The Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Partnership Center News:

Your community members may have questions about how the Affordable Care Act can help them access health care. Encourage them to visit the newly-launched HealthCare.gov website, a “one-stop shop” where they can find answers to their questions about health care reform.  They can also learn about new benefits, prevention, and find information regarding a variety of unique situations.

The Partnership Center is proud to bring to you, H1N1 Flu: A Guide for Community & Faith-based Organizations. This guide provides specific action steps that community and faith-based organizations can take to help keep communities healthy during flu season, including:

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Communicating important information about flu, Supporting vaccination efforts, Linking vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations to vital information and resources, Expanding and adjusting organizational activities to help people stay healthy.

This guide was launched on September 24, 2009 during a teleconference with Secretary Sebelius and Assistant Surgeon General Anne Schuchat.  [Listen] [Read Transcript (PDF-115KB]

You and your organization are crucial leaders and resources in your community, and essential partners in comprehensive state and local flu response. We hope you utilize this guide as you and your community take steps to prepare for, and respond to, flu.

Featured Programs:

• Strengthening Communities Fund: builds the capacity of nonprofit organizations, whether secular or faith-based, to address the broad economic recovery issues present in their communities
• Social Innovation Fund: identifies and supports effective and innovative approaches to addressing critical social challenges
• Assets for Independence: enables community-based nonprofits and government agencies to utilize an assets-based approach to give low-income families a hand up out of poverty