Voluntarism: Grants
Bellevue Hospital Center
To develop healthy eating and active lifestyle habits in Latino families, a training curriculum will be developed for Reach Out and Read and Health Literacy volunteers who work in pediatric waiting rooms — with the goal of helping to reduce childhood obesity.
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
To expand a successful effort to recruit and train volunteers to the Hospital Elder Life Program, which provides targeted interventions addressing a broad scope of geriatric issues known to contribute to cognitive and functional decline during hospitalization.
Montefiore Medical Center
To improve the hospital experience by engaging volunteers as Caregiver Support Coaches to provide support and one-on-one practical assistance to family caregivers struggling to care for a loved one who is hospitalized or in treatment.
The Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens
To ensure that patients and their caregivers who experience difficulty navigating the health care system receive support, education, and guidance to care for themselves or their loved ones.
Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center
To increase access to primary medical care services for psychiatry patients through the use of volunteer patient navigators.
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
To expand the Learning for Life program, which engages volunteers to teach basic health literacy skills to diabetic patients in the hospital’s outpatient clinic. With this second year of funding, the program will target caregivers of these patients and also engage participants in the hospital’s adult day care center.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
To build the capacity of the Visible Ink volunteer program, a one-on-one writing program that pairs cancer patients with professional writers to work on a writing project of the patient’s choice.
New York Methodist Hospital
To recruit and train health careers students as volunteers to assess the effectiveness and value of the Step by Step Project—a volunteer-driven program that teaches parents with low-level health literacy basic literacy skills as they relate to child development milestones.
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center
To create the Elderlife Program to recruit and train volunteers to be part of a health care team aimed at improving care for frail elderly patients who are at risk for cognitive and functional decline during hospitalization.
NYU Langone Medical Center
To create the “Let’s Talk about Sex” program, in which volunteers trained by Planned Parenthood will conduct one-on-one and group discussions with adolescent patients from the Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital
To continue the HealthSense program, an innovative health literacy program currently being offered to patients and their caregivers in the family practice clinic, and to expand the program to the ob-gyn and pediatric clinics.
Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center
To provide a second year of funding for the Asthma Literacy Project, to expand the recruitment and training of volunteers to educate and empower caregivers of children with asthma, expand the curriculum, and develop a sustainability plan.
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
To create the Learning for Life program to provide one-on-one volunteer coaching and mentoring to patients with diabetes, focused on improving their health literacy skills related to medication management and dietary guidelines. The Adult Literacy Media Alliance will work with staff from the pharmacy and dietary departments to design patient education materials.
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
To create the Labels for Health Program, recruiting and training “boomer-plus” volunteers to help clinic patients learn basic skills for managing their chronic illness through healthy diet and nutrition practices, and to establish a working relationship with several local small groceries/convenience stores to encourage their display and distribution of the Healthy Bodega Shopping Guide.
New York Methodist Hospital
To develop the Step by Step Project, which will recruit and train baby boomer volunteers to teach low-literacy parents in the pediatric clinic to recognize their child’s developmental milestones using a chart developed by the hospital and the Adult Literacy Media Alliance.
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