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2006 Funded Grants
IOWA AWARDS BY
PRIORITY AREA
The Wellmark Foundation funded 39 grants in Iowa totaling
$1,015,443. Brief descriptions of the projects are included
below and arranged by priority area of focus.
Diabetes
- The Iowa Department of Public Health’s Iowa Diabetes
Network received a $44,789 dedicated grant to help build
and strengthen the Iowa Diabetes Network (IDN) to advance
diabetes education in the state by enhanced professional
networking and continuing education opportunities.
- This $60,000 dedicated grant funding offers infrastructure
support to the Iowa/Nebraska Primary Care Association Center
for Value in Healthcare. This initiative is gathering specific
data to identify the cost effectiveness of their diabetes
disease management strategies and to spread the model to
additional community health centers
- The University of Iowa Foundation in Iowa City received
a $29,500 grant to expand a project targeting early diagnosis
of retinal diseases in northwest Iowa.
- A $49,143 grant will allow Mercy Medical Center Foundation
in Sioux City and a group of collaborating agencies to develop
new resources for individuals experiencing or at risk for
both diabetes and hypertension complications.
- A $65,233 grant will allow Primary Health Care, Inc.
in Des Moines to continue a diabetes education and self-management
program for uninsured and underinsured residents of Polk
County.
- Healthy Henry County Communities in Mt. Pleasant received
$32,133 in grant funds to continue a county-wide children’s
lunch project aimed at reducing young people’s risk
for developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This
is the third phase of the project that the organization
launched in 2005 through a Foundation grant.
- St. Luke’s Health Care Foundation in Cedar Rapids
received a $34,286 grant to develop a family-centered diabetes
management program that will integrate behavioral health
methods with diabetes education.
- The Hospital Foundation of Crawford County in Denison
received a $48,794 grant to develop a community-wide diabetes
education and prevention program.
- The Harrisdale Homestead Educational and Research Center
in Atlantic was awarded a $5,000 mini-grant for its Type
2 Diabetes Prevention Program for Fifth Grades. The program’s
goal is to reduce the risk of diabetes for children by educating
fifth grade students, their parents, and their teachers
about type 2 diabetes.
- Mercy Foundation in Des Moines received a $5,000 mini-grant
for Trim Kids, a project that offers a multi-disciplinary,
12-week plan for overweight children ages 6 - 18 years.
The project will serve children and families in the Enterprise
Community of Polk County from the John R. Grubb Community
YMCA in Des Moines.
- A $3,117 mini-grant will allow Iowa State University
Extension to examine the knowledge and practices of rural
health providers screening youth for Type 2 diabetes. The
initiative will partner with the Iowans Fit for Life project.
The initiative will incorporate questions related to ADA
criteria for type 2 diabetes into surveys for parents of
children in grades 3-5 at participating Iowans Fit for Life
schools.
- Camp Hertko Hollow in Boone, in partnership with the
Diabetes Education and Camping Association, was awarded
a $5,000 mini-grant to host Diabetes 101, a four-day educational
program that will educate caregivers of children with diabetes
to provide effective and safe care.
- Proteus, Inc. in Des Moines received a $5,000 capacity-building
grant to assist Proteus in acquiring professional assistance
to complete a comprehensive migrant health strategic planning
process.
Depression
- Higher Plain, Inc., in West Branch received a $72,739
grant to expand a statewide rural depression treatment project
the organization launched in 2004 to the senior population.
Previously funded grants from the Foundation allowed for
the pilot project in Cedar County and statewide expansion
the following year.
- A $76,000 grant will allow Mercy Foundation in Des Moines
to develop a depression management program for persons with
diabetes in central Iowa.
- The National Catholic Rural Life Conference in Des Moines
received a $4,800 mini-grant to implement the Iowa Rural
Faith Care Initiative to address depression in rural communities
through community conversation, information sharing, educational
initiatives and outreach.
- Community Health Centers of Southern Iowa in Leon received
a $5,000 capacity-building grant to assist Decatur County
in planning efficient delivery of medical and behavioral
health services to the community. In order for health organizations
to work together along the continuum of care, a formal and
professionally facilitated strategic planning process will
be the focal point of this effort.
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Greater Des
Moines received a $4,996 capacity-building grant consisting
of two parts: 1) increasing their volunteer base for teaching
educational classes, accomplishing organizational tasks,
and for special projects; 2) increasing information technology
capacity.
End-of-Life Care
- This $39,510 dedicated grant to the Iowa Hospice Organization
allows it to lead an effort to rejuvenate a statewide coalition
around the four global areas of advanced care planning,
out-of-hospital do not resuscitate orders, caregiver support,
and pain management.
- The Dallas County Hospital Foundation in Perry will use
a $4,999 mini-grant to develop the Hispanic End-of-Life
Awareness Pilot Project. The project will inform and educate
Hispanic residents of Perry about end-of-life care by offering
six culturally competent educational sessions on this important
health issue.
- Mercy Medical Center Foundation – North Iowa in
Mason City received a $5,000 capacity-building grant to
support participation in the highly-rated, year-long, Harvard
Medical School program in Palliative Care Education and
Practice, which will result in a systematic plan of action
to assist the palliative care team to improve care.
Health Literacy
- A $50,600 dedicated grant to the University of Northern
Iowa’s Iowa EXPORT Center of Excellence on Health
Disparities supports a unique collaboration between The
Wellmark Foundation, the Iowa EXPORT Center, and the National
Institutes of Health that supports health equity, literacy,
and access around cultural competency. Grant activities
will include 1) workshops for health providers across Iowa
on minority health and health disparities; 2) publication
of a pocket guide for health professionals working with
interpreters; 3) on-site study tours for providers to learn
first-hand about minority health issues, and 4) technical
consultations with health organizations needing assistance
in providing culturally competent services to their communities.
- This $31,400 dedicated grant to the Iowa Pharmacy Foundation
supported a multidisciplinary consensus conference on health
literacy. The goal of the conference was to educate health
professionals on the topic of health literacy in a multidisciplinary
format and to assist them in developing action plans for
their individual community settings.
- This $43,000 dedicated grant to Mercy Foundation expands
its medical interpreter training and cultural competency
programs to areas outside of central Iowa in an effort to
increase the professional education opportunities available
to bilingual interpreters throughout Iowa and enhance the
interpretation services of health facilities across the
state, specifically in Sioux City and Dubuque.
- An $87,000 grant will allow the Iowa Health Foundation
working with the Iowa Health System rural affiliate network
to develop a statewide rural health literacy project.
- A $49,927 grant will allow the Iowa Department of Public
Health, working in collaboration with the Iowa Covering
Kids and Families State Coalition, to develop a statewide
children’s health literacy project.
- The Healthy Linn Care Network in Cedar Rapids received
a $38,580 grant to continue a heath literacy project in
Linn County. The organization launched the project in 2005
through a grant from the Foundation.
- A $59,000 grant will allow the Iowa Department for the
Blind in Des Moines to expand services to Iowans. The project
will strive to increase health literacy for Iowans who cannot
read standard print by expanding the capacity of the Library
for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
- The Iowa Department of Public Health was awarded a $4,980
mini-grant for its health literacy internet initiative to
increase awareness of heath literacy by providing a collection
of online tools and resources for public health agencies
to effectively communicate at the local level. Key partners
include the Iowa Association of Local Public Health Agencies
and the Iowa Public Health Association.
- The Iowa Health Foundation in Des Moines received a $4,940
mini-grant to implement the next phase of an ongoing initiative
to improve readability and comprehension of informed consent
documents. With a 2004 grant from the Wellmark Foundation,
the Iowa Health Foundation developed plain language consent
documents. This phase will involve focus groups participating
in a mock informed consent process to test patient comprehension
and satisfaction with the revised consent documents.
- Mercy Medical Center Foundation in Sioux City received
a $4,995 mini-grant for a pilot program to improve congestive
heart failure outcomes. The program will work to improve
patients’ health literacy and capacity to obtain,
process, and understand information and services related
to their chronic health condition.
- Iowa Department of Public Health in Des Moines received
a $4,982 capacity-building grant to produce a stand-alone
health literacy training package to be used in local public
health agencies in Iowa and bureaus within IDPH, and distributed
to future partners and at promotional opportunities such
as conferences. Included in this package would be a DVD
of videos introducing health literacy, discussion materials,
and a writers' guide to health literacy strategies.
- Iowa Health Foundation in Des Moines received a $5,000
capacity-building grant to provide mentorship and leadership
training for adult learners to develop as health literacy
leaders among their peers in communities throughout Iowa.
- Primary Health Care, Inc. in Des Moines received a $5,000
capacity-building grant to support their efforts to continuously
improve performance and accessibility via the delivery of
four training modules that will focus on service excellence,
effective communications, and diversity.
- Iowa State Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf in Lake
City received a $5,000 capacity-building grant to help support
a conference offering that will emphasize a public-private
blend of health care interpreting delivery, policy making,
community advocacy, civil rights enforcement, research,
and leadership development.
Other
- A $1,000 dedicated grant to the Iowa Council of Foundations
(ICoF) supports the association representing Iowa foundations
and corporate giving programs. This $1,000 grant to ICoF
is designed to assist in developing its agenda of educational
speakers for each of its quarterly meetings in 2006.
- A $2,500 dedicated grant to Greater Dubuque Community
Foundation supported a June 5, 2006, Grant Writing Workshop
that drew over 170 participants to this capacity-building
training opportunity to improve the grantsmanship of nonprofit
and governmental applicants from throughout the state.
- A $10,000 dedicated grant reached out to project leaders
from among our active grantees to offer full or partial
scholarship assistance to participate in Great Plains Public
Health Leadership Institute (GPPHLI). Two Iowa project leaders
were selected for participation represents $5,000 of this
grant support.
- Kirkwood Community College Foundation received a $12,500
dedicated grant to support the project design of the second
year of an anticoagulation project supported by AHRQ under
their Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety grant
competition. AHRQ provided a $600,000 funding award with
a 24-month funding period to this initiative.
SOUTH DAKOTA AWARDS
BY PRIORITY AREA
The Wellmark Foundation funded 20 grants in South Dakota
totaling $658,670. Brief descriptions of the projects are
included below and arranged by priority area of focus.
Diabetes
- A $72,250 dedicated grant is allowing South Dakota Department
of Health to support implementation of the South Dakota
Diabetes Strategic Planning currently being developed by
the South Dakota Diabetes Strategic Planning Coalition and
an ad-hoc, multi-organizational group of more than 40 organizations
whose target population constitutes the entire state of
South Dakota and all aspects of diabetes.
- A $49,828 dedicated grant to the Community HealthCare
Association of the Dakotas (CHAD) is allowing its Community
Health Center (CHC) members to support and enhance their
participation in the National Quality of Care initiative,
the Health Disparities Collaboratives. The project funding
will expand and support the success of the Collaboratives
in the participating CHCs through a state level response
and support mechanism.
- The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and Black Hills State University
received a $55,014 grant to fund development of a new diabetes
curriculum focusing on self-management of diabetes and weight
through community awareness and education.
- A $20,000 grant will allow the Girl Scouts of the Black
Hills Council to develop a diabetes prevention program for
girls. The program will target 1,000 at-risk girls ages
5–17 years living on the Cheyenne River, Rose Bud,
and Pine Ridge Indian Reservations and in Rapid City.
- A $4,988 mini-grant will allow the Growing Healthy Initiative
in Sioux Falls to implement Growing Healthy Babies. The
goal of the project is to improve infant health and prevent
childhood obesity and subsequent diseases. The Growing Healthy
Initiative will work with Avera McKennan Hospital, Sioux
Valley Hospital, the Women, Infants and Children Program,
and the Sioux Empire United Way. Parents of babies in Minnehaha
County will be provided with nutrition guides and health
information to improve infant health and prevent childhood
obesity and subsequent diseases.
- Northern State University in Aberdeen received a $5,000
capacity-building grant to improve self-help as a necessary
way of dealing with diabetes management, depression treatment,
and spiritual wellness. After surveying older people and
resources agencies that work with this population, a directory
of resources will be created. In-service needs for agencies
and two cablecasts created with subsequent video offerings
for older citizens in the region will be provided.
Depression
- Lewis and Clark Behavioral Health Service in Yankton
received a $56,000 grant to develop a depression education
and prevention program for teens. The program will utilize
theatre to create a safe atmosphere for teens to openly
discuss depression and suicide.
- A $68,900 grant will allow South Dakota Voices for Children
in Sioux Falls to continue a statewide children’s
mental health initiative launched in 2004. Education materials
targeted at parents will focus on early detection, intervention,
and treatment of depression.
- The Institute of Educational Leadership and Evaluations
in Rapid City received a $5,000 mini-grant to implement
the Black Hills Community Assessment in four counties in
the Black Hills. The assessment will measure the prevalence
of depression in each community, resources available, mental
health services, and health, financial, educational, and
social issues and their relation to depression.
- Avera Rural Health Institute in Sioux Falls received
a $5,000 capacity-building grant to build the capacity of
staff to conduct community health needs assessments and
facilitate community health planning. A community leadership
training for the Avera Rural Health Institute staff and
an Avera St. Benedict Community Liaison will be provided,
followed by a pilot project to conduct a mental health community
needs assessment and the building of an Avera St. Benedict
community health coalition.
End-of-Life Care
- A $45,025 dedicated grant to the Partnership for Improving
End-of-Life Care in South Dakota seeks to 1) solidify the
identity and infrastructure of the Partnership, 2) build
a statewide web of interdisciplinary, interorganizational
coaltions, and 3) document and disseminate the mission and
work of the Partnership.
- A $26,855 grant will allow the University of South Dakota
and partnering agencies to expand a study focusing on South
Dakotans’ end-of-life experiences.
- St. Mary’s Foundation in Pierre received $66,207
in grant funds to develop Reaching Out, a community-based
end-of-life care program.
Health Literacy
- Volunteers of America, Dakotas received a $47,728 grant
to develop Fit Factor, a new exercise and health education
program for youth at risk for diabetes and cardiovascular
disease.
- The South Dakota Dental Foundation in Pierre received
$61,575 in grant funds to develop a statewide oral health
education and promotion program for children. The program
will strive to improve understanding of health of young
children by reducing the occurrence of oral health diseases
in this population.
- A $44,300 grant will allow the Mid-Central Educational
Cooperative in Platte to develop on-line health education
curriculum for South Dakota schools. The project is a collaborative
effort with the South Dakota Health Edventure Web site.
- The American Lung Association of South Dakota received
a $5,000 mini-grant to empower school personnel to support
their students’ effective management of asthma, diabetes,
and epilepsy and to effectively respond to medical emergencies
that arise at school. In collaboration with the South Dakota
School Nurses Association and the South Dakota Department
of Education, two health literacy tools will be created
and distributed to schools across the state.
- The Native American Advocacy Program (NAAP) for Persons
with Disabilities in Winner was awarded a $5,000 mini-grant
to develop Woonspe (which means learning), a project to
increase basic health literacy among their consumers and
families. Partnering with the South Dakota Council on Developmental
Disabilities, information to health professionals will be
provided at the Native American Disabilities Summit and
other NAAP programs.
Other
- St. Mary’s Foundation received a $10,000 dedicated
grant to support development of a grant writer network in
South Dakota for people engaged in grant writing in the
health, welfare, and community development arenas. The network
focuses on education, training, and the creation of a forum
for project collaboration between and among nonprofit and
public organizations of all kinds. Their August 24, 2006,
Grant Writing Workshop in Chamberlain, S.D., drew nearly
115 people from 5 states.
- A $10,000 dedicated grant reached out to project leaders
from among our active grantees to offer scholarship assistance
to participate in Great Plains Public Health Leadership
Institute (GPPHLI) if they qualified and were selected for
the 2006 offering. Two South Dakota project leaders were
selected for participation represents $5,000 of this grant
support.
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