The Connecticut Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Health and Environmental Justice Grant Program.
Donor Name: Connecticut Community Foundation
State: Connecticut
City: Waterbury
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/15/2022
Details:
This new grant area combines two of the Foundation’s old grant areas including Healthy Communities and Environment. Within Health and Environmental Justice, they recognize that your health is influenced by where you are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age. They know that improving health outcomes requires an approach that supports a whole person within their community. Data shows us that there are differences in the environments within which residents live across their region.
Their approach focuses on:
- Supporting programs, advocacy, and system change efforts that address health disparity
- Increasing access to safe and affordable housing
- Improving food systems to ensure access and affordability
- Improving health systems to ensure access, culturally responsive practices, and affordability
- Applying an Environmental Justice lens to projects that seek to clean up land, air, and neighborhoods in order to positively impact health
Efforts they support include:
- Collaborations that improve access to basic needs (such as food and housing) and to preventative health care especially for BIPOC residents
- Evidence-based prevention and chronic disease management programs for diabetes, obesity, tobacco use, asthma, mental health first aid, and falls
- Housing advocacy efforts that address high eviction rates, safe housing (lead abatement), and affordability in Waterbury
- Expanding access to behavioral health and substance abuse interventions, especially in multi-lingual and rural communities
- System improvements that support increased access to medical and behavioral health services (such as transportation and telehealth)
- Efforts to advocate for environmental justice in Waterbury and work toward reducing environmental disparities across communities.
For more information, visit Health and Environmental Justice.
