Make a Difference in Your Clinic and Community: Grant Opportunities from our Foundation
So far this year, the Minnesota Academy of Pediatrics Foundation (MAPF) has provided more than $20,000 in support to Minnesota clinics through various grants aimed at addressing food insecurity, immunization rates and mental health. Currently, the MAPF is accepting applications for two new initiatives:
Investing in Health for First and New Americans
Two clinic teams and their communities will be supported with mini-grant funding and receive consultation from the refugee and/or Native American community to implement education, outreach, review/update recall and educational materials for linguistic and cultural appropriateness. Additionally, the two clinics and their teams will identify individuals from the community interested in educational scholarship for Community Health Worker (CHW) career development that will be funded from this project to assist clinic and community partners with increasing health access.
For more information, visit www.mnaap.org or email cairns@mnaap.org
Screening for Poverty: Bridging to Books and Benefits
The project goal is to create a clinic-friendly model that utilizes Bridge to Benefits and CAP navigators to connect families identified by pediatric clinicians to nutritious food assistance, health insurance, early childhood scholarships, literacy support, and earned income tax credits to help reduce poverty as a component of the pediatric medical home. Ultimately, we hope to provide education and a replicable model to address child poverty by a medical home. The project is focusing on greater Minnesota counties.
For more information, visit www.mnaap.org or email debilzan@mnaap.org