GIH Bulletin: February 2010

The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida, Inc. (Jacksonville) announced grants to 11 Florida nonprofits as part of its biannual IMPACT Health Care (Improving Access to Health Care) grants program.

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Schools as Entry Points for Children’s Mental Health Services

Health grantmakers are in a strong position to support efforts to increase children’s access to mental health services by funding school-based services, building relationships between schools and service providers, disseminating information, and promoting policy change.

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GIH Bulletin: January 2010

The California Endowment (Los Angeles) awarded nearly $8 million in grants to several organizations across California to expand the health care safety net for state residents.

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GIH Bulletin: December 2009

Greater Rochester Health Foundation (NY), during 2008 and 2009, awarded $630,000 in mini grants to more than 40 organizations as part of the foundation’s 10-year plan to increase the number of children at a healthy weight.

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Filling a Gap in Care: The Need for Behavioral Health Integration

Primary care is often provided in isolation of behavioral health care, and vice versa. An integrated approach addresses this challenge by systematically coordinating physical and behavioral health services to more fully meet individual needs.

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Changing the Conversation: Taking a Social Determinants of Health Approach to Addressing HIV/AIDS among Women of Color

This piece was written in conjunction with an October 1, 2009 GIH strategy session to understand HIV/AIDS prevention among women of color through a social determinants lens and explore the possibilities this approach presents.

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Reaching Kids: Partnering with Preschools and Schools to Improve Children’s Health

Improving children’s health and development has been of substantial interest to and investment in by national, state, and local funders for many years. Directly engaging with preschools and schools to improve these outcomes in children is increasingly a way to support a wide variety of efforts and interventions that reach a majority of children in an efficient and effective manner.

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GIH Bulletin: November 2009

Caring for Colorado Foundation(Denver) is providing five, $100,000 grants to community health centers, safety net dental clinics, and nonprofit organizations statewide as part of its 10-year, $10 million Oral Health Improvement Project.

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The Importance (and Challenge) of Reaching Obese Adults

Over the past year, adult obesity rates continued to rise in the United States, resulting in an urgent need to lower rates. But much of what got us here will take years of extensive effort to reverse.

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GIH Bulletin: October 2009

American Legacy Foundation’s Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy (Washington, DC) received a $977,346 grant from the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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