Fall 2004  Grant Awards

Children’s Hospital Foundation

Strengthening Medicine: Involving Young Physicians in Organized Medicine and Advocacy - $32,264

To expose and educate young physicians during residency training to organized medicine and advocacy with the goal of increasing their involvement in these efforts throughout their professional career.

Heritage Day Health Centers

Assisting Physicians with Family Caregiving Concerns - $29,375

To provide an on-call social worker to speak with families about their concerns and to connect them with appropriate referrals, services, education and support; and thus reducing the physician’s time spent counseling family caregivers about eldercare issues.

Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio

Abrete Sesamo! - $39,500

Empowering Latinos to Use Health Care More Effectively

To select and train leaders from within the Latino community as Lay Health Advisors (LHA), who will provide two functions: to teach fellow immigrant Latinos how to seek and utilize appropriate health care, and to serve as ongoing health referral sources within their communities.