The Eliminating Health Disparity Initiative (EHDI) is a grant program within the Center for Health Equity. EHDI was established during the 2001 legislative session. The program invests about $5 million dollars annually in community initiatives that address health inequities for populations of color and American Indians across eight different priority health areas.
Use the drop-down menus below to learn more about current EHDI grantees and their grant-funded projects.
| Priority Health Area | Serving Residents of County |
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Project name: Twin Cities Pan-African Girls Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Grant Type: Priority
Project Description: At the request of Pan-African communities, the project will reintroduce the highly successful culturally enhanced Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART) pregnancy prevention curriculum to address the major teen pregnancy disparity for Twin Cities’ Pan-African girls. Using BART and peer sexual health education approaches will give several thousand African girls and boys the knowledge, skills, and motivation needed to avoid teen pregnancy. A teen clinic education approach will also be used to teach clinic staff to understand and respond effectively to cultural needs of African youth in providing reproductive health care. The project will reach 150 African youth directly each year – 105 girls and 45 boys - through school and community sites across the Twin Cities. 100 of these youth will become Peer Educators.
EDHI Grant Activity Outcomes: 1) 480 teen participants engage in the evidence-based curriculum, Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART). 2) African teens who receive peer education on sexual health and teen pregnancy prevention will demonstrate at program’s completion an increase in their knowledge of sexual health, and will indicate their intention to delay having sex or to use a condom when choosing to have sex. 3) 95% or more of teen clinic staff with 4 clinics accessible to African teens will indicate they have a significantly increased understanding of the unique cultural needs of African teens related to sexual health and pregnancy risks, and have significantly increased confidence in their ability to meet the care needs of these young people.
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Geography and Population Served: African teens ages 14-18 from across the African continent, living in the Twin Cities metro area.
Contact: Melissa Nambangi
Street address:
5701 Shingle Creek Pkwy Ste 240
Brooklyn Center, MN 55430
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Phone: 651-334-0092
Email: mawa0302@yahoo.com
Website: http://mawanet.org/
Executive Director: Melissa Nambangi
Phone: 651-334-0092
E-mail: mawa0302@yahoo.com