Department of Health and Public Prevention Health Fund:
Community Transformation Grants

About the Community Transformation Grants

The Office of Healthy Communities will manage this grant to build on our existing efforts. Activities will target areas of the state with the highest disease burden. The strategies will be ‘place-based’ and focus on where people live, work, play, get food, and receive healthcare.

These grants will:

• Support policy, systems and environmental changes to reduce chronic disease rates.
• Prevent the development of secondary conditions.
• Address health disparities.
• Develop a stronger evidence base for effective prevention programming.

The grants address four strategic directions:

• Tobacco-free living
• Active living and healthy eating
• High impact evidence-based clinical and other preventive services, specifically prevention and control of high blood pressure
• Healthy and safe physical environments

 More information about the grants can be found at www.cdc.gov/communitytransformation.

Washington’s Community Transformation Grant Implementation Model

We are using a comprehensive approach to carry out this work, which makes the most of the diverse strengths across our state. We will employ the following model to carry out the work of the grant:

• Leadership Team will support statewide changes in strategic areas through policy, environmental, programmatic and infrastructure changes. Representatives include the governor’s office, health care, business, foundations, tribes, organizations, state agencies, local government and housing.

• Prevention Alliance will drive changes at regional and local levels to boost statewide efforts. They will also work to improve local conditions, especially those within targeted communities. Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (C.H.E.F.) will support the Prevention Alliance work along with representatives from existing coalitions and a member of each regional hub. A member of the Alliance will also serve on the Leadership Team. Under the guidance of the Leadership Team, the Prevention Alliance will:
  • Form and implement a policy agenda
  • Provide a plan for grassroots public education
  • Grow key cross-sector relationships to last beyond project funding

• Regional Hubs, formed from the five local health jurisdictions awarded funding, will partner with local health jurisdictions and other groups to:
  •  create regional coalitions
  •  select strategies to decrease health disparities in their regions
  • begin local activities to address chronic disease risk factors

Based upon the letters of interest submitted, the following agencies were selected to represent the five regional Healthy Communities Hubs:

• Grays Harbor County Health Department- Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston counties
• Clark County Health Department- Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania, and Wahkiakum counties
• Whatcom County Health Department- Clallam, Island, Jefferson, Kitsap, San Juan, Skagit, and Whatcom counties
• Grant County Health Department- Benton, Chelan, Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Okanogan, Walla Walla, and Yakima counties
• Spokane Regional Health District- Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Spokane, and Whitman counties

Partnerships

We are building partnerships with existing groups across the state to complete this work. For example,we are working with The Washington Association of Community and Migrant Health Centers (WACMHC) to help meet our goals in the strategic direction of high impact quality clinical preventive services.

Training

We will provide regional training statewide for local public health agencies.

Latest Progress Update

View the latest Community Transformation Grant update (PDF, 1.3MB)

Resources

Map of Regional Hubs by county (PDF, 1.3MB)

Map showing the distribution of public housing and safety net clinics (PDF, 1.4MB) in relation to poverty by ZIP code in the 11 counties targeted for the Grant.

Complete Streets (PDF, 428KB) Fact Sheet

Safe Routes to School (PDF, 347KB) Fact Sheet

Contact Information

• General Information: Julie Alonso
• Regional Hubs: Carla Huyck
• Prevention Alliance: Julie Peterson
• Leadership Team: Sue Grinnell

Unless otherwise noted, all materials and forms on this page are in PDF format.

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