CPIMP211238
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
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 increase the 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 the 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 the 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.
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 increase the 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 the 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 the 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.
Awardee
Funding Goals
NOT APPLICABLE
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding Agency
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Chicago,
Illinois
United States
Geographic Scope
City-Wide
Related Opportunity
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 06/30/23 to 06/30/24 and the total obligations have decreased 12% from $3,894,914 to $3,420,759.
City Of Chicago was awarded
Developing Health Literacy in Chicago Health Equity Zones
Project Grant CPIMP211238
worth $3,420,759
from the Office of Minority Health in July 2021 with work to be completed primarily in Chicago Illinois United States.
The grant
has a duration of 3 years and
was awarded through assistance program 93.137 Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program.
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19.
Status
(Complete)
Last Modified 3/5/25
Period of Performance
7/1/21
Start Date
6/30/24
End Date
Funding Split
$3.4M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$3.4M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to CPIMP211238
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
CPIMP211238
SAI Number
CPIMP211238-3203229487
Award ID URI
SAI UNAVAILABLE
Awardee Classifications
City Or Township Government
Awarding Office
750SHA OASH Office of Grants Management
Funding Office
75ACC0 OASH OFFICE OF MINORITY HEALTH
Awardee UEI
K8F7VYLKGN64
Awardee CAGE
39ZL5
Performance District
IL-90
Senators
Richard Durbin
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth
Modified: 3/5/25