Grant Details
Grant Program
Vaccine Plus – Community Heath and Power
Organization
La Casita Center
Year
2023
Scope
Local
Grant Amount
$25,000
Links
A Vaccine Plus grant to support La Casita Center’s continued Vaccine Plus efforts, including developing a smartphone app to communicate and disseminate time-sensitive information on things like natural disasters, vaccines, know your rights, etc. to community members, as well as the recruitment of Mam, K’iche’, Q’eqchi’, and Chatino translators and the acquisition of equipment to make events and education materials more language accessible.
More From La Casita Center
Below are a couple blog posts featuring La Casita Center’s work on health and well-being, and lessons from other Vaccine Plus partners.
Combatting Health Misinformation: Lessons and Innovations from COVID Vaccine Outreach Efforts
Health-related mis- and disinformation is running rampant. There appear to be false claims everywhere – in conversations, on television, in the news, on social media – about nearly every topic you can imagine – diets, medical treatments, vaccines, drugs, and diseases. What we mean by “Misinformation” or “Disinformation” Misinformation Misinformation is different than disinformation! While both…
The “Return to Normal”: Applying Lessons from COVID Response Efforts to Ongoing Public Health Emergencies
In this webinar, two Vaccine Plus – Community Health and Power grant partners, La Casita Center and the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition, joined by Dr. Alicia Chang (Regional Health Officer of the East and South Bay Regions of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health), share key lessons from their COVID response efforts…
Key Lessons from Vaccine Plus Grant Partners
In 2022, we launched the Vaccine Plus: Community Health and Power grant program, providing flexible $25,000 grants to community-based and community-led health initiatives. Building on the foundation of our 2021 COVID Vaccine Equity and Access rapid response grants, the goal of Vaccine Plus was to support the expanded efforts of this cohort of grant recipients…