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Health Policy Research Northwest
Increasing Mental Health Access for Low-Income Pregnant and Postpartum Women
2009 - To evaluate the effectiveness of using vouchers as an incentive in accessing mental health treatment.
$50,000
Klamath Health Partnership Inc./Klamath Open Door Family Practice
Behavioral Health Primary Care Integration Demonstration Project
2009 - To integrate mental health care with primary care services delivered at a safety net clinic.
$75,000
Outside In
Outside In Medical Case Management Project
2009 - To support bilingual case management for homeless youth and Latino clients, as well as increased data analysis capacity, for a primary care safety net clinic.
$66,585
Asian Health and Service CenterChronic Disease Link
Chronic Disease Link
2009 - To create a collaborative partnership between primary care clinics and culturally competent chronic disease programs for the Asian population.
$75,000
Oregon Pediatric Society
Oregon START: Screening Tool and Referral Training
2009 - To systematically integrate children’s behavioral and developmental screening within the primary care setting through a program that trains primary care providers how to screen for the early signs of these problems and connect to early childhood community resources.
$50,000
Central City Concern
Expansion of Primary Care Services to Behavioral Health
2009 - To add a Behavioral Health Assistant to the safety net clinic’s multi-disciplinary primary care home team.
$74,568
La Clinica del Carino
Empanelment for our Primary Care Home
2009 - To increase the capacity of the clinic’s electronic medical records system to contribute to its primary care home model implementation.
$60,950
Casa Latinos Unidos de Benton County
Community Health Needs and Assets Survey and Organizational Capacity Building
2009 - To conduct a community needs and assets assessment of Benton County’s Latino population, forge new relationships with mainstream health and social service agencies, and develop a strategic plan to guide this new organization’s outreach and advocacy agenda.
$50,000
Child Advocates, Inc
A CASA for Every Child
2009 - To enable this agency to recruit and train an additional 55 court appointed special advocates (CASAs) to serve all of the children in the Clackamas County criminal justice system who have been abused or neglected.
$82,500
Upstream Public Health
Community Approaches to Reduce Soda Consumption
2009 - To build a broad-based community advocacy campaign to design and implement effective strategies to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.
$250,628
Western States Center
Organized Communities, Healthy Communities
2009 - To work with leaders and staff of organizations based in, and/or led by, people of color and low-income populations to build their organizations’ capacity to affect policy change toward the broad goal of equality and elimination of disparities.
$100,000
Center for Intercultural Organizing
Pan-Refugee and Immigrant Social Movement-Building (PRISM) Project
2009 - To implement a comprehensive plan for engaging immigrants and refugees in civic actions that address the social determinants of health in Washington County.
$225,000
Fair Share Research & Education Fund
People of Color Collaborative
2009 - To build a statewide network of organizations led by people of color, immigrants and refugees that will mobilize their communities to successfully change public policy and practices that result in increased health equity.
$300,000
Community Cycling Center
Communities in Motion: Overcoming Barriers to Bicycling to Promote Health
2009 - To engage low-income communities of color in North and Northeast Portland to identify and overcome barriers to using bicycles as a regular means of transportation.
$49,976
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc.
Constructing Green Futures
2009 - To advocate for public policies that end occupational segregation in high-wage, blue collar building, construction, mechanical and utility trades, develop peer mentoring and prepare women to participate fully in the green economy.
$50,000
Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon
Grassroots and Root Causes: Implementation of the Act to End Hunger
2009 - To build a diverse constituency to advocate for public policies that will reduce food insecurity among Oregon families.
$210,000
Sisters of the Road
Systemic Change Program
2009 - To build relationships that lead to local, regional and national changes in our society and its institutions to improve the lives of people dealing with poverty and homelessness.
$250,000
Fruit Valley Neighborhood Food Access Project
Clark County Health Department
2009 - To build community capacity and leadership to advocate for improved nutritional options in this low-income neighborhood of Vancouver.
$50,000
Native American Youth and Family Center
NAYA Family Center Early College Academy Teen Pregnancy Prevention Capacity Building Project
2009 - To create a collaborative culturally relevant and social responsive Teen Parent Prevention Program.
$50,000
Ecotrust
Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids and Communities
2009 - To implement an online service called FoodHub to increase participation in Farm to School programs.
$139,580
VOZ Workers’ Rights Education Project
LUCHA, Laborers United for Collective Health
2009 - To expand its leadership development and community organizing activities to improve the well being of day laborers in Portland.
$95,000
Community Health Partnership
Addressing the Health & Equity Impact of Portland Urban Planning
2009 - To improve opportunities for health in outer southeast Portland by conducting a Health Impact Assessment and using the results to advocate for improved development policies and infrastructure.
$138,971
Community Health Partnership
Healthy Eating at Farmer’s Markets: Exploring Barriers & Solutions
2009 - To convene farmer’s market managers and public health professionals to develop strategies to make farmer’s markets more accessible to low-income customers while enhancing their financial sustainability.
$49,926
Center for Diversity and the Environment
Environment, Health, & Equity Project: Addressing racial equity in the environmental movement to achieve health equity
2009 - To address institutional and cultural racism in Portland’s environmental movement in order to create more equitable policies and practices that affect social determinants of health.
$182,273
The Children’s Institute
Essential Investments in the First Five Years
2009 - To support research, policy, and advocacy work related to seeking first-time funding in the state budget for Early Head Start, which addresses the achievement gap for at-risk children under age four.
$200,000
Multnomah County Commission of Children, Families, and Community
Got Health?
2009 - To develop youth councils for all eight high school School-Based Health Centers in Multnomah County.
$50,000
Organizing People, Activating Leaders (OPAL)
East Portland Transportation and Health Equity Project
2009 - To build capacity to address the unequal distribution of transportation burdens and benefits in East Portland neighborhoods.
$50,000
Innovative Housing, Inc.
Innovative Changes: Making Change Matter
2009 - To develop the capacity of a new Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) in order to provide asset-building opportunities to low-income residents in Portland.
$50,000
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)
Asian Pacific Islander Policy Capacity Project
2009 - To strengthen the capacity of APANO’s members to better organize, analyze, and advocate for policies that addressing social determinants of health for the Asian and Pacific Islander community.
$50,000
Neighborhood Partnerships
Building Pathways to Security: Implementation Phase
2009 - To support the statewide advocacy efforts of a broad-based coalition to develop and advocate for policies that address asset poverty.
$150,000
Central City Concern
Advocacy Training & Expansion
2009 - To support a community outreach worker who will recruit and train 120 clean and sober individuals to serve as advocates for recovery, housing, and employment services.
$90,000
Partnership for Safety and Justice
Promoting prevention based strategies for addiction within a public safety context
2009 - To launch a campaign to expand access to drug and alcohol treatment services, as well as access to effective alternatives to incarceration for addiction-driven crime.
$225,000
Janus Youth Programs, Inc.
Village Gardens
2009 - To improve nutritional options, social cohesion, social capital, and opportunities for micro-enterprise among residents of housing complexes by first establishing a CBPR advisory board.
$20,000
Benton County Health Department
Latino Health Ambassador Network
2009 - To develop a Latino Health Ambassador Network to formally engage Latino community members and other formal/informal Latino community leaders in addressing the disproportionate impact of chronic disease on Latinos living in Benton and Linn Counties.
$15,000
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
African Partnership for Health
2009 - To enhance the capacity for health leadership and policy advocacy among African refugees and immigrants in the Portland Metro area using CBPR.
$19,857
Mountain View Hospital Foundation
Policy Approaches to Children’s Health (PATCH)
2009 - To test if school-based policies such as menu labeling, recess before lunch, and parental notification of body mass index will have an impact on childhood obesity.
$175,271
Family Building Blocks
Advocacy for Oregon’s Relief Nurseries
2009 - Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Inform Policy Advocacy for Oregon’s Relief Nurseries: Identifying Returns on Investments. To study the cost effectiveness and return on investment of the relief nurseries programs in Oregon using CBPR.
$180,000
Western Oregon University - Louise Silva, M.D., MPH
Qigong Massage for Early Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Parent Training Aspect
2008 - Dr. Silva’s research determined the effect of qigong massage as an early intervention for autism, especially as it at relates to a child’s social and communication abilities and functions. This research built off earlier studies on qigong massage, and included the testing of a parent and provider training intervention that can be delivered in the educational settings. The Teaching Research Institute of Western Oregon University provided the research support and facilities to conduct this research.
$150,000
From: Mark O. Hatfield Fellowship
Sigma Theta Tau International
Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy
2008 - To sponsor the participation of two Oregon representatives in becoming effective agents for systemic change.
$54,800
Project Access NOW
Project Access NOW Regional Services and Care Coordination
2008 - To support a regional volunteer network and coordinated access to charity care.
$75,000
Community Health Center
Increasing Health Care Access by Strengthening Health Care Delivery Capacity
2008 - To increase the provision of primary care and mental health services to previously unserved patients through the addition of a licensed clinical social worker.
$38,640
CHOICE Regional Health Network
Pacific County Access and Health Care Improvement Coalition
2008 - To support insurance coverage outreach and enrollment for uninsured residents, and develop a community coalition to address pressing health problems.
$73,472
Outside In
Neighborhood Sparks
2008 - To address immediate health care access needs by providing services from outside health and social service organization while planning for longer-term implementation of a community health center and school-based health center.
$73,293
Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital Foundation
Gorge Dental Access Council
2008 - To support dental treatment as part of a comprehensive strategy to provide access to dental care to low-income and uninsured populations.
$20,000
United Way of Lane County
Medical Access Program: A Coordinated Care System for the Uninsured
2008 - To support a program that connects uninsured individuals with needed basic health care and social services.
$39,500
Volunteers in Medicine, Clinic of the Cascades
Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades Physician-Partnership
2008 - To address the needs of patients with chronic care needs by recruiting physicians who will provide primary care homes and offering chronic care classes, resulting in an increase in acute care delivery capacity.
$55,000
OSPIRG Citizen Lobby
Moving the Health Care Constituency
2008 - To support statewide health reform advocacy activities, including lobbying, before and during the 2009 legislative session.
$40,000
Oregon Small Business for Responsible Leadership
Oregon Small Business Healthcare Initiative Mobilization Project
2008 - To establish an organization to mobilize the small business community in Oregon’s health reform conversation.
$40,000
Oregon School-Based Health Care Network
Building Grassroots Leadership for Policy Change
2008 - To increase youth and family advocacy for, and increase sustainability of, school-based health centers.
$40,000
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Oregon Interfaith Health Justice Campaign
2008 - To mobilize a diverse partnership of the faith- and non-faith based consumers to advocate for statewide health reform.
$40,000
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