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Advancing the New York State Prevention Agenda to Improve Community Health

By

NYHealth

Funding Area

Building Healthy Communities

Date

October 29, 2019

Building Healthy Communities

The New York State Department of Health created the Prevention Agenda 2013–2017 to provide a framework and roadmap to foster statewide implementation of activities designed to improve population health in New York State.

All New York State counties were required to submit a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) on their strategies for advancing the State’s Prevention Agenda and how they would collaborate with health care institutions, local health departments, and community-based organizations to achieve their goals.

To help energize the implementation of the CHIPs, NYHealth issued a Request for Proposals (RFP), “Advancing New York State’s Prevention Agenda: A Matching Funds Program to Implement Community Health Improvement Plans,” to support local health departments with the most innovative and feasible projects in executing their plans. Through this RFP, NYHealth invested $500,000 in 17 organizations to help 27 county health departments across the State advance the goals of the Prevention Agenda. NYHealth also provided two grants totaling $549,977 to the New York Academy of Medicine to offer technical assistance to the local health departments and their community-based counterparts as they launched and carried out their CHIPs. As a result, counties put into action a wide range of prevention efforts, such as increasing breast-feeding, reducing asthma-related emergency department visits, implementing Complete Streets policies, preventing falls among elderly New Yorkers, and providing nutrition education in schools.