Schools and Health
The Foundation has identified one initiative that it is developing for future funding: Schools and Health. Through this initiative, we expect to be supporting Comprehensive School Health Planning as well as looking at ways to strengthen school, family and provider relationships. As participation opportunities are determined, they will be posted on the website on the Whats Happening page.
As a first step in that work, we commissioned the Center for Health Improvement to do a best practice review of programs that link those components in communities nationally. You can download a copy of that report, entitled Review of School-linked Childrens Health Programs, by clicking here.
Nuts and Bolts: Improving Fundamentals of Care for Children in Communities of Poverty
Nuts and Bolts is a $2.2 million, three year initiative designed to improve outcomes in physical, mental and oral health for children in selected communities of poverty in western and central New York through strategic investments in organizations committed to and capable of increased accountability for outcomes.
The target audience for the Nuts and Bolts RFP that was issued in April 2005 was:
· Those organizations serving children in zip codes with the most concentrated number of children living in western and central NY communities of poverty and
· Organizations striving to achieve a culture and infrastructure that is driven by outcomes, quality and ongoing evaluation and improvement.
As western and central
New York non-profits face growing competition for increasingly limited resources, CHF believes our targeted investments in the sixteen Nuts and Bolts Grantee Organizations will generate a significant and lasting return towards improving the lives of children in communities of poverty.
Other Foundation efforts for Children in Communities of Poverty
In the Fall of 2006, CHF will begin an initiative to address childhood asthma in western NY. Interventions and outcomes for this initiative will be based on concepts and tools from the Chronic Care Model www.improvingchroniccare.org
As other initiatives are developed, they will be discussed on this website. Keep in touch with the Whats Happening page for more information
