About State Partnership Grant
The Office of Minority Health was awarded a State
Partnership Grant (SPG) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in
2005. The grant provides the following:
Assistance in providing infrastructure to OMH
Development of a statewide minority health
strategic plan
Assistance in building on-going partnerships and linkages with
community-based organizations, local coalitions, with larger associations
to address health needs and eliminate health disparities
Organizational development to identified community-based
organizations, faith-based organizations, and Closing the Gap grantees
Development of a speakers bureau
Development of a web-based resource directory
Train specified Department of Health management staff in culturally and linguistically appropriate services in health care
Conduct best practice workshops
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Body and Soul in Motion
 Body and Soul in Motion is a wellness program developed for African American churches. The program empowers church members to eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables every day for better health. Churches that embrace Body and Soul in Motion help their members take care of their bodies as well as their spirits. Body and Soul in Motion works by combining -
- Pastoral Leadership
- Educational activities
- A church environment that supports healthly eating.
Clickherefor more information on Body and Soul in Motion
State Partnership Speaker's Bureau
The overarching goal of the Speakers Bureau is to
provide support to community-based organizations, faith-based organizations,
Closing the Gap grantees, and institutions involved in improving minority
health by reducing and/or eliminating health disparities. The Speakers
Bureau has a diverse group of motivating speakers, both professional and lay
from the field of public health. The screening of speakers ensures that the
SPG Speakers Bureau only recommends talented speakers.
Technical Assistance
Technical assistance provides an opportunity for
participating community and faith based
organizations to increase their capacity to improve minority health within
their communities. The State
Partnership program trainings are geared toward a large variety of audiences (ie.
community members, board members, program directors). The ultimate goal of
the training is give participants the critical knowledge and skills
necessary to address the challenges surrounding minority health in their
community. The current State Partnership Training series consists of modules
in board governance, strategic planning and proposal writing and partnership
development. Find out more about technical training.
Grant Opportunities
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| Special Improvement Project (SIP) -- Projects to Address the Economic Downturn on IV-D Operations
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Submit competitive grant applications for Special Improvement Projects (SIP) to develop creative strategies and processes to operate programs more effectively and efficiently in order to address their immediate needs during the economic downturn and advance longer-term structural changes.
Eligibility: This funding opportunity is open to nonprofit providers, including faith-based and community organizations.
Funding: Up to three awards with funding up to $100,000 each.
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Partnership with Child Support Services to Develop Workforce Strategies and Economic Sustainability
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Develop workforce-related partnerships that would provide for job search, transitional and subsidized jobs, support services, job placement and job advancement assistance for non-custodial parents.
Eligibility: This funding opportunity is open to nonprofit providers, including faith-based and community organizations.
Funding: Up to six awards, with funding ranging from $35,000 to $55,000 each. |
Project to Test a Predesigned Data Warehouse Model
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This grant would fund a state to analyze, prototype or test the integration of the data warehouse with the state CSE system.
Eligibility: This funding opportunity is open to State governments.
Funding: One award, with funding ranging from $80,000 to $100,000. |
Partnership to Strengthen Families: Child Support Enforcement and University Partnerships
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State child support agencies may propose projects in which they partner with a university or that involve a university and one or more agencies (such as TANF, child welfare, workforce, behavioral health, community colleges).
Eligibility: This funding opportunity is open to State governments.
Funding: Up to three awards, with funding ranging from $80,000 to $100,000 each. |
Street Outreach Program
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These projects aim to increase young people’s safety, well-being, and self-sufficiency, and to help them build permanent connections with caring adults, with the goal of getting them off the streets.
Eligibility: This funding opportunity is open to nonprofit providers, including faith-based and community organizations.
Funding: Up to twenty-one awards, with funding up to $200,000 each.
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Basic Center Program
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FYSB administers the Basic Center Program (BCP) funding to the organizations and shelters that serve and protect runaway, homeless, and street youth.
Eligibility: This funding opportunity is open to nonprofit providers, including faith-based and community organizations.
Funding: Up to 107 awards, with funding up to $200,000 each. |
Strengthen and Improve the Nation’s Environmental Public Health Capacity through National, Non-Profit, Professional Public Health Organizations to Incorporate Health in All Policies
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Promote Environmental Public Health by educating decision-makers, key stakeholders, and the community.
Eligibility: This funding opportunity is open to nonprofit providers, including faith-based and community organizations.
Funding: Up to four awards, with funding up to $200,000 each. |
State Juvenile Justice Formula and Block Grants Training and Technical Assistance Program
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The successful applicant will provide national, state, and local training and technical assistance to grantees and subgrantees that will assist them in planning, establishing, operating, coordinating, and evaluating delinquency prevention and juvenile justice systems improvement projects. Training and technical assistance topic areas will fall under the Title II Formula Grants and Juvenile Accountability Block Grants (JABG) program areas.
Eligibility: Applicants are limited to states (including territories), units of local government (including federally-recognized tribal governments, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). |
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