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Networking and collaboration
(Establecimiento de redes y colaboración)
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Tools
(Herramientas)
- Health Initiative of the Americas
Coordinates and optimizes the availability of health resources for Mexican immigrants and their families through bilateral training, research, and health promotion activities. Facilitates the development of complementary and coordinated projects involving key stakeholders in Mexico and the United States. Formerly know as the California-Mexico Health Initiative.
Sponsoring organization: University of California, Office of the President
- Community Tool Box
Practical and detailed information and curriculum to support community health and community development. Provides training and tools to help build skills on topics that include: cultural competence, community assessment, leadership, and advocacy.
Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Success Stories
(Historias de éxito)
- EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
- Wellness Partnership for a Healthy McKinley County
This project involved an innovative education program that used high school students to mentor elementary students in diabetes prevention techniques with the goal to improve the wellness of the community by developing healthy living skills in the 10-to 12-year-old population, and specifically to incorporate diabetes awareness activities into this target group's school day.
Funding
(Financiamiento)
- AmeriCorps State and National Grants
Funding is available to support multi-state programs addressing critical community needs through service of professionals, paraprofessionals, and pre-professionals in communities with shortages of these professionals.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Jan 26, 2010
Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service: For Faith-Based and Other Community Organizations
- Community Development Transportation Lending Services (CTAA)
Provides loan funding to support transit services in rural areas.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Community Transportation Association of America
- Safety-net Enhancement Initiative
Funding designed to reduce health disparities within vulnerable communities by enhancing collaboration and coordination among agencies and institutions providing health and social supports to these communities.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Kresge Foundation
Publications
(Publicaciones)
Organizations
(Organismos)
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Arizona - Mexico Commission
Works to strengthen the economic and cultural relations within the Arizona-Mexico region and to develop Arizona's ties with Latin America.
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Border Counties Coalition
A nonpartisan, consensus-based policy and technical forum founded to address challenges facing county governments located on the United States/Mexico Border.
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Border Health Education Network
A San Diego Border Health Education Training Center with the objectives to create a cross-border affiliation of healthcare professionals. Available in Spanish.
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California Endowment Agricultural Worker Health Initiative
Works to achieve optimal health for agricultural workers, their families and their communities.
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California Office of Binational Border Health
Mission is to protect and improve the health of California communities affected by border or binational conditions and activities through facilitating cooperation between California and Mexico health officials and health professionals.
Available in Spanish.
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Latino Universal Health Access Network
A group of leaders, organizations, and individuals throughout California advocating for universal health care for all Californians. The Network engages Latino leaders and community members in health policy solutions.
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Mexico Solidarity Network
Works for democracy, economic justice and human rights on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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National Health Service Corps
Works to improve the health of the underserved by recruiting and retaining the health professionals to deliver health care in underserved communities. Provides technical assistance to federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) on projects that enhance the NHSC's site development mission. Part of the Bureau of Health Professionals, Health Resources and Services Administration.
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National Latina Health Network
Works to develop and strengthen the networks of Latina leaders in public health, and building local and national community health partnerships.
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Red de Educación para la Salud Fronteriza
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Rio Grande Institute
Works to foster appreciation of the unique economic, cultural and natural resources of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo basin and to facilitate informed action to conserve those resources and use them for the public good.
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SANDAG Borders Committee
An organization governed by a board of directors composed of mayors, council members, and a county supervisor from each of the California border region's 19 local governments. SANDAG builds consensus, makes strategic plans, obtains and allocates resources, plans, engineers, and builds public transportation, and provides information on a broad range of topics pertinent to the region's quality of life.
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U.S. - Mexico Border Health Association
Promotes the improvement of the health and living conditions of the people of the United State-Mexico Border. Brings together persons and institutions actively engaged or interested in binational health activities between the United States of America and the United Mexican States.
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United States - Mexico Border Health Commission
Provides international leadership to optimize health and quality of life along the U.S.-Mexico border. Comprised of the federal secretaries of health, the chief health officers of the ten border states and prominent community health professionals from both nations. The USMBHC brings together the two countries and its border states to solve border health problems.
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Valley Primary Care Network, Inc.
Serves as a catalyst to bring participating health entities in the Borderplex area together to develop and implement projects that would respond to health promotion and disease prevention intervention initiatives and opportunities.
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