Six Development projects from the 7th Funding Cycle of HWPP recently completed their projects. We welcome you to visit these HWPP projects' webpages to learn more about their work focused on improving the health of Wisconsin residents.
Around the Corner to Better Health Successfully implemented infrastructure and marketing strategies at participating corner stores to increase healthy food availability in Milwaukee's central city and reached over 1,100 people through community outreach activities. Fighting Cancer in Wisconsin's American Indian Communities Raised community awareness about cancer and cancer prevention through development of a documentary film and multiple community events resulting in increased screening rates for breast, colorectal and cervical cancer among clinic staff and community members. Los Cuidadores Unidos: United Latino Caregivers Piloted the caregiver intervention with 30 eligible Latino family caregivers resulting in reduced depression scores and improved social connectedness as well as integration of the intervention into the United Community Center's Latino Geriatric Center. More Than A Pretty Place: Activating Urban Parks to Improve Community Health and Wellness Partners administered 363 surveys among select 5th grade classrooms in participating schools finding that children who participated in the intervention demonstrated reduced fears of outdoor play in nature and were more likely to indicate that they had visited the Urban Ecology Center outside of school programs. School Community Partnership for Mental Health Identified and referred 275 students for mental health services with 140 students seen by community mental health service providers. Partners successfully sustained the work through MPS approval of a full-time School Coordinator position to continue the project work and expansion to two additional MPS schools. Use of a Lay Health Advisor Model to bring Sexual and Reproductive Justice to Latinos in Milwaukee Trained 36 community health workers in the project curriculum to increase knowledge and access and change attitudes and health beliefs among Latinos about sexual and reproductive health; CHWs recruited 141 hosts and facilitated 498 home health parties with 1,217 unduplicated participants. |