Be The Source For Better Health: Improving Men's Health Outcomes Through Cultures, Communities, and Connections
June is Men’s Health Month! This annual observance encourages men and boys to be proactive in their health by implementing healthy living decisions. This year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) is focusing on improving health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) men through its theme Be the Source for Better Health:Improving Health Outcomes Through Our Cultures, Communities, and Connections. This theme calls on each of us to better understand how the unique environments, cultures, histories, and circumstances (known as social determinants of health, or “SDOH”) of racial and ethnic minority and AI/AN men impact their overall health.
Shine the Light is a national awareness campaign to celebrate World Sickle Cell Day. We invite you to join with friends, family, neighbors and others in your community, as people around the nation and across the globe host and hold local gatherings to shine the light on sickle cell disease. Together, we must and will find a universal cure for sickle cell disease! Learn more here about helpful resources.
The Alzheimer's Association
would like to invite you to participate in Purple Power Worship, an opportunity for your faith community to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and help members to access services.
WHY SHOULD YOUR FAITH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATE? • Raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease. • Hear testimony from families in your congregation affected by the disease. • Learn the latest information on research and public policy efforts. • Connect congregants to valuable programs, services, and support. • Identify members of your community to plan ongoing activities to educate and raise awareness.
Register today for FREE In-Person Health Ambassador Trainings!
The Health Quality Innovation Network (HQIN) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are offering free regional in-person Health Ambassador Trainings for nursing home staff. The Be REAL (Relate, Explore, Assist, Leave the door open) framework will prepare individuals to build relationships and incorporate health communication to improve outcomes such as immunizations, infection prevention and more. If you are working with a nursing home as a family member or volunteer, this may be of interest. Please share this with your local nursing home and encourage with them to attend with you. For questions, please contact ltc@hqi.solutions.
Click the flyer to see more details about dates, locations, and registration.
High Blood Pressure Communications Toolkit
Regularly monitoring your blood pressure, with support from your health care team, can help lower your risk for heart disease and stroke. You can check your blood pressure at the doctor’s office, at a pharmacy, or even at home! Learn more from CDC.
Facts & Faith Fridays
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
Friday, June 21, 2024 3-4 p.m.
Hear from CancerLINC executive director Julianne Duvall and Kandra Brown, Early Childhood Navigator with the Virginia Department of Education, as they share vital resources available to Virginia families for cancer, and early childhood education and childcare.
An extreme heat event is a series of hot days, much hotter than average for a particular time and place. Extreme heat is deadly and kills more people than any other weather event. Climate change is making extreme heat events more frequent, more severe and last longer. But we can take action to prepare. Prepare now to protect yourself and your loved ones.
Integrate the Walk With Ease Self-Directed Program into your organization's resource or wellness website. As a partner of the Virginia Arthritis Program, Insight Memory Care provides this evidence-based, self-guided program to encourage physical activity. Participants follow the program by reading the WWE book, walking three times weekly for six weeks at their own pace, and completing the online modules at their convenience. This program is free for Virginia residents. For integration support and tips, click here.
National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) is observed each year on June 27 to highlight the importance of HIV testing. The NHTD theme for 2024 is "Level up your self-love: check your status." This theme emphasizes valuing yourself, showing yourself compassion and respect, and honoring your health needs with self-love. Knowing your HIV status helps you choose options to stay healthy.
Harmful Algal Blooms and Your Health
Algae and cyanobacteria (also called blue-green algae) are plant-like organisms that live in water. They can quickly grow out of control, or "bloom." Some of these blooms produce toxins (poisons) that make people and animals sick. Harmful algal blooms can look like foam, scum, mats, or paint on the surface of the water. They can also grow underneath the water, making some harmful algal blooms hard to see.
Get Ready for Hurricane Season
Before hurricane season each year, make sure you and your family are prepared by planning ahead.Hurricane season starts on May 15 in the north Pacific and June 1 in the Atlantic and the Caribbean. It ends on November 30.
Hurricanes don’t only affect people living along the coast. They can cause damage hundreds of miles from the shore. Learn how to be prepared.
Herald House Community Center
Norfolk, VA
Herald House Community Center provides 4 nutritional class sessions per grant year. Their goal is to demonstrate techniques for healthy shopping and cooking. Additionally, they learn how to read nutrition fact labels, and identify healthy food choices. After the class, they sample the healthy meals they created with the nutritionist's guidance.
Greater Hampton Roads Diaper Bank
Chesapeake, VA
The Greater Hampton Roads Diaper Bank helps families who can't afford diapers. They collect diapers and give them to families who need them. It's all about making sure babies have clean diapers and families get the help they need. Through community partnerships and compassionate volunteers, they are making a meaningful difference.
Virginia Dementia Roadmap Provider Toolkit
This provider toolkit incorporates factsheets and rack cards sourced from the Virginia Dementia Road Map: A Guide for People Impacted by Dementia but also integrates resources for Providers from the Alzheimer’s Association, CDC, and NACDD. Additionally, it encompasses materials focusing on risk reduction, early detection, communication with persons living with ADRD, cognitive impairment care planning, and more.
This toolkit from the BOLD Center for Early Detection of Dementia, in collaboration with the CDC, is designed for clinicians, administrators, and patients engaged with large health systems who are interested in promoting early detection of dementia, establishing supportive services, and becoming more "dementia-capable."
Virginia P3 recognizes that faith-based and community partners eagerly and actively step in to fulfill the needs of their community, especially during a crisis. As a result, we aim to equip our partners to respond to the present opioid health crisis with Opioid Response Toolkits.
Are you planning a community event? Would you like us to share your event flyer with the Virginia Department of Health and Virginia Partners in Prayer & Prevention? Would you like to request support from VAP3 for your event? Please complete this request form.
Pregnant or just had a baby? The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is free, confidential, and here to help, 24/7.
Text or call this hotline that is free, confidential, and available 24/7 in English and Spanish.
American Kennel Club (AKC) Humane Fund is offering grants up to $1,000 to nonprofit shelters that provide housing for victims of domestic violence and their pets.
This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. An essential community facility is defined as a facility that provides an essential service to the local community for the orderly development of the community in a primarily rural area, and does not include private, commercial or business undertakings.
Grant from the NIH to support multidisciplinary and multi-level research designed to develop and/or test interventions to optimize care of persons with Type 2 diabetes from populations with health/health care disparities.
Grants from the DominionEnergy Charitable Foundation are distributed in four focus areas (human needs, environmental stewardship, education, community vitality) and are limited to organizations defined as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code.
Grants to support local efforts to build and sustain a high quality of life in rural communities across America. Focus areas include business development, community development, education, and telecommunications.
The Kars4Kids Small Grant Program is dedicated to supporting educational initiatives around the country, helping us impact more children. Grants range from $500-$2,000, depending on such factors as mission alignment and availability of funds.
The Literacy Opportunity Fund help US-based nonprofit organizations do their work in transforming lives through adult literacy Awarding grants up to $6,000 to literacy organizations of all types and sizes that are doing direct work with adult students. Apply for a grant to fund your organization’s general operating expenses, such as salaries or teacher stipends, supplies or equipment, space rental, and more. Or, apply for a Literacy Opportunity award to fund a particular project, event, or new programming development.
Sentara Health Plans is a leader recognized for service, collaboration, and innovation in caring for the Medicaid population. Sentara Health Plans, through its Outreach and Education program, strives to: Address health inequalities and inequities, Support quality improvement initiatives to improve health outcome measures; and learn more on other focus areas.
Application Deadline: Monthly (on the 15th)
For questions or to learn more about our Community Partnership Program, please email: COMM_OUTREACH@sentara.com
Takeda provides funding to nonprofit organizations to focus on support for programs in the areas of K-8 math, high school STEM enrichment and college success, and programs that focus on the role of food in improving health.
Walmart believes that strengthening local communities creates value for business as well as society. Each year, Walmart U.S. stores, Sam’s Clubs and Distribution Centers award local cash grants ranging from $250 to $5000. These local grants are designed to address the unique needs of the communities where we operate.
