Youth Engagement in Sports (YES) Initiative
The Youth Engagement in Sports: Collaboration to Improve Adolescent Physical Activity and Nutrition (YES) Initiative seeks to identify characteristics of effective collaborations that improve physical activity and nutrition via increased sports participation. YES is a joint Initiative of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) and the Office on Women’s Health (OWH) and was created in collaboration with Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) and in consultation with the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) and the Office of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition (PCSFN).
The YES Initiative seeks to support projects that address the HHS priority to expand youth participation in sports and encourage regular physical activity, especially for youth populations with lower rates of sports participation and communities with limited access to athletic facilities or recreational areas.
YES supports the Physical Activity Guidelines, which call for youth to get 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily. The initiative also addresses unhealthy physical activity and nutrition behaviors among racial/ethnic minority and socio-economically disadvantaged youth (including, specifically girls), and provide opportunities to learn skills and gain experiences that contribute to more positive lifestyles and enhance their capacity to make healthier life choices.
The project period for the grant is September 2019 to August 2021.
| Grantees | City | State | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrie Steele-Pitts Home, Inc. | Atlanta | GA* | $399,222 |
| City of Pine Bluff Arkansas | Pine Bluff | AR* | $400,000 |
| Florida Introduces Physical Activity and Nutrition to Youth | Fort Lauderdale | FL** | $198,902 |
| Hayward Unified School District | Hayward | CA** | $399,979 |
| Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club of St. Louis Inc. | St. Louis | MO** | $399,728 |
| I Challenge Myself, Inc. | New York | NY* | $400,000 |
| Lindsay Unified School District | Lindsay | CA* | $400,000 |
| Native American Community Academy Foundation | Albuquerque | NM* | $380,365 |
| Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative | Philadelphia | PA* | $399,464 |
| Rural America Initiatives | Rapid City | SD** | $399,995 |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle | WA* | $399,916 |
| Texas Health Research & Education Institute | Arlington | TX* | $400,000 |
| The Curators of the University of MO on behalf of UMKC | Kansas City | MO* | $377,552 |
| The Skills Center, Inc. | Tampa | FL* | $400,000 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham | AL* | $378,358 |
| UP2US INC | New York | NY** | $399,931 |
| YMCA of Greater Louisville | Louisville | KY* | $400,000 |
| Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation | Klamath | CA** | $187,910 |
| Total | $6,721,322 | ||
**OMH Funded
OMH Hepatitis B Demonstration Grant Program
The OMH Hepatitis B Demonstration Grant Program seeks to test the implementation of comprehensive, culturally competent community-based hepatitis B education, screening, vaccination and treatment programs in disadvantaged and racial and ethnic minority communities. The program was created in consultation with the HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of Viral Hepatitis. An estimated 850,000 to 2.2 million people in the United States are living with Chronic Hepatitis B (CHB). Just one third of people living with CHB are diagnosed.
OMH’s awards are intended to identify best practices that can be adopted by other government, community and private organizations to help reach HHS’ ultimate goal of ending hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission and reducing morbidity and mortality attributable to associated HIV infection. The funded projects will implement strategic partnerships between community-based organizations serving communities at risk, departments of health, perinatal hepatitis B programs, safety net providers, research centers, and healthcare facilities consistent with strategic actions recommended by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The demonstration grants will focus on persons born in countries where HBV infection is endemic; U.S.-born persons not vaccinated as infants whose parents were born in countries with a very high prevalence of HBV infection; household contacts or sexual partners of persons with HBV infection; and infants/children/adolescents who might otherwise go untreated.
The project period for the grant is July 2019 to June 2022.
| Grantees | City | State | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asian Health Coalition | Chicago | IL | $485,490 |
| Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, Inc. | New York | NY | $500,000 |
| Philadelphia Department of Public Health | Philadelphia | PA | $499,980 |
| The George Washington University | Washington | DC | $467,764 |
| The Regents of the University of California (Davis) | Davis | CA | $500,000 |
| Total | $2,453,234 | ||