Office of Minority Health

Re-Entry Community Linkages (RE-LINK) Program

Grant Period: 2016-2021

The purpose of Re-Entry Community Linkages (RE-LINK) program is to improve health outcomes for minority and/or disadvantaged re-entrants, ages 18-26, in transition from jail to their communities.

The RE-LINK program aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of multiple stakeholders within the public health system and other community support systems working together to implement a model transition process.

RE-LINK will establish connections—in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner for the populations being served—between the re-entry population and community-based organizations that provide linkages to health care including behavioral health care services, health care coverage (including through the Health Insurance Marketplace and Medicaid), and other social services such as housing, adult education, and employment assistance programs.

This program begins August 1, 2016 and ends June 30, 2021.

Grantees	City	State	Funding Level
ActionAIDS	Philadelphia	PA	$325,000
Arbor Circle Corporation	Grand Rapids	MI	$356,688
Maricopa County Special Health Care District	Phoenix	AZ	$300,300
Metropolitan Charities, Inc.	St. Petersburg	FL	$375,000
Northwestern University	Evanston	IL	$375,000
St. Louis Integrated Health Network	St. Louis	MO	$280,154
The Fortune Society, Inc.	Long Island City	NY	$375,000
The Regents of the University of California, UC San Diego	La Jolla	CA	$374,999
Total: $2,762,141

Minority Youth Violence Prevention: Integrating Public Health and Community Policing Approaches (MYVP)

The Minority Youth Violence Prevention (MYVP) program is a partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and the Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to support an initiative to integrate public health and violence prevention approaches. MYVP intends to demonstrate the effectiveness of integrating public health and community policing approaches to reduce disparities in access to public health services and violent crimes and improve the health and well-being of communities of color. MYVP will support program interventions developed through adaptations, refinements, and modifications of promising violence prevention and crime reduction models that are tailored to at-risk minority male youth (10-18 years-old) and integrate a problem-solving approach.

Non-Federal MYVP Grantees	City	State	Funding Level
Asian Media Access, Inc.	Minneapolis	MN	$380,000
Chatham County Board of Commissioners	Savannah	GA	$220,100
City of Cincinnati	Cincinnati	OH	$345,000
City of West Palm Beach	West Palm Beach	FL	$340,000
DeKalb County Board of Health	Decatur	GA	$357,557
Health Education Council	West Sacramento	CA	$370,000
Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital, Inc.	Binghamton	NY	$325,536
Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County	Kannapolis	NC	$362,668
Youth Alive	Oakland	CA	$133,333
Total: $2,834,194

HIRE (HIV/AIDS Health Improvement for the Re-Entry Population)

HIRE grants seek to improve the HIV/AIDS health outcomes of formerly incarcerated individuals by supporting community-based efforts to ensure their successful transition from state or federal incarceration back to their communities.

Grantees	City	State	Funding Level
FACES NY, Inc.	New York	NY	$ 200,000
Housing Works, Inc.	Brooklyn	NY	$ 200,000
Long Island Association for AIDS Care, Inc.	Haupauge	NY	$ 235,000
Metropolitan Charities, Inc.	St. Petersburg	FL	$ 215,000
The Osborne Association, Inc.	Bronx	NY	$ 235,000
Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc.	Decatur	GA	$ 215,000
St. Luke's - Roosevelt Institute for Health Sciences	New York	NY	$ 200,000
Total: $1,500,000

Linkage to Life Program: Rebuilding Broken Bridges for Minority Families Impacted by HIV/AIDS (L2L)

Linkage to Life Program addresses gaps in health care, social and supportive services for families living with HIV/AIDS and who are in transition from incarceration, domestic violence and/or substance abuse treatment.