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Raleigh -- Press Release: North Carolina Department of Health and Social Services Jul 1, 2021
NC DHHS, NC Counts Coalition Partnership Supports Equitable COVID-19 Response Throughout North Carolina
Healthier Together, a public-private partnership between the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) and NC Counts Coalition, has awarded $500,000 in grants to support community groups that will help North Carolina achieve its goal of delivering equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. After receiving 81 applications for the grants, the following organizations were selected to receive Healthier Together vaccine equity grants ranging from $7,000 to $50,000 to serve their corresponding counties:
A Better Chance A Better Community – Edgecombe, Hertford
Acción Hispana/Qué Pasa – Forsyth
Association of Mexicans in North Carolina, Inc. (AMEXCAN) – Nash, Wilson, Cumberland, Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Edgecombe, Greene, Hyde, Lenoir, Pitt
CAREE (Citizens Advocating For Racial Equity & Equality) – Edgecombe, Greene, Pitt
Church World Service (Greensboro and Durham) – Forsyth, Guilford, Durham, Orange
Cumberland HealthNet – Cumberland, Hoke
Communities in Partnership – Durham
Duplin Christian Outreach Ministries – Bladen, Pender, Sampson, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Wayne
Durham Chapter APRI – Durham
Episcopal Farmworker Ministry – Johnston, Harnett, Sampson, Duplin
Future Endeavors Life Program (FELP) – Cumberland, Montgomery
Garner Road Community Center, Inc. – Wake
Giver of Destiny Corporation – Davidson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Harnett, County Coharie Indian Association – Harnett
Healthy Robeson Coalition – Robeson
Helping All People Excel, Inc. and Gang Free, Inc. – Granville, Vance
Iglesia La Semilla – Guilford, Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson, Harnett, Duplin, Wayne
Latin American Coalition – Mecklenburg
Little Washington Growing Group – Wayne
Montagnard Dega Association – Guilford
NC FIELD, Inc. – Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Wayne
Peletah Ministries – Carteret, Craven, Jones, Pamlico, Pitt
Robeson County Church & Community Center – Union, Wilson, Robeson
Sandhills Cooperation Association – Randolph, Stanly, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond
Scotland Youth Development – Scotland
The Caraway Foundation – Anson
Vecinos, Inc. – Cherokee, Graham
The Healthier Together grants fund activities such as conducting vaccine outreach and education efforts, helping people schedule appointments, arranging transportation, coordinating local vaccine events at trusted and accessible locations, and ensuring that people get to second-dose appointments.
As the more dangerous Delta Variant rapidly spreads throughout North Carolina, there is even more urgency for people to get vaccinated. Early data have shown a possible increased risk of hospitalization in people infected with the Delta variant. The currently available COVID-19 vaccines are the best protection against the virus and its variants. The selected community organizations will work to ensure that individuals from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and other historically marginalized populations are able to access COVID-19 vaccines.
"Through these grants, we hope to amplify the outreach efforts of organizations already doing the work in our communities," said Stacey Carless. Executive Director of NC Counts Coalition. “With the help of our Healthier Together grant recipients, we will deliver a place-based strategy that invests in state, regional, and local partners led by and serving historically marginalized communities. Now more than ever, we need vaccine outreach in our communities to keep people safe during this ongoing pandemic.”
In addition to providing grants to community-based organizations, the Healthier Together initiative includes regional health equity teams that will support vaccine outreach and education efforts, use vaccination data to inform planning and investment of resources, and help match vaccine providers with community-based organizations.
This program is funded by federal COVID-19 funds.
Additional information regarding Healthier Together can be found at https://nccounts.org/healthier-together-initiative
