Activities Impacting Individuals

Training health care providers
Structured instruction or education sessions administered to health providers on issues related to minority health.

Interpretation and translation
For clients while they are at appointments with health providers, case managers, social services providers, and other related services.

Target population health education and outreach
Any kind of educational activity concerning health information, promotion, and prevention directed to the minority target population(s), including workshops, home health parties, health fairs, and outreach.

Target population health educational materials development and dissemination
Original development or adaptation of educational materials (concerning health issues, risks, prevention, treatments, local health providers) to be provided to minority and/or underserved populations, and dissemination of those materials, via outreach, presentations, in doctor's offices, etc.

Screening and referral
Any diagnostic screening procedure to detect health risk or presence of a health problem and referral to actual medical services.

Case management
Planning, coordination and monitoring of specific prevention or treatment protocols for individual clients and coordinating referrals and access to services based on the individual protocol.

Wellness and exercise
Any structured physical/mental activities designed to address a health risk.

Academic support and/or career preparation
Any structured activity designed to improve client educational performance and improved skills/knowledge related to jobs/careers.

Mentoring
Structured, ongoing, adult-youth relationships over a specified period of time in which the adult spends regularly scheduled time with the youth and provides support, information, encouragement, and role-modeling.

Parent skills training/family counseling
Any structured activities with parents as participants, in which parents receive instruction and/or practice in parenting and family management skills.

Self-esteem building
Any structured activities designed to increase client self-esteem.

Cultural activities
Any structured activities whose primary purpose is to increase awareness of their cultural background, and increase bonding to cultural background as part of their sense of identity.

Recreation and sports
Any structured sports activities, outdoor or indoor.

Crisis intervention
Unplanned activities, directed to clients and/or the target community, that are deemed necessary in order to resolve a crisis, or solve a problem that poses a barrier to client participation in project activities, or to help solve a problem that is diverting attention from the health issues of importance to the project.

Activities Impacting Organizations or Services

Linkage-building and community coordination
Linkage-building is a broad category that includes the formation and maintenance of coalitions, the formation of referral arrangements, and any other activity that is specifically part of grant activities and is intended to expand the impact of the grantee by developing and maintaining linkages with other organizations and/or health providers.

Technical assistance and organizational capacity building
Activities that increase the capacity of the grantee organization and/or any of its linkage partners to provide improved services, improved health promotion, and improved access to health care for its target minority population(s).

Resource coordination
The identification, coordination, and facilitation of resources to aid minority and community health organizations in expanding access to prevention and health care for target minority populations.