Promoting Food Sovereignty Among Indigenous Communities
The Oneida Nation is developing a model of programming that promotes traditional food ways, agriculture, and cultural identity among Indigenous communities as a comprehensive approach to reducing health disparities and improving health and health care.
Barbershop Health Initiative
Aaron Perry and the Rebalanced-Life Wellness Association (RLWA) kicked off their new Community Collaboration Grant: Black Men’s Wellness Sustainable Initiative, a four-year strategy that aims to reduce health disparities that adversely affect black men and boys in Dane County. The initiative builds upon the success of RLWA’s Men’s Health and Education Center, an innovative model that strives to improve health and reduce barriers to health care for black men.
Advancing School-Based Mental Health Care
Advancing School-Based Mental Health in Dane County is a five-year $1 million Community Impact Grant award to the Madison Metropolitan School District that will develop an innovative model to provide care that's easily accessible to students.
Improving Health by Addressing Housing Instability
A grant to Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, Milwaukee’s largest federally qualified health center, supports the organization’s work to build a strong foundation of community health by addressing housing instability in its community.
Focusing on Correctional Health
A new course from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health will give UW nursing, medical, physician assistant and pharmacy students the opportunity to address a challenging health issue — the health and health care of inmates in Wisconsin’s growing, and aging, prison population.
Reaching Veterans With Mental Health Services
Dryhootch, an organization consisting of coffee shops designed to support combat veterans, is using a Community Catalyst grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to enhance the services it provides to our state’s veterans. The organization is developing a prototype smartphone app designed to connect vets from across the state and beyond to its services.
Improving Care for Wisconsin Seniors
The Improving Assisted Living through Collaborative Systems Change project is expanding and enhancing access to the Wisconsin Coalition for Collaborative Excellence in Assisted Living, or WCCEAL, an established and test quality improvement infrastructure.
Addressing Wisconsin’s Opioid Problem
A pair of Wisconsin Partnership Program grants to the Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program and WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network are helping to raise awareness of opioid addition and laying a groundwork for community-based treatment and recovery programs.
Harnessing the Power of Partnerships
The Foundation for Black Women's Wellness is working to eliminate the health disparities impacting Black women in Wisconsin, where Black birth disparities and racial health disparities are among the worst in the nation.
Improving Dementia Care and Treatment for the Latino Community
United Community Center is using a Community Impact Grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to develop the Latino Dementia Heath Regional Consortium.