Head Start Programming.
Award Amount	$ 746,485
Community Partners	Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin; Wisconsin Head Start Association; Wisconsin Division of Public Health Oral Health Program
Academic Partners	Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH - Department of Pediatrics; Lisa Olson and Chelsea Hamilton – Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children

Project Title	Kenosha County Suicide Prevention Initiative
Goal	To reduce the number of poisonings, suicides and self-harm in Kenosha County through supporting evidence based interventions that work to increase screening, referrals and treatment.
Award Amount	$ 748,267
Community Partners	Kenosha County Division of Health; Mental Health America; Kenosha National Alliance on Mental Illness; Racine National Alliance on Mental Illness; Kenosha County Medical Examiner's Office; University of Wisconsin-Parkside; Gateway Technical College; Kenosha Human Development Services – Crisis; Division of Aging and Disability - Resource Center; United Hospital System – St. Catherine’s Medical Center Emergency Department; United Hospital System – Kenosha Medical Center Emergency Department; Roger's Memorial; Oakwood Clinical Associates, Inc.; Carthage College; Kenosha Community Health Center; American College of Emergency Physicians
Academic Partners	Amy Zosel, MD, Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH, Amy Schlotthauer, MPH - Department of Emergency Medicine; David Clark, MD – Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

Healthier WI Partnership Program

7th Funding Cycle Funded Projects

Development Awards

Impact Awards