Our partners and program funders are vital to CHCACT.

Grants, financial support, and program partnerships bring improvements to community health in Connecticut.
HRSA
HRSA Health Center Program
State & Regional Primary Care Associations

State and Regional Primary Care Association (PCA) Cooperative Agreements provide training and technical assistance (T/TA) to existing and potential health centers in their states and regions.

PCAs help increase access to comprehensive primary care, accelerate value-based care delivery, foster a workforce to address current and emerging needs, enhance emergency preparedness and response, and advance clinical quality and performance.

Health Center Control Network

Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCNs) support health centers in leveraging health information technology (IT) and data to deliver high-quality, culturally competent, equitable, and comprehensive primary health care, with a specific focus on improvements in:

  • Clinical quality
  • Patient-centered care
  • Provider and staff well-being
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D Coordinated HIV Services and Access to Research for Women, Infants, Children, and Youth (WICY)

The purpose of the RWHAP Part D WICY program is to provide family-centered health care services in an outpatient or ambulatory care setting for low income WICY with HIV. 

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DSS
Connecticut Department of Social Services
Medicaid Outreach

CHCACT facilitates training/technical assistance for CACs, helps troubleshoot individual cases, identifies and works to resolve systemic issues, and acts as a liaison with relevant state agencies.

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Gilead
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FOCUS

CHCACT, through the support of the Gilead Foundation, works to improve the rate of Hepatatis C and HIV testing in health centers across the state.

The goals of the FOCUS program are:

  • Universal Hepatitis C screening for people born between 1945 and 1965, as well as those with risk factors such as injection drug use; and,
  • Universal HIV screening for those who fall in the CDC testing guidelines, including all people between the ages of 13-64 and those with risk factors, such as injection drug use and men who have sex with men.

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OHS
OHS Connecticut Office of Health Strategy
CoveredCT

Opportunities for community focused organizations to assist in outreach, education and enrollment in CoveredCT.

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Access Health
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Navigator Grant Program

The Navigator Program will allow the Exchange to deepen its community relationships with the goal to engage, educate, inform, and enroll individuals in target communities throughout Connecticut, particularly in minority communities that experience significant health disparities and higher uninsured rates.

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State of Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority
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FY 2023 CHEFA targeted grant Program

The Navigator Program will allow the Exchange to deepen its community relationships with the goal to engage, educate, inform, and enroll individuals in target communities throughout Connecticut, particularly in minority communities that experience significant health disparities and higher uninsured rates.

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NACHC
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State-Level Mobile Unit Capacity Building

NACHC, through funding from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, has a new grant opportunity for Primary Care Associations (PCAs). The “State-level Mobile Unit Capacity Building” grant invites applications to support and improve the sustainability and operational effectiveness of mobile units at Community Health Centers.

CHCACT’s project will serve to increase capacity of mobile units in CT. Approximately ­­­50% of health centers do not currently have mobile units.

CHCACT will provide expert level T/TA for health centers at all levels of readiness through trainings, learning collaboratives, and individualized health center consulting. This project will assist HCs in their planning, to bring more mobile units into use.

For health centers who currently have mobile units, CHCACT will conduct a separate mobile unit Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) and will perform functional exercises with these units to test their updated policies at the end of this project period.

CHCACT and the health centers will collaborate with local partners and community response teams in the development of policies and procedure that best meets the needs of each perspective community. 

FQHC Value-BASED Care Curriculum – Elevate University 2023

CHCACT focus will be on creating microlearning’s and/or a PowerPoint slide deck on tools for optimizing care team member roles, leveraging risk stratification and panel management to improve clinical outcomes by more efficiently utilizing limited resources, and using data to effectively target and address health disparities.

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