Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health for Communities
Grant: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health for Communities
Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Division: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Deadline: July 21, 2010
Description: The purpose of the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health for Communities (REACH CORE) program is to support local communities to strategically organize to implement and evaluate evidence-based policy, system and environmental change interventions that eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in chronic diseases. The REACH CORE program will run concurrently with the continuation of the REACH U.S. program and will provide a complement to the evidence-based behavioral change and community interventions from REACH U.S. to most effectively eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities at the population level.
This program will support the transition of communities from the analysis of intervention results to the use of these results in facilitating health equity and policy change. This funding opportunity is unique in that it engages populations typically left out of the policy, systems and environmental processes and will close the gap in the impact of policy, systems and environmental change interventions in communities of color.
Grantees will receive funding for a two-year planning period in which communities will mobilize sectors including state and local policymakers, state and local health agencies and community institutions. Projects will focus within the priority areas of heart disease and stroke, breast and cervical cancer, diabetes, adult immunization, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, asthma and infant mortality. The REACH CORE program will provide support to communities that have demonstrated significant and effective past experience in addressing racial and ethnic health disparities at the community level and with additional resources can achieve larger scale community health impacts.
Fit for Public Broadcasting: Local television stations have the ability to reach audiences and groups that may be underserved and overlooked by traditional public health campaigns and policies. Through this program, public broadcasting stations can partner with local health organizations and other community-based organizations to develop programs, policies and educational materials to eliminate health disparities among minority communities. Public broadcasting stations have the capability to reach an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse audience and can therefore be a very beneficial partner to other community organizations.
Eligibility: Non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, hospitals and community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, and state and local governments are eligible to apply for grants from this program.
Anticipated Funding: There is an estimated $4,000,000 available for this grant. Initially, up to 10 communities will be funded for two years at $200,000 each year to mobilize key stakeholders and change agents to craft needed policies and identify areas for system and environmental changes, build support among decision makers and community members and launch agreed upon strategies and interventions. Subsequent year funding will be made on a competitive basis among those funded in year one.
How to Apply: Applications can be downloaded and must be submitted at Grants.gov.
Resources:
Program notice
Program website
REACH Program website
