NYC Nurse Family Partnership (NFP)

This grant will support the NYC Nurse-Family Partnership's Heart's Desire Scholarship Fund, which helps first-time mothers achieve self-sufficiency by alleviating financial barriers to furthering their education and/or returning to the workforce through scholarships for laptops, books, tuition and travel.

HEAL 22

Through a contract with New York State Department of Health, this project will continue New York’s work in health information technology by extending health information systems and technology to mental/behavioral health providers in New York State-designated Health Homes using the regional extension center model of technical assistance and support.

Brooklyn Breastfeeding Empowerment Zone (BFEZ) Project

This three year grant will support a project to provide comprehensive, multi-level initiatives to encourage and support breastfeeding, addressing both gaps in breastfeeding education and practice as well as broader social determinants of health in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville. The BFEZ Project will focus on male involvement in breastfeeding, local capacity building and economic development, community mobilization, community education and media, and direct services including breastfeeding consultations, home visits, and support groups.

Innovations in Monitoring Population Health Using Electronic Health

This one year grant will partially support the lab testing component of NYC HANES 2013, a local health and nutrition examination survey that will be given to 2,000 New Yorkers. The lab component will involve the collection and analysis of biologic specimens to provide objective biomarker measurements as well as establish a specimen repository for future studies. NYC HANES 2013 is part of a larger project that will evaluate and validate the use of electronic health records (EHR) for population health surveillance by comparing EHR data collected through the Primary Care Information Project’s EHR system to data from the gold-standard HANES.

Hearing Loss Prevention Media Campaign

This grant will support a social media education campaign for adolescents about the risk of hearing damage and loss due to use of electronic devices, particularly mp3 players, at high volumes. Hearing loss during adolescence not only increases the risk for more profound hearing problems later in life, but also has other negative impacts, such as low self-esteem, increased stress, and increased risk of injury. The project will develop a public education campaign to promote safe listening behaviors among teens and young adults. Campaign messages will be developed using social marketing techniques, including focus groups and facilitated interviews with target population.

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)

This grant will support enhancements for the Nurse-Family Partnership, an evidence-based nurse home visiting program for low-income, first-time high-risk mothers beginning in pregnancy and working with them over the first two years of their child's life, by providing additional resources and support such as scholarships, vocational supplies, and professional development, to mother in-need and their dedicated nurses.

Bounce Back Now

This project will adapt an existing web-based application to assist individuals and families within New York to identify, learn about, and develop coping strategies for the psychological effects they may be experiencing after Superstorm Sandy. Bounce Back Now is an integrated, e-health intervention for disaster-affected adults and adolescents. Features of this application include: screening mechanisms; a high level of user interactivity; tailored recommendations addressing symptoms of anxiety, depression, and substance use; videos; and printable worksheets. Bounce Back Now will be available on the NYC DOHMH website and via the Project Hope outreach program.

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)

Two grants will continue support for the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), an evidence-based nurse home visiting program for low-income, first-time high-risk mothers beginning in pregnancy and working with them over the first two years of their child's life. Funding was received for NFP’s Targeted Citywide Initiative, which focuses on the most high-risk moms, including those who are homeless, incarcerated, or in foster care and pregnant for the first time, and for general operations of the program.

Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Healthcare (CATCH)

This grant will support the expansion of the Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Healthcare (CATCH) program to schools that serve high risk teens and teens in foster care, and pilot a new model of service provision by replacing the school RN/MD with a Nurse Practitioner to deliver immediate access to on-site contraception.

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)

This grant will enable the New York City Nurse-Family Partnership program, an evidence-based nurse home visiting program for low-income, first-time high-risk mothers beginning in pregnancy and working with them over the first two years of their child's life, to plan and complete one or more assessments aimed at enhancing the efficiency, client outcomes, and financial sustainability of NYC NFP.

Come See What's Cooking (for Kids!)

This program will help families create habits that promote healthy eating and enhance family bonds, while also supporting small farmers in the region. To leverage the success of two nationally recognized farmers market programs, Health Bucks and Stellar Farmers Markets, to bring innovative food-based education and cooking classes to low-income youth (aged 6 and under) and their caregivers at farmers markets in NYC's most underserved neighborhoods.

Using Electronic Health Record Prompts to Streamline Routine HIV Testing in Federally Qualified Health Centers

This project will implement Electronic Health Record prompts to streamline routine HIV testing in Federally Qualified Health Centers.

The Breastfeeding Learning Collaborative

This project seeks to increase breastfeeding initiation, duration, and exclusivity by increasing the number of Baby-Friendly designated hospitals in NYC.

Nurse-Family Partnership

This award from individual donors will support program enhancements for the Nurse-Family Partnership program by providing additional resources and support, such as scholarships, vocational supplies, and professional development, to mother in-need and their dedicated nurses.

Bronx Teen Connection

This grant will support Bronx Teens Connection, a program dedicated to improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health by reducing unintended teen pregnancies and teen birth rates in the South Bronx, through an extension of the public awareness media campaign and the engagement of a Community Health Education Coordinator to work exclusively with organizations serving at-risk, disconnected youth to implement adolescent sexual and reproductive health education programs. The program will implement evidence-based sexual health programs for teens in the target geographic area; improve of access to quality clinic care for adolescents; increase and enhance community engagement; and develop a specific approach for teens who are "disconnected" from the conventional school system.

Oral Health Education and Media Campaign

This grant will support an education and media campaign in the subways and local newspapers to raise awareness about child oral health by increasing parental/caregiver awareness of proper oral hygiene and common risk factors for child caries.

Nurse-Family Partnership

This grant will continue to support the Communications Manager position for the Nurse-Family Partnership. The Communications Manager has played an important role in the NYC Nurse-Family Partnership (NYC NFP) program by strengthening referral and outreach systems, improving internal communications and reducing client attrition. The Communications Manager further enhances the program by communicating the importance of NYC NFP's work to clients, funders, stakeholders, and potential supporters.

School Based Health Center

This grant was awarded to add an additional year to the School Based Health Center (SBHC) program, a multi-year program to reduce rates of teen pregnancy by increasing adolescents' access to high quality sexual and reproductive health care in NYC public high school health centers.

Nurse-Family Partnership

This award is the result of fundraising event that FPHNY and DOHMH co-hosted with the Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office (NSO) in May 2012. Existing NFP supporters and new supporters heard about the program's impact and successes from officials and participants and then donated funds that will be used to support NYC NFP's semi-annual conference that provides NFP nurses with professional development courses and resources.

Big Cities Coalition

This grant will continue support for a part-time intern to facilitate the Big Cities Coalition's partnership with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the final implementation of the Big Cities Digital Media Archive/website. The intern maintains inter-jurisdictional partnerships among Coalition members and assists in convening, facilitating, and supporting collaborative efforts, including sharing of best practices and information to advance policy development and advocacy in areas uniquely relevant to large health departments.

Nurse Family Partnership extension

Multiple grants were awarded to continue the valuable work of this evidence-based nurse home visiting program for low-income, first-time high-risk mothers beginning in pregnancy and working with them over the first two years of their child's life.

• A two year grant will continue to support the Communications Manager position for the Nurse-Family Partnership. The Communications Manager has played an important role in the NYC Nurse-Family Partnership (NYC NFP) program by strengthening referral and outreach systems, improving internal communications and reducing client attrition. The Communications Manager further enhances the program by communicating the importance of NYC NFP's work to clients, funders, stakeholders, and potential supporters.
• Funds were raised from individuals to support NYC NFP's semi-annual conference, which provides NFP nurses with professional development courses and resources.
• A one-year grant will support the continuation of program enhancements for NYC NFP.

School Based Health Center

This grant was awarded to add an additional year to the School Based Health Center (SBHC) program, a multi-year program to reduce rates of teen pregnancy by increasing adolescents' access to high quality sexual and reproductive health care in NYC public high school health centers.

Community Resource Referral

In this project, DOHMH's Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) will develop and pilot a Community Resource Referral protocol and directory for primary care physicians to use electronic health records to connect patients to community resources that support the management of chronic disease. This project will draw on the strengths of PCIP by leveraging existing referral tracking, care coordination, alerting and registry functionalities within electronic health records, information systems, and community-based organizations. The Community Resource Referral will also produce a preliminary evaluation of the usability of the protocol and its impact on clinical outcomes relevant to hypertension and diabetes.

Parachute NYC

This innovative program is aimed at transforming mental health crisis services throughout NYC by shifting the locus of care from hospitals to community settings. The targeted program of resources and interventions includes peer health navigators, nurse practitioners, mobile crisis teams, a confidential and anonymous telephone "warm line" service, and crisis respite centers to provide early engagement, continuity of care and combined peer and professional community service. This will shift the focus of care from crisis intervention to long-term, community-integrated treatment with access to primary care thereby improving crisis management and reducing emergency room visits and hospital admissions.

Innovations in Monitoring Population Health Using Electronic Health Records

This innovative project is collaboration between the Hunter CUNY School of Public Health and DOHMH's Primary Care and Information Project (PCIP) and Division of Epidemiology. With an overall budget of approximately $4 million over a three year period, the project team will generate estimates of key population health indicators from data collected through PCIP's Electronic Health Record (EHR) system and compare them to estimates from NYC HANES, a gold standard population-based examination survey. The team will work with experts to develop a blueprint for local and national health jurisdictions that synthesizes existing evidence and recommendations regarding EHR indicators useful for real-time population health surveillance. By creating and validating surveillance estimates against a gold standard survey, the project will advance prospects for using EHRs to monitor the health of populations throughout the country.

Keep on Track: Insights on Community Health

This 2 year project will evaluate the feasibility of implementing a customized Personal Health Record System to support community-based blood pressure monitoring and counseling on lifestyle behavior modification. This approach will heighten the impact of community-based programs nationwide by enhancing capacity for measurement, goal-setting, information feedback and decision support. Such an approach has the potential for significant impact on population health by enabling individuals to receive targeted health promotion from trusted social organizations, and for those organizations to track trends in the health of their members.

Creation of the Person-Centered Wellness Home Across the Life Course

This project will translate the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program and the Wellcoaches^® relationship-centered wellness coaching as a booster intervention to sustain positive behavior change over time in seniors with two or more chronic diseases who live in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing.

Check HepC NYC

Check HepC NYC is a comprehensive testing and outreach project to raise awareness and increase treatment of Hepatitis C Virus. The project consists of three essential components: 1) a community awareness campaign targeted to those New Yorkers at risk for hepatitis C; 2) a comprehensive series of training elements designed to improve the clinical capacity of community health care providers to provide prevention counseling, testing and hepatitis A and B vaccination to those at risk for hepatitis C, and to link those infected with hepatitis C to health care and supportive services; and 3) implementation of those services in targeted neighborhoods where service gaps exist and evaluation of the effectiveness of this comprehensive approach to reducing the rate of hepatitis C in NYC using existing infrastructure to enable sustainability.

EpiScholars Replication

This is a grant to replicate Epi Scholars as model within the Big Cities Health Coalition. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will provide technical assistance and program materials to the replication partners, Los Angeles County Department of Health and to Public Health – Seattle and King County. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will also lead the effort to develop a sustainability program for the EpiScholars program.

Community Transformation Grant

This 5-year federal grant supports public health efforts to reduce chronic diseases, promote healthier lifestyles, reduce health disparities, and control health care spending. DOHMH is working to implement policy, environmental, programmatic, and infrastructure changes that focus on five strategic directions: Tobacco-Free Living; Healthy Eating; Active Living; High Impact Quality Clinical Preventive Services; and Healthy and Safe Environments.

AIDS Testing at Rikers Island

A grant to continue the Point of Service HIV Testing Project at Rikers Island. The program tests a new approach to identifying cases of HIV at Rikers Island by offering HIV testing to inmates who refused HIV testing upon prison entry. Public health advisors are providing inmates with group educational sessions with information on HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, and hepatitis. Each inmate is then seen individually in a confidential area by a staff member who offers HIV rapid testing and provides appropriate pre- and post-test counseling including harm reduction and other appropriate health education.

Big Cities Health Coalition

A one-year grant to support the transition of the Big Cities Health Coalition to NAACHO. The Big Cities Health Coalition allows leaders of the largest municipal health departments in the U.S. to exchange best practices and discuss the issues affecting big urban populations through conference calls.

Brooklyn HIV Testing

A one-year grant to support the development and production of a Brooklyn-specific HIV testing kit, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Knows initiative, which aims to have all Brooklyn residents know their HIV status.

PCIP training

A one year grant from Small Business Services to implement a medical billing and coding training program for employees at physician offices enrolled with PCIP.

Technical Assistance Workshops

A grant to support a series of technical assistance workshops for faith-based organizations to build their capacity to apply for funding that will then enable them to develop and implement health programs in their communities.

Community Pharmacist-led Medication Therapy Management (MTM)

A one-year grant to support building the framework to introduce community pharmacist-led medication therapy management to high-risk communities. Community pharmacists are among the most highly accessible and trusted health care professionals and have great potential to improve the goals of chronic disease care. Medication Therapy Management (MTM) as a pharmacist-delivered intervention has been shown to improve outcomes in several chronic diseases, including hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes, improve medication adherence, and reduce medical costs.

Falls Prevention Coalition

The DOHMH, as part of the Age-Friendly NYC initiative, established by Mayor Bloomberg and the NYC Council, is convening a NYC Falls Prevention Coalition to combat the problem of falls among NYC’s older adults. A Steering Committee, made up of leaders from NYC government agencies, medical centers, and social service agencies, has met to lay out the Coalition’s mission and activities. The Coalition will build an online information sharing forum that promotes evidence-based falls prevention practices adapted to work within NYC’s unique multi-cultural, urban environment.

Hepatitis C Testing & Outreach

A grant to implement a testing and outreach project to raise awareness and increase treatment of the Hepatitis C Virus.

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) Expansion

• One-year grant to pilot the Nurses' Heart's Desire Scholarship Fund, a scholarship program that enables NFP nurses to pursue professional development opportunities.
• One-year grant for general operating support for NFP.
• Eighteen-month grant to continue the Targeted Citywide Initiative, a special team of NFP nurses that serve the most high-risk moms, including those who are homeless, incarcerated, or in foster care and pregnant for the first time.

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Obesity

A subcontract from New York State Department of Health to increase physical activity and improve nutrition in children’s day care organizations in targeted NYC communities.

Primary Care Information Project (PCIP)

A one-year grant to support PCIP’s efforts to help physicians better manage patients with diabetes and achieve recognition for excellence in diabetes care.

Quality Assurance in Care Delivery & Coordination for Children

A grant to support a research project to develop and test measures to assess the delivery of care and care coordination for children.