Grants, financial support, and program partnerships bring improvements to community health in Connecticut.
Programs
Our partners and program funders are vital to CHC/ACT.
CT Health Foundation
CHC/ACT will work with the CT Association for Community Action and Southwestern AHEC to advocate for reimbursement of Community Health Worker services through Medicaid. The work will include outreach to existing CHWs, community-based organizations, and others to: educate about the legislative process, educate about the need for/value in CHW reimbursement, and promote advocacy throughout the 2025 legislative session.
Delta Dental Foundation
The SMILE Grant, funded through the Delta Dental Foundation, supports CHC/ACT’s efforts to improve access to dental care for health center patients. Specifically, CHC/ACT will conduct a needs assessment with Community Health Centers, regarding current dental assistant employment, existing vacancies, and growth opportunities. Additionally, CHC/ACT will investigate the capacity of dental assistant training programs in Connecticut, to determine whether additional training slots or programs are needed.
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.
As Connecticut’s PCA, CHC/ACT helps increase access to comprehensive primary care, foster a workforce to address current and emerging needs, enhance emergency preparedness and response, and advance clinical quality and performance.
CHC/ACT convenes numerous workgroups comprising health center staff and experts, to collaborate and share best practices, towards better health for all.
Health Center Controlled 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
CHC/ACT’s HCCN brings together 13 Community Health Centers for a powerful, impactful network of experts improving health care quality and outcomes.
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D
Coordinated HIV Services and Access to Research for Women, Infants, Children, and Youth (RWHAP Part D WICY)
CHC/ACT’s RWHAP Part D WICY program provides family-centered health care services in an outpatient or ambulatory care setting for low income WICY with or impacted by HIV.
Medicaid Outreach
Through funding from the State Department of Social Services, CHC/ACT helps fund outreach/enrollment efforts for Medicaid, CoveredCT, and Access Health CT. CHC/ACT also works with outreach workers at Connecticut’s health centers to ensure they are certified to conduct enrollment, share outreach/enrollment best practices, troubleshoot individual cases, identify and work to resolve systemic issues, and act as a liaison with relevant state agencies.
CoveredCT
CHC/ACT employs four Community Health Workers through this program to travel to health centers and community events to assist in outreach, education, and enrollment in the CoveredCT program.
Navigator Grant Program
As part of the Navigator Program, CHC/ACT works to help Access Health CT engage, educate, inform, and enroll individuals in Access Health CT insurance plans in target communities throughout Connecticut. This program year, CHC/ACT has partnered with Generations Family Health Center and UCFS to focus on communities in eastern Connecticut that experience significant health disparities and higher uninsured rates.
CHEFA Targeted Grant Program
CHC/ACT works with its member health centers to help them collect granular-level race, ethnicity, and language data from their patients and to use the data to identify and address health disparities in their communities.