The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, along with The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are seeking applicants to support local efforts to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.
The intent of REACH is to also build an evidence base that supports community centered approaches to reducing or eliminating health disparities. Applicants will provide compelling data to support the priority population selected; that data should be accompanied by justification for selection of the intervention(s) that will improve population health.
Applicants will be able to choose from two levels of funding:
1. Basic Implementation level will support those communities:
- Having existing infrastructure components that need to be strengthened,
- Having recently active coalitions and partnerships with a history of successfully working together on issues relating to health or other disparities,
- Selecting strategies that are based upon a community health needs assessment that has been completed since 2010
- Needing a discrete amount of time to strengthen infrastructure, activate coalitions and partners, and finalize work plans in order to be actively ready for implementation of locally tailored evidence- and practice-based, policy, systems, and environmental improvements.
2. Comprehensive Implementation level will support those communities:
- With existing, strong infrastructure components.
- Having recently active coalitions and partnerships with a history of successfully working together on issues relating to health or other disparities.
- Selecting strategies that are based upon a community health needs assessment that has been completed since 2010.
- Having an infrastructure, a coalition and partnership network, and an existing work plan that allow the funded community to immediately implement locally tailored evidence- and practice-based, policy, systems, and environmental improvements.