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Projects
Past
Projects:
HBCU
Alliance
to Improve Access to Medicaid Services (HBCU AIMS)
Funding
Year:
07/01/98
to
08/30/00
Sponsor:
Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
The
project was developed to address disparities in the accessibility
and utilization of health care services offered by Medicaid programs
to African Americans in targeted communities within
North Carolina
.
There were five main objectives for the HBCU Medicaid
project.
(1)
To
determine underlying causes as to why health care services are being
underutilized by Medicaid eligible African Americans.
(2)
To
use resources effectively by partnering with local service providers
for strategy development and implementation.
(3)
To
increase service utilization as needed among the residents involved
in the information gathering stage of the project.
(4)
To
increase Medicaid utilization and measure the success of the
strategies.
(5)
To
sustain project impact through the participation of the health
agencies.
Cancer
Health Project (CHAP)
Funding
Period:
03/01/01
to
06/30/01
Sponsor:
NC Department of Health and Human Services
The
Cancer Health Project (CHAP) was to develop and pilot test a
curriculum fro training twenty community resource advocates to
increase awareness about cancer prevention.,
screening and treatment. The population to be reached by the
advocates was the general African-American community.
There was a focus on low-income persons – individuals who
were Medicare eligible, under-insured or uninsured.
Minority
Cancer Conference
Funding
Period:
03/01/01
to
06/30/01
Sponsor:
NC Department of Health & Human Resources
The
purpose of the project was to plan and conduct a statewide one-day
conference in the spring of 2001 for two hundred invited individuals
representing the state’s African American, Native American, and
Latino Populations. The
goals of the conference was to develop a process for seeking
information from the state’s African American, Native American,
and Latino populations on the disparities in cancer screening and
treatment found in these populations.
Cancer
Health
Alliance
Project (CHAP)- Community Expansion
Funding
Year:
11/01/01
to
06/30/02
Sponsor: NC Department of Health& Human Services
The
two main objectives of the project were (1) to establish community
resource advocate positions in four counties in North Carolina to
educate the African American community and especially Medicaid
eligible individuals about cancer prevention and (2) to expand the
project by collaborating with Native American and Latino
organizations in the state to adapt the CHAP curriculum content and
training to the needs of these communities.
Pilot
Project #2 and #3 Collapsed (Prostate Cancer & Bone Marrow
Project)
Funding
Year:
02/01/03
to
03/31/03
Sponsor:
North Carolina
Central
University
The
project was developed to test four different types of incentives on
recruiting African American men into a bone marrow donation program
and/or a prostate cancer etiologic study.
The responsibility of recruitment was divided among four HBCU
Health Promotion Alliance members (NC Central, NC A&T SU,
St. Augustine
’s, &
Fayetteville
State Univ.) such that
each site recruited 125 men. Each
HBCU Health Promotion Alliance site also recruited a community
liaison person to recruit residents in their geographic location.
This pilot consisted of a sample of 500 African American men between
the ages of 40 and 64 years. The
questionnaire was self-administer among persons who were identified
by community liaison persons (gatekeepers) using snowball sampling.
Analysis focused on the proportion of eligible men asked to
participate who were successfully recruited, the proportion
recruited men who complete the study, and the proportion of those
who completed the study and provided blood samples, or the
proportion who registered to donate bone marrow.
Heart
to Heart: Ain’t Your Life Worth Savin?
Period:
July 23-26, 2003
Sponsor:
The Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research
Institute NIH Export
Grant
The
play was designed to bring life saving information to African
American women while providing thought to African American women
while providing thought provoking comedic and musical entertainment.
Health professionals will be available after each performance
to answer questions from the audience.
Individuals who attend the production will be asked to
complete two briefs surveys. The
data from the surveys will help us interpret the value of the
theatre experience to simultaneously inform and entertain. Your
cooperation will help
North Carolina
Central
University
to continue to bring
future lifesaving programs to our community.
The play was written by Elmo Terry-Morgan.
The production was funded by a National Institutes of Health
grant awarded to the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical and Biotechnology
Research Institute at North
Carolina
Central
University
.
Dr. Laverne Reid of the Department of Health Education at NCCU was
the Export Outreach
Core Director.
Current
Projects:
Campus-Wide
and Individual Interventions to Increase Donation Intentions Among
African-American
College
Students
Funding
Period:
09/30/01
to
09/29/04
Sponsor:
Carolina
Donor Services (
U.S.
Department of Transplantation)
The
project was designed to evaluate the efficacy of an innovated
individualized intervention based on a validated model of behavior
change to increase organ and tissue donation intention rates among
African-American college students.
Campus-wide donor awareness campaign will be implemented for
all students. Selected
students will complete periodic assessments of their donation
intentions and half of these students will receive individually
tailored feedback reports. The
campus-wide campaign and the individually tailored interventions are
based on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change an
empirically validated theory that, at its foundation incorporates a
person’s readiness to make a decision or change a behavior.
The HBCU Health Promotion Alliance is the Primary contact and
resource link for the project providing liaison and local knowledge
for the conduct of programmatic activities.
The
Alliance
provides expertise to
insure the cultural appropriateness of materials used in the
campaign as well as consistent, local support on each campus.
Evaluation
of the Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program in Minority
Communities
Funding
Year:
02/01/03
to
01/31/04
Sponsor:
NC Health & Wellness Trust Fund Commission
The
project presents a plan to assess the effect of the Senior
Prescription Drug Assistance Program (Senior Care) on some of the
state’s most high0risk and underserved populations.
This evaluation will assess the effect of Senior on
client’s access to medications and on client’s health outcomes.
Investigators in this project include researchers from the
HBCU Health Promotion Alliance, the
University
of
North Carolina
at
Chapel Hill
(UNC-CH) and Medical
Review of North Carolina. Investigators in each of these
organizations will work closely with each of these organizations
will work closely with each other and the Health and Wellness Trust
to provide a broad evaluation of Senior Care. This proposal
presented by UNC-CH (Evaluation of the Senior Prescription Drug
Assistance Program) but expands the assessment of the effect of
Senior Care for African Americans and other high-risk and
underserved populations.
Project
Commit to Prevent
Funding
Year:
06/01/03
to
06/30/04
Sponsor:
HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch
Many
sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including HIV, have had a
disparate impact on communities of color in
North Carolina
.
The relative incidence of HIV alone has increased so
dramatically through the 1990s among African Americans and Americans
Indians that the public health systems has
defined HIV/STD as a “crisis”. A closer look at the statistics
reveal that when compared to White-Non Hispanic North Carolinians
the rate of HIV disease for African Americans is almost 11 times
higher (66.5;6.3) and for American Indians the rate for HIV disease
is almost 3 times higher (17.8:6.3).
Of particular concern is the impact of HIV and STD’s on
young adult African Americans and American Indians.
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC
A&T State University is located in Guilford County, a county
like others in North Carolina that has experienced escalating rates
of HIV and STD infection, with devastating impact especially on
Guilford County’s residents of color.
North Carolina
A&T
State
University
has a historical
relationship with the minority community in
Guilford
County
and continues to work
closely with county residents of color to address a variety of
issues including health concerns.
While this may be true of many universities, it is critical
for
North Carolina
A&T
State
University
since a majority of
the student population at this institution reside in
and commute from the areas at risk and some 92% of the undergraduate
student population are minority.
North Carolina
A&T
State
University
is also strategically
positioned to play a leadership role, convening the other eleven
historically minority colleges/universities participating in Project
Commit to Prevent through its HBCU Health Promotion Alliance.
Recent
Proposals:
Promoting
Health in the African-American Community (PHAAC)
A
proposal has been submitted to Centers of Medicaid and Medicare.
Heart disease is the number one cause of death for African
American men and women in
Guilford County
,
North Carolina
. The specific aims of
this project are to: 1. Develop and pilot a strategy to effectively
use the parish nurse concept to provide community level
cardiovascular health promotion education in the church to the
African American community and to increase this community's access
to cardiovascular disease prevention health services, 2. Determine
those barriers that influence African American participation in
cardiac rehabilitation programs in Guilford County, and 3. Develop a
program based on the stage of change model that targets patients
with cardiovascular disease to initiate and maintain actions to
reduce their risk factors.
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