Breaking the Barriers to Health Care and Preventing Domestic Violence for Latino/Hispanic Immigrants

Description: Prevent domestic violence in the Latino/Hispanic migrant and immigrant communities and provide access to comprehensive and culturally appropriate primary, preventive and health services.
Academic Partner: Mary Beth Plane PhD

Cancer Education & Screening Promotion for Hispanic/Latina Women

Description: Develop and evaluate "Promotoras de salud", a peer health promoters program to overcome barriers that prevent low-income Hispanic/Latina women from obtaining breast and cervical cancer screening services.
Academic Partner: Patricia Tellez-Giron Salazar MD

Chippewa Valley Community Diabetes Program

Description: Plan a diabetes care education program in a regional free clinic setting.
Academic Partner: William Cayley MD

Co-op Care

Description: Improve access to health care and reduce health disparities affecting farmers and small rural-based businesses and bring together individual purchasers of health care under a cooperative umbrella to purchase health care at more affordable rates.
Academic Partner: Byron Crouse MD

Coordinating Partnerships to Improve Access to Public Health Coverage

Description: Increase the number of children enrolled in Wisconsin's Family Medicaid health insurance programs and improve children and family access to primary and preventive health services.
Academic Partner: Roberta Riportella

Engaging Wisconsin Communities for Substance Abuse Prevention

Description: Reduce alcohol use among youth ages 12-17 through prevention strategies focusing on parental and other adult responsibility regarding providing alcohol to youth.
Academic Partner: David Brown

Fluoridation for Healthy Communities

Description: Plan for community-wide collaboration and support for optimal fluoridation levels in four adjacent Wisconsin counties.
Academic Partner: James Terman MD

Footprints to Health

Description: Decrease the incidence of overweight and obesity in the county through a community-wide program to increase physical activity and improve nutrition.
Academic Partner: Kevin O'Connell MD

Health Watch Wisconsin

Description: Improve access to health care and coverage. Address health disparities faced by Wisconsin residents who lack access to health care due to inadequate health insurance coverage.

Healthy Children, Strong Families

Description: Address health disparities among American Indian children in Wisconsin. Develop and evaluate an innovative family-based obesity prevention program in three tribal communities. Work with 3-5 year old children and their primary care givers to promote healthy behavior change in families.
Academic Partner: Alexandra Adams MD, PhD

Increasing Breastfeeding Rates in Milwaukee Co.

Description: A community health improvement planning initiative to improve breastfeeding rates among low-income mothers in Milwaukee County.
Academic Partner: Kristen Reynolds MD

Milwaukee Nurse-Family Partnership Program

Description: Implement the highly effective home visitation model program that aims to improve health outcomes for children and families of at-risk mothers.
Academic Partner: Geoffrey Swain MD, MPH

Polk County Alcohol and Drug Outreach &Training (PolkADOT)

Description: Decrease risky and problem alcohol use and illicit drug use by adults through the delivery of alcohol and drug screening, brief intervention and referral services.
Academic Partner: Richard Brown MD, MPH

Preventing Substance Abuse among LGBTQ Youth in WI

Description: Develop a pilot program to increase knowledge, awareness, resources, and capacity to prevent and reduce alcohol and other drug use among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender and questioning youth in Wisconsin.
Academic Partner: Kathleen Oriel MD, MS

Project Connect

Description: Reduce alcohol use among Columbia county youth through environmental strategies such as compliance checks, Teen Court, and an underage drinking diversion program.
Academic Partner: Michael Fleming MD, MPH

Reality Check 21

Description: Reduce alcohol use among Eau Claire County youth (ages 12-17) through prevention strategies involving school, family and community.
Academic Partner: Jennifer Eddy MD

Reduce Health Disparities LGBT in Wisconsin

Description: Advance the knowledge gained on health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender adults in Wisconsin.
Academic Partner: Kathleen Oriel MD, MS

Schools and Clinics United for Healthy Children and Youth

Description: Create a partnership among school districts and medical providers to plan community interventions to improve the eating and activity habits among children.
Academic Partner: Thomas Gabert MD, MPH

Strong Rural Communities Initiative

Description: Increase access to preventive health services and improve health outcomes for selected rural communities through collaborations among businesses, rural medical and public health providers.
Academic Partner: Byron Crouse MD