In Spring 2023, AmeriCorps and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced more than 100 grant awards to state and local organizations for Public Health AmeriCorps. The first-year grants, totaling more than $90 million, are helping Public Health AmeriCorps programs to recruit nearly 4,000 AmeriCorps members.
Alabama
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS)
Funds awarded: $241,859
Contact: tiffany.nguyen@bpsos.org | 419-491-7118
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, education, training, and services navigation to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake in Baldwin and Mobile, Alabama. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health.
Damien Ministries
We the People Community Health Worker Academy and Corps
Funds awarded: $687,340
Contact: jrichardson@damienministries.org | 202-780-7086
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Certified Community Health Workers in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. They will provide health education related to preventative care, COVID-19 vaccination, opioid overdose prevention, and more.
Alaska
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Funds awarded: $908,689
Contact: gcarpinello@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Boise, Idaho. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Funds awarded: $863,995
Contact: amber.gibson@redcross.org | 310-429-5999
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Arizona
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Arizona State University
BE SAGE: COVID-19 Mitigation for Vulnerable Early Childcare
Funds awarded: $274,290
Contact: rlee6@asu.edu | 602-496-3718
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support outdoor garden building, garden nutrition education, physical activity curriculum implementation, COVID-19 testing, and information outreach in 40 Early Child Education sites that participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program in Phoenix, Arizona.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Funds awarded: $1,164,952
Contact: jill.messing@asu.edu
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Funds awarded: $351,635
Contact: koldaker@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3237
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct healthcare outreach to low-income individuals.
Northern Arizona University
Funds awarded: $707,277
Contact: russell.dickerson@nau.edu | 928-523-4880
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health organizations by delivering training in public health topics to increase health knowledge. Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve these Arizona counties: Apache, Coconino Mohave, Navajo, Cochise, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai, and Yuma.
Prescott College
AZ Serve: Public Health Corps
Funds awarded: $518,400
Contact: areifsnyder@arizonaserve.org | 847-212-7806
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide health interventions and eviction support in Pima County, Arizona and increase health equity through social-emotional learning interventions in Yavapai County, Arizona.
West Valley Health Equity
Funds awarded: $421,897
Contact: admin@wvhealthequity.com | 623-400-8881
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide health education, mental health education, and emotional regulation skill building in Maricopa County, Arizona. AmeriCorps members will help increase scores on the AZ Self-Sufficiency Matrix in the areas of substance use (decreased use), mental health and social connections.
Arkansas
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Our House, Inc.
Funds awarded: $115,148
Contact: ben@ourhouseshelter.org | 501-374-7383
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide healthcare screening and referral, mental health support, and benefits assistance in Little Rock, Arkansas. AmeriCorps members will help clients increase their score on the Arkansas Self Sufficiency Matrix.
California
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS)
Funds awarded: $241,859
Contact: tiffany.nguyen@bpsos.org | 419-491-7118
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, education, training, and services navigation to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake in Baldwin and Mobile, Alabama. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Funds awarded: $351,635
Contact: koldaker@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3237
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct healthcare outreach to low-income individuals.
The Clinica Monseñor Oscar A. Romero (Clinica Romero)
Funds awarded: $576,000
Contact: cvaquerano@clinicaromero.com | 213-989-7700
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide outreach, health education, and navigation of health care service activities for historically disenfranchised and underserved populations in LA County, CA. AmeriCorps members will increase access to preventative and primary medical, dental, and behavioral health care services by participating in or organizing at least three community events monthly including health fairs and patient education classes.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Health Federation of Philadelphia
National Health Corps: Community Health Fellowship
Funds awarded: $1,152,000
Contact: natlev@healthfederation.org | 215-567-8001
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide public health services including health education, COVID-19 vaccination support, digital health navigation, linkage to care, mental health and wellness, and substance use disorder prevention and response in Philadelphia, Northeast Pennsylvania, New Castle County, Delaware, and the Central Valley and Southern Inland Regions of California. AmeriCorps members will increase knowledge about disease prevention and mitigation and access to resources necessary to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities among individuals who live in historically marginalized communities.
iFoster
Funds awarded: $1,439,675
Contact: serita@ifoster.org | 530-550-9635
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve part-time to help vulnerable Californians access healthcare services in the Capitol Region and Los Angeles County. AmeriCorps members will assist people with scheduling medical appointments and receiving access to needed care and vaccinations.
L.A. Works Inc.
Citizen Action AmeriCorps Funds awarded: $ 1,777,162
Contact: debbie@laworks.com | 323-224-6510
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide direct service and build capacity at organizations and agencies with programming for underserved populations in the Southern California region, in and around Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire. AmeriCorps members will provide social services to local communities, build organizational capacity, recruit and manage volunteers, and engage in outreach for COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Funds awarded: $568,424
Contact: terri@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
Los Angeles County
Reducing COVID-19 Disparities in Los Angeles County
Funds awarded: $1,612,800
Contact: scipres2@ph.lacounty.gov | 213-549-2348
Public Health AmeriCorps members will engage in community outreach, health education, resource sharing, and communicable disease investigation in the most highly impacted communities located within Los Angeles County, California. AmeriCorps members will improve health outcomes around COVID-19 and non-COVID-related health conditions among vulnerable populations.
Reach Out West End
Funds awarded: $201,542
Contact: yara@we-reachout.org | 909-982-8641
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide screening for social determinants of health, case management, resource navigation, outreach, and education while embedded at Federally Qualified Health Centers and public health clinics in Inland Empire region of Southern California, including Riverside and San Bernardino counties. AmeriCorps members will receive Community Health Worker training and work with local partners to help communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Safe Passages
Funds awarded: $273,363
Contact: rhamati@safepassages.org | 707-567-6564
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health advocates in Alameda County, California. AmeriCorps members will provide health education and conduct outreach to increase community health knowledge.
Sewa International, Inc.
Funds awarded: $574,937
Contact: 408-821-7874
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide preventive, awareness, and first response activities related to mental health for youth and adults (11 to 75 years) in four counties of California.
The Arc of the United States
Health and Fitness for All
Funds awarded: $131,593
Contact: berns@thearc.org | 202-534-3701
Public Health AmeriCorps members will receive training in the HealthMatters™ curriculum to deliver health education, nutrition training, and physical activity classes to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in California.
Colorado
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies
Enroll for Health Colorado
Funds awarded: $241,045
Contact: madison.davis@state.co.us | 913-449-9820
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist with outreach across Colorado to individuals - largely undocumented individuals - who will be newly eligible for state-subsidized health insurance coverage through Colorado's Health Insurance Affordability Enterprise.
Equal Heart
Funds awarded: $2,072,869
Contact: keven@equalheart.org | 469-526-3645
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide access to care and other services that meet public health needs in rural, distressed, and other under-resourced communities across five states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia. AmeriCorps members will increase access to care and support behavior change leading to an increase in health outcomes.
Metro Volunteers
SPARK HEALTH Corps
Funds awarded: $219,358
Contact: Kgroen@sparkthechangecolorado.org | 720-420-3216
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide Tier 1 and Tier 3 mental wellness counseling and education to vulnerable K-12 students at public charter schools throughout Colorado. AmeriCorps members will increase the number of students reporting a change or intent to change behavior to improve their mental health.
Trailhead Institute
Funds awarded: $805,406
Contact: lkenlon@trailhead.institute | 303-503-2684
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide technical assistance and capacity building support for local and state public health agencies and organizations across Colorado. AmeriCorps members will perform data and landscape analyses in order to build a roadmap to modernize the Colorado public health system.
Connecticut
Community Health Center, Inc.
Funds awarded: $432,000
Contact: hansenr@chc1.com | 475-212-2207
Public Health AmeriCorps members will participate in various activities related to outreach, education, linkage to care, retention in care, COVID-19 vaccination, and engagement in healthcare and support services across community-based sites in Connecticut. AmeriCorps members will support increased health knowledge and improve access to care among individuals in Middletown, New London, Clinton, Groton, Waterbury, Danbury, Meriden, New Britain, Enfield, Bristol, Hartford, Old Saybrook, Norwalk, and Stamford.
Epilepsy Foundation New England
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Funds awarded: $1,380,096
Contact: slinn@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Health360
Healthy Minds Alliance - Public Health AmeriCorps
Funds awarded: $4,317,240
Contact: Harrity@Health360.org | 203-788-7349
Public Health AmeriCorps members will implement mental health gatekeeper trainings that increase the ability of laypeople to identify and support people with mental illness in organizations across the nation that demonstrate need via an annual competitive application process.
Delaware
Health Federation of Philadelphia
National Health Corps: Community Health Fellowship
Funds awarded: $1,152,000
Contact: natlev@healthfederation.org | 215-567-8001
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide public health services including health education, COVID-19 vaccination support, digital health navigation, linkage to care, mental health and wellness, and substance use disorder prevention and response in Philadelphia, Northeast Pennsylvania, New Castle County, Delaware, and the Central Valley and Southern Inland Regions of California. AmeriCorps members will increase knowledge about disease prevention and mitigation and access to resources necessary to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities among individuals who live in historically marginalized communities.
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-Camden
Funds awarded: $310,158
Contact: cammor@camden.rutgers.edu | 856-225-2949
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve the City of Camden and the Delaware Valley Region in New Jersey through capacity building efforts. AmeriCorps members will focus on public health promotion, community education, and direct service activities related to healthy futures.
Zufall Health Center
Funds awarded: $287,986
Contact: scronan@zufallhealth.org | 973-328-9100
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support underserved communities that are disproportionately affected by health disparities in New Jersey through health education and outreach. AmeriCorps members will increase patient access to primary medical, dental, behavioral health, wellness, and COVID-19 testing and vaccination services in Essex, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, and Warren counties.
District of Columbia
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Funds awarded: $351,635
Contact: koldaker@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3237
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct healthcare outreach to low-income individuals.
Damien Ministries
We the People Community Health Worker Academy and Corps
Funds awarded: $687,340
Contact: jrichardson@damienministries.org | 202-780-7086
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Certified Community Health Workers in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. They will provide health education related to preventative care, COVID-19 vaccination, opioid overdose prevention, and more.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Latin American Youth Center
Funds awarded: $223,788
Contact: jeanne@layc-dc.org | 202-319-2225
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote and implement interventions and education efforts related to HIV/STIs, COVID-19, sexual health, and harm reduction in Washington, DC and Prince George's County, Maryland. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach and educational public health services.
Florida
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Funds awarded: $1,164,952
Contact: jill.messing@asu.edu
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.
Collier Health Services, Inc.
Funds awarded: $288,800
Contact: 239-986-5642 Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as community liaisons by providing health education and improving access to medical care in Collier County, Florida. AmeriCorps members will improve access to care through delivery of community health services for community members.
Damien Ministries
We the People Community Health Worker Academy and Corps
Funds awarded: $687,340
Contact: jrichardson@damienministries.org | 202-780-7086
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Certified Community Health Workers in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. They will provide health education related to preventative care, COVID-19 vaccination, opioid overdose prevention, and more.
The Florida Coalition to End Homelessness
Funds awarded: $288,000
Contact: lsacino@outlook.com | 321-258-1849
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide resource navigation, homeless services training, certification, and career training to 18-24-year-olds experiencing homelessness. AmeriCorps members will improve access to healthcare through housing and health services, improve the mental well-being through employment and training services, and increase organizations' capacity by increasing healthcare participation in the corresponding homeless Continuums of Care.
Georgia
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS)
Funds awarded: $241,859
Contact: tiffany.nguyen@bpsos.org | 419-491-7118
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, education, training, and services navigation to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake in Baldwin and Mobile, Alabama. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health.
Dekalb County Board of Health
Funds awarded: $460,800
Contact: Phuong.Le@dph.ga.gov | 404-508-7883
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with DeKalb County Board of Health leaders to learn how to manage and operate several programs housed in one of four locations in DeKalb County, Georgia. AmeriCorps members will provide capacity, support, and increased awareness of COVID-19 testing and vaccinations to support equitable health outcomes and COVID recovery for underserved communities.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Funds awarded: $568,424
Contact: terri@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
One World Link
Funds awarded: $882,081
Contact: aoguntoye@oneworldlink.org | 404-969-5593
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide community health outreach and support as well as recruit, train, and develop additional volunteers, with a special emphasis on those who have historically not had access to public health in Central Georgia - including Bibb, Peach, Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, and Houston counties. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge among communities served and help public health organizations improve organizational efficiency and program reach.
Guam
Department of Public Health and Social Services
Funds awarded: $1,151,980
Contact: rojuna.selvidge@dphss.guam.gov | 671-922-2504
Public Health AmeriCorps members will educate communities about the programs and services administered by Department of Public Health and Social Services (DPHSS). AmeriCorps members will provide accurate, timely, and updated information for individuals to increase their knowledge of available public health programs and services that would help them make informed decisions to improve overall health and well-being.
Hawaii
Equal Heart
Funds awarded: $2,072,869
Contact: keven@equalheart.org | 469-526-3645
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide access to care and other services that meet public health needs in rural, distressed, and other under-resourced communities across five states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia. AmeriCorps members will increase access to care and support behavior change leading to an increase in health outcomes.
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Funds awarded: $863,995
Contact: amber.gibson@redcross.org | 310-429-5999
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Idaho
Idaho State University
Gem State Public Health
Funds awarded: $1,653,120
Contact: resdev@isu.edu | 208-282-2592
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase the capacity of and for 1) public health services offered to communities through collaboration and partnerships, and 2) the number of suicide prevention intervention trainings offered, while 3) helping members learn more about public health careers through the Gem State Public Health program at the Institute of Rural Health. AmeriCorps members will expand and enhance community partnerships in an effort to increase services offered, as well as increase the number of individuals trained as suicide prevention intervention gatekeepers.
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Funds awarded: $908,689
Contact: gcarpinello@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Boise, Idaho. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Funds awarded: $863,995
Contact: amber.gibson@redcross.org | 310-429-5999
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Illinois
Association House of Chicago
Funds awarded: $282,500
Contact: agergis@associationhouse.org | 773-772-7170
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide education, training, counseling, coaching, and service navigation through multiple programs in Chicago, Illinois. AmeriCorps members will improve community health and increase participant health and health knowledge in Cook County.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Gardeneers
Healthy Kids, Healthy Families, Healthy Communities
Funds awarded: $719,997
Contact: leah@gardeneers.org | 847-800-1832
Public Health AmeriCorps members will lead educational programs and conduct outreach to provide support, resources, tools, and access to locally grown fresh produce for students, families, and community members through school garden programs, farm stands, and community workshops in schools and surrounding communities primarily on the West and South sides of Chicago. AmeriCorps members will provide students, family members, and community members with access to locally grown, fresh food by building their knowledge and skills to grow food in their own communities, combat food inequality, increase their health knowledge, and make healthy decisions for their future.
Reading & Math Inc.
National Public Health Corps
Funds awarded: $2,880,000
Contact: megan.mcnabb@ampact.us | 612-206-3059
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide peer support and recovery coaching to individuals working to overcome substance use disorders in Illinois and Virginia.
Sinai Health System (Sinai)
Funds awarded: $413,518
Contact: claude.hall@sinai.org | 847-406-0941
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support youth service programming, conduct research and evaluation activities, provide health education and community outreach, and provide system navigation, referrals, and linkage to care at Sinai and other entities including Sinai Community Institute (SCI) and Holy Cross Hospital. AmeriCorps members will increase school attendance and academic performance for youth, advance health equity, and improve service delivery within Sinai's service area.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Funds awarded: $633,501
Contact: ccota@voa.org | 202-313-2773
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers to increase access to health care through program interventions. AmeriCorps members will perform outreach, assist with navigation of services, and provide counseling to underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA.
Indiana
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Funds awarded: $1,164,952
Contact: jill.messing@asu.edu
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.
The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis, Inc. (THFGI)
Ending the Epidemics
Funds awarded: $979,177
Contact: ebarney@thfgi.org | 317-630-1805
Public Health AmeriCorps members will address social determinants that exacerbate HIV, HCV, and substance use disorder (SUD) at 20 nonprofit organizations in Indiana. AmeriCorps members will contribute to an increased capacity to respond to the HIV and HCV Epidemics.
The Indiana State Department of Health
Funds awarded: $287,999
Contact: NMorley@isdh.in.gov | 317-775-8911
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase the capacity of local public health departments in Indiana. AmeriCorps members will support ten local health departments in increasing their accreditation readiness.
Iowa
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority
Funds awarded: $443,459
Contact: jessi.carver@IowaEDA.com | 515-348-6152
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity at 20 nonprofit or government agencies by addressing food insecurity and providing resource navigation in rural and urban Iowa communities.
University of Iowa
Disaster PrepWise AmeriCorps
Funds awarded: $117,504
Contact: mary-blackwood@uiowa.edu | 319-335-3968
Public Health AmeriCorps members will help community-based older adults become prepared for disasters and strengthen their emergency support networks in several counties across Iowa, both urban and rural. AmeriCorps members will expand the capacity of eight local public health or emergency management agencies and complete interventions with older adults in Iowa communities.
Kansas
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Funds awarded: $1,164,952
Contact: jill.messing@asu.edu
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.
Wyandotte County
Funds awarded: $216,000
Contact: mahuhn@wycokck.org | 913-573-8865
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support tobacco cessation, Wyandotte County's community health improvement plan, COVID-19 education and outreach, or WyCo Connect in Wyandotte County, Kansas. AmeriCorps members will increase the number of residents reporting quitting tobacco and/or becoming vaccinated against COVID-19 as well as provide critical increased capacity to local public health programming.
Kentucky
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Funds awarded: $1,164,952
Contact: jill.messing@asu.edu
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.
Family Scholar House
FSH Kentucky Public Health AmeriCorps
Funds awarded: $2,825,124
Contact: sbrady@familyscholarhouse.org | 502-653-2836
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide healthcare support and services to seniors and disabled individuals in healthcare facilities across Kentucky. Additionally, AmeriCorps members will develop their healthcare knowledge and complete credentialing coursework, enabling them to work in memory care, skilled nursing, assisted living, and other healthcare-related environments.
Kentucky Health Departments Association
Funds awarded: $1,367,010
Contact: trogers@khda-ky.org | 502-875-2255
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers (CHWs) in local health departments in communities across Kentucky in core public health programs, including Health And Nutrition Delivery System (HANDS), Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and Harm Reduction.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Funds awarded: $633,501
Contact: ccota@voa.org | 202-313-2773
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers to increase access to health care through program interventions. AmeriCorps members will perform outreach, assist with navigation of services, and provide counseling to underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA.
Louisiana
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
CHRISTUS Health
Funds awarded: $686,800
Contact: chara.abrams@christushealth.org
Public Health AmeriCorps will address social determinants of health by providing outreach, assisting with navigation of services, providing education, and offering referrals to patients to improve health outcomes across the service areas of CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances, Good Shepherd, St. Michael, Santa Rosa, Spohn, Southeast Texas, Ochsner St. Patrick, St. Frances Cabrini, Shreveport-Bossier, St. Vincent and System Office. AmeriCorps members will acquire Community Health Worker (CHW) training and state certification and utilize a Social Needs Community Resource Directory.
Maine
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Epilepsy Foundation New England
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Funds awarded: $1,380,096
Contact: slinn@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Goodwill Industries of Northern New England
Funds awarded: $1,396,504
Contact: sherri.evans@goodwillnne.org | 207-774-6323
Public Health AmeriCorps members will expand the capacity of public health agencies to help medically underserved communities in Maine and New Hampshire. AmeriCorps members will implement evidence-based public health interventions to help 12 agencies increase their capacity.
Maryland
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Baltimore Corps, Inc.
Baltimore Community Health Corps
Funds awarded: $2,254,340
Contact: americorps@baltimorecorps.org | 517-896-8618
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Healthcare Fellows in Baltimore, Maryland. They will increase access to and quality of care for underserved populations and reduce the impacts of trauma and COVID-19 for some of Baltimore's most vulnerable populations.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Funds awarded: $351,635
Contact: koldaker@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3237
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct healthcare outreach to low-income individuals.
Damien Ministries
We the People Community Health Worker Academy and Corps
Funds awarded: $687,340
Contact: jrichardson@damienministries.org | 202-780-7086
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Certified Community Health Workers in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. They will provide health education related to preventative care, COVID-19 vaccination, opioid overdose prevention, and more.
Latin American Youth Center
Funds awarded: $223,788
Contact: jeanne@layc-dc.org | 202-319-2225
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote and implement interventions and education efforts related to HIV/STIs, COVID-19, sexual health, and harm reduction in Washington, DC and Prince George's County, Maryland. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach and educational public health services.
Massachusetts
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Funds awarded: $1,164,952
Contact: jill.messing@asu.edu
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.
Boston Medical Center
StreetCred
Funds awarded: $65,947
Contact: lucy.marcil@bmc.org | 617-414-2834
Public Health AmeriCorps members will implement a program that prescribes economic opportunities to families as a part of their routine health care visits in Boston, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will connect families to free money available to them (tax credits, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC), in addition to tax refunds; and seed money for college savings accounts (CSAs), and empower them to work toward financial goals via individualized financial coaching.
City of Lawrence Massachusetts
Funds awarded: $344,731
Contact: rshephard@cityoflawrence.com
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide healthy homes outreach, education, and resource referrals to landlords and tenants in Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge of residents, and health and safety improvements in rental properties.
East Boston Community Health Center
Funds awarded: $574,406
Contact: dohertma@ebnhc.org | 617-568-7200
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide care coordination, conduct outreach to patients, and connect to services in East Boston Neighborhood Health Center clinics in Boston, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will support health screenings, conduct outreach, and participate in administrative activities related to cancer, mental health, and other social services.
Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, Inc.
Funds awarded: $57,599
Contact: juliann.dooley@kennedychc.org | 508-532-7309
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide outreach services for students enrolled in public school systems, with an emphasis on six school-based health centers operated by the Health Center in Framingham and Worcester, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will connect students and families in these communities to health care by increasing enrollment in the school-based health centers and identifying and assisting families and students who do not have health insurance coverage.
Epilepsy Foundation New England
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Funds awarded: $1,380,096
Contact: slinn@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
Funds awarded: $172,800
Contact: nelson.andrewsJr@mwtribe-nsn.gov | 508-477-5800
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's Emergency Management department through disaster preparation, direct services, and community training.
National Network of Public Health Institutes
Funds awarded: $287,477
Contact: dhamer@nnphi.org | 225-500-1137
Public Health AmeriCorps members will facilitate climate and health social media campaigns and connect community members and organizations to social services available to them in the event of a climate disaster in Massachusetts, Texas, and Puerto Rico. AmeriCorps members will provide climate and health communication, which will positively impact health and social service organizations that collaborate to improve climate resilience knowledge, skills, and abilities.
OCHIN, Inc.
Funds awarded: $720,000
Contact: healyd@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin to help clinicians reduce the impact of COVID-19. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
The Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Funds awarded: $460,800
Contact: ceagan@bhchp.org | 857-654-1047
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide care coordination, overdose prevention, and health education in Boston, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will provide individuals and families experiencing homelessness with improved access to health care, connections to essential health-supporting resources and social services, health education, and education to prevent overdoses and address substance use disorders.
Michigan
Cherry Street Services Inc.
Funds awarded: $556,326
Contact: americorps@cherryhealth.com
Public Health AmeriCorps members will focus on increasing access to care by providing two primary services: 1) health education to promote breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening; 2) Medicaid and Marketplace outreach and enrollment.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
The Ingham County Health Department
Funds awarded: $287,572
Contact: LVail@ingham.org | 517-887-4466
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide healthcare access, racial equity, community resilience, and public health workforce development capacity building services in the Capital Region (Ingham, Clinton, and Eaton Counties) community.
The Michigan Primary Care Association (MPCA)
Funds awarded: $547,200
Contact: kgoucher@mpca.net | 517-827-0878
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide outreach and enrollment services, assist with linkages to primary care, and assess and address Social Determinants of Health through placements with Federally Qualified Health Centers in low-income and medically underserved communities across Michigan.
Minnesota
OCHIN, Inc.
Funds awarded: $720,000
Contact: healyd@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin to help clinicians reduce the impact of COVID-19. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
Reading & Math, Inc.
Heading Home Corps
Funds awarded: $2,880,000
Contact: megan.mcnabb@ampact.us | 612-206-3059
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide housing navigation and other housing-related support services to organizations serving people experiencing homelessness in nonprofits and shelters across Minnesota. AmeriCorps members will serve people experiencing housing instability and other related obstacles to improve their health.
Reading & Math Inc.
Minnesota Public Health Corps
Funds awarded: $4,320,000
Contact: maria.ferguson@ampact.us | 612-206-3030
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide capacity-building support in public health agencies across the state of Minnesota. AmeriCorps members will support organizations to increase their efficiency, effectiveness, or program reach.
Reading & Math Inc.
Recovery Corps
Funds awarded: $3,600,000
Contact: megan.mcnabb@ampact.us | 612-206-3059
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide peer support and recovery coaching to individuals working to overcome opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders in Minnesota. AmeriCorps members will work with people in recovery to help increase their quality of life, self-esteem and self-efficacy, recovery capital, and confidence in staying substance free.
Mississippi
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Missouri
Healing Action Network, Inc.
Funds awarded: $314,256
Contact: jason.seward@healingaction.org | 314-833-4515
Public Health AmeriCorps members will help meet the public mental health needs of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation in the St. Louis region by providing community education and collaboration opportunities to individuals and organizations across Missouri. AmeriCorps members will increase knowledge regarding opioids to program participants and assist program recipients in achieving progress in at least one recovery goal through coaching and navigation of services.
University of Missouri
Funds awarded: $167,910
Contact: grimesa@umkc.edu | 816-235-1737
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support the Active Lab, an initiative to promote public health through physical activity. The Active Lab leads two major activities, Move More, Get More (MMGM) and Getting Around KC (GAKC). The AmeriCorps members will serve bi-state activities operating in the urban areas of the metropolitan Kansas City in Kansas and Missouri.
Montana
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Funds awarded: $908,689
Contact: gcarpinello@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Boise, Idaho. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Funds awarded: $863,995
Contact: amber.gibson@redcross.org | 310-429-5999
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Nebraska
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Funds awarded: $633,501
Contact: ccota@voa.org | 202-313-2773
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers to increase access to health care through program interventions. AmeriCorps members will perform outreach, assist with navigation of services, and provide counseling to underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA.
Nevada
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
New Hampshire
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Epilepsy Foundation New England
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Funds awarded: $1,380,096
Contact: slinn@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Goodwill Industries of Northern New England
Funds awarded: $1,396,504
Contact: sherri.evans@goodwillnne.org | 207-774-6323
Public Health AmeriCorps members will expand the capacity of public health agencies to help medically underserved communities in Maine and New Hampshire. AmeriCorps members will implement evidence-based public health interventions to help 12 agencies increase their capacity.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Funds awarded: $568,424
Contact: terri@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
New Jersey
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Funds awarded: $351,635
Contact: koldaker@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3237
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct healthcare outreach to low-income individuals.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Montclair State University
Funds awarded: $780,464
Contact: pichardoj@montclair.edu | 973-655-7882
Public Health AmeriCorps members serving in north, central, and south Jersey will manage the deployment of student volunteers to local, on-the-ground community organizations, human service agencies, hospitals, health clinics, and affordable housing agencies. AmeriCorps members will boost the ability of these organizations to address the physical and mental health impacts of the pandemic.
New Jersey Community Development Corporation (NJCDC)
Funds awarded: $285,393
Contact: dgelman@njcdc.org | 973-413-1622
Public Health AmeriCorps members will implement a wide range of supportive mental health services, systems and resources for students and families in Paterson, New Jersey. AmeriCorps members will support increased mental health and awareness of access to supportive services through pre- and post-surveys.
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-Camden
Funds awarded: $310,158
Contact: cammor@camden.rutgers.edu | 856-225-2949
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve the City of Camden and the Delaware Valley Region in New Jersey through capacity building efforts. AmeriCorps members will focus on public health promotion, community education, and direct service activities related to healthy futures.
Zufall Health Center
Funds awarded: $287,986
Contact: scronan@zufallhealth.org | 973-328-9100
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support underserved communities that are disproportionately affected by health disparities in New Jersey through health education and outreach. AmeriCorps members will increase patient access to primary medical, dental, behavioral health, wellness, and COVID-19 testing and vaccination services in Essex, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, and Warren counties.
New Mexico
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
CHRISTUS Health
Funds awarded: $686,800
Contact: chara.abrams@christushealth.org
Public Health AmeriCorps will address social determinants of health by providing outreach, assisting with navigation of services, providing education, and offering referrals to patients to improve health outcomes across the service areas of CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances, Good Shepherd, St. Michael, Santa Rosa, Spohn, Southeast Texas, Ochsner St. Patrick, St. Frances Cabrini, Shreveport-Bossier, St. Vincent and System Office. AmeriCorps members will acquire Community Health Worker (CHW) training and state certification and utilize a Social Needs Community Resource Directory.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico
Funds awarded: $57,413
Contact: sabrina.su@rrfb.org | 575-323-5139
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist community members with resource navigation and referrals to healthcare providers across New Mexico. AmeriCorps members will assist individuals and increase health knowledge for food insecure New Mexicans.
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps
Funds awarded: $87,772
Contact: david@youthcorps.org | 303-817-0281
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as mental health mentors at Taos High School, Vista Grande High School, Espanola High School, and the Health and Community Services Department in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. AmeriCorps members will help students complete the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) assessment and the Project Amp curriculum.
New York
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Funds awarded: $1,164,952
Contact: jill.messing@asu.edu
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.
City of Rochester
Flower City Public Health Corps
Funds awarded: $690,979
Contact: walida.monroe@cityofrochester.gov | 585-428-7358
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide COVID-19 response and recovery services, assist in establishing neighborhood preventative health clinics, facilitate youth mentoring and trainings in public health, health educational and training programming, mental health education and awareness, community outreach, emotional regulation skill building within high-poverty, urban and marginalized neighborhoods in Rochester, New York.
Community Health Care Association of New York State
Funds awarded: $2,600,000
Contact: oreboredo@chcanys.org | 212-710-3811
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide family health education and care management services to individuals in Community Health Centers (CHCs) across New York State, in the following counties: New York, Kings, Bronx, Queens, Richmond, Albany, Warren, Westchester, Dutchess, Hudson Valley, Suffolk, Putnam, Rockland, Eerie, Onondaga, and Monroe.
Concrete Safaris Inc.
PlacemakingCorps
Funds awarded: $687,696
Contact: mac@concretesafaris.org | 347-267-2903
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct environmental health literacy and place-based service-learning interventions and refer participants for medical and wrap-around services in East Harlem. AmeriCorps members will increase the health knowledge of children and youth and provide children, families, and youth with improved access to medical care.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
New York City Office of the Mayor
Funds awarded: $2,246,000
Contact: efarmer@nycservice.nyc.gov | 646-404-3081
Public Health AmeriCorps members will perform public health-related direct service and capacity-building activities in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments and with nonprofit partners. AmeriCorps members will help increase the health, knowledge and condition for NYCHA residents as well as increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and program outreach in Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, and Richmond counties.
Public Health Solutions
Funds awarded: $115,190
Contact: mmclean@healthsolutions.org | 646-690-3500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide needs assessments and navigation services to low-income families in underserved areas of Queens, New York. As a result, AmeriCorps members will increase the self-efficacy of these New Yorkers.
Ronald McDonald House New York
Improving Child Health Through Integrated Systems of Care Funds awarded: $115,200
Contact: catlas@rmh-newyork.org | 212-639-0215
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build the infrastructure needed to advance health equity outcomes for underserved medically complex children and their families receiving care at public and safety-net hospitals in New York City. AmeriCorps members will conduct risk and market analyses to identify social determinants of health and establish referral networks with community-based organizations in target communities.
Rural Health Network of South Central New York
Funds awarded: $684,377
Contact: jpitts@rhnscny.org | 607-692-7669
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide health access services and increase capacity in upstate New York counties, primarily the rural Southern Tier. Counties served include Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Erie, Madison, Otsego, Schoharie, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Allegany, and Cayuga.
North Carolina
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Appalachian State University
App State Public Health Program
Funds awarded: $340,439
Contact: grants@appstate.edu | 828-262-7311
Public Health AmeriCorps members will implement Psychological First Aid (PFA), recruit Medical Reserve Corps Members to implement RAPID-PFA (Reflective Listening, Assessment, Prioritization, Intervention and Disposition) interventions, and deliver pre- and post-emergency/trauma RAPID-PFA interventions to organizations including local health departments. Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve Western North Carolina including Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Funds awarded: $1,164,952
Contact: jill.messing@asu.edu
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Damien Ministries
We the People Community Health Worker Academy and Corps
Funds awarded: $687,340
Contact: jrichardson@damienministries.org | 202-780-7086
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Certified Community Health Workers in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. They will provide health education related to preventative care, COVID-19 vaccination, opioid overdose prevention, and more.
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
REACH AmeriCorps
Funds awarded: $229,293
Contact: robin.barker@ialr.org | 434-766-6730
Public Health AmeriCorps members will expand capacity for public health service by providing direct outreach and education service in the City of Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and Caswell County, North Carolina. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge and healthy behaviors through education, outreach, referrals, and COVID response.
Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina, Inc.
Funds awarded: $299,002
Contact: joe.kunkel@riden2n.org | 843-685-0745
Public Health AmeriCorps members will educate vulnerable seniors on COVID-19 health initiatives, assist in navigating the health care system to access mental health resources, provide community members with referrals and linkages to community resources, and collect community-level public health data in Horry, Georgetown and Williamsburg counties in South Carolina.
OCHIN, Inc.
Funds awarded: $720,000
Contact: healyd@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin to help clinicians reduce the impact of COVID-19. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
Pamlico Rose Institute for Sustainable Communities
Wellness Corps
Funds awarded: $345,098
Contact: robert@pamlicorose.org | 805-320-2967
Public Health AmeriCorps members will administer wellness, healthy living and resilience programs for underrepresented populations--especially women Veterans--in eastern North Carolina, including Pitt and Beaufort counties. AmeriCorps members will implement a comprehensive garden to table program, focused on mitigating food insecurity through education.
Wake Forest University
Funds awarded: $215,120
Contact: magjukmg@wfu.edu | 336-758-4549
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to improve health knowledge and access to medical care for low-income individuals and families in Forsyth County, North Carolina. AmeriCorps members will conduct health outreach & education, provide patient navigation services, and build capacity for free health clinics.
Ohio
Damien Ministries
We the People Community Health Worker Academy and Corps
Funds awarded: $687,340
Contact: jrichardson@damienministries.org | 202-780-7086
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Certified Community Health Workers in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. They will provide health education related to preventative care, COVID-19 vaccination, opioid overdose prevention, and more.
OCHIN, Inc.
Funds awarded: $720,000
Contact: healyd@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin to help clinicians reduce the impact of COVID-19. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
The Ohio State University - Office of Sponsored Programs
Funds awarded: $1,151,744
Contact: bebo.1@osu.edu | 614-292-1655
Public Health AmeriCorps members will facilitate a rural and urban Public Health Corps that provides economically disadvantaged families with a Public Health Ecosystem (PHE) and health education focused on diet and nutrition. AmeriCorps members will engage communities in service-learning public health projects focused on social determinants of health in Ohio.
Oklahoma
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Oregon
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Funds awarded: $351,635
Contact: koldaker@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3237
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct healthcare outreach to low-income individuals.
FoodCorps, Inc.
Funds awarded: $5,760,000
Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Funds awarded: $908,689
Contact: gcarpinello@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Boise, Idaho. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.
OCHIN, Inc.
Funds awarded: $720,000
Contact: healyd@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin to help clinicians reduce the impact of COVID-19. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Funds awarded: $863,995
Contact: amber.gibson@redcross.org | 310-429-5999
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Pennsylvania
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Funds awarded: $1,164,952
Contact: jill.messing@asu.edu
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Health Federation of Philadelphia
National Health Corps: Community Health Fellowship
Funds awarded: $1,152,000
Contact: natlev@healthfederation.org | 215-567-8001
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide public health services including health education, COVID-19 vaccination support, digital health navigation, linkage to care, mental health and wellness, and substance use disorder prevention and response in Philadelphia, Northeast Pennsylvania, New Castle County, Delaware, and the Central Valley and Southern Inland Regions of California. AmeriCorps members will increase knowledge about disease prevention and mitigation and access to resources necessary to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities among individuals who live in historically marginalized communities.
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium
Funds awarded: $329,143
Contact: csimon@phmc.org | 215-731-2177
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support community-based primary healthcare in Philadelphia, Allegheny, and Centre Counties in Pennsylvania. AmeriCorps members will screen community members for social determinants of health and connect individuals to primary healthcare services.
Puerto Rico
National Network of Public Health Institutes
Funds awarded: $287,477
Contact: dhamer@nnphi.org | 225-500-1137
Public Health AmeriCorps members will facilitate climate and health social media campaigns and connect community members and organizations to social services available to them in the event of a climate disaster in Massachusetts, Texas, and Puerto Rico. AmeriCorps members will provide climate and health communication, which will positively impact health and social service organizations that collaborate to improve climate resilience knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Oficina para la Promoción y el Desarrollo Humano, Inc. (OPDH)
Funds awarded: $55,557
Contact: aflores.opdh@gmail.com | 787-817-6951
Public Health AmeriCorps members will deliver mental health services to adolescents and young adults from the North and Central geographical regions of Puerto Rico. AmeriCorps members will increase participants’ mental health knowledge.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Funds awarded: $633,501
Contact: ccota@voa.org | 202-313-2773
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers to increase access to health care through program interventions. AmeriCorps members will perform outreach, assist with navigation of services, and provide counseling to underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA.
Rhode Island
Epilepsy Foundation New England
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Funds awarded: $1,380,096
Contact: slinn@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
South Carolina
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Funds awarded: $806,377
Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Funds awarded: $568,424
Contact: terri@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina, Inc.
Funds awarded: $299,002
Contact: joe.kunkel@riden2n.org | 843-685-0745
Public Health AmeriCorps members will educate vulnerable seniors on COVID-19 health initiatives, assist in navigating the health care system to access mental health resources, provide community members with referrals and linkages to community resources, and collect community-level public health data in Horry, Georgetown and Williamsburg counties in South Carolina.
South Carolina Free Clinic Association
Funds awarded: $299,772
Contact: vamullikin@scfreeclinics.org | 803-713-5993
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers and provide health and social services navigation assistance in free clinics in South Carolina.
Tennessee
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Funds awarded: $351,635
Contact: koldaker@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3237
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct healthcare outreach to low-income individuals.
Equal Heart
Funds awarded: $2,072,869
Contact: keven@equalheart.org | 469-526-3645
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide access to care and other services that meet public health needs in rural, distressed, and other under-resourced communities across five states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia. AmeriCorps members will increase access to care and support behavior change leading to an increase in health outcomes.
Health360
Healthy Minds Alliance - Public Health AmeriCorps
Funds awarded: $4,317,240
Contact: Harrity@Health360.org | 203-788-7349
Public Health AmeriCorps members will implement mental health gatekeeper trainings that increase the ability of laypeople to identify and support people with mental illness in organizations across the nation that demonstrate need via an annual competitive application process.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Funds awarded: $568,424
Contact: terri@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
Texas
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Funds awarded: $1,164,952
Contact: jill.messing@asu.edu
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS)
Funds awarded: $241,859
Contact: tiffany.nguyen@bpsos.org | 419-491-7118
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, education, training, and services navigation to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake in Baldwin and Mobile, Alabama. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Funds awarded: $351,635
Contact: koldaker@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3237
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct healthcare outreach to low-income individuals.
CHRISTUS Health
Funds awarded: $686,800
Contact: chara.abrams@christushealth.org
Public Health AmeriCorps will address social determinants of health by providing outreach, assisting with navigation of services, providing education, and offering referrals to patients to improve health outcomes across the service areas of CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances, Good Shepherd, St. Michael, Santa Rosa, Spohn, Southeast Texas, Ochsner St. Patrick, St. Frances Cabrini, Shreveport-Bossier, St. Vincent and System Office. AmeriCorps members will acquire Community Health Worker (CHW) training and state certification and utilize a Social Needs Community Resource Directory.
City of Austin
Funds awarded: $80,640
Contact: annette.phinney@austintexas.gov | 737-900-3247
Public Health AmeriCorps members will coordinate public health online education for residents and partners, as well as food shopping delivery service for families experiencing challenges obtaining food in Austin, Texas. The AmeriCorps members' service activities will focus on engaging marginalized and historically underserved communities.
Equal Heart
Funds awarded: $2,072,869
Contact: keven@equalheart.org | 469-526-3645
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide access to care and other services that meet public health needs in rural, distressed, and other under-resourced communities across five states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia. AmeriCorps members will increase access to care and support behavior change leading to an increase in health outcomes.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Funds awarded: $568,424
Contact: terri@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
National Network of Public Health Institutes
Funds awarded: $287,477
Contact: dhamer@nnphi.org | 225-500-1137
Public Health AmeriCorps members will facilitate climate and health social media campaigns and connect community members and organizations to social services available to them in the event of a climate disaster in Massachusetts, Texas, and Puerto Rico. AmeriCorps members will provide climate and health communication, which will positively impact health and social service organizations that collaborate to improve climate resilience knowledge, skills, and abilities.
The American YouthWorks
Funds awarded: $287,942
Contact: dclauss@ayw.org | 512-744-1900
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers to increase health knowledge in Title 1 Public Schools in Central Texas.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Funds awarded: $633,501
Contact: ccota@voa.org | 202-313-2773
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers to increase access to health care through program interventions. AmeriCorps members will perform outreach, assist with navigation of services, and provide counseling to underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA.
Utah
The Association for Utah Community Health (AUCH)
Funds awarded: $575,989
Contact: arasmussen@auch.org | 385-280-7090
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers (CHWs) and improve access to medical care in the Utah Counties of Weber, Washington, Salt Lake, and Utah.
Vermont
Epilepsy Foundation New England
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Funds awarded: $1,380,096
Contact: slinn@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Virginia
Boat People SOS (BPSOS)
Funds awarded: $241,859
Contact: tiffany.nguyen@bpsos.org | 419-491-7118
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, education, training, and services navigation to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake in Baldwin and Mobile, Alabama. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health.
City of Richmond
RVA Health Corps
Funds awarded: $460,674
Contact: Paul.Manning@Richmondgov.com | 804-646-6528
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as community health workers (CHWs) and provide nutrition education, mental health literacy, and informal chronic disease and mental health counseling in Richmond's low-income neighborhoods. Members will also support referrals to healthcare providers, local health agencies, and community organizations. AmeriCorps members will obtain a community health worker certification and licensure, providing a pathway to critical public health careers for underrepresented Black and Latinx Richmonders who have been systematically excluded from serving and leading their own communities.
Damien Ministries
We the People Community Health Worker Academy and Corps
Funds awarded: $687,340
Contact: jrichardson@damienministries.org | 202-780-7086
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Certified Community Health Workers in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. They will provide health education related to preventative care, COVID-19 vaccination, opioid overdose prevention, and more.
Equal Heart
Funds awarded: $2,072,869
Contact: keven@equalheart.org | 469-526-3645
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide access to care and other services that meet public health needs in rural, distressed, and other under-resourced communities across five states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia. AmeriCorps members will increase access to care and support behavior change leading to an increase in health outcomes.
George Mason University
Funds awarded: $431,993
Contact: samantha.lukasiewicz@dss.virginia.gov | 804-726-7925
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work in teams to improve community connections and learn how to use data analytics to improve care communication, care coordination, triage, and patient surveillance across Prince William County, Manassas City, Manassas Park City, Fairfax County and Falls Church, Virginia.
Health360
Healthy Minds Alliance - Public Health AmeriCorps
Funds awarded: $4,317,240
Contact: Harrity@Health360.org | 203-788-7349
Public Health AmeriCorps members will implement mental health gatekeeper trainings that increase the ability of laypeople to identify and support people with mental illness in organizations across the nation that demonstrate need via an annual competitive application process.
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
REACH AmeriCorps
Funds awarded: $229,293
Contact: robin.barker@ialr.org | 434-766-6730
Public Health AmeriCorps members will expand capacity for public health service by providing direct outreach and education service in the City of Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and Caswell County, North Carolina. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge and healthy behaviors through education, outreach, referrals, and COVID response.
Reading & Math Inc.
National Public Health Corps
Funds awarded: $2,880,000
Contact: megan.mcnabb@ampact.us | 612-206-3059
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide peer support and recovery coaching to individuals working to overcome substance use disorders in Illinois and Virginia.
The Blue Ridge Medical Center
Funds awarded: $333,539
Contact: sbriley@brmedical.org | 434-263-4000
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve in the education and outreach program as community health workers in Amherst, Appomattox, and Nelson Counties in Central Virginia. AmeriCorps members will decrease rates of preventable hospitalizations, increase patient knowledge to improve self-management of chronic illness, and build youth resiliency to reduce substance use among middle and high school students.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Funds awarded: $633,501
Contact: ccota@voa.org | 202-313-2773
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers to increase access to health care through program interventions. AmeriCorps members will perform outreach, assist with navigation of services, and provide counseling to underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA.
Washington
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Funds awarded: $351,635
Contact: koldaker@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3237
Public Health AmeriCorps members will conduct healthcare outreach to low-income individuals.
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Funds awarded: $908,689
Contact: gcarpinello@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Boise, Idaho. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Funds awarded: $863,995
Contact: amber.gibson@redcross.org | 310-429-5999
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Washington State Employment Security Department
Funds awarded: $225,137
Contact: apalmer@esd.wa.gov | 360-890-3530
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist medically-underserved communities in Washington state recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. AmeriCorps members will provide health information and access to recovery support.
West Virginia
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Damien Ministries
We the People Community Health Worker Academy and Corps
Funds awarded: $687,340
Contact: jrichardson@damienministries.org | 202-780-7086
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Certified Community Health Workers in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. They will provide health education related to preventative care, COVID-19 vaccination, opioid overdose prevention, and more.
Wisconsin
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.
Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
MCHS AmeriCorps Public Health Community Corps
Funds awarded: $2,304,000
Contact: fevola.simone@marshfieldclinic.org | 920-570-3610
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide capacity-building services to public health organizations and those in service to public health priorities across Wisconsin. AmeriCorps members will increase their knowledge of public health needs, specifically rural health needs, through their service.
Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
MCHS AmeriCorps Public Health Recovery Corps
Funds awarded: $864,000
Contact: fevola.simone@marshfieldclinic.org | 920-570-3610
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as recovery coaches who will work toward reducing the effects of prescription drugs, opioids, and other substances within the MCHS service area across Wisconsin. AmeriCorps members will work with individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) seeking recovery to develop Recovery Wellness Plans. Members will also promote awareness, education, and stigma reduction around SUD recovery in the community and initiate referrals to social service organizations.
OCHIN, Inc.
Funds awarded: $720,000
Contact: healyd@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin to help clinicians reduce the impact of COVID-19. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
Sixteenth Street Community Health Center
Funds awarded: $374,324
Contact: aisha.coursen@sschc.org | 414-897-5609
Public Health AmeriCorps members will expand the delivery of health and social services in four health care clinics and community venues on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. AmeriCorps members will provide education, health screenings, and event facilitation.
United Way Fox Cities
Funds awarded: $274,441
Contact: amanda.ross@unitedwayfoxcities.org | 920-735-5479
Public Health AmeriCorps members will improve health and well-being in Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago Counties, Wisconsin, by providing capacity building for eight organizations.
Wisconsin Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, Inc.
Funds awarded: $865,742
Contact: WAFCCDirector@gmail.com | 414-308-6839
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity and support for Community Health Departments (CHDs) and Free and Charitable Clinics (FCCs) throughout Wisconsin. AmeriCorps members will help CHDs and FCCs combat the COVID-19 Pandemic, address the worsening opioid crisis, strengthen telehealth capabilities, secure grant funding, and procure volunteers.
Wyoming
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEART Corps
Funds awarded: $2,879,996
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 30 states.