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Update Kellogg Funding (COVID-19 Response and Recovery)
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Letter of Interest submitted to Alliance of Health Council; Los Alamos County Grant Matrix routed for signature for authority to receive funding.
Scope of Work:
The funding will allow Health Councils to promote and inform their communities on vaccine equity. Further, the funding will allow Health Councils to work towards building healthier, more equitable communities. Each Health Council will receive approximately $50,000 per year for 2 years with the possibility of a 3rd year of funding. This funding is in addition to the $9,462 provided by DOH for FY2022.
What Health Councils Will Do:
1. Be a partner with NMAHC and DOH to address vaccine equity and work to build healthier, more equitable communities, all of which relate to the work you are doing now, and to the requirements of House Bill 137. (HB 137 mandates that Health Councils serve as bodies that plan, work collaboratively with community partners, engage in public policy work, and build additional, sustainable and braided funding).
2. Hire staff or contractors to lead the planning, stakeholder engagement, and community collaborative process to identify ways that vaccine equity can be improved and communities can be rebuilt. Health Councils can use funding to cover existing staff or hire new staff. It is expected that each Health Council will hire staff to work between 30 to 40 hours per week (.75 FTE to 1 FTE). Staffing can be filled by more than one person.
3. Year 1- The Health Councils will use the community collaboration process to identify and address local vaccine equity goals.
4. Year 2- The Health Councils will identify and prioritize goals to build community health and equity. This will include community collaboration to create system, policy and environmental change addressing issues important to your community. The goals are data-informed and set by your Health Council as part of your planning process. (Year 2 activitie...
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