Health Professions Development
FY '08
One year - $24,100
To support its first step toward comprehensive identification, assessment, and intervention in the pre-illness (prodrome) phase of psychosis.
Two years - $65,762 total: $34,881 year one; $30,881 year two
To launch and evaluate the “Telephonic Mover” program. The pilot program seeks to alleviate the historic difficulty of recruiting and sustaining volunteer “Movers” from within rural communities. Move More is a community collaborative located in Kennebec and Somerset counties to support improvements in physical activity and nutrition.
Two years - $98,750 total: $40,000 year one; $58,750 year two
For the creation of a new virtual center for preventive medicine that would be based at Maine Medical Center. The center would focus on medical education, research, and community outreach. New linkages would be developed with the medical care and public health sectors statewide, toward the goal of improving health for all Mainers.
Two years - $36,858 total: $20,929 year one; $15, 929 year two
To evaluate the DV Response Initiative also funded by Bingham. The purpose of the Initiative is to support the promotion of physicians training physicians to respond appropriately to patients experiencing domestic violence.
FY '07
One year - $16,900
Adaptation of You the Man, a one man play dealing with violence to be used in training health care workers to recognize and respond to domestic violence and sexual assault.
Two years – $31,584 total: $19,376 year one; $12,208 year two
To promote systemic change in the way women are treated in the healthcare system when seeking abortions. The goal of the education to be provided to healthcare professionals is to normalize abortion care in the wider health care setting.
Two years - $89,237 total: $50,239 year one; $38,998 year two
To develop a collaboration between MDFPR and the Bread Of Life Ministries for services to include comprehensive social services and primary care services to BOLM transitioning families and homeless clients. MDPFR will also develop a “transitioning/homeless” curriculum for its residents and medical students.
FY '06
One year - $10,000
Planning grant for developing the Healthcare Leadership Training Program to build successive generations of leaders who can approach contentious health care issues in new and more effective ways
Three years - $68,885: $29,662 year one; $22,856 year two; $16,367 year three
A collaborative effort between MPCA and Physicians for Social Responsibility and domestic violence providers to train clinicians, administrators and support staff in primary care practices beginning in southern Maine in year 1 and primary care practices in central and northern Maine in years 2 and 3
Community Health
FY ‘08
One year - $7,500
A demonstration grant designed to prove the need to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services for two people to staff the Maine Warm Line during the late night/early morning hours.
One year - $20,364
To fund the independent evaluation of Boys to Men's Reducing Sexism and Violence Program
Capital Kids
One year - $25,000
Core operating support for the Augusta Boys and Girls Club for Teens
Three years - $76,310 total; $25,230 year one; $28,090 year two; $22,990 year three
To expand programming to Maine's underserved rim counties over the next three years bringing together community groups, health providers, and schools to form a coalition to support girls' healthy development and to implement HGHW programming in each community.
One year - $10,000
To support the stakeholder process, which will bring together representatives from up to 20 organizations for six half-day sessions, to establish the Maine Health Quality Improvement Fund. The purpose of the new fund will be to provide an ongoing revenue source to offset a portion of HealthInfoNet’s annual operating costs.
Two years $39,158; $19,579 for each year
To provide support and community action to bring together key stakeholders to implement locally defined strategies to improve food security for older adults, low-income families, and remote island residents to implement lasting improvements in the local food system.
Three years - $103,100 total: $34,500 in years one and two; $34,100 year three
To incorporate a public health approach to prevent abuse and avoid the consequences to the child, family and community of Shaken Baby Syndrome.
FY ‘07
One year - $10,000
Core support for The Bike Shop, a preventive health program involving bike repair and biking for kids at the Kennedy Park Housing Project
Capital Kids
One year - $25,000
Core support for development of the organization
Greater Waterville Area Communities for Children and Youth
One year - $25,000
Three years - $74,277 total: $24,925 year one; $24,419 year two; $24,933 year three
Collaborative project developed by Healthy Community Coalition (HCC) and UMF to address current and increasing shortages in the community health workforce and leadership.
One year - $30,690
For a 12 month planning process to develop strategic and operational plans to meet the prevention and health services needs of 9 remote islands. The process builds on a previous needs assessment and an existing inter-island health coalition
One year- $42,370
For research and pilot project development to engage women as advocates for increased domestic violence screening and referral from health care providers as one way of engaging the public in recognizing the nature of the problem of domestic violence and helping solve it.
One year - $25,000
Support for Phase II: Proof of Concept. The xDream Challenge is an online educational program enabling youth between 8 and 12 to learn about exercise and nutrition in a fun, educational manner. The project has teamed with the 17 Maine YMCAs to conduct the research for the proof of concept.
Passamaquoddy Medicine Project
One year - $26,369
To record, in English and Passamaquoddy, the medicine of the Passamaquoddy tribe and its traditions in a way that is respectful and inclusive, to make it available in media that can be shared with other tribal members, young and old, and with educational and health-care institutions, especially in Maine.
One year - $16,918
To expand the use of Touchpoints among child and family providers in Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties. “Touchpoints,” developed by pediatrician Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and his colleagues, is a model of practice that teaches providers to use anticipatory guidance and establish collaborative, rather than prescriptive, relationships with parents based on their shared interest in the development of the child.
One year - $23,000
Funding to formalize the Lots to Garden’s nutrition curriculum to deliver programs more efficiently to populations they serve including the elderly, parents and Somalis.
One year - $25,000
To expand to Aroostook County the Association's program of HIV outreach and education using respected native leaders as the messengers.
FY ‘06
Capital Kids - Augusta
One year - $25,000
Core support for development of the organization
Communities for Children and Youth - Statewide
Three years -- $75,000 total: $25,000 each year
To measurably increase the academic achievement and behavioral/mental health of children and youth in Boothbay and Portland by engaging adults in meaningful relationships, activities and programs to increase the number of developmental assets available.
One year -- $20,000
Support to develop a Multiple Employer Welfare Agreement for health insurance
One year - $30,000
The project will leverage the experience and resources of the Maine Coalition on Smoking OR Health to deduced obesity rates among Maine children and adults through public policy change.
One year -- $22,000
To prepare comprehensive information for providers so they can assist their patients/clients in accessing benefits; conduct training sessions for providers; prepare and distribute client ed materials; and, identify policy issues and make recommendations
One year - $20,000
Support for the first phase development of its Maine Health Information Network Technology initiative to develop a coordinated, statewide electronic medical information system
MedHelp Maine
Two years -- $25,000 each year
Support for a half-time coordinator to respond to requests from communities that want to develop a prescription assistance program
Two years -- $32,265 each year
For its Crisis Intervention Team to cover officer replacement costs for training officers in eight counties and six towns to improve the quality of and access to treatment for people in jail with behavioral health disorders
One year - $20,000
To expand its Merrymeeting Prevention Project, a broad community partnership established to prevent adolescent substance use and risky behaviors among youth in the MSAD 75 region
United Somali Women - Lewiston
Three years -- $56,120 total: $30,560 year one; 25, 560 year two
For its Creating a Culture of Prevention in the New Mainer Communities project designed to use the cultural broker model to provide information to the Somali community about food choices, weight reduction/maintenance and physical activity
Public Health Policy Development
FY ‘08
One year - $30,000
To support a collaborative effort of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine to educate current and future policymakers in Maine about the threat to public health posed by industrial chemicals commonly added to consumer products and everyday materials. The Project aims for long term system change through the adoption of a comprehensive safer chemicals policy that gives primacy to environmental public health protection.
FY ‘07
Two years - $14,998 year one; $11,930 year two
To conduct research on the experience of survivors of domestic violence who received mental health counseling and to assess social workers' and counseling students' understanding and knowledge regarding dv and to use the research to create standards for Maine's counseling and social work programs.
Maine Public Health Association
Two years -- $10,000: $5,000 for year two contingent on successful completion of year one activities. To develop and provide a single resource for legislators to turn to that provides Maine-specific public health information to assist them in their role as partners in protecting the public's health.
FY ‘06
One year -- $27,309
A collaborative project with the Maine Women's Policy Center and the Maine Conservation Voters' Education Fund to educate policy makers and raise awareness among women about the need for public health policies to promote environmental health and prevent exposure to toxic chemicals linked to disease and disabilities
Three years -- up to $100,000/year
To increase the ability and effectiveness of physician office practices in Maine to help prevent and manage youth overweight by providing training, tools and assistance in strengthening their links to community partners.
Two years -- $25,392 total: $12,638 year one; $12,754 year two
For strategic planning and policy development to improve HIV prevention, services and care
Three years -- $90,000 total: $30,000 each year contingent on achieving benchmarks
To build and coordinate a campaign that includes a strong coalition, high-quality research, strategic communications and messaging, a diverse and active grassroots network, and leadership from educated and invested policymakers.
One year $20,090
Funding for the Maine Dental Access Coalition's Watch Your Mouth Campaign, specifically for the recruitment and support of community coalitions in the overall campaign.
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