SLHI awarded $596,000 in new Community Partnership Grants in FY2014, in addition to continuing payouts on multi-year grants from previous fiscal years. Click the image below to view the organizations, projects and grant amounts.
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In the winter of 2014, SLHI launched a call for transformational projects to fund. In response to some compelling proposals, SLHI awarded four Innovation Grants (included in the total above) to local organizations.
1. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) proposed a breakthrough plan to address the problem of limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables in local low-income neighborhoods by connecting them to regional food producers. IRC continues supporting sustainable refugee integration into the Arizona community, increases demand for healthier foods, extends the supply of fresh produce into areas that don’t have it, and creates a new business model for local food distribution and sales – using existing retail outlets. Read more here about this program here.
2. Hospice of the Valley offered a strategy to provide Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction to family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. This initiative will support Hospice’s Palliative Care for Dementia program goals of improved quality of life and quality of care while lowering overall care costs. Read more about the funded program here.
3. Circle the City will help communities break the cycle of homelessness and crisis among individuals with behavioral and physical health challenges, who are the highest users of emergency rooms and other costly crisis service systems. The proposed FUSE Phase II initiative will create a system that links high-need individuals to the services that will help them avoid cycling between crisis institutions (jails, shelters and emergency rooms). More information about this project right here.
4. The Arizona Partnership for Immunization, (TAPI) saw a need to develop billing mechanisms that would link health departments in Arizona to private insurance providers. In light of this, TAPI proposed a plan to become the centralized billing system not only for public health immunizations, but also for other public health services. Find the details of this funded proposal here.