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Developing Health Literacy in Chicago Health Equity Zones

Award Number: CPIMP211238
ORGANIZATION: OFFICE OF MINORITY HEALTH
OPDIV: DHHS/OS
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: DEMONSTRATION
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 07/01/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2024

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Developing Health Literacy in Chicago Health Equity Zones - The Chicago Department of Public Health submits this proposal for funding to implement a health literacy and health outreach program in the urban high vulnerability neighborhoods of Chicago. Highly vulnerable neighborhoods were identified by social and COVID-19 vulnerability assessment and neighborhood ranking (Chicago COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index). These neighborhoods experience COVID-19 testing, infection, prevention, and vaccination disparities, which have been mitigated but not yet eliminated by community engagement efforts, emphasizing the need for community-based partnership to reducing disparities. The sustainment and growth plan proposed by CDPH is to expand community engagement through a Health Equity Zone model. High vulnerability neighborhoods are also vulnerable to social determinants of health and chronic disease, which themselves increased risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes. Therefore we aim to create health outreach that mitigates COVID-19 health disparities but develops a sustainable program for chronic disease and healthy living health literacy and outreach. We will use a community-clinical linkage model by staffing community health workers to neighborhoods in Chicago, organized within the Health Equity Zone infrastructure that is being established, with a focus on high vulnerability neighborhoods. The population of the high vulnerability neighborhoods is over 900,000 primarily Black and Latinx Chicagoans. The total impact of our outreach, however, extends across all Health Equity Zones, population 2.7 million racially and ethnically diverse Chicagoans. We will work with local partners on Community Health Worker training and on development of a culturally-relevant and foundationally-based framework of health literacy. Community Health Workers will work with community-based organizations and health centers to implement health literacy principles and framework at the resident-facing level and for organizational communications. Evaluation and quarterly quality improvement will be supported by community research evaluators at University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, a minority-serving institution. The program will be managed centrally from the Office of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, which proposes a budget to increase program staffing support in order to centrally convene and align the literacy framework and outreach strategies.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = -$474,155 )
2025	2021	CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH	111 WEST WASHINGTON STREET	CHICAGO	IL	60602	COOK	USA	Community Programs to Improve Minority Health	04	1	3/3/2025	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	-$474,155
														Subtotal = -$474,155

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2024	2021	CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH	111 WEST WASHINGTON STREET	CHICAGO	IL	60602	COOK	USA	Community Programs to Improve Minority Health	03	1	5/10/2024	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2023	2021	CHICAGO, CITY OF	333 S STATE ST RM 200	CHICAGO	IL	60604	COOK	USA	Community Programs to Improve Minority Health	02	1	6/28/2023	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2022	2021	CHICAGO, CITY OF	333 S STATE ST RM 200	CHICAGO	IL	60604	COOK	USA	Community Programs to Improve Minority Health	01	1	12/29/2021	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $3,894,914 )
2021	2021	CHICAGO, CITY OF	333 S STATE ST RM 200	CHICAGO	IL	60604	COOK	USA	Community Programs to Improve Minority Health	00	1	6/18/2021	NEW	$3,894,914
														Subtotal = $3,894,914

Grand Total All Awards = $3,420,759

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Developing Health Literacy in Chicago Health Equity Zones

Award Number: CPIMP211238

ORGANIZATION: OFFICE OF MINORITY HEALTH

OPDIV: DHHS/OS

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: DEMONSTRATION

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 07/01/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2024

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