Healthy and Livable Bronx Partnership

NIH RePORTER · NIH · OT2 · $375,000 · view on reporter.nih.gov ↗

Abstract

Abstract BronxWorks, the Bronx’s largest multi-service organization, proposes to leverage its longstanding partnership with the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York (CCC) and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Montefiore Medical Center (Einstein/Montefiore), to develop the Healthy and Livable Bronx Partnership (HLBP). The structural intervention proposed is to increase access to appropriately credentialed, reliable, and affordable childcare for working age adults who head families who live in public housing complexes throughout New York City’s Bronx County. New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the largest administrator of public housing in the United States. The Bronx has 75 public housing complexes consisting of 41,931 apartment units home to 91,827 persons in 2021. It’s Permanent Affordability Commitment Together/Rental Assistance Demonstration (PACT/RAD) initiative, launched in 2015, works in partnership with privately-owned and operated real estate development corporations, property management companies, and social service organizations, seeks to address longstanding issues that affect the health of public housing residents. HLBP builds on the Healthy and Livable Mott Haven Partnership (HLMHP) to identify and transform the structures that drive poor health outcomes in one Bronx community. HLMHP’s community-led engagement model collaborates with grassroots organizations, public housing tenant leaders, government agencies, healthcare providers, advocacy groups, and human service providers address a range of issues – food insecurity, nutrition, behaviors to promote healthy living, access to open space and social connectivity. Cardiometabolic and health service outcomes will leverage the Bronx Regional Health Information (BxRHIO) health information exchange to acquire electronic health, psychosocial and care management data. (248 of 250 words)

Key facts

NIH application ID
11167940
Project number
3OT2OD035609-01S1
Recipient
BRONXWORKS, INC.
Principal Investigator
Jennifer March
Activity code
OT2
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2024
Award amount
$375,000
Award type
3
Project period
2023-09-22 → 2025-04-07