Environmental Health Capacity and Literacy Project
Implementing Organization
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$15,000,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Funding Program
Gulf Region Health Outreach Program GRHOP
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Programmatic
Targeted Resources
Community and Human Health
Project Description
This project is designed to build social capital and engage vulnerable Gulf Coast communities. These efforts include building environmental health capacity to deliver coordinated specialty care, integrating the role of community health workers as a viable and sustainable component of the health system, and embedding an environmental health science curriculum in public schools and universities across the region to promote environmental health literacy. The EHCLP has established three programs to achieve its goals: the Environmental Health Education and Referral Program, the Community Environmental Health Wellness Program, and the Environmental Health Literacy Program.
Contact
Maureen Y. Litchveld504-988-7904
mlichtve@tulane.edu
Project Website
Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics, PanCare of Florida, Escambia Community Clinics, Boat People SOS, Mobile County Health Department, Franklin Primary Clinics, Gulf Coast Health Educators, Mercy Housing and Human Development, Starfish
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