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Lower Umpqua Hospital District
Conversations in Coastal Douglas County
2011 - To share the results of the County Health Rankings report and discuss the Douglas County Healthy Communities proposed plan.
$1500
Coos County Friends of Public health
A Healthier Coos County
2011 - To stimulate community discussions and solutions about the burden of chronic diseases through four forums throughout Coos County.
$5000
Oregon State University, College of Health and Human Sciences
Oregon’s Local Health Departments: Moving Toward Accreditation
2010 - To pilot a technical assistance project using OSU's Extension Services aimed to prepare three counties for national accreditation, and to assess measures of success that could support the feasibility of this model for statewide efforts.
$15000
Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality
Parent Organizing Project
2010 - To expand and enhance the coalition’s successful parent support and education programs, which improve educational outcomes for primarily Latino students.
$225,000
CAUSA Oregon
Latino Civic Participation in Social Determinants of Health
2010 - To support statewide advocacy work that will address various disparities faced by Latinos.
$150,000
Asian Health and Service Center
Helping You, Helping Me
2010 - To train and match linguistically and culturally specific home care workers with Asian families and seniors in need of non-medical home care.
$209,018
Resolutions Northwest
Mitigating Long Term Health Inequities by Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
2010 - To dismantle the local school to prison pipelines by replicating and systematically institutionalizing the restorative justice program model in Portland area middle and high schools.
$175,209
Upstream Public Health
Legislative Advocacy for Farm Fresh School Foods and Teaching Gardens
2010 - To implement an advocacy campaign to convince the Oregon legislature to fund a Farm to School program.
$95,000
Community Alliance of Tenants
Regional Safe Housing Project
2010 - To improve systems for addressing substandard housing through improved education, dispute resolution, housing code development and housing code enforcement at the local and state levels.
$175,000
Oregon Voice
Oregon Voice
2010 - To build and strengthen an Oregon network of community and advocacy groups that, through collaboration and increasing political engagement, is dedicated to addressing a whole host of social and economic issues.
$100,000
Janus Youth Programs, Inc.
Village Market
2010 - To establish a healthy food retail operation within the New Columbia housing development in North Portland.
$200,000
verde
Bridging the Green Divide: Verde Energy, Verde Outreach
2010 - To create economic opportunity and environmental assets for low-income Native American and Latino Portlanders within growing “green” employment sectors.
$225,000
Coalition for a Livable Future
Regional Equity Atlas 2.0
2010 - To create the second iteration of the Coalition’s Regional Equity Atlas, and use it as a community mobilization and advocacy tool for health-promoting policies and investments.
$100,000
Clackamas County Department of Health, Housing, and Human Services - Health Services Division
Clackamas Youth Voice
2010 - To increase the capacity of high school youth by establishing and supporting Youth Advisory Boards at four Clackamas County high schools with school-based health centers.
$35,000
Zero Waste Alliance: Sustainable Oregon Schools Initiative
Assessment of Workplace Hazards and Health Needs among Vietnamese Nail Technicians
2010 - To develop a training and outreach process that assess and educates Vietnamese nail technicians about environmental risk factors in the workplace.
$50,000
New Avenues for Youth
Fostering Independence Program
2010 - To engage partners and develop a plan to improve outcomes for youth who age out of foster care.
$50,000
Pedagogy Institute/Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO)
Family and Community Empowerment (FACE) program
2010 - To build capacity for a new organization whose purpose is to give South Asian families the tools necessary to adapt
to a new culture, assist with challenging transitions, and build community networks for long-term support.
$42,000
North by Northeast Community Health Center
Community Building for Preventative Health through Shared Garden Project
2010 - To build a free health clinic’s capacity to empower both its clients and the community to focus on upstream prevention strategies and increase community cohesion.
$43,000
Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest
Tamanwit Elders Well-Being Assessment and Planning Project
2010 - To support a planning phase for providing culturally appropriate long-term care services for American Indians/Native Americans.
$48,475
Adelante Mujeres
Violence Reduction in the Spanish Speaking Immigrant Community: ESPERE USA
2010 - To address the issue of individual, familial, and societal violence among Latino immigrant families.
$50,000
Pacific Islander Student Alliance
Unnatural Causes Dialogues
2010 - To engage Pacific Islander students in Eastern Oregon, Gresham, and Corvallis using the "Unnatural Causes" series and popular education methods.
$2500
Slavic Community Center
Community Health and Wellness
2010 - To host 6-12 community discussion on health and prevention topics of concern to the Slavic community.
$5000
Oregon Toxics Alliance
Living Downstream- Conversations on the Science of Pollution and Health
2010 - To convene an Oregon-wide film and community forum series to raise awareness and stimulate conversation about the connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our air, land and water.
$5000
Jewish Theater Collaborative
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Well-being: the Story of Lillian Wald, American Hero
2010 - To support a theater production and townhall discussions around the impact of public health, told through the story of the historical figure Lillian Wald, a public health nurse who addressed the social determinants of health and issues of social justice in New York City at the turn of the 20th Century.
$5000
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments
Healthy Aging Dialogues in Linn and Benton Counties
2010 - To convene three community meetings in Linn and Benton Counties to discover how citizens perceive issues of healthy aging.
$5000
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon
Unnatural Causes Dialogues
2010 - To host three additional screenings of Unnatural Causes for Asian/Pacific Islander communities outside of the Portland metropolitan region, especially those ethnic groups that are not one of the six dominant populations.
$5000
Oregon Health Career Center
Health Career Day 2010
2010 - To support the public health career track and session at this careers exploration day involving 3000 high school students statewide.
$3000
Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
2010 - To support the convening of community, mental health and other health leaders to examine mental health and wellness issues within communities of color.
$500
Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon
Grassroots Network Pilot Program
2010 - To build a sustainable grassroots network that will advocate for evidence-based policies and programs that improve the health of Oregonians.
$5000
Familias en Accion
2010 and Beyond: Latino Health Equity Conference
2010 - To help sponsor community members, high school and college students to attend this event at Portland State University.
$1000
Wy’East Resource Conservation and Development Area Council
The Food Summit
2010 - To support lead- and follow-up activities related to The Food Summit, a day-long community action planning event.
$5000
Yamhill Community Action Partnership
Community Health Forums
2010 - To plan and convene health forums in Newberg and McMinnville in Fall 2010 to discuss the development of a comprehensive community assessment that identify gaps, identify existing capacity and opportunity for partnership between agencies.
$4950
Rachel’s Friends Breast Cancer Coalition
“No Family History: The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer”
2010 - To support a community showing of the film “No Family History,” and to facilitate meetings with health officials, legislators and community members to discuss ways to achieve meaningful reform statewide.
$1500
African Women’s Coalition
Unnatural Causes Series
2010 - To engage participants in creating and promoting policy solutions to address unmet reproductive and other health challenges among African immigrants and refugees.
$4700
Oregon Environmental Council
2nd Annual NW Environmental Health Conference
2010 - To sponsor community participation at an event that explores science and policy on the environmental determinants of health.
$2000
Hood River Valley Residents Committee
Healthy Hood River Community Involvement Project
2010 - To organize, implement and report on three community conversations to inspire people to connect community health with citizen participation within the Hood River Community Plan.
$4880
Regional Arts and Culture Council
The Acupuncture Project- Treatment for Portland
2010 - To explore the interface between art, regional planning, traditional Chinese medicine and the health of a city through the installation of public art installations coinciding with a series of public input sessions for the Portland Plan. Read more about the project on our CHP site.
$5000
Foundation for Medical Excellence (Archimedes Movement)
Unnatural Causes Tour
2010 - To sponsor an educational and outreach tour of rural Oregon communities to showcase the Unnatural Causes film series and to provide basic organizing information for engaging in issues impacting health. Sites included Sweet Home, Prineville, Burns, Baker City, Brookings, Bandon, Reedsport, and Florence.
$4670
Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon
Pre-conception and Women’s Reproductive Health Awareness Campaign for Latinas
2010 - To convene community conversations preconception health care for Latinas, culminating in a community event in spring 2010. Read more about this project on our CHP site.
$5000
Oregon Collaborative For Healthy Nail Salons
Strategic Planning and Community Dialogue
2010 - To develop a long-term strategic plan that allows a larger and broader set of stakeholders to be engaged in addressing the health of nail salon workers (especially among Asian immigrant).
$1500
Project Quest, DBA Quest Center for Integrative Health
LGBTQ Communities Participating for a Healthier Future
2010 - To address health disparities in LGBTQ communities by developing a community-wide strategic plan that includes a research agenda and policy recommendations using CBPR.
$20,000
Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon
Jackson County Latina Women’s Health Project
2010 - To build a CBPR partnership to understand and address reproductive health disparities present within the Latina community in rural Jackson County.
$20,000
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
Empowering Native Youth to Engage in Policy Change Addressing Nutrition & Physical Activity
2010 - To explore perceived barriers and facilitators for physical activity and healthy eating among Native American youth of two Oregon tribes in order to initiate policy recommendations for physical activity and nutrition.
$180,000
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
African Partnership for Health (APH): Building Alliances between Health Providers and African Refugees and Immigrants
2010 - To test community driven interventions and then identify and promote policy solutions to ensure culturally responsive care for Africans in Portland.
$120,000
Lane Coalition of Active and Healthy Youth
Healthy Corner Stores Initiative
2010 - To conduct a CBPR policy initiative that addresses the childhood obesity by focusing on the availability of healthier foods at two local corner stores in Eugene.
$180,000
Coalition for a Livable Future
Regional Equity Atlas 2.0
2010 - To develop the next edition of the Regional Equity Atlas (Atlas 2.0), a web-based mapping tool that depicts health equity conditions, using CBPR, and support grassroots policy changes related to the findings.
$90,000
Central City Concern
Social Determinants of Chronic Illness in the Most Vulnerable: A Partnership for Advocacy and Research
2010 - To establish a community-academic partnership to study the impact of social determinants on chronic disease health
outcomes of Central City Clients using CBPR methods.
$20,000
Adelante Mujeres
Partnering with Latino Farmers to Address Core Issues of Chronic Disease and Improve the Region’s Food Landscape
2010 - CBPR Grants 2010
$20,000
The TREE Institute
Collective Health Advocacy for Rooted Latinas/os & Africans (CHARLA-2)
2010 - Part of an effort by NWHF to help Oregonians shape the next phase of health care reform implementation by addressing health equity and public health.
$50,000
American Academy of Family Physicians - Oregon Chapter
Primary Health Care Workforce Reform - an Oregon Partnership
2010 - Part of an effort by NWHF to help Oregonians shape the next phase of health care reform implementation by addressing health equity and public health.
$50,000