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Office of Equity and Inclusion
Oregon Health Authority

Current Grantees

 

Community Listening Sessions

$5,000 grants to conduct "listening sessions" designed to plan, coordinate, and host community listening sessions for communities of color, immigrants and refugees and tribal members. The Community Listening Sessions are designed to capture individuals' personal experiences and stories of cultural competency in health care.

 

Grantees

Adelante Mujeres (Forest Grove) - www.adelantemujeres.org

African American Health Coalition (Portland) - www.aahc-portland.org

Asian Pacific American Senior Coalition (Portland)

Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (Portland) - www.apano.org

Black Parent Initiative (Portland) - www.thebpi.org

Center for Intercultural Organizing (Portland) - www.interculturalorganizing.org

Highland Haven (Portland) - http://hcclive.com

Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (Portland) - www.irco.org

Juntos Podemos (Salem) - www.juntos-podemos.org

La Clinica del Valle (Medford) - www.laclinicahealth.org

Native American Rehabilitation Association (Portland) - www.naranorthwest.org

Native Wellness Institute (Gresham) - www.nativewellness.com

Northeast Oregon Network (La Grande) - www.neonoregon.org.

Nuestra Comunidad Sana (Hood River) - http://community.gorge.net/ncs

Pacific Islander Student Association (Portland)

Pedagogy Institute (Portland) - www.pedagogyinstitute.org

Steve Baker Colorectal Cancer Alliance (Portland) - http://sbcca.org/

Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon, Inc. (Portland) - www.tobaccofreeoregon.org

The Tree Institute (Portland) - www.thetreeinstitute.org

Umatilla Morrow Alternatives (Hermiston) - www.umalt.com

 

Health Programs and Policy Projects To Promote Health Equity and Eliminate Disparities in Communities of Color

$5,000 grant awards to develop or maintain programming and promote equitable policies that eliminate health disparities and promote health equity, including health disparity and health equity community education, collaboration/community Partnerships, organizational capacity building and program development, and policy development.

 

Grantees

  • Centro LatinoAmericano (Eugene) - www.centrolatinoamericano.org 

    $5,000

    To enhance partnerships between Centro LatinoAmericano and Willamette Family Treatment Services to provide culturally appropriate health access to low-income Latino immigrants.
     
  • Josiah Hill III Clinic (Portland) - www.jhillclinic.org 

    $5,000 

    To reduce the burden of environmental hazards affecting communities of color by providing access to information, tools, and resources through community leadership development and culturally competent outreach and education.

  • Mano a Mano Family Center (Salem) - http://manoamanofc.org/about.html 

    $5,000

    Educate 1,200 Latino Community members in Marion-Polk Counties about health disparities and health equity among Latinos.

  •  Native American Youth and Family Services (Portland) - www.nayapdx.org 

    $5,000 

    To initiate the Spirit Horse Project, an Urban Indian horsemanship program to reconnect urban youth to this culturally specific Native traditional partnership with horses.

  • Umatilla Morrow Alternatives (Hermiston) - www.umalt.com 

    $5,000

    To increase awareness and provide education about HIV, Hepatitis C, and sexually transmitted infections to the LGBT community in Morrow and Umatilla Counties.

 

Page updated: May 22, 2012