TITLE
Title
BUDGET AMENDMENT: COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION DIRECTOR GRANT
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SPONSOR
Sponsor
Heather Schaffer, Cooperative Extension Director
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BACKGROUND
Background
Guilford County Cooperative Extension partnered with Guilford County Public Health, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Cone Health Foundation, The Foundation for Healthy High Point, and the Greater High Point Food Alliance to apply for the Healthy People, Healthy Carolinians (HPHC) Grant from The Duke Endowment.
The purpose of this grant-funded program is to convene and formalize a coalition with the aim of enhancing the physical health and nutrition in qualified census tracts in Guilford County through community-level health initiatives that will be selected from and implemented with community members and other stakeholders. The Coalition will use a collective impact approach to drive collaboration with diverse community organizations to address systemic conditions that have led to poor health outcomes by implementing evidence-based interventions and then sustaining them through policy, systems and environmental changes.
The Board of Commissioners was notified of the receipt of the grant and approved the budget amendment associated with the planning year of the grant on 09/21/2023, for a total of $72,923. The funds for the planning grant were not received in FY24. The sponsor is allowing the County to carry over those funds for future year use. The department is requesting we move the approved in FY24 and funds for future years of the grant to a project ordinance in the Grants Fund. After the planning grant year, The Duke Endowment awarded the implementation phase of the grant from 01/01/2024 through 12/31/2024. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is the fiscal agent for the grant (as required by The Duke Endowment) and will sub-contract payment for the Coalition Director position to Guilford County to be added to the Professional Services contract with NC State University and Cooperative Extension. No county dollars are being requested for the position and the position is an NCSU grant-funded employee.
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BUDGET IMPACT
Budget Impact
Grants Fund
FY24/25 Community Health Coalition Director Grant
$175,423 appropriation to grant project
$175,423 in Other Revenue
NO ADDITIONAL COUNTY FUNDS REQUIRED
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REQUESTED ACTION
Requested Action
Approve receipt of the award from Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in the amount of $175,423 and adopt a grant project ordinance for the FY24/25 Community Health Coalition Director Grant in the amount of $175,423 with $175,423 in other revenue.
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