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Cyber Safety Project Targeting High Risk Youth
Renton, WA

The Cyber Safety Project seeks to prevent sexual assault perpetrated online against high-risk youth, especially against youth who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning their sexuality. Working with local young people who are representative of the target population and recognizing the importance of technology in youth culture, the project will encourage the development of outreach strategies involving technology, including social networking. Deliverables will include a variety of youth-created prevention/outreach tools, a youth-developed cyber safety website targeting high risk youth, and a cyber safety curriculum.

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Pathways to Wellness: Integrating Refugee Health and Well-Being
Seattle, WA

Seattle is the U.S. entry point for thousands of refugees who have suffered significant violence, deprivation and loss. Pathways to Wellness provides early identification of emotional distress by adding a culturally appropriate mental health screening to the required physical examination at Public Health Seattle & King County. Individuals are then referred to community mental health agencies that have been given special training in refugee issues. Staff of the partner agencies speak over 40 languages and reflect the ethnic communities they serve including refugees from Burma, Bhutan, Somalia, Iraq and the former Soviet Union.

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Sea-Tac Smiles
Seattle, WA

In South King County there is a great need for dental care in a large, low-income, ethnically and culturally diverse community. This project will hire a dentist and open a four-chair dental clinic in a vocational high school to provide oral health care for residents who are uninsured or underinsured. Students who train as Dental Assistants will benefit from experience in the clinic and be introduced to career paths in the health professions. Many of these young people are from immigrant families and will help diversify the health care workforce.

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SCMS Project Access
Spokane, WA

This community-based partnership of physicians, hospitals, pharmacists and others intends to provide access to the full continuum of health care for Spokane citizens living at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Volunteer physicians who see uninsured patients at no charge lead this initiative, set an example for their colleagues and promote the ethos of all doctors doing their fair share to care for the indigent. Their goals include enrolling 70 percent of all local physicians to participate, reducing emergency room utilization, significantly improving patient access to specialists, and increasing the capacity of the primary care system through improved efficiencies.

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Pike Place Market Senior Wellness Program
Seattle, WA

A modification of traditional wellness programs to improve the health of seniors with mental, physical and/or substance abuse problems; seniors with one or more chronic diseases; and homeless or homebound seniors.

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Project Enhance
Seattle, WA

The King County Housing Authority Health Enhancement Program is a participant-directed health behavior change program for seniors supported by a nurse/social worker/peer health mentor team and complemented by courses in exercise and self-management of chronic conditions. Project Enhance (renamed in 2005) is provided to seniors in low-income, multi-ethnic public housing facilities and an African-American senior center.

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People's Clinic
Spokane, WA

Increase clinic services for homeless children and their families.

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Legacy House
Seattle, WA

Within an independent and supportive housing setting, Legacy House offers an integrated model of assisted living, adult day health and nutrition/health monitoring programs to ethnically diverse, limited English speaking, low income seniors. Legacy House was developed, built, and co-located with selected service agencies to provide 'one stop shopping' collaboration.

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