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Addressing Food Insecurity in Underserved Communities

Award Number: OT2OD035883
ORGANIZATION: OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, NIH
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/20/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/07/2025

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Addressing Food Insecurity in Underserved Communities - ABSTRACT Addressing Food Insecurity in under-Represented Minorities (AFIRM) is a proposed collaboration including Health Choice Network (HCN), Jessie Trice Community Health System, Broward Community and Family Health Centers and other Florida Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), University of Miami’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), and Community Based Organizations including Feeding South Florida. We propose to catalyze, deploy, and evaluate community-led structural interventions leveraging multisectoral partnerships to address food insecurity and ultimately reduce health disparities at HCN FQHCs across Florida. The first two years will involve planning, capacity and partnership building to develop/pilot structural interventions to address food insecurity. Structural interventions will address the social, physical, economic, or political environments that result in food insecurity. The interventions include developing universal screening for food insecurity for FQHC patients using simple validated measures of food insecurity built into the EHR. We will then leverage existing and new relationships to develop structural interventions designed to help all persons who identify as having food insecurity. In years 3-8 we will implement community-led structural interventions addressing food insecurity and ultimately assess the impact of these interventions on health outcomes. Interventions include assisting eligbile patients in applying for state and Federal programs, linkages to food insecurity resources such as food banks/pantries located proximal to areas of greatest need (including within the FQHCs) and developing systems to address transportation barriers. More broadly there will be engagement of state and local policy-makers, leaders, and health plans in developing programs and policies and community programs to address food insecurity.


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 = -$284,360 )
2025	2024	HEALTH CHOICE NETWORK INC	9064 NW 13TH TERRACE	DORAL	FL	33172	MIAMI-DADE	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	1	10/24/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2025	2024	HEALTH CHOICE NETWORK INC	9064 NW 13TH TERRACE	DORAL	FL	33172	MIAMI-DADE	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	002	1	4/8/2025	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2025	2023	HEALTH CHOICE NETWORK INC	9064 NW 13TH TERRACE	DORAL	FL	33172	MIAMI-DADE	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	003	1	8/12/2025	NEW	-$284,360
2025	2023	HEALTH CHOICE NETWORK INC	9064 NW 13TH TERRACE	DORAL	FL	33172	MIAMI-DADE	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	001	1	4/8/2025	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = -$284,360

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $374,903 )
2024	2024	HEALTH CHOICE NETWORK INC	9064 NW 13TH TERRACE	DORAL	FL	33172	MIAMI-DADE	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	002	1	9/19/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$374,903
2024	2023	HEALTH CHOICE NETWORK INC	9064 NW 13TH TERRACE	DORAL	FL	33172	MIAMI-DADE	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	001	1	9/19/2024	NEW	$0
2024	2023	HEALTH CHOICE NETWORK INC	9064 NW 13TH TERRACE	DORAL	FL	33172	MIAMI-DADE	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	1	6/17/2024	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $374,903

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $1,125,000 )
2023	2023	HEALTH CHOICE NETWORK INC	9064 NW 13TH TERRACE	DORAL	FL	33172	MIAMI-DADE	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	1	9/20/2023	NEW	$1,125,000
														Subtotal = $1,125,000

Grand Total All Awards = $1,215,543

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Addressing Food Insecurity in Underserved Communities

Award Number: OT2OD035883

ORGANIZATION: OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, NIH

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/20/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/07/2025

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