Friday, September 13, 2024
9/13/2024
The Minneapolis Health Department (MHD) is an accredited public health department for the City of Minneapolis. The mission of MHD is to improve the quality of life for all people in the city by protecting the environment, preventing disease and injury, promoting healthy behaviors, and creating a city that is a healthy place to live, work, and play. Our values of investing in a healthier community, exercising leadership in public health, quality inspiring our work, engaging with communities, and protecting from harm are lived out through a myriad of programs and projects. The Minneapolis Health Department (MHD) is applying for Component A under strategies A1: Workforce and A2: Foundational Capabilities. Under the Workforce strategy, MHD plan to reinforce its workforce by bringing on new staff that will assist with fulfilling primary public health functions such as increasing immunization , develop programs for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students that will provide opportunities to connect those interested in public health with a local public health department as a way to develop the future public health workforce, and provide opportunities for training and development for existing staff. The focus of these activities will be to increase the diversity of our staff both at the leadership and programmatic levels so that we are representative of the city we serve given the specific needs of our cultural communities. Under the Foundational Capabilities strategy, MHD plans to strengthen its communications, community partnership development and engagement, and advancing equity. This will be done through the hiring of a communications position specific to the health department to work closely with the City of Minneapolis Communications department and the development of a Public Health Community Institute with the goal of strengthening the foundational capacities of our community partners. Through the work funded by this grant, MHD expects to increase its staff diversity, workforce capabilities, expand community partnerships and strengthen the capacity of those partners to implement public health projects, and enhance MHD’s communications capacity.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
