CDC Awards Community Transformation Grants
Implementing and expanding prevention programs proven to work provides our nation with the opportunity to improve the health of Americans and control health care spending.
On September 27, the Department of Health and Human Services announced approximately $103 million in Community Transformation Grants (CTG) to states and communities, serving approximately 120 million Americans throughout the country. These projects are part of a comprehensive HHS initiative to address the health and well-being of our communities, and will be administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The awards to 61 states and communities will support the planning and implementation of projects proven to reduce chronic diseases, which are responsible for 75% of health care costs in the United States. By promoting healthy lifestyles, especially among population groups experiencing the greatest burden of chronic disease, these grants will help improve health, reduce health disparities, and control health care spending. These awards will be dispersed among state and local government agencies, tribes and territories, and state and local non-profit organizations.
Awardees will address the following priority areas:
- tobacco-free living;
- active living and healthy eating; and
- evidence-based quality clinical and other preventive services with a central focus on prevention and control of high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Reducing health disparities and advancing health equity are core principles of the CTG program. Awardees will target underserved populations, and at least 20 percent of the grants will be distributed among rural and frontier areas. All communities will work on both population-wide improvement and reducing disparities in health outcomes across identified population groups.
Among the 61 CTG communities, 35 communities and states are receiving funding for the implementation of evidence-based and practice-based interventions designed to improve health and wellness, and 26 communities and states are receiving funding for capacity building to improve community health by laying a solid foundation for community prevention efforts.
Implementation Awards
| Implementation Communities and States (N=35) | Award Amount |
|---|---|
Broward Regional Health Planning Council (Florida) | $1,766,476 |
City of Austin Health & Human Services Department (Texas) | $1,026,158 |
County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (California) | $3,053,793 |
Denver Health and Hospital Authority (Colorado) | $610,345 |
Douglas County Health Department (Nebraska) | $510,199 |
Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department (Minnesota) | $1,156,212 |
Illinois Department of Public Health | $4,781,121 |
Iowa Department of Public Health | $3,007,856 |
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (California) | $9,848,011 |
Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness (Kentucky) | $721,594 |
Maine Department of Health and Human Services/Maine CDC | $1,318,301 |
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene | $1,945,289 |
Massachusetts Department of Public Health (to serve state minus large counties) | $1,505,006 |
Massachusetts Department of Public Health (to serve Middlesex County) | $1,574,982 |
Mid-America Regional Council Community Services Corporation (Missouri) | $705,708 |
Minnesota Department of Health | $3,603,724 |
Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services | $769,195 |
New Mexico Department of Health | $1,500,000 |
North Carolina Division of Public Health | $7,466,092 |
Oklahoma City-County Health Department (Oklahoma) | $716,704 |
Philadelphia Department of Public Health (Pennsylvania) | $1,547,297 |
Public Health Institute (to serve the state of California minus large counties) | $5,926,365 |
San Francisco Department of Public Health (California) | $815,358 |
Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Michigan) | $500,000 |
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control | $4,624,724 |
South Dakota Department of Health | $812,383 |
Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (Alaska) | $499,588 |
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department (Washington) | $796,836 |
Texas Department of State Health Services | $10,000,000 |
The Fund for Public Health in New York (New York) | $8,391,881 |
University Health Services, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wisconsin) | $4,695,253 |
University of Rochester Medical Center (New York) | $733,703 |
Vermont Department of Health | $621,760 |
Washington State Department of Health | $3,256,347 |
West Virginia Bureau for Public Health | $1,883,603 |
Capacity-Building Awards
| Capacity-Building Communities and States (N=26) | Award Amount |
|---|---|
Austen BioInnovation Institute (Ohio) | $500,000 |
Bernalillo County Office of Environmental Health (New Mexico) | $497,353 |
Cobb Public Health (Georgia) | $499,000 |
Confederated Tribes of The Chehalis Reservation (Washington) | $498,663 |
Connecticut Department of Public Health | $493,891 |
County of Kern, Public Health Services Department (California) | $416,577 |
Fairfax County Department of Neighborhood and Community Services (Virginia) | $499,559 |
Fresno County Department of Public Health (California) | $499,695 |
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc. (Wisconsin) | $499,982 |
Houston Department of Health & Human Services (Texas) | $500,000 |
Lancaster General Health (Pennsylvania) | $233,577 |
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals | $500,000 |
My Brother’s Keeper Inc. (Mississippi) | $500,000 |
New Jersey Prevention Network | $500,000 |
North Dakota Department of Health | $370,684 |
Public Health-Dayton and Montgomery County (Ohio) | $180,246 |
Sierra Health Foundation (Sacramento Co., California) | $499,229 |
Sophie Trettevick Indian Health Center (Washington) | $218,929 |
Spectrum Health Hospitals (Kent Co., Michigan) | $333,321 |
Stanislaus County Health Services Agency (California) | $293,899 |
Toiyabe Indian Health Project (California) | $500,000 |
Ulkerreuil A Klengar (Republic of Palau) | $147,106 |
Unlawful Narcotics Investigation Treatment Education, Inc. (Kentucky) | $500,000 |
Utah Department of Health | $499,366 |
Ventura County Public Health(California) | $481,036 |
Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (Alaska) | $193,340 |
To learn more about the Community Transformation Grant program, including the work proposed by each grantee, visit www.cdc.gov/communitytransformation
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