Five 8th Funding Cycle Development projects recently completed. We welcome you to visit their HWPP project web pages to learn more about their health improvement work and accomplishments.

A social network approach for health and safety among rural intimate partner violence survivors

Partners successfully engaged rural intimate partner violence survivors in the programming and developed sustained connections between partners and participants. Pre/post evaluation results indicate improved levels of empowerment and social support and reduced self-silencing (a measure of women's depression) following participation in the programming.

Fostering Futures
Partners conducted shared-learning sessions in the three pilot communities resulting in improved knowledge of trauma-informed care (TIC), likeliness among participants to continue involvement with TIC-related work and implementation of TIC principles into participants' daily interactions.

Impacting Positive Youth Development in Rusk County Through Prevention and Intervention

Partners trained 35 Teen Intervene facilitators representing 12 organizations county-wide through five trainings making prevention services available to all 1,200 Rusk County youth.

Improving Access to Prenatal Oral Healthcare: Strategies and Sustainability

Project partners successfully provided sustainable oral health services and education to 256 at-risk pregnant African American and Hispanic women, exceeding their goal of 125 women. Analysis of the project and process demonstrated that the program is sustainable through insurance billing and volunteer support from professional caregivers.

The Sisters Project: Helping Women Exit the Violence of Prostitution

Outreach workers reached 212 women 1,004 times during the project period, helping bring in over 75 new participants to the drop-in program. Among drop-in participants, 70 percent of participants stayed in the program beyond six months and 21 percent self-reported exiting prostitution for at least one month.