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Abstract for Kentucky Homeplace Start date: July 1, 2022 End date: June 30, 2024
The Kentucky Department for Public Health has worked in partnership with the University of Kentucky
Center for Excellence in Rural Health, Kentucky Homeplace since 1994. CHFS/DPH provides an allocation
to support the operation of the Kentucky Homeplace Project. Kentucky Homeplace utilizes Community
Health Workers to assist rural Kentuckians, who live in medically underserved areas, in accessing
appropriate health care, including preventive care and linking them with appropriate resources and
connections within their community. The project shall focus on the use of Community Health Workers
(CHW) to provide intake, needs assessments, referrals to resources, linkages with providers for medical,
social and mental health issues and follow-up.
In 2021 the Department for Public Health received a three-year cooperative agreement from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC DP21-2109 CFDA# 93.495 to utilize Community Health
Workers (CHW) to implement evidence-based interventions and strategies related to addressing health
disparities related to underlying chronic conditions and social determinants of health for underserved
populations. This includes ethnic and racial minority populations and rural communities. Kentucky
Homeplace is well suited to work with DPH on this project.
Kentucky Homeplace will address the following goals:
1. Provide CHWs and appropriate supervision in a 30 county area to assist rural Kentuckians who
live in medically underserved areas in identifying their health risk factors, use of preventive health
screening and how to live a healthier lifestyle.
2. Assist clients in access to and navigating healthcare, social service and mental health systems.
3. Work with the Kentucky Department for Public Health and partners to find solutions to bridge
the gap between uninsured and underserved individuals and the health care delivery system.
4. Work with the Kentucky Department for Public Health Kentucky Prescription Assistance Program
to connect clients with access to medications they are in need of.
5. Create community clinical linkages between vulnerable populations and healthcare providers
and address social determinants of health.
6. During the 3 years of the grant, expand Kentucky Homeplace’s reach through addition of up to
10 new CHWs in identified areas of need.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 7/1/22 → 8/31/22 |
Funding
- KY Cabinet for Health and Family Services
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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FY23: Kentucky Homeplace Project
KY Cabinet for Health and Family Services
7/1/22 → 6/30/23
Project: Research project