In Spring 2022, AmeriCorps and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced more than 80 grant awards to state and local organizations for Public Health AmeriCorps. The first-year grants, totaling more than $60 million, are helping Public Health AmeriCorps programs to recruit nearly 3,000 AmeriCorps members.

Arizona

  • Arizona State University
    Areas served: AZ, FL, IN, KS, KY, MA, NY, NC, OH, PA, TX
    Funds awarded: $1,086,048
    Contact: Jill.Messing@asu.edu | 602-496-1193
    99 part-time AmeriCorps members will build capacity to respond to intimate partner violence within state and local public health and complimentary agencies in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. AmeriCorps members will increase public health practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived readiness to respond to intimate partner violence survivors.

  • Arizona State University
    Areas served: Phoenix
    Funds awarded: $288,522
    Contact: meg.bruening@asu.edu | 602-827-2266
    20 part-time AmeriCorps Members will support COVID-19 mitigation strategies (outdoor garden building, garden nutrition education, and physical activity curriculum implementation, COVID-19 testing, and information outreach) in 40 low-income, underserved populations attending Early Child Education sites that participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program in Phoenix, Arizona.

  • AZ Board of Regents for/on Behalf of Northern AZ University
    Areas served: Apache County, Coconino Mohave County, Navajo County, Cochise County, Gila County, Graham County, Greenlee County, La Paz County, Maricopa County, Pima County, Pinal County, Santa Cruz County, Yavapai County, Yuma County
    Funds awarded: $709,028
    Contact: Russell.Dickerson@nau.edu | 928-523-4090
    60 part-time AmeriCorps members will support public health organizations in Arizona by delivering training in public health topics to increase health knowledge.

  • Prescott College
    Areas served: Yavapai County, Pima County
    Funds awarded: $519,443
    Contact: areifsnyder@arizonaserve.org | 847-212-7806
    18 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide health interventions and eviction support in Pima County, Arizona and increase health equity through social-emotional learning interventions in Yavapai County, Arizona.

Arkansas

  • Our House, Inc.
    Areas served: Little Rock
    Funds awarded: $115,148
    Contact: priscilla.barnes@ourhouseshelter.org | 501-374-7383
    Eight part-time AmeriCorps members will provide healthcare screening and referral, mental health support, and benefits assistance in Little Rock, Arkansas. AmeriCorps members will help clients increase their score on the Arizona Self Sufficiency Matrix.

California

  • L.A. Works Inc.
    Areas served: Los Angeles County
    Funds awarded: $ 1,480,736
    Contact: alisha@laworks.com | 323-224-6510
    30 full-time and 60 part-time AmeriCorps members will provide direct service and build capacity at organizations and agencies with programming for underserved populations in the Southern California region, in and around Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire. AmeriCorps members will provide social services to local communities, build organizational capacity, recruit and manage volunteers, and engage in outreach for COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.

  • Leeza's Care Connection
    Areas served: Columbia, SC; Burbank, CA; TN; NH; AZ; FL
    Funds awarded: $810,423
    Contact: terri@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
    20 full-time AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina and California and support the creation of four HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Arizona, Tennessee, and Florida.

  • Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
    Areas served: Los Angeles County
    Funds awarded: $1,612,800
    Contact: jscully@ph.lacounty.gov | 323-509-6332
    80 part-time AmeriCorps members will engage in community outreach, health education, resource sharing, and communicable disease investigation in the most highly impacted communities located within Los Angeles County, California. AmeriCorps members will improve health outcomes around COVID-19 and non-COVID-related health conditions among vulnerable populations.

  • Reach Out
    Areas served: Riverside County, San Bernardino County
    Funds awarded: $201,878
    Contact: yara@we-reachout.org | 909-982-8641
    10 part-time AmeriCorps members will provide screening for social determinants of health, case management, resource navigation, outreach, and education while embedded at Federally Qualified Health Centers and public health clinics in Inland Empire region of Southern California. AmeriCorps members will receive Community Health Worker training and work with local partners to help communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Safe Passages
    Areas served: Alameda County
    Funds awarded: $273,363
    Contact: rhamati@safepassages.org | 707-567-6564
    Five full-time and 10 part-time AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health advocates in Alameda County, California. AmeriCorps members will provide health education and conduct outreach to increase community health knowledge.

Colorado

  • Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies
    Areas served: CO
    Funds awarded: $241,045
    Contact: laurel.broten@state.co.us | 303-894-7416
    12 part-time AmeriCorps members will assist with outreach across Colorado to individuals - largely undocumented individuals - who will be newly eligible for state-subsidized health insurance coverage through Colorado's Health Insurance Affordability Enterprise.

  • Metro Volunteers
    Areas served: CO
    Funds awarded: $219,457
    Contact: Kgroen@sparkthechangecolorado.org | 235-235-1234
    20 part-time AmeriCorps members will provide Tier 1 and Tier 3 mental wellness counseling and education to vulnerable K-12 students at public charter schools throughout Colorado. AmeriCorps members will increase the number of students reporting a change or intent to change behavior to improve their mental health.

  • Trailhead Institute
    Areas served: CO
    Funds awarded: $806,236
    Contact: slampe@trailhead.institute | 303-910-4682
    28 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide technical assistance and capacity building support for local and state public health agencies and organizations across Colorado. AmeriCorps members will perform data and landscape analyses in order to build a roadmap to modernize the Colorado public health system.

Connecticut

  • Community Health Center, Inc.
    Areas served: Middletown, New London, Clinton, Groton, Waterbury, Danbury, Meriden, New Britain, Enfield, Bristol, Hartford, Old Saybrook, Norwalk, Stamford
    Funds awarded: $432,000
    Contact: Hardink@chc1.com | 860-347-6971
    15 full-time AmeriCorps members will participate in various activities related to outreach, education, linkage to care, retention in care, COVID-19 vaccination, and engagement in healthcare and support services across community-based sites in Connecticut. AmeriCorps members will support increased health knowledge and improve access to care among individuals in the communities served.

  • Health360
    Areas served: Various sites nationwide, TBD
    Funds awarded: $4,315,822
    Contact: Harrity@Health360.org | 203-758-1110
    150 full-time AmeriCorps members will implement select mental health gatekeeper trainings that increase the ability of laypeople to identify and support people with mental illness in organizations across the nation that demonstrate need via an annual competitive application process.

District of Columbia

  • Damien Ministries
    Areas served: Washington, DC metro area
    Funds awarded: $522,492
    Contact: jrichardson@damienministries.org | 202-780-7086
    16 full-time AmeriCorps members will serve as Certified Community Health Workers in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. AmeriCorps members will provide basic health and medical education and preventive care promotional demonstration specifically focused on COVID-19 health awareness and vaccination information along with other community health issues including training on opioid overdose prevention.

  • Latin American Youth Center
    Areas served: Washington, DC; Prince George's County, MD
    Funds awarded: $222,792
    Contact: leon@layc-dc.org | 202-319-2246
    Four full-time and eight part-time AmeriCorps members will promote and implement HIV/STI and COVID-19 testing and education efforts in Washington, DC and Prince George's County, Maryland. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach and educational public health services.

  • The Arc of the United States
    Areas served: CA
    Funds awarded: $278,088
    Contact: Mahar@thearc.org | 202-617-3262
    24 part-time AmeriCorps members will receive training in the HealthMattersTM curriculum to deliver health education, nutrition training, and physical activity classes to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in California.

Georgia

  • Dekalb County Board of Health
    Areas served: DeKalb County
    Funds awarded: $460,800
    Contact: Sedessie.Spivey@dph.ga.gov | 404-294-3740
    16 full-time AmeriCorps members will work with DeKalb County Board of Health leaders to learn how to manage and operate several programs housed in one of four locations in DeKalb County, Georgia. AmeriCorps members will provide capacity, support, and increased awareness of COVID-19 testing and vaccinations to support equitable health outcomes and COVID recovery for underserved communities.

  • National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
    Areas served: AK, AR, CO, CT, IL, KY, MN, MO, NC, NY, OH, PA, TX, UT, WA, HI, LA, MS, SC, WV
    Funds awarded: $806,386
    Contact: cdoxie@chronicdisease.org | 678-915-9539
    40 part-time AmeriCorps members will support existing state- and community-level COVID-19 recovery efforts in up to 20 states participating in the Building Resilient Inclusive Communities (BRIC) program. AmeriCorps members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.

  • One World Link
    Areas served: Bibb County, Peach County, Baldwin County, Hancock County, Jones County, Houston County
    Funds awarded: $880,474
    Contact: aoguntoye@oneworldlink.org | 404-969-5593
    31 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide community health outreach and support as well as recruit, train, and develop additional volunteers, with a special emphasis on those who have historically not had access to public health in Central Georgia. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge among communities served and help public health organizations improve organizational efficiency and program reach.

Guam

  • Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services
    Areas served: GU
    Funds awarded: $1,152,010
    Contact: arthur.sanagustin@dphss.guam.gov | 671-922-2510
    80 part-time AmeriCorps members will assist DPHSS in educating the Guam's community of the various programs and services administered by DPHSS. AmeriCorps members will serve at the Centralized Contact Center and/or at DPHSS satellite locations within DPHSS divisions and outreach events. AmeriCorps members will provide accurate, timely, and updated information for individuals to increase their knowledge of available public health programs and services that would help them make informed decisions to improve overall health and well-being.

Idaho

  • Idaho State University
    Areas served: ID
    Funds awarded: $1,653,120
    Contact: bodijana@isu.edu | 208-282-4436
    82 part-time AmeriCorps members will increase the capacity of and for 1) public health services offered to communities through collaboration and partnerships, and 2) the number of suicide prevention intervention trainings offered, while 3) helping members learn more about public health careers through the Gem State Public Health program at the Institute of Rural Health. AmeriCorps members will expand and enhance community partnerships in an effort to increase services offered, as well as increase the number of individuals trained as suicide prevention intervention gatekeepers.

Illinois

  • Association House of Chicago
    Areas served: Cook County
    Funds awarded: $288,000
    Contact: jrodriguez@associationhouse.org | 773-772-7170
    10 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide education, training, counseling, coaching, and service navigation through multiple programs in Chicago, Illinois. AmeriCorps members will improve community health and increase participant health and health knowledge.

  • Gardeneers
    Areas served: Chicago
    Funds awarded: $711,968
    Contact: leah@gardeneers.org | 847-800-1832
    25 full-time AmeriCorps members will lead educational programs and conduct outreach to provide support, resources, tools, and access to locally grown fresh produce for students, families, and community members through school garden programs, farm stands, and community workshops in schools and surrounding communities primarily on the West and South sides of Chicago. AmeriCorps members will provide students, family members, and community members with access to locally grown, fresh food by building their knowledge and skills to grow food in their own communities, combat food inequality, increase their health knowledge, and make healthy decisions for their future.

Kansas

  • Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas
    Areas served: Wyandotte County
    Funds awarded: $216,000
    Contact: azuel@wycokck.org | 913-573-8865
    15 part-time AmeriCorps members will support tobacco cessation, Wyandotte County's community health improvement plan, COVID-19 education and outreach, or WyCo Connect in Wyandotte County, Kansas. AmeriCorps members will increase the number of residents reporting quitting tobacco and/or becoming vaccinated against COVID-19 as well as provide critical increased capacity to local public health programming.

Kentucky

  • Family Scholar House
    Areas served: KY
    Funds awarded: $2,825,124
    Contact: kbrackett@familyscholarhouse.org | 502-584-8090
    200 part-time AmeriCorps members will provide healthcare support and services to seniors and disabled individuals in healthcare facilities across Kentucky. Additionally, AmeriCorps members will develop their healthcare knowledge and complete credentialing coursework, enabling them to work in memory care, skilled nursing, assisted living, and other healthcare-related environments.

  • Kentucky Health Departments Association
    Areas served: KY
    Funds awarded: $1,367,986
    Contact: dnickles.kpha@gmail.com | 502-875-2255
    75 part-time AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers (CHWs) in local health departments in communities across Kentucky in core public health programs, including Health And Nutrition Delivery System (HANDS), Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and Harm Reduction.

Louisiana

  • National Network of Public Health Institutes
    Areas served: New Orleans, LA; Washington, DC; MA; ME; PR
    Funds awarded: $287,477
    Contact: cortizgumina@nnphi.org | 202-683-6059
    10 full-time AmeriCorps members will facilitate climate and health social media campaigns and connect community members and organizations to social services available to them in the event of a climate disaster in New Orleans, Washington DC, Massachusetts, Maine, and Puerto Rico. AmeriCorps members will provide climate and health communication, which will positively impact health and social service organizations that collaborate to improve climate resilience knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Maine

  • Goodwill Industries of Northern New England
    Areas served: ME, NH
    Funds awarded: $1,396,504
    Contact: steve.niles@goodwillnne.org | 207-400-6352
    50 full-time and 12 part-time AmeriCorps members will expand the capacity of public health agencies to help medically underserved communities in Maine and New Hampshire. AmeriCorps members will implement evidence-based public health interventions to help 12 agencies increase their capacity.

Maryland

  • Baltimore Corps, Inc.
    Areas served: Baltimore
    Funds awarded: $2,296,035
    Contact: americorps@baltimorecorps.org | 443-640-8904
    80 full-time AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Healthcare Fellows in Baltimore, Maryland. The AmeriCorps members will increase access to and quality of care for underserved populations and reduce the impacts of trauma and COVID-19 for some of Baltimore's most vulnerable populations.

Massachusetts

  • Boston Medical Center - StreetCred
    Areas served: Greater Boston
    Funds awarded: $65,952
    Contact: lisia.morales@bmc.org | 781-608-1343
    10 part-time AmeriCorps members will implement a program that prescribes economic opportunities to families as a part of their routine health care visits in Boston, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will connect families to free money available to them (tax credits, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC), in addition to tax refunds; and seed money for college savings accounts (CSAs), and empower them to work toward financial goals via individualized financial coaching.

  • Boston Public Health Commission
    Areas served: Boston
    Funds awarded: $65,225
    Contact: undulue@bphc.org | 617-534-7721
    Five part-time AmeriCorps members will provide outreach, coaching, and education in Boston, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will provide health communication to young people and supporting the mental health needs of families with young children.

  • City of Lawrence Massachusetts
    Areas served: Lawrence, Methuen
    Funds awarded: $344,731
    Contact: WPerez@cityoflawrence.com | 978-620-3140
    12 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide healthy homes outreach, education, and resource referrals to landlords and tenants in Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge of residents, and health and safety improvements in rental properties.

  • East Boston Community Health Center
    Areas served: Suffolk County
    Funds awarded: $574,406
    Contact: dohertma@ebnhc.org | 617-568-7200
    20 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide care coordination, conduct outreach to patients, and connect to services in East Boston Neighborhood Health Center clinics in Boston, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will support health screenings, conduct outreach, and participate in administrative activities related to cancer, mental health, and other social services.

  • Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, Inc.
    Areas served: Worcester, Framingham
    Funds awarded: $65,299
    Contact: juliann.dooley@kennedychc.org | 508-532-7309
    Two full-time AmeriCorps members will provide outreach services for students enrolled in public school systems, with an emphasis on six school-based health centers operated by the Health Center in Framingham and Worcester, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will connect students and families in these communities to health care by increasing enrollment in the school-based health centers and identifying and assisting families and students who do not have health insurance coverage.

  • Epilepsy Foundation New England
    Areas served: CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT
    Funds awarded: $1,379,732
    Contact: slinn@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
    40 full-time and 16 part-time AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

  • Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
    Areas served: Mashpee
    Funds awarded: $171,027
    Contact: nelson.andrewsJr@mwtribe-nsn.gov | 508-477-5800
    Six full-time AmeriCorps members will build capacity of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's Emergency Management department through disaster preparation, direct services, and community training.

Michigan

  • Cherry Street Service Inc.
    Areas served: Grand Rapids, MI; Greater Grand Rapids MI; Kent County, MI; Montcalm County, MI; Muskegon County, MI; Ottawa County, MI; Barry County; MI
    Funds awarded: $555,170
    Contact: kayladoyle@cherryhealth.com | 616-776-2270
    20 full-time AmeriCorps members will focus on increasing access to care by providing two primary services: 1) Health education to promote breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening; 2) Medicaid and Marketplace outreach and enrollment. The AmeriCorps members will increase access to care to individuals through health education, outreach, and enrollment across Michigan.

Minnesota

  • Reading & Math Inc.
    Areas served: MN
    Funds awarded: $4,320,000
    Contact: sadie.oconnor@ampact.us | 612-206-3030
    150 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide capacity-building support in public health agencies across the state of Minnesota. AmeriCorps members will support organizations to increase their efficiency, effectiveness, or program reach.

  • Reading & Math Inc.
    Areas served: CA, IL, VA
    Funds awarded: $2,880,000
    Contact: sadie.oconnor@ampact.us | 612-206-3030
    100 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide peer support and recovery coaching to individuals working to overcome substance use disorders in California, Illinois, and Virginia.

Missouri

  • Curators of the University of Missouri
    Areas served: Kansas City
    Funds awarded: $73,346
    Contact: lightnerj@umkc.edu | 816-235-1703
    Four part-time AmeriCorps members will manage Move More, Get More (MMGM) in Kansas City, Missouri. The AmeriCorps members will serve as co-program managers for MMGM and will manage participating schools and MMGM staff, including sports coaches and undergraduate and graduate research assistants.

  • Healing Action Network, Inc.
    Areas served: MO
    Funds awarded: $326,556
    Contact: jason.seward@healingaction.org | 314-833-4515
    12 full-time and six part-time AmeriCorps members will help meet the public mental health needs of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation in the St. Louis region by providing community education and collaboration opportunities to individuals and organizations across Missouri. AmeriCorps members will increase knowledge regarding opioids to program participants and assist program recipients in achieving progress in at least one recovery goal through coaching and navigation of services.

New Jersey

  • Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-Camden
    Areas served: Camden County
    Funds awarded: $306,474
    Contact: donna.nickitas@rutgers.edu | 856-225-2248
    Two full-time and 45 part-time AmeriCorps members will serve the City of Camden and the Delaware Valley Region in New Jersey through capacity building efforts. AmeriCorps members will focus on public health promotion, community education, and direct service activities related to healthy futures.

  • Zufall Health Center
    Areas served: Essex County, Hunterdon County, Middlesex County, Morris County, Somerset County, Sussex County, Warren County
    Funds awarded: $287,981
    Contact: 973-328-9100
    10 full-time members will support underserved communities that are disproportionately affected by health disparities in New Jersey through health education and outreach. AmeriCorps members will increase patient access to primary medical, dental, behavioral health, wellness, and COVID-19 testing and vaccination services.

New Mexico

  • Rio Arriba County
    Areas served: Rio Arriba County
    Funds awarded: $199,303
    Contact: lmreichelt@rio-arriba.org | 505-753-3143
    10 part-time AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers, coordinating vaccination clinics and performing vaccine education. AmeriCorps members will serve at least 1,000 individuals and contribute to the vaccination of school-aged children between 5 and 18 years old.

  • Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico
    Areas served: NM
    Funds awarded: $76,383
    Contact: kate.page@rrfb.org | 505-314-0603
    Two full-time AmeriCorps members will assist community members with resource navigation and referrals to healthcare providers across New Mexico. AmeriCorps members will assist individuals and increase health knowledge for food insecure New Mexicans.

  • Rocky Mountain Youth Corps
    Areas served: Taos County, Rio Arriba County
    Funds awarded: $87,772
    Contact: ben@youthcorps.org | 575-751-1420
    Eight part-time AmeriCorps members will serve as mental health mentors at Taos High School, Vista Grande High School, Espanola High School, and the Health and Community Services Department in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. AmeriCorps members will help students complete the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) assessment and the Project Amp curriculum.

New York

  • City of Rochester
    Areas served: Rochester
    Funds awarded: $634,300
    Contact: walida.monroe@cityofrochester.gov | 585-428-7358
    22 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide COVID-19 response and recovery services, assist in establishing neighborhood preventative health clinics, facilitate youth mentoring and trainings in public health, health educational and training programming, mental health education and awareness, community outreach, emotional regulation skill building within high-poverty, urban and marginalized neighborhoods in Rochester, New York.

  • Community Health Care Association of NYS
    Areas served: New York County, Kings County, Bronx County, Queens County, Richmond County, Albany County, Warren County, Westchester County, Dutchess County, Hudson Valley, Suffolk County, Putnam County, Putnam County, Rockland County, Eerie County, Onondaga County, Monroe County
    Funds awarded: $2,600,000
    Contact: oreboredo@chcanys.org | 212-710-3811
    101 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide family health education and care management services to individuals in Community Health Centers (CHCs) across New York State.

  • Concrete Safaris Inc.
    Areas served: New York County
    Funds awarded: $687,696
    Contact: mac@concretesafaris.org | 347-267-2903
    24 full-time AmeriCorps members will conduct environmental health literacy and place-based service-learning interventions and refer participants for medical and wrap-around services in East Harlem. AmeriCorps members will increase the health knowledge of children and youth and provide children, families, and youth with improved access to medical care.

  • New York City Office of the Mayor
    Areas served: Bronx County, Kings County, New York County, Queens County, Richmond County
    Funds awarded: $2,246,000
    Contact: aminer@cityhall.nyc.gov | 212-676-3280
    80 full-time AmeriCorps members will perform public health-related direct service and capacity-building activities in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments and with nonprofit partners. AmeriCorps members will help increase the health, knowledge and condition for NYCHA residents as well as increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and program outreach at the program's host sites.

  • Public Health Solutions
    Areas served: Queens County
    Funds awarded: $115,189
    Contact: mmclean@healthsolutions.org | 646-690-3500
    Four full-time AmeriCorps members will provide needs assessments and navigation services to low-income families in underserved areas of Queens, New York. As a result, AmeriCorps members will increase the self-efficacy of these New Yorkers.

  • Ronald McDonald House New York
    Areas served: Kings County, Queens County, Richmond County, Bronx County
    Funds awarded: $115,200
    Contact: catlas@rmh-newyork.org | 212-639-0215
    Four full-time AmeriCorps members will build the infrastructure needed to advance health equity outcomes for underserved medically complex children and their families receiving care at public and safety-net hospitals in New York City. AmeriCorps members will conduct risk and market analyses to identify social determinants of health and establish referral networks with community-based organizations in target communities.

  • Rural Health Network of South Central New York
    Areas served: Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Otsego, Schoharie, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Cattaruaugus, Chautauqua, Allegany, Cayuga
    Funds awarded: $684,377
    Contact: jpitts@rhnscny.org | 607-692-7669
    40 part-time AmeriCorps members will provide health access services and increase capacity in upstate New York counties, primarily the rural Southern Tier.

North Carolina

  • Appalachian State University
    Areas served: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, Yancey
    Funds awarded: $346,210
    Contact: tysonjs@appstate.edu | 828-262-7151
    11 full-time and four part-time AmeriCorps members will be (1) leading the dissemination and implementation of Psychological First Aid (PFA) intervention; (2) recruiting and retaining Medical Reserve Corps Members to implement and sustain the RAPID-PFA (Reflective Listening, Assessment, Prioritization, Intervention and Disposition) interventions in Western North Carolina; and (3) delivering pre and post-emergency/trauma RAPID-PFA interventions to organizations including local health departments.

  • Pamlico Rose Institute for Sustainable Communities
    Areas served: Pitt County, Beaufort County
    Funds awarded: $341,017
    Contact: robert@pamlicorose.org | 805-320-2967
    12 full-time AmeriCorps members will administer wellness, healthy living and resilience programs for underrepresented populations--especially women Veterans--in eastern North Carolina. AmeriCorps members will implement a comprehensive garden to table program, focused on mitigating food insecurity through education.

  • Wake Forest University
    Areas served: Forsyth County
    Funds awarded: $214,167
    Contact: magjukmg@wfu.edu | 336-758-4549
    15 part-time members will work to improve health knowledge and access to medical care for low-income individuals and families in North Carolina. AmeriCorps members will conduct health outreach & education, provide patient navigation services, and build capacity for free health clinics.

Ohio

  • The Ohio State University - Office of Sponsored Programs
    Areas served: OH
    Funds awarded: $1,114,225
    Contact: patbebo@yahoo.com | 614-292-1655
    Six full-time and 68 part-time AmeriCorps members will facilitate a rural and urban Public Health Corps that provides economically disadvantaged families with a Public Health Ecosystem (PHE) and health education focused on diet and nutrition. AmeriCorps members will engage communities in service-learning public health projects focused on social determinants of health in Ohio.

Oregon

  • FoodCorps, Inc.
    Areas served: AR, CA, CT, GA, IA, ME, MI, MS, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, DC
    Funds awarded: $5,760,000
    Contact: ashley.taylor@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
    200 full-time AmeriCorps members will promote healthy behaviors in schools and help meet critical nutritional needs of children in schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.

  • Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
    Areas served: Anchorage, AK; Bethel, AK; Juneau, AK; Sitka, AK; Boise, ID; Ashland, MT; Billings, MT; Missoula, MT; St. Xavier, MT; Aloha, OR; Bend, OR; Hood River/Odell, OR; Gresham, OR; Portland, OR; Omak, WA; Seattle, WA; Spokane, WA; Tacoma, WA; Yakima, WA
    Funds awarded: $963,130
    Contact: bcarver@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
    35 full-time AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.

  • OCHIN, Inc.
    Areas served: Suffolk County, MA; Hennepin County, MN; Hertford County, NC; Cuyahoga County, OH; Multnomah County, OR; Wallowa County, OR; Waushara County, WI; Milwaukee County, WI
    Funds awarded: $720,000
    Contact: fernandeze@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
    20 full-time AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin and help clinicians reduce the impact of COVID-19. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.

Pennsylvania

  • Health Federation of Philadelphia
    Areas served: PA; CA; New Castle, DE
    Funds awarded: $1,152,000
    Contact: tnickenig@healthfederation.org | 215-567-8001
    40 AmeriCorps full-time members will provide public health services, including health education, COVID-19 vaccination support, digital health navigation, linkage to basic needs, mental health and wellness, and substance use disorder prevention and response in Philadelphia, Northeast Pennsylvania, New Castle County, Delaware, and the Central Valley and Southern Inland Regions of California. AmeriCorps members will increase knowledge about disease prevention and mitigation and access to resources necessary to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities among individuals who live in historically marginalized communities.

  • National Nursing Centers Consortium (NNCC)
    Areas served: Philadelphia County, Lehigh County
    Funds awarded: $329,143
    Contact: kgonnella@phmc.org | 267-350-7632
    30 part-time AmeriCorps members will support community-based primary healthcare in Philadelphia and Lehigh Counties in Pennsylvania. AmeriCorps members will screen community members for social determinants of health and connect individuals to primary healthcare services.

South Carolina

  • Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina, Inc.
    Areas served: Horry County, SC; Georgetown County, SC; Williamsburg County, SC; Brunswick County, NC
    Funds awarded: $287,996
    Contact: abby.berjansky@riden2n.org | 910-393-7643
    Two full-time and 12 part-time AmeriCorps members will educate vulnerable seniors on COVID-19 health initiatives, assist in navigating the health care system to access mental health resources, provide community members with referrals and linkages to community resources, and collect community-level public health data in South Carolina.

  • South Carolina Free Clinic Association
    Areas served: SC
    Funds awarded: $287,755
    Contact: vamullikin@scfreeclinics.org | 803-713-5993
    10 full-time AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers and provide health and social services navigation assistance in free clinics in South Carolina.

Texas

  • American Heart Association, Inc.
    Areas served: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, KY, LA, ME, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NM, NY, OH, PA, TX, UT, WI, WV, WY
    Funds awarded: $2,879,996
    Contact: jessica.black@heart.org | 214-706-2284
    100 full-time AmeriCorps members will work with health centers and community organizations to promote blood pressure control and cardiovascular health in rural areas across 26 states. As a result, AmeriCorps members will improve the effectiveness of organizations to control high blood pressure and increase individuals' intent to change behavior to improve health.

  • City of Austin
    Areas served: Travis County, Bastrop County
    Funds awarded: $80,640
    Contact: donna.sundstrom@austintexas.gov | 512-972-5038
    Four part-time AmeriCorps members will coordinate public health online education for residents and partners, as well as food shopping delivery service for families experiencing challenges obtaining food in Austin, Texas. The AmeriCorps members' service activities will focus on engaging marginalized and historically underserved communities.

  • City of Houston HHS
    Areas served: Harris County
    Funds awarded: $719,930
    Contact: stephen.williams@houstontx.gov | 832-393-5001
    25 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide navigation services and health education in historically underserved and social vulnerability index (SVI) priority zip codes in Houston, Texas. AmeriCorps members will provide health education and increase access to health care and human services.

  • City of San Antonio
    Areas served: Bexar County
    Funds awarded: $57,600
    Contact: stacy.maines@sanantonio.gov | 210-207-8582
    Two full-time AmeriCorps members will educate the community on asthma triggers and air quality in San Antonio, Texas. AmeriCorps members will increase knowledge of asthma trigger reduction through education on ozone reduction.

Vermont

Virginia

  • Boat People SOS (BPSOS)
    Areas served: Orange, CA; Hancock, MS; Harrison, MS; Jackson, MS; Baldwin, AL; Mobile, AL; Arlington, VA; Fairfax, VA; Alexandria City, VA; Brazoria, TX; Harris, TX; Clayton, GA; DeKalb, GA; Fulton, GA; Gwinnett, GA
    Funds awarded: $241,860
    Contact: thang.nguyen@bpsos.org | 703-598-6420
    12 full-time AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, education, training, and navigation of health services to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake across California, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, and Virginia. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health.

  • Catholic Charities USA
    Areas served: Jefferson City, MO; Fall River, MA; Tulsa, OK; Washington, DC; Portland, OR; Spokane, WA; Austin, TX; Yakima, WA; Detroit, MI; Reno, NV; San Diego, CA; Baltimore, MD
    Funds awarded: $332,383
    Contact: aqualliotine@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3281
    12 full-time and six part-time AmeriCorps members will conduct healthcare outreach to low-income individuals in Missouri, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, District of Columbia, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Minnesota, Nevada, California, and Maryland.

  • George Mason University
    Areas served: Prince William County, Manassas City, Manassas Park City, Fairfax County, Falls Church
    Funds awarded: $431,995
    Contact: rsutter2@gmu.edu | 703-993-3611
    30 part-time AmeriCorps members will work in teams to improve community connections and learn how to use data analytics to improve care communication, care coordination, triage, and patient surveillance across two communities in Northern Virginia. AmeriCorps members will increase referrals to health and social services for under/uninsured community members.

  • Institute for Advanced Learning & Research
    Areas served: Danville City, VA; Pittsylvania County, VA; Caswell County, NC
    Funds awarded: $203,558
    Contact: dana.silicki@ialr.org | 434-766-6729
    15 part-time AmeriCorps members will expand capacity for public health service by providing direct outreach and education service in the City of Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and Caswell County, North Carolina. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge and healthy behaviors through education, outreach, referrals, and COVID response.

  • Volunteers of America, Inc.
    Areas served: Montrose County, CO; Delta County, CO; Pinellas County, FL; Brevard County, FL; Cook County, IL; Jefferson County, KY; Hennepin County, MN; Garden County, NE; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas County, TX; Harris County, TX
    Funds awarded: $1,094,285
    Contact: khiggins@voa.org | 703-615-0456
    38 full-time AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers to increase access to health care through program interventions. AmeriCorps members will perform outreach, assist with navigation of services, and provide counseling to underserved populations across Montrose and Delta Counties, Colorado; Pinellas and Brevard Counties, Florida; Cook County, Illinois; Jefferson County, Kentucky; Hennepin County, Minnesota; Garden County, Nebraska; San Juan Municipality, Puerto Rico; and Dallas and Harris Counties, Texas.

Washington

Wisconsin

  • Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
    Areas served: WI
    Funds awarded: $2,304,000
    Contact: heier.megan@marshfieldclinic.org | 715-221-8400
    80 full-time AmeriCorps members will provide capacity-building services to public health organizations and those in service to public health priorities across Wisconsin. AmeriCorps members will increase their knowledge of public health needs, specifically rural health needs, through their service.

  • Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
    Areas served: WI
    Funds awarded: $864,000
    Contact: pichler.meagan@marshfieldclinic.org | 715-221-8400
    30 full-time AmeriCorps members will serve as recovery coaches who will work toward reducing the effects of prescription drugs, opioids, and other substances within the MCHS service area across Wisconsin. AmeriCorps members will work with individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) seeking recovery to develop Recovery Wellness Plans. Members will also promote awareness, education, and stigma reduction around SUD recovery in the community and initiate referrals to social service organizations.

  • Sixteenth Street Community Health Center
    Areas served: Milwaukee
    Funds awarded: $374,326
    Contact: erik.miller@sschc.org | 414-897-5609
    13 full-time AmeriCorps members will expand the delivery of health and social services in four health care clinics and community venues on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. AmeriCorps members will provide education, health screenings, and event facilitation.

  • United Way Fox Cities
    Areas served: Calumet County, Outagamie County, Winnebago County
    Funds awarded: $259,200
    Contact: amanda.ross@unitedwayfoxcities.org | 920-735-5479
    Six full-time and six part-time AmeriCorps members will improve health and well-being in Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago Counties, Wisconsin, by providing capacity building for eight organizations.

  • Wisconsin Association of Free & Charitable Clinics, Inc.
    Areas served: WI
    Funds awarded: $867,187
    Contact: WAFCCDirector@gmail.com | 414-308-6839
    28 full-time and six part-time members will build capacity and support for Community Health Departments (CHDs) and Free and Charitable Clinics (FCCs) throughout Wisconsin. AmeriCorps members will help CHDs and FCCs combat the COVID-19 Pandemic, address the worsening opioid crisis, strengthen telehealth capabilities, secure grant funding, and procure volunteers.

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