City of Milwaukee - File #: 210543

• File #: 210543
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/7/2021
• In control: COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
• Final action: 7/27/2021
• Title: Resolution relative to the funding of the Minority Health Community Programs to Improve Minority Health from the U. S. Department of Health & Human Services through the Community Development Grants Administration.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS ADMINISTRATION, PUBLIC HEALTH

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
8/5/2021	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
7/27/2021	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
7/14/2021	0	COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Steve Mahan - Community Block Grants Administration Darryl Davidson - Dept. of Administration	Pass	5:0
7/7/2021	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
210543
Version
Original
Reference
Sponsor
CHAIR
Title
Resolution relative to the funding of the Minority Health Community Programs to Improve Minority Health from the U. S. Department of Health & Human Services through the Community Development Grants Administration.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the Department of Administration’s Community Development Grants Administration (CDGA) to accept, and fund the Minority Health Community Programs to Improve Minority Health from the U. S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Body
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee has been allocated funding through the Minority Health Community Programs to Improve Minority Health from the U. S. Department of Health & Human Services funding at $4,000,000; and

Whereas, The Office of African American Affairs as a part of a two-year initiative to identify and implement best practices for improving health literacy to enhance COVID-19 vaccination and other mitigation practices among underserved populations. Over the next two years, the Office of African American Affairs will work with local community-based organizations to develop a health literacy plan to increase the availability, acceptability, and use of COVID-19 public health information and services by racial and ethnic minority populations. The projects will also focus on other populations considered vulnerable for not receiving and using COVID-19 public health information. Recipients are also expected to leverage local data to identify racial and ethnic minority populations at the highest risk for health disparities and low health literacy, as well as populations not currently reached through existing public health campaigns. The Advancing Health Literacy (AHL) to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19 initiative is part of the Biden/Harris Administration’s National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness; and

Whereas, There is no local share required for this grant program; and...