Grantee Organization: Moveable Feast

Grant and Amount: 20-019 ($170,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Statewide
Grant Project Description: Moveable Feast seeks to serve vulnerable, low-income, homebound diabetic clients. The grant will support expansion of the currently successful program that delivers free medically-tailored meals to vulnerable homebound individuals who have prediabetes or diabetes and other chronic conditions, and experience food insecurity and malnutrition. Clients will also be offered medical nutrition therapy courses, and the beneficial effects of increased social contacts with Moveable Feast staff and volunteers.
Organization Contact Information: Moveable Feast

Grantee Organization: Food & Friends, Inc.

Grant and Amount: 20-020 ($120,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Statewide
Grant Project Description: Grant funds will support Food & Friends' current home-delivered medically-tailored free meals program for individuals identified by MedStar Family Choice and MedStar Health with Type II diabetes, food insecurity, malnutrition, and limitations of Activities of Daily Living. The program aims to continue to build the case for coverage by public and private payors to address social determinates of health. The applicant navigates clients toward the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and publicly funded health insurance. Transportation and nutrition education barriers are overcome through the delivery of meals. The volunteer delivery mechanism and 'case for coverage' are the primary sources of sustainability and there is strong endorsement from MedStar Family Choice MCO.
Organization Contact Information: Food & Friends, Inc.

Grantee Organization: Chesapeake Cares Food Pantry

Jurisdiction Served: Calvert County 
Grant Amount: 20-021 ($100,000) 
Grant Project Description: Chesapeake Cares Food Pantry, the largest food pantry in Southern Maryland, will implement the Eat Smart, Move More Calvert! pilot program which seeks to serve low-income food pantry clients with diabetes and/or pre-diabetes. CHRC grant funding will support the hiring of a Food Ambassador to develop a team of volunteer health coaches and provide for cooking classes and food distribution costs. This program will also leverage multiple health resources and community supports for participants. Multiple services pertinent to the client for achieving health and addressing other social determinants of health are provided at no cost.
Organization Contact Information: Chesapeake Cares Food Pantry

Grantee Organization: Primary Care Coalition

Jurisdiction Served: Prince George's County
Grant and Amount: 20-022 ($140,000) 
Grant Project Description: Primary Care Coalition will implement the Food Is Medicine model, an evidence-based medical food and nutrition intervention to serve vulnerable, low-income food insecure patients. The program will offer two service pathways: navigation to food assistance for individuals without a diabetes or prediabetes diagnosis; or referral to a 12-week nutrition education program with food assistance. Primary Care Coalition will use a variant of the National Diabetes Prevention Program (Stanford Protocol) which is tailored to work effectively in resource constrained settings. Clinical and biometric measures will be assessed. The grant also supports the hiring of nine CHWs who link provider referred patients to food assistance and nutrition education. This program will implement mechanisms and tools that providers can use to ensure referrals to the Food Is Medicine program.
Organization Contact Information: Primary Care Coalition

Grantee Organization: Cecil County Health Department

Jurisdiction Served: Cecil County
Grant and Amount: 20-023 ($275,000) 
Grant Project Description: The Cecil County Health Department will implement the Cecil County Diabetes Action Plan which aims to expand delivery of the evidence-based National Diabetes Plan to underserved, vulnerable low-income individuals whilst addressing common barriers to program recruitment and retention including lack of transportation and high medical expenses. Childcare vouchers will also be distributed to parents to encourage Diabetes Prevention Month attendance. The Cecil County Health Department plans to convene their Local Health Improvement Coalition (LHIC) as the coordinating body.
Organization Contact Information: http://www.cecilcountyhealth.org/

Grantee Organization: JHU - Rales Health Center

Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City
Grant and Amount: 20-024 ($300,000) 
Grant Project Description: Funding for this program by The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics will be used to expand the SBHC program at the KIPP Harmony and KIPP Ujima Village Academies, serving K-8 low-income minority children at the Rales Health Center in West Baltimore. This program will increase access to healthy food for children living in Healthy Food Priority areas, facilitate early clinical identification of children who are overweight and obese, and engage these students in weight management clinical care. The program will screen for food security and develop a system for referral to the school-based food pantry and support ongoing implementation of the Fitness Gram screening program. 
Organization Contact Information: JHU Rales Health Center​​

Grantee Organization: Mountain Laurel Medical Center
Grant and Amount: 20-025 ($195,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Garrett and Allegany Counties 
Grant Project Description: This program, by Mountain Laurel Medical Center at its three primary care delivery locations, will expand access to chronic care management services for patients with uncontrollable diabetes who are uninsured/underinsured, or classified as low-income, and offer free diabetes self-management education classes to improve diabetes self-management and health outcomes. The program provides an LPN Navigator to help patients secure their diabetes medication through assistance programs, and two RNs for diabetes self-management education delivery.
Organization Contact Information: http://www.mtnlaurel.org

Grantee Organization: Associated Catholic Charities - My Brother's Keeper
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City
Grant and Amount: 20-026 ($220,000) 
Grant Project Description: This program by My Brother's Keeper, in partnership with St. Agnes Ascension Health, will establish an on-site medical home for My Brother's Keeper clients and low-income, underserved and at-risk adults and teenage residents of the surrounding area. The new clinic will provide treatment for acute illness and chronic disease, including diabetes and its comorbidities. Services will be targeted to those who currently access primary and/or urgent care through emergency departments. Clinic patients will be screened for diabetes and prediabetes and have access to evidence-based lifestyle change programs, Diabetes Self-Management Education and Supports (DSMES), Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) and the National Diabetes Prevention Program. 
Organization Contact Information: My Brother's Keeper​

Grantee Organization: Lower Shore Clinic
Jurisdiction Served: Wicomico County 
Grant and Amount: 20-027 ($120,000) 
Grant Project Description: This program by Lower Shore Clinic, a current grantee, seeks to improve access to health food for vulnerable clients with serious mental illness (SMI) who have prediabetes and diabetes by hiring a Healthy Foods coordinator to develop sustainable relationships farmers, food distribution companies and local supermarkets to obtain food that is about to expire and will otherwise be wasted. This will improve food security, stretch food budgets and supplement SNAP. Lower Shore clients will also receive nutrition education, training on food preservation techniques and safe food storage, and opportunities to engage in physical activity. This program follows the Geisinger Health System 'Farmacy' model which has demonstrated effectiveness and is validated. 
Organization Contact Information: https://www.lowershoreclinic.org/

Grantee Organization: Anne Arundel County Department of Health 
Jurisdiction Served: Anne Arundel County
Grant and Amount: 20-028 ($200,000) 
Grant Project Description: This program by the Anne Arundel County Health Department seeks to expand the capacity of the current food pantry in the county's largest food desert area, increase support for the farmer's market, and support a new, second food pantry in partnership with a community organization in Brooklyn Park. An existing program, with funding support from the CHRC, enjoys broad support through association with community and county partners and volunteers. Improving diabetes outcomes will be achieved through better nutrition and healthier food choices, addressing obesity, and use of diabetes disease prevention and management education. 
Organization Contact Information: http://www.aahealth.org/​​

Grantee Organization: Upper Shore Aging, Inc. 
Jurisdiction Served: Kent County
Grant and Amount: 20-030 ($90,000) 
Grant Project Description: Upper Shore Aging, Inc. will increase diabetes risk screening for all low-income seniors served by Upper Shore Aging, including those attending senior centers and home-bound seniors. Home screenings will be performed in partnership with Meals on Wheels. The program seeks to increase awareness of diabetes risk factors and provide risk prevention education and increase food security by improving access to healthy fruits and vegetables delivered with Meals on Wheels home meals. The program will seek increased collaboration among health care providers and will work with the Kent County Health Department and Kent County Department of Social Services to increase no cost access to Diabetes Prevention Programs for Medicare recipients.
Organization Contact Information: Upper Shore Aging

Grantee Organization: Baltimore Medical System
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City
Grant and Amount: 19-020 ($200,000) 
Grant Project Description: This project would provide enhanced childhood obesity and nutrition intervention in the Collington Square Elementary/Middle School School-based Health Center.  The project offers counseling, health monitoring, and nutrition education as well as promoting physical activity and nutrition lessons during resource periods that also engages parents and guardians.  The project also implements “CATCH Kids”; a program to provide motivation interviewing and obesity management training for BMS staff. 
Organization Contact Information: https://bmsi.org/​​

Grantee Organization: Worcester County Health Department 
Grant and Amount: 19-021 ($225,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Worcester County
Grant Project Description: This project would address obesity prevalence among youth and adults in the jurisdiction through a number of intervention strategies that include online education learning modules; coaching and wearable technology; community gardening projects; linkages with local food pantries; and virtual and in-person cooking demonstrations and grocery store tours.  Program referrals would come from the Health Department and Chesapeake Health Care.  The overall goals of the project are to promote healthier lifestyle choices (both exercise and nutrition) among the target population, weight loss, weight management, and improved food security.
Organization Contact Information: www.worcesterhealth.org​​

Grantee Organization: Washington County Health Department 
Grant and Amount: 19-022 ($135,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Washington County
Grant Project Description: This project would support the use of a mobile farmer's market to get locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables into the city of Hagerstown where there is no supermarket.  The project targets vulnerable populations, and the vendor would sell the produce at Title I schools, low-income housing sites, Commission on Aging, congregate meal sites, and the senior center.  The mobile farmer's market would accept food stamps/EBT, WIC vouchers, and cash.  In addition, the project involves providing nutritional education, to be provided by Meritus Medical Center, the Health Department, and a local dietician.
Organization Contact Information:  https://washcohealth.org/​​

Grantee Organization: Somerset Health Department
Grant and Amount: 19-023 ($300,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Somerset County
Grant Project Description: This project would implement the Sustainable Change and Lifestyle Enhancement (SCALE) for Families project, a comprehensive weight loss and health improvement plan for low-income and uninsured adults, modeled after an evidenced-based program in West Virginia.  The project would target population of women of childbearing age in Somerset and Wicomico Counties with reported BMI over 30, children under 18 at risk for obesity, and minority populations.
Organization Contact Information: http://somersethealth.org/

Grantee Organization: La Clinica del Pueblo
Jurisdiction Served: Prince George’s County
Grant and Amount: 18-014 ($140,000) 
Grant Project Description: This project would implement a school and community-focused project that uses culturally and linguistically appropriate strategies to increase knowledge about healthy lifestyles, increases access to healthy foods, and encourages engagement in physical activity targeting 720 low-income Latino high school students and families. The program would create a Health 4 Promotion club with Youth Health Promoters in schools, health education workshops at parents' meetings, annual intergenerational soccer tournaments and health fairs, and clinicalbased activities, with one-on-one health education sessions targeting mothers or women of childbearing age. 
Organization Contact Information: www.lcdp.org

 Grantee Organization: Anne Arundel County Department of Health 
Grant and Amount: 18-015 ($130,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Somerset County
Grant Project Description: This project focuses on increasing access to healthy foods and provides information about healthy cooking in Brooklyn Park. The project would provide access to nutritious, shelf-stable food options, fresh vegetables and fruit, as well as English and Spanish nutrition and cooking skills education. Transportation to the food pantry and classes would be made available, as well as technical assistance for four Anne Arundel County public schools and two community organizations via free/subsidized community-supported agriculture..
Organization Contact Information: www.aahealth.org/​

Grantee Organization: Frederick Memorial Hospital 
Grant and Amount: 18-020 ($150,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Frederick
Grant Project Description: This project would implement the evidence‐based '5‐2‐1‐0 Campaign,' which is a nationally recognized childhood obesity prevention program. The project involves multiple intervention strategies to fight obesity which would engage the Frederick County Public School System.
Organization Contact Information:  https://www.fmh.org/​​

Grantee Organization: Institute for Public Health Innovation
Jurisdiction Served: Montgomery
Grant and Amount: 17-010 ($80,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being utilized to support the implementation of local school wellness councils in four Title I Elementary Schools in Montgomery County (in Long Branch/Takoma Park, Gaithersburg, and Germantown). The project will expand an existing project of Healthy Montgomery’s Transforming Community Initiatives, which is one of six sites selected to participate in a national initiative funded by the Trinity Health System. 
Organization Contact Information: http://www.institutephi.org/

Grantee Organization: Somerset Health Department
Grant and Amount: 17-011 ($130,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Somerset County
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant, expanding on an existing CHRC grant, will support the following activities to address obesity and promote food security: nutritional home visiting program; nutrition education in the schools; garden fresh produce distribution; and transformation of abandoned asphalt slabs into 'Fitness Towns.'.
Organization Contact Information: http://somersethealth.org/

Grantee Organization: Baltimore City Health Department
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City
Grant and Amount: 17-012 ($150,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant, expanding on an existing CHRC grant, will expand the “Baltimarket Healthy Stores” program, which works with retail stores to expand access to affordable, healthy food options that serve low-income children and families. Under the program, additional stores will be recruited to the Baltimarket program. The Baltimore City Health Department will provide technical assistance to these stores, focusing on the implementation of federal SNAP/food stamp changes, and employ young residents as community health educators. 
Organization Contact Information: http://baltimorehealth.org/>​

 Grantee Organization: Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland 
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City
Grant and Amount: 14-018 ($510,000) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supports the Heathiest Maryland Schools program which seeks to bring together pediatricians, schools, and communities to address childhood obesity, and to support interventions in three Title I elementary schools in West Baltimore. Grant funding is utilized for staffing a program manager, a clinical coordinator, and a research assistant, as well as for data collection and analysis.
Organization Contact Information: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/pediatrics/

Grantee Organization: Baltimore City Health Department
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City
Grant and Amount: 14-019 ($750,000) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant is being utilized to support the “Baltimarket Healthy Stores” program, which aims to prevent childhood obesity through a multi-level, community-based program that transforms the retail food environment.  The program has three core elements: corner store, Youth Neighborhood Food Advocate, and grocery store-based nutrition education, and focuses on the following zip codes in West Baltimore: 21216, 21217, 21223, and 21229. 
Organization Contact Information: http://baltimorehealth.org/>

Grantee Organization: Somerset Health Department
Grant and Amount: 14-020 ($300,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Somerset County
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant provides support for a public outreach campaign that will build community awareness and support for healthy lifestyle choices to reduce rates of childhood obesity in Somerset County. Grant funds are being utilized to create new after-school opportunities for physical activity and will help to expand access to affordable healthy food options, and provide home visitation and health coaching for youths between the ages of 4 and 18 deemed at highest risk of obesity by their health care provider.
Organization Contact Information: http://somersethealth.org/

 Grantee Organization: Mid-Shore Health Improvement Coalition
Jurisdiction Served: Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Talbot
Grant and Amount: LHIC12-001 ($75,000) 
Grant Project Description: The Mid-Shore Health Improvement Coalition utilized grant funding to support a nutritional program to address adult and childhood obesity in African American communities.  Grant funds were utilized to support a program, “Body & Soul,” which engaged 20 African American churches and provided training for pastors and peer health coaches; supported health risk assessments and other events; and supported efforts to develop and implement healthy food policies for church events.  

Grantee Organization: Tri-County Health Departments
Jurisdiction Served: Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester
Grant and Amount: LHIC12-002 ($75,000) 
Grant Project Description:  The Tri-County Health Planning Board utilized CHRC grant funds to implement the National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP) and promote healthy lifestyle practices to prevent and delay diabetes.  Staff from each of the three local health departments received training at Emory University, and ten individuals have been CDC Certified as “Lifestyle Coaches.”  

Grantee Organization: Healthy Anne Arundel Coalition
Jurisdiction Served: Anne Arundel
Grant and Amount: LHIC12-004 ($25,000) 
Grant Project Description: The Healthy Anne Arundel Coalition utilized CHRC grant funding to support initiatives designed to increase healthy food consumption, promote physical activity, and decrease obesity among adults and children.  Grant funding supported the implementation of the “Eat Healthier/Move More” program, which engaged more than 1,000 community residents, and the Healthy Anne Arundel Action Plan for Obesity, which resulted in a six-week Family Fitness Challenge that engaged 248 employees of the Health Department. 

Grantee Organization: Baltimore County Health Coalition
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore
Grant and Amount: LHIC12-005 ($200,000) 
Grant Project Description: The Baltimore County Health Coalition utilized CHRC grant funding to support efforts to address childhood obesity and enhance the Healthier Generation Healthy School Program, which includes 25 public schools.  CHRC grant funding supports staff professional development and data analysis on Body Mass Index (BMI). 

Grantee Organization: Garrett County Health Department
Jurisdiction Served: Garrett
Grant and Amount: LHIC12-011 ($25,000) 
Grant Project Description: The Garrett County Health Department utilized grant funds to support obesity prevention activities by targeting local stores, restaurants, and Head Start programs to provide healthier food options for the community and to educate parents about appropriate food portions and daily nutritional requirements.  CHRC funding supported the “Farm to Head Start” program in three classrooms, assisted five restaurants to identify heart healthy menu options, and enabled mini-grant awards to five small stores to increase availability of healthier food options. 

Grantee Organization: Harford County Health Department
Jurisdiction Served: Harford
Grant and Amount: LHIC12-006 ($50,000) 
Grant Project Description: The Harford County Health Department utilized CHRC base grant funding to support a contract with a marketing/public relations firm to develop a strategic marketing plan to encourage healthy living by Harford County residents.  Bonus grant funds were utilized to support two initiatives: (1) the implementation of a mobile text messaging program to help increase appointment attendance and treatment focused on diverting adolescents from a more restrictive therapeutic or educational placement (i.e. residential treatment) and re-integrating them back into the community, resulting in a significant cost savings to the state; and (2) the cross-training of mental health and substance abuse staff to help integrate these treatment programs and improve delivery of behavioral health care services in Harford County. 

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