Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1714FY0001 Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Project/Healthy Body Healthy Soul
Requester:		Betsey Cooke			Organization:		Health Choice Network
Project Title:		Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Project/Healthy Body Healthy Soul			Date Submitted:		02/07/2001 4:37:50 PM
Sponsors:		Edward Bullard
Statewide Interest:		This project is designed to meet the statewide objectives of increasing affordable healthcare access
Recipient:		Health Choice Network			Contact:		Keith Arnold
		3900 N.W. 79 Avenue, Suite 500			Contact Phone:		(850) 222-6333
		Miami 33166
Counties:		Dade
Service Area:		Private Organization
Project Description:
Health Choice Network is requesting support from the State of Florida for the continued operation and expansion of the Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Project/Healthy Body Healthy Soul program to other counties and types of cancer. The Healthy Body Healthy Soul program represents a sound approach to addressing health disparities affecting minority communities. Healthy Body Healthy Soul uses collaboration among community health centers across the state, faith-based and other partners to extend outreach efforts to populations that are traditionally hardest to reach to provide education and change health behaviors effectively, and to provide a higher level of coordination of care than previously existed. Churches and other community partners enjoying proven credibility with families are engaged in efforts to educate their communities and change health behavior in a private way. Healthy Body/Healthy Soul is a locally-driven and locally-controlled effort, based on solid partnerships among private, not-for-profit organizations with track records of serving predominantly Black and Hispanic communities that span several decades. Infrastructuresare in place at the Network Level and in communities targeted to plan, operate and evaluate Healthy Body Healthy Soul initiatives. Sufficient ground work has been completed and relationships among partners solidified to enable sustenance, strengthening and efficient replication of Healthy Body Healthy Soul projects to maximize the Program's impact in Florida's low-income minority communities.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
Reduce the burden of chronic illness in minority communities.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:						$750,000
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Total cost of the project:			$2,023,680
Request has been made to fund:				Operations
Type of funding match:		Federal
	Total Cash Amount:		$1,133,000		Total In-Kind Amount:		$140,000
Was this project previously funded by the State?							Yes
	Fiscal Year:		2000-2001		Amount:		$300,000
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?							Unknown
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?							No
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?							No
Is there a documented need for this project?							Yes
	Documentation:		The at-risk and underserved minority populations of Miami-Dade, Lee, Hendry, Pasco & Broward
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?							Yes
	Hearing Body:		Miami-Dade County Legislative Delegation
	Meeting Date:		01/17/2001