Cross-Cutting All Four Priority Areas 

  • Strategy: DCHCC will provide small community grants to local organizations aiming to support Collaborative efforts that address the four priority areas in communities of high need around policy, systems, and environment change.
 

PROGRESS ON CROSS-CUTTING STRATEGY - AS OF MAY 2019 

Cross-Cutting All Four Priority Areas Strategy 

DCHCC will provide small community grants to local organizations aiming to support Collaborative efforts that address the four priority areas in communities of high need around policy, systems, and environment change.

Activity 1: Create a request for application (RFA) that defines the selection criteria and conveys the importance of alignment with the CHNA priority areas, scalability of programs/services, and policy and systems related approaches to community health improvement

 
This has been completed. 
 

Activity 2: Announce and award grants

The DCHCC has awarded $150,000 to support two community-based, nonprofit organizations over the next two years to tackle the District’s priority health needs. Both organizations will use policy, systems, or environmental (PSE) strategies to address the root causes of health and wellness in D.C. The two grant recipients, each to receive $75,000, are: 
 
(1) MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH). MGUH will expand the current work of the Early Childhood Innovation Network (ECIN) at MedStar Washington Hospital Center’s OB/GYN clinic to include additional perinatal health advocacy and family navigation, case management, and support. MGUH will target its integrated mental health care model to pregnant or parenting women who receive care at the clinic, with a particular focus on women who are at high risk for or are evidencing symptoms of depression and anxiety. 
 
(2) D.C. Healthy Housing Collaborative, facilitated by the Institute for Public Health Innovation. The D.C. Healthy Housing Collaborative will address the social determinants of poor housing conditions that contribute to significant inequities in asthma and other health outcomes in the District of Columbia. 

Activity 3: If appropriate, pair grantees with DCHCC government affairs experts to help advance policy related approaches related to the grantee's area of focus
 

Activity 4: Request a report on grant activities and findings

 
Grantees of the DCHMC community grant initiative will soon be sending in grant mid-year updates. Updates will be reviewed to ensure grant obligations are completed and will then be posted.