2007 Health and Medical Research Grants
2007 Focus: Preventing and Managing Chronic Diseases through
Community-Based Participatory Research
Farmworker Housing Development Corporation
My Health in My Hands (Mi Salud en Mis Manos)
To develop and test a community-based chronic disease self-management program for Latino farmworkers using community-based participatory research.
Marion and Polk counties; $179,974 over 3 years
Mountain View Hospital Foundation
Baseline BMI Measure of Jefferson County School-aged Children
To assess children's BMI (body mass index) using a community-based participatory research approach intended to strengthen and expand an existing community partnership.
Jefferson County;
$29,538 over 1 year
Organizing People, Activating Leaders
Portland Environmental Justice Partnership Project
To establish a broad coalition of community organizations, public agencies, faith-based institutions, low-income residents, businesses and academic institutions in an effort to assess and address environmental risk factors and health disparities in the neighborhoods of outer southeast and north/northeast Portland.
$30,000 over 1 year
Trauma Healing Project, Inc.
Healing Conversations Community Action Research and Engagement (CARE) Project
To develop and evaluate a community-based trauma healing model using a participatory action approach.
$180,000 over 3 years