CPIMP211236
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Fulton County DBHDD Advancing Health Literacy - The proposed service area is Fulton County, Georgia. The initial program focus will be on the broad racial and ethnic populations of Black or African American and Hispanic, Latino, or Latinx where there has been a disproportionate COVID-19 impact.
The program will implement evidenced-based, culturally-tailored health literacy strategies to enhance the rates of COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, mitigation measures, and vaccine confidence. It will also address the cross-cutting urgency of behavioral health literacy and access to related services among racial and ethnic minority populations and other socially vulnerable populations.
The program will partner with Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), a minority serving institution, for quality improvement activities and program evaluation. Its goals are to increase awareness about COVID-19 mitigation efforts and behavioral health services, increase COVID-19 testing, vaccine confidence, and vaccine uptake, and decrease stigma related to behavioral health.
The health literacy program will address personal and organizational health literacy through culturally appropriate strategies that include:
Formation of a Community Coalition Board (CCB) led by a non-governmental, community-based organization. The CCB will meet regularly to discuss the data related to minority communities, issues impacting vulnerable communities, their needs, and how to best connect individuals with services.
Implementation of a primary and behavioral health integration strategy to address the current needs resulting from COVID-19 as well as pre-existing and future needs in minority and socially vulnerable populations.
Deployment of a mobile unit in minority and underserved neighborhoods to connect and build rapport with residents, mitigate distrust issues surrounding the medical community, address stigma related to behavioral health, provide education, information, linkages to services, and empower individuals to recognize signs and symptoms of physical and emotional health needs. The mobile unit will serve to promote sustained engagement with minority and socially vulnerable neighborhoods and individuals.
Creation of a team of six outreach workers who will become experts on the underserved and minority populations in their district and receive culturally specific training. Translation services will be provided. Targeted efforts will be made to recruit community members for staff roles, acknowledging that people of a community know their neighborhood best.
Recruit resident workers who speak the languages of the communities served to canvas hard-to-reach neighborhoods through door-to-door engagement to provide education and information related to COVID-19.
Use of an organizational health literacy initiative for primary and behavioral health providers that includes train-the-trainer, evidenced-based teach-backs, toolkits/discussion guides, and plain language materials in order to align with the Healthy People 2030 objectives related to provider/patient communication.
Implementation of a dynamic online culturally responsive hub as a resource for utilizing the evidence-based model of community care coordination that focuses on addressing social determinants of health. The site will be user-friendly, written in plain language, provide translation services for individuals with limited English proficiency, and be simple to navigate. Outreach workers can provide in-the-field access to those with limited technology resources.
Hosting community events with topics related to COVID-19 and behavioral health.
Conducting a culturally and linguistically sensitive visibility and outreach campaign.
The program will implement evidenced-based, culturally-tailored health literacy strategies to enhance the rates of COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, mitigation measures, and vaccine confidence. It will also address the cross-cutting urgency of behavioral health literacy and access to related services among racial and ethnic minority populations and other socially vulnerable populations.
The program will partner with Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), a minority serving institution, for quality improvement activities and program evaluation. Its goals are to increase awareness about COVID-19 mitigation efforts and behavioral health services, increase COVID-19 testing, vaccine confidence, and vaccine uptake, and decrease stigma related to behavioral health.
The health literacy program will address personal and organizational health literacy through culturally appropriate strategies that include:
Formation of a Community Coalition Board (CCB) led by a non-governmental, community-based organization. The CCB will meet regularly to discuss the data related to minority communities, issues impacting vulnerable communities, their needs, and how to best connect individuals with services.
Implementation of a primary and behavioral health integration strategy to address the current needs resulting from COVID-19 as well as pre-existing and future needs in minority and socially vulnerable populations.
Deployment of a mobile unit in minority and underserved neighborhoods to connect and build rapport with residents, mitigate distrust issues surrounding the medical community, address stigma related to behavioral health, provide education, information, linkages to services, and empower individuals to recognize signs and symptoms of physical and emotional health needs. The mobile unit will serve to promote sustained engagement with minority and socially vulnerable neighborhoods and individuals.
Creation of a team of six outreach workers who will become experts on the underserved and minority populations in their district and receive culturally specific training. Translation services will be provided. Targeted efforts will be made to recruit community members for staff roles, acknowledging that people of a community know their neighborhood best.
Recruit resident workers who speak the languages of the communities served to canvas hard-to-reach neighborhoods through door-to-door engagement to provide education and information related to COVID-19.
Use of an organizational health literacy initiative for primary and behavioral health providers that includes train-the-trainer, evidenced-based teach-backs, toolkits/discussion guides, and plain language materials in order to align with the Healthy People 2030 objectives related to provider/patient communication.
Implementation of a dynamic online culturally responsive hub as a resource for utilizing the evidence-based model of community care coordination that focuses on addressing social determinants of health. The site will be user-friendly, written in plain language, provide translation services for individuals with limited English proficiency, and be simple to navigate. Outreach workers can provide in-the-field access to those with limited technology resources.
Hosting community events with topics related to COVID-19 and behavioral health.
Conducting a culturally and linguistically sensitive visibility and outreach campaign.
Awardee
Funding Goals
NOT APPLICABLE
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding Agency
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Atlanta,
Georgia
United States
Geographic Scope
City-Wide
Related Opportunity
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 06/30/23 to 06/30/24 and the total obligations have decreased 5% from $3,900,000 to $3,723,062.
County Of Fulton was awarded
Fulton County DBHDD Advancing Health Literacy for COVID-19
Project Grant CPIMP211236
worth $3,723,062
from the Office of Minority Health in July 2021 with work to be completed primarily in Atlanta Georgia United States.
The grant
has a duration of 3 years and
was awarded through assistance program 93.137 Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program.
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19.
Status
(Complete)
Last Modified 4/4/25
Period of Performance
7/1/21
Start Date
6/30/24
End Date
Funding Split
$3.7M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$3.7M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to CPIMP211236
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
CPIMP211236
SAI Number
CPIMP211236-3353595745
Award ID URI
SAI UNAVAILABLE
Awardee Classifications
County Government
Awarding Office
750SHA OASH Office of Grants Management
Funding Office
75ACC0 OASH OFFICE OF MINORITY HEALTH
Awardee UEI
J3Y1XYZYUFQ5
Awardee CAGE
37WN3
Performance District
GA-90
Senators
Jon Ossoff
Raphael Warnock
Raphael Warnock
Modified: 4/4/25