CPIMP211248

Community-Based Initiatives for Health Literacy and Action - In New York City (NYC), the most populous city in the United States with over 8.4 million residents, communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. According to data from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (Health Department), Black and Latinx New Yorkers are twice as likely as white New Yorkers to be hospitalized and die from COVID-19.

To help eliminate these disparities, the Health Department will create Project CIHLA, a place-based project that will advance community-based initiatives for health literacy and action. CIHLA will focus on four Black, Indigenous, People of Color neighborhoods: Corona (Queens), Morrisania (The Bronx), East Harlem (Manhattan), and Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn). These neighborhoods have a population that is 85% Black or Latinx and experience pervasive disparities in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, deaths, and vaccination rates. These disparities reflect systemic and structural racism and years of disinvestment.

For CIHLA, the Health Department will support community partners in the four focus neighborhoods with resources and capacity to become health literate organizations that adhere to NCLAS standards. The project design and approach center the expertise and knowledge of the community partners while aiming to improve community-driven health communication strategies and responsiveness to community members with low health literacy.

This project builds on the Health Department's existing community engagement infrastructure and place-based strategies anchored in the Health Department's Vaccine Equity Plan, hyper-local COVID-19 response work, and programmatic focus of the Bureaus of Neighborhood Health. The City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Policy will conduct quality improvement and evaluation to enhance community-based partners' abilities and to establish best practices for community-based organizations to design and implement equitable community responses to COVID-19 and future public health emergencies.

City Of New York

93.137 - Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program

HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) [HHS]

Office of Minority Health (OMH) [HHS - OASH]

Long Island City, New York United States

City-Wide

Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19 (MP-CPI-21-006)

Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 06/30/23 to 06/30/24.