Success Stories by Topic: Minorities

• Honoring our Children Project
  July 2009
  The Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council’s Honoring Our Children Project (HOC) developed a culturally competent, collaborative network of tribal and non-tribal health providers, elders, leaders, and community members to address the complex array of health care problems facing American Indians living near the Lac du Flambeau community.
• Torrance County Rural Outreach Initiative
  May 2009
  The Torrance County Rural Outreach Initiative targeted the county’s two most vulnerable populations—children covered by Medicaid and the uninsured.
• Farmworkers Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Farmworker Health Initiative was designed as an educational and screening outreach program targeting African American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic men, women, and teenagers who worked in agriculture-related jobs. The program focused on preventing and treating occupational and medical health problems.
• Prenatal Services to Latino Women
  June 2008
  The Coastal Plain Rural Health Network developed a partnership with the Eastern Carolina Community Development Corporation (CDC) to provide perinatal services in Spanish to the Latino patients.
• California InfoNet Project
  June 2007
  The InfoNet Project was formed to strengthen Tuolumne County residents access to health and social services by providing an easy-to-use website to provide information and assistance service for low-income households, the homeless, seniors, people with disabilities, Latinos and Native Americans.
• Dancing to Deter Diabetes
  June 2007
  The "Reach Out" project in rural Lake County, California, helps diabetics learn about nutrition and medication, and they dance.
• Western Appalachian Kentucky Health Care Access Consortium
  January 2007
  The consortium's mission is to improve access to primary care and dental care among low-income, uninsured, and underinsured residents, with a special emphasis on providing outreach services for the unmet needs of an expanding Latino population.
• Cold Water Safety in the Schools Program
  July 2005
  This program was established to deliver cold water safety and survival training to rural teachers, paraprofessionals, pool staff, and rural elementary, middle, and high school children throughout Alaska.
• Merging Medical Education and Community
  July 2005
  The crux of this project was to support community-defined health projects across the State and to involve 21 medical students in the delivery of community-based primary health care services.
• Humphreys County Memorial Hospital Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  The project's main goals were to increase the numbers of K - 12 students who are covered by health insurance, who use the health care services provided, and who follow up on recommended health care; to increase transportation to primary and specialty health providers; and to decrease the number of families of K - 12 students who are noncompliant in regard to their children's health needs.
• Kokua Program
  July 2005
  The primary objectives of this consortium of six area health service providers, agencies, and universities were to reach and educate local women on breast and cervical cancer, and provide health screenings using culturally appropriate methods that reduce fear and anxiety.
• Rural Health Outreach (Maine)
  July 2005
  The care management services provided by this project facilitated a cooperative effort among health care providers, patients, and community support services to create an outpatient care management program for rural consumers, especially the elderly, people with disabilities, minorities, and children who have chronic health problems including chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), diabetes, asthma, and heart disease.
• Tri-County Health Connections Network
  July 2005
  This project was a community-based initiative to enhance prevention and early intervention services for pregnant and postpartum women, their infants, and families living in rural central Iowa.
• Warrior Wellness Center
  July 2005
  To address the serious issue of teen pregnancy in Jefferson County, a network was formed to establish an effective mechanism for proactive pregnancy prevention and health promotion outreach for the county's rural adolescents.
• Wellness Partnership for a Healthy McKinley County
  July 2005
  This project involved an innovative education program that used high school students to mentor elementary students in diabetes prevention techniques with the goal to improve the wellness of the community by developing healthy living skills in the 10-to 12-year-old population, and specifically to incorporate diabetes awareness activities into this target group's school day.
• Health for a Lifetime
  July 2005
  This project was designed to combat cardiovascular disease by addressing the modifiable risk factors, as described by the American Heart Association, in three populations: hourly wage workers, the African American faith community, and middle school children.
• Screven County Hospital Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  Developed to bring health care to rural communities in Screven County, this project was designed to identify people at risk for cardiac, cerebral vascular and diabetic health problems through the use of outreach health screenings.