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Watts Rising: A Vision for a Healthier Watts

Award Number: OT2OD035940
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: 09/19/2028

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Watts Rising: A Vision for a Healthier Watts - ABSTRACT Watts is a community in Southeast Los Angeles that has faced systematic disinvestment, discrimination, and resource deprivation, resulting in health disparities across multiple domains including high rates of diabetes and obesity, high pollution burdens and limited employment opportunities. Watts residents, almost exclusively people of color, (73% Latinx and 25% Black/African American), have a life expectancy twelve years lower than other parts of Los Angeles, largely due to decades of neglect the community has faced. This proposal builds on the work of the existing Watts Rising Collaborative (WRC) to address this neglect through a community-led approach to develop and evaluate an intervention that will address two primary structural factors that contribute to these disparities and health outcomes: access to resources and food insecurity and economic instability. The project will be developed through a partnership between the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, the University of California Los Angeles and Charles Drew University as well as the 50 members of the WRC and Watts residents. We will employ an intervention mapping process to refine an intervention that will develop a network of community gardens that will provide opportunities for increased access to healthy foods, green space and physical activity as well as entrepreneurial opportunities for businesses utilizing food from the gardens. Ultimately, we anticipate the intervention will decrease rates of preventable chronic disease in Watts and provide opportunities for workforce development. This intervention has the potential to positively affect the entirety of the Watts community of approximately 40,000 residents.


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: 2026 ( Subtotal = $1,499,770 )
2026	2026	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	003	1	4/20/2026	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$1,499,770
2026	2025	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	001	1	1/26/2026	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2026	2023	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	1	1/26/2026	OTHER REVISION	$0
2026	2023	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	002	1	4/20/2026	OTHER REVISION	$0
														Subtotal = $1,499,770

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $495,051 )
2025	2025	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	005	1	9/12/2025	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$495,051
2025	2024	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	003	1	7/1/2025	OTHER REVISION	$0
2025	2024	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	001	1	4/8/2025	TERMINATION	$0
2025	2023	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	002	1	7/1/2025	OTHER REVISION	$0
2025	2023	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	004	1	9/12/2025	OTHER REVISION	$0
2025	2023	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	1	4/8/2025	TERMINATION	$0
														Subtotal = $495,051

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $374,976 )
2024	2024	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	003	1	9/19/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$374,976
2024	2023	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	001	1	8/27/2024	NEW	$0
2024	2023	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	1	6/17/2024	NEW	$0
2024	2023	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	002	1	9/19/2024	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $374,976

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $1,124,989 )
2023	2023	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES	2600 WILSHIRE BLVD	LOS ANGELES	CA	90057	LOS ANGELES	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	1	9/20/2023	NEW	$1,124,989
														Subtotal = $1,124,989

Grand Total All Awards = $3,494,786

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Watts Rising: A Vision for a Healthier Watts

Award Number: OT2OD035940

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: 09/19/2028

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