Capacity Building

OVERVIEW: HEALTH COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING COHORT

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Office of Transformation, Engagement and Community Health (TEaCH) in partnership with the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) are offering a unique opportunity for local community organizations to participate in the Health Community Capacity Building (HCCB) Training Cohort. The overall goal of the HCCB training cohort is to build organizational capacity for local community-based entities to identify and successfully respond to State-Level and other funding opportunities that increase the knowledge of and improve access to financial resources that support development, implementation, and evaluation of targeted community-level strategies that address and improve the health of underrepresented groups with a focus on Health Related Social Needs (HRSN), race-based mistreatment and decreasing health, healthcare disparities and other outcomes for underrepresented groups. This Request for Applications is open to Grass-Roots Organizations, Community- and Faith-based Organizations, Tribal Councils, Community Health Centers, and other entities that have well-established connections to one or more of Michigan’s five underrepresented groups (Black or African American, Native American /Alaskan Native, Arab, and Chaldean American, Asian American and Pacific Islanders, Hispanic/Latinx) are exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 USC 501 and have a maximum operating budget of $250,000. MDHHS expects to support up to ten organizations with a total of $125,000 for grant awards across all ten organizations. Applicant organizations may select no more than two individuals per organization to participate in the MHCCB training cohort.

The Office of TEaCH in collaboration with Public Research and Evaluation Services (PRES) https://pres-team.org/ will engage participants in hybrid (virtual/in-person) facilitated technical assistance and training modules that include the following areas of focus:

• Conducting A Needs Assessment
• Grant Application Development
• Program Monitoring & Oversight
• Project Management
• Data Collection & Analysis
• Fiscal Management & Oversight
• Budget/Spending Plan Development
• Community Outreach &Engagement
• Developing Sustainable Partnerships
• Progress Report Development
• Staff Recruitment & Retention
• Program Evaluation
• Understanding Structural Discrimination/Health Fairness/Health Related Social Needs (HRSN)
• Technology
• Identification of Funding Opportunities
• Identifying Best Practices/Evidence Based Models
• Dissemination of Project Results/Findings
• Other

TRAINING COHORT AWARD RECIPIENTS:

Organizations who successfully complete the Health Capacity Building Training Cohort will be invited to submit a funding proposal for implementation of the FY2025 Health Community Capacity Building (HCCB) Initiative.

HEALTH COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING (MHCCB) INITIATIVE Overview:

The HCCB Initiative is a three-year funding opportunity designed to promote collaboration between Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), Office of TEaCH, and local public health, tribal agencies, community- and faith-based organizations and other local entities to achieve health fairness for Michigan’s underrepresented groups (African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Arab and Chaldean Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Hispanics/Latinos).

The goal of this funding is to support culturally and linguistically appropriate community-level projects that build capacity to identify and implement programs, policies, and applied research to address health related social needs that contribute to health fairness for ethnic populations in Michigan.

PREVIOUS HCCB PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION COHORT FOCUS AREAS: