HU\oZ,P$~| S7! > Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health i TheNationalLeadership Summiton EliminatingRacial 8tEthnicDisparitiesin Health Forthe OfficeofMinority Health Office ofPublic Health and Science U.S. Department ofHealth and Human Services ,J>t4^sERV'c*'r-/, Rockville, Maryland * Developed bythe Office ofMinority Health Resource Centerj? "The listings on the following pages are not all inclusive, a One should not conclude that the organizations listed, v^ their products, or their services are favored or endorsed by the Ku U.S. Department ofHealth & Human Services." Acknowledgments energy, knowledge, expertise, anddedication tomakingtheSummitasuccess. Kelly Coleman AKagyetnucryafFoerliHxeaAlatrhocnare Research and Quality, HHS Office of MMinDority Health, OPHS, HHS MD Rockville, Rockville, Claude Marie Colimon April ABD-Al-Khaliq HHS InterculturTalXCancer Council RNeegwioYnorIkI,OfNfiYce of Minority Health, Houston, Jennifer Brooks Agwunobi Blake L. Crawford OPHS, HHS Office of Minority Health, Florida State University MD Rockville, FL Tallahassee, Shirley Mereday Dabney ENraitcioBnaailleCyenter on Minority Health Office ofWomen's Health, OPHS, HHS HHS Washington, D.C. NIH, and Health Disparities, MD Bethesda, Deirdre M. Danahar New England AIDS Education and Training Center Sharon E. Barrett MA Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS Boston, MD Rockville, Nina Darling OPHS, HHS Office of Minority Health, Paul Beasley MD Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS Rockville, MD Rockville, Allen Dearry National Institutes of Health, NIH, HHS Georgia Buggs NC OPHS, HHS Research Triangle Park, Office of Minority Health, MD Rockville, Tuei Doong OPHS, HHS Office of Minority Health, Olivia Carter-Pokras MD OPHS, HHS Rockville, Office of Minority Health, MD Rockville, Michael Douglas OPHS, HHS Office of Minority Health, Teresa Chapa MD Substance Abuse and Mental Health Rockville, HHS Services Administration, MD Anthony Duah-Agyemang Rockville, OPHS, HHS Office of Minority Health, MD Rockville, Gwendolyn Clark HHS Health Resources and Services Administration, MD Deborah Guadalupe Duran Rockville, NIH, HHS National Cancer Institute, MD Bethesda, Sonsiere Cobb-Souza HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, GA Atlanta, Epifanio Elizondo Arlene Lester Region VI Office of Minority Health, HHS Region IV Office of Minority Health, HHS TX GA Dallas, Atlanta, James L. Gray Vesnier Lugo Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS MD MD Rockville, Rockville, Betty Lee Hawks Imani Ma'at Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS MD GA Rockville, Atlanta, June Horner Gerrie Maccannon Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS MD MD Rockville, Rockville, DeLoris Lejames Hunter Rosemary McKenzie Substance Abuse and Mental Health National Rural Health Association HHS MO Services Administration, Kansas City, MD Rockville, Lia Margolis Mildred Hunter Latino Coalition for a Healthy California Region V Office of Minority Health, HHS Pacific Palisades, CA Chicago, IL William Mayfield HHS Patricia Ironcloud Region VII Office of Minority Health, MO Rapid City, SD Kansas City, Pamela M. Jackson Sheila P. Merriweather Intercultural Cancer Council Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS TX MD Houston, Rockville, Deeana Jang Kevin Nash HHS & HHS Office for Civil Rights, Centers For Medicare Medicaid Services, MD Washington, D.C. Baltimore, Patrik Johansson Vincent R. Nathan Office ofMinority Health, OPHS, HHS Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, HHS MD GA Rockville, Atlanta, Yvonne Johns Lorenzo Olivas Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS Region VIII Office of Minority Health, HHS GA CO Atlanta, Denver, Marilyn L. Johnson Guadalupe Pacheco National Public Health Forum Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS MD MD Columbia, Rockville, I "he National Leadership Summit on Eli; Edna L. Paisano Esther Sciammarella Indian Health Service, HHS Chicago Department of Public Health MD Rockville, Chicago, IL • Sibyl Bowie Page Janet Lee Scott-Harris National Center on Minority Health Region I Office of Minority Health, HHS and Health Disparities, NIH, HHS Boston, MA MD Bethesda, James H. Simpson Christina L. Perez Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS Region IX Office of Minority Health, HHS Rockville, MD San Francisco, CA Lauren Steward Jean Plaschke Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS Rockville, MD MD Rockville, Nathan Stinson, Jr. Shirley Ann Poor Thunder Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS MD Oglala Sioux Tribe Rockville, Rapid City, SD Dong Suh Adrienne Porter Asian Health Services Office on Women's Health, OPHS, HHS Oakland, CA Washington, D.C. Mary C. Wallace Suki Ports Food and Drug Administration, HHS • MD Family Health Project, Inc. Rockville, New York, NY Jessie D. Washington Marion Primas Office for Civil Rights, HHS Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS Washington, D.C. MD Bethesda, Robin Weinick Joan Y Reede Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS MD Harvard University Rockville, MA Boston, Nathaniel Wesley A&M Brian D. F. Richmond Florida University Academy for Educational Development Tallahassee, FL Washington, D.C. John West I. Vincent C. Rogers Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS MD Region III Health Resources and Rockville, HHS Services Administration, Philadelphia, PA Walter W. Williams HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, GA John Ruffin Atlanta, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH, HHS MD Bethesda, Jeanean Willis HHS Health Resources and Services Administration, MD Rockville, James Wilson Siouxland Services, Inc. Rapid City, SD Violet Ryo-Hwa Woo Office of Minority Health, OPHS, HHS MD Rockville, Franklin Zavala-Velez South Florida Deaf and Hard of Hearing Review North Miami, FL Acknowledgments Special TheDepartmentthanks thefollowingindividualsandorganizationsfortheirhardworkandexceptionalcontributions to theSummit. SummitProjectOfficers ProgramSupportCenter Matthew Murguia Jackie Jones Howard L. Kelley Nickie McKenna Ralph Russell OfficeoftheSecretary Mirtha Beadle SummitToolkit Willis Morris Stephanie L. Singleton Brigette Settles Scott OfficeofHIV/AIDSPolicy Miguel Gomez BetahAssociates-SummitContractor Vernell Henry OfficeofMinorityHealth Roe Wilson MD Sandra Barnes Bethesda, Monica Farrar Deborah Hayes HealthManagementResources,Inc. Annette Nieves Maria D. Lopes MD LeeAnn Robinson Landover, Christine Savannah Mattie Smith TheHughesGroup MD Silver Spring, OfficeofMinorityHealthResourceCenter Jose Tarcisio M. Carneiro Jules Johnson Ida Miggins Lajoy Y. Mosby nal Leadership Summit on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health • • 1 Table of Contents OVERVIEW 9 INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMS 107 Summit and OMH Overview HHS Initiatives ofNote 109 Best Practices/Model Programs 113 DATA/STATISTICS 1 Finding HHS Legislation 118 Population Overview 13 African American 15 FUNDING 119 American Indian/Alaska Native 16 Asian American 17 Federal Assistance 121 Hispanic/Latino 18 Federal Funding Information 123 Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander 19 Types of assistance 128 HHS Grant offices 130 Minority Health 21 Other Federal Funding Sources 132 African American Health 23 American Indian/Alaska Native 35 Non-Federal Assistance 133 Asian American/Pacific Islander 45 Hispanic/Latino 57 Tips for Grant Writing 136 Online Federal Health Data Sources 65 Funding-related Glossary 137 TECHNICALASSISTANCE 141 FEDERALAND STATE INFORMATION toi/n Overview 143 U.S. Department of Health and Priority Health Concerns 145 Human Services (HHS) 69 Overall Health 151 HHS Agencies 71 Minority Health Entities 75 RESOURCE DOCUMENTS 161 Federal Health Information Clearinghouses 77 Complete organization list 163 State Contacts 91 State Minority Liaisons 93 Regional Minority Health Consultants 100 State Health Departments 102 Leade Summit on Eliminating Racial and • • • Summit on jdMJhh Wei come to theNationalLeadership Summiton EliminatingRacial and Ethnic Disparities in Health T he Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department The U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser- of Health and Human Services, is excited to be vices' Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Dispari- sponsoring this first National Leadership Sum- ties in Health employs five overarching strategies to con- mit. The Summit seeks to draw national attention to ceptualize, direct, strengthen, and integrate action and the existence of health disparities and to innovative ap- activities in public health: proaches which address these disparities being imple- mented in our communities at the local, State, National, ^ Strengthening the science base for decision-mak- Federal, and Tribal levels. The mission ofthe Summit is ing by fostering data collection efforts, research, to stimulate action at all levels to enhance program out- demonstrations, and evaluations; comes and help eliminate health disparities. ^ Engaging in strategic communications to increase Under the direction of the Deputy Assistant Secre- awareness and understanding of the major health tary for Minority Health, Dr. Nathan Stinson, the Of- problems confronting Americans, informing, edu- • fice of Minority Health (OMH) advises the Secretary cating, and empowering people about health and and the Office of Public Health and Science on public human services; health issues affecting American Indians and Alaska ^ Establishing, strengthening, and mobilizing part- Natives, Asian Americans, Blacks/African Americans, nerships to identify and solve health problems; Hispanics/Latinos, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific ^ Developing, improving, and enforcing policies, Islanders. plans, laws, and regulations that support individual The Office ofMinority Health (OMH) was created and community health and human service efforts; by the U.S. Department ofHealth and Human Services and (HHS) in 1985 as a result ofthe Report ofthe Secretary's ^ Linking people to needed personal health and hu- OMH Task Force on Black and Minority Health. works man services, assuring the provision of such ser- to improve the health ofracial and ethnic minoritypopu- vices when otherwise unavailable, and ensuring lations through the development ofeffective health poli- an adequate and competent workforce to deliver cies and programs aimed at eliminating disparities in such services. health. Together with HHS divisions and other Federal de- These cross-cutting strategies are key to Federal, State, OMH partments, works to improve collection and analy- and local efforts to address health disparities and will be ses of data on the health of racial and ethnic popula- highlighted throughout the workshops and plenary ses- OMH tions. also monitors efforts to achieve the goals of sions organized in three distinctive tracks: Access, Health HealthyPeople 2010, which has a special focus on elimi- Professions, and Research and Data. nating, and not merely reducing, racial and ethnic dis- parities in health. National L' Summit 01 mating > 0, We come 7 to theNationalLeadership Summit on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health While the Summit itselfwill be an important venue Additional information that can easily be added to to highlight successful programs that are operating at your Took Kit, along with pertinent up-to-the-minute the local, State, or national levels, Summit planners un- data will focus on specific diseases and cross-cutting is- derstand the importance of imparting skills with practi- sues. Additional items will be available on-site during cal application. Workshop sessions are designed with the the Summit. It is our hope by the conclusion of this goal of providing "hands-on" learning experiences based Summit, you, the participant, will have: on real life programs, challenges, and examples. Work- shop presenters have been asked to incorporate "skills ^ Learned about effective programs and strategies building" as part of the presentations and to make their utilized to address barriers at the local, State and presentations interactive rather than "sit and listen." Federal levels; Your Summit planning committee is eager to en- ^ Enhanced your skills to affect change and mobi- sure that participants leave the Summit with informa- lize resources in order to address health dispari- tion and resources that can be used in the community. ties; This "Community Resources Tool Kit" is designed to ^ Engaged in dialogue and information sharing with serve as a foundation for individuals and organizations key national, State and local experts engaged in looking to enhance their programs or start newprograms. developing and implementing programs and poli- This Tool Kit includes: cies addressing health disparities at the commu- nity level; ^ Data and Statistics; ^ Gained additional insight about the connection ^ Federal and State Information; between health and social/economic factors such ^ Initiatives and Programs; and as employment, housing, education, and the en- ^ Technical Assistance. vironment; and ^ Enhanced your understanding of the need for all communities to work together as one and how the health of one community affects the health of all communities. • ENJOYYOUR SUMMIT! 10