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Search Results: MCH Organizations

This list of organizations is drawn from the MCH Organizations Database. Contact information is the most recent known to the MCH Digital Library.

Displaying records 1 through 4 (4 total).

U.S. Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC)

Annotation: The Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) funds Health Centers in underserved communities, providing access to high quality, family oriented, comprehensive primary and preventive health care for people who are low-income, uninsured or face other obstacles to getting health care. The Web site provides access to searchable databases, statistics, employment opportunities, document archives, and publications.

Keywords: HIV, Homeless persons, Immunization, Migrant health, Primary health care, Public health programs, Public health services, Public housing, Underserved communities

CSH (CSH)

Annotation: The mission of CSH is to advance solutions that use housing as a platform for services to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people, maximize public resources and build healthy communities. Since its founding in 1991 as the Corporation for Supportive Housing, CSH has worked to advance new ideas and best practices, nourish collaborative and pragmatic community partners, amplify lived experiences, and center race equity through its four focus areas: training and education; consulting and assistance; lending; and policy reform.

Keywords: Housing programs, Social services

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)

Annotation: The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) assists community development corporations (CDC's) in their efforts to transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy communities. LISC supports CDC's in the development of affordable housing, vital commercial facilities, and job-creating industrial projects. It works on three levels: providing direct assistance to individual CDC's; improving local community development support systems; and strengthening national support for community development.

Keywords: Community development, Housing, Public health programs, Public health services

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control (OHHLHC)

Annotation: The Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control (OHHLHC) was established in 1991 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in a concerted effort to eliminate lead-based paint hazards in America's privately-owned and low-income housing. Since then, the initiative has expanded to address equally hazardous household conditions. HHLHC operates a Healthy Homes program that focuses on research and demonstration projects addressing multiple housing-related problems affecting the health of children and families; offers technical assistance, evaluation, and outreach programs; and develops regulations, guidelines, and policies. Program information is disseminated via print and broadcast media, conferences and exhibits, and the Internet.

Keywords: Environmental health, Housing, Lead poisoning, Prevention programs
   

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