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The Porch Light Initiative
Philadelphia, PA

The Porch Light Initiative will work to de-stigmatize mental illness, increase the awareness of mental health resources and promote support for those in recovery through community-based mural making. Deeply rooted in communities of color, mural art-making has a history of engaging vulnerable groups in beautifying their neighborhoods. The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program will lead artistic collaborations with three North Philadelphia agencies that serve a cross section of some of the city's most underserved and under-resourced neighborhoods. Participants will include homeless women and children, youth in recovery and Latino seniors.

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Reentry Through a Child's Eyes
Pittsburgh, PA

To alleviate the adversity experienced by the children of incarcerated men and women, this public/private partnership works to address the child's psychosocial needs, prevent family deterioration resulting from separation, and make the experience of visitation less traumatic. Most importantly, this comprehensive re-entry program aims to reduce the number of children who experience the re-incarceration of a parent. Beginning six months before release and continuing for one year afterward, the parent and family are included as equal partners on a new Reentry Team staffed with Family Specialists, service coordinators, and a probation liaison.

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Helping Families Raise Healthy Children
Pittsburgh, PA

Many families in Allegheny County, PA, are known to suffer from both parental depression and early child developmental delays, but local systems of care identify and treat these conditions separately. Now staff from 36 agencies will be cross-trained to identify ''dual risk'' families, including those where parental depression may be a reaction to their children's overwhelming special needs. Trusted providers including physical, occupational and speech therapists, pediatricians, nurses, and social workers as well as the staff of early education programs such as Head Start will offer consistent advice and support in a single family therapeutic care model.

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From Prison to Parenthood
Philadelphia, PA

This collaboration between a large prison and a well-established community coalition that serves pregnant women and new mothers offers a prevention model to help women transition successfully to parenthood after incarceration. Prenatal and parenting classes within prison will be followed by intense case management and home visits for mothers and infants. The project includes attention to prevalent issues of substance abuse and offers referrals to a broad network of health, employment, housing and social services to aid these new mothers in establishing healthy families as they transition from prison to home.

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GrandFamily Resource Center
Philadelphia, PA

A growing number of grandparents are staggering under the physical, emotional and financial burdens of caring for their at-risk grandchildren. The GrandFamily Resource Center links services for seniors and children at a popular local youth center. Their ''one-stop'' approach provides educational, health-related, referral and supportive services to both grandparents and youth. Grandparent caregivers who need assistance will also be offered a peer support group, individual counseling and case management.

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Work Healthy
Kennett Square, PA

In a new partnership with a Hispanic community organization, the owners of three mushroom farms will provide on-site clinic space to offer primary and preventive care for vulnerable employees, many of whom are Mexican immigrants. The farms provide some health insurance, but many workers lack transportation and do not want to lose wages to take time off for a clinic visit in town. A bilingual nurse practitioner and a health educator will visit each farm on set days to provide physical exams, care for episodic illness and chronic diseases, behavioral health screening, referrals to local health and social services, and health promotion classes such as smoking cessation and diabetes control.

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The Healthy Black Family Project
Pittsburgh, PA

Disparities persist in preventable disease and premature death in the African-American community in Pittsburgh. In response to these disparities the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Minority Health will use evidence-based interventions to expand health education and screening programs in the city's Empowerment Zone. The initial goal of this comprehensive effort is to reduce hypertension and type 2 diabetes in low-income black families. Culturally appropriate outreach through churches, barber and beauty shops, and trained Lay Health Advisors will focus on reducing risk behaviors such as smoking and high-fat diets. Local grantmakers fostered development of this initiative by convening key partners over the last three years.

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Students Run Philly Style
Philadelphia, PA

This effort will be the first full-scale replication of the highly successful RWJF-funded Students Run LA (SRLA) program where at-risk teens improve health, self-esteem and school performance as a result of a running program. The project will begin under the aegis of two well-established nurse-managed health centers located in low-income, largely African American areas of North and West Philadelphia. By training youth to run local races and the marathon, the program is expected to increase their fitness and sense of accomplishment and to decrease obesity and truancy.

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Comunidades Unidas Apoyando a Envejecientes (Communities United Supporting the Elderly)
Philadelphia, PA

The Communities United project seeks to build a bridge linking Hispanic elders with services designed to meet their health care needs, helping them to overcome barriers to those services. It will empower Hispanic elders through relationship building, mobilization of community leaders, education and consultation, and facilitation of access to needed services.

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Transforming the Safety-Net Delivery System
Pittsburgh, PA

Designed to improve the overall health of the vulnerable populations in Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA by intervening with a unique integrated medical-social-spiritual model of health care.

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Low-Income HIV/AIDS Community Health Initiative
Philadelphia, PA

State of the art, culturally competent HIV/AIDS primary care for uninsured and underinsured people. The Jonathan Lax Treatment Center delivers one stop shopping with a treatment team model.

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Reducing Socio - Cultural Barriers to Care: Establishing a Network of Family Health Advocates
West Chester, PA

This community-based outreach and family support project serves two communities that are particularly high risk for delayed prenatal care and poor birth outcomes. This program has been an important link between women, children, and families, and an often confusing array of health and human service providers in Chester County, PA. To convene diverse groups of providers to focus on common concerns and identification of problems and solutions to barriers to care for disadvantaged women and children.

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Community-Based Model for Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Pittsburgh, PA

To reduce teen pregnancy throughout a four country region in western PA by working with community coalition to improve access to reproductive healthcare and implement a multi-media awareness campaign, parent and teen peer education, and professional training.

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Family Health Advocate
West Chester, PA

This community-based outreach and family support initiative serves two communities that are at high risk for poor birth outcomes and delayed prenatal care. The goal is to identify and refer pregnant women for prenatal care during their first trimester. This will thereby reduce the number of women who experience delayed, late, or no prenatal care.

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