Overview
Through the Community Partnerships Grant Program, HTA is increasing the capacities of local and regional AA&NHPI communities to provide more effective health and health care services in the national, regional, and state arenas.
Use of Grant Funding
Grantees provide direct services to meet specified needs, to raise awareness of local ethnic-specific health issues in the AA&NHPI communities, and to work with policymakers to increase available resources for health care.
Vulnerable AA&NHPI individuals, families, and children are considered those to be those with limited access to health services and resources because of cultural and language barriers, lower socioeconomic status, or inadequate health insurance coverage.
The following is a partial list of initiatives funded by the Community Partnerships Grant Program:
- To address communities' immediate needs through:
- Screening and prevention of diseases such as hepatitis B and cancer (particularly liver, stomach, and breast cancers)
Culturally and linguistically appropriate programs
Empowerment of community members to advocate for increased access to health care
- To collect and use data to create - for the first time - a vivid snapshot of AA&NHPI's actual health status, and to use the snapshot to comrehensively assess ethnic specific health needs
- To encourage local, state, and federal legislators and policy leaders to provide increased resources and improved programming to reduce disparities through the use of statistics
- To increase visibility of AA&NHPI health issues in order to draw attention to the community's challenge
Grantees
Twelve communities from ten states are using the grants to energize and support efforts.
- +Arizona
- +Cancer Screening and Prevention
- +California
- +Access to Health Services
- +Access to Primary Health Care (especially obesity, cancer, diabetes, and hypertension)
- Samoan National Nurses Association
- +Physical and Developmental Disabilities
- Asian and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities
- +Georgia
- +General Health Navigators (e.g., breast cancer, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, HIV, STDs/STIs)
- +Hawaii
- +Early Childhood Care and Development
- +Minnesota
- +General Health Education
- +New York
- + Access to Health Services
- +Ohio
- +Hepatitis B Screening and Vaccination
- +Texas
- +Utah
- +Obesity, Diabetes, Hypertension
- +Rhode Island
Selection of Grantees
APIAHF issued an open invitation to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI). Applicants were required to be AA&NHPI led, non profit, 501(c)(3), local communited based organizations serving vulnerable AA&NHPI communities. A total of 136 LOIs were received. These applications were objectively and independently reviewed by five annonymous individuals from APIAHF and WKKF. Of the 136 LOIs, 30 organizations were invited to submit full proposals. Nine anonymous reviewers from APIAHF, WKKF, and external organizations received 28 proposals. The reviewers chose 17 for site visits, which were conducted by a team of three reviews from APIAHF, WIKKF, and an external organization. Finally, 11 organizations were chosen for different grant types: 8 four-year grants and 3 two-year grants. Applications to this grant are no longer being accepted.
