NCC: National Chlamydia Coalition

 
 
 

National Chlamydia Coalition (NCC) Mini-Grants:
Project Summaries

Partnership for Prevention has awarded grants to regional, state and local organizations to implement innovative strategies to increase chlamydia screening and follow-up care. The grants are also designed to encourage collaboration among local NCC counterparts. To date, nine grants have been signed and one grant is currently being finalized. For a detailed overview, click here.

Adagio Health, Inc.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Using GIS mapping to identify communities at high risk for chlamydia, will target residents of a low-income housing project with focus-group tested materials, chlamydia testing and treatment in alternative community settings, and expedited partner therapy.

 

Cardea Services

Seattle, Washington

Will develop, test, and disseminate a model protocol and decision-making tool to guide the standard delivery of STD care to American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

 

Childrens Memorial Hospital, Uplift School Based Health Center

Chicago, Illinois

Will add free chlamydia and gonorrhea screening to student athletes pre-participation sports physicals provided at five school-based health centers in the Chicago area.

 

Jackson County Health Department

Jackson COUNTY, Illinois

Will implement a provider outreach program to encourage routine chlamydia screening in private pediatric, internal medicine, and family practices, along with a peer mentor program to increase public awareness about chlamydia.

 

Maryland Department of Juvenile Services

Baltimore, Maryland

Will provide chlamydia and gonorrhea screening, treatment, and education through case manager staff for at least 500 Baltimore juvenile justice youth who are under community supervision.

Michigan Department of Community Health

State of Michigan

Will partner with Molina Healthcare, the largest Medicaid managed care provider in Michigan, to adapt an award-winning, culturally-specific awareness model to increase chlamydia screening among female plan members age 16-25 in southeastern Michigan, including the city of Detroit.

 

Minnesota Department of Health

State of Minnesota

Based on an effective model for coalition-building, will organize the first statewide Minnesota Chlamydia Partnership to encourage a wide range of organizations to offer chlamydia screening and treatment.

 

Old Dominion University Research Foundation

Norfolk, Virginia

Through Old Dominion Universitys Student Health Service, will implement a multi-faceted project to increase chlamydia awareness, screening and treatment at ODU and in the surrounding Tidewater region of Virginia.

 

Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

Yakima, Washington

Will expand its current Promotoras de Salud or “promoters of health” sexual health education program to focus on chlamydia-specific grassroots outreach within the Latino/a community in Yakima County.

 

University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Buffalo, New York

Three pediatric offices, located in western New York State, will pilot-test an intervention designed to enhance the delivery of comprehensive and confidential adolescent preventive care, including sexual health services.


NCC Mini-grants resources

  • Grantees have created tools that can be adapted for use in other communities. To access these materials, click here .
For More Information on the National Chlamydia Coalition, email us at ncc@prevent.org

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