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1992.06.26 :  Grants -- Minority Males

Contact: Blake Crawford (301) 443-5224
June 26, 1992

       HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., today announced
that approximately $2 million is being made available for grants
to support new projects that will improve outreach and assistance
to minority males at high risk of health and human service
problems.   This will bring total funding for the secretary's
minority male grant program to $5 million in 
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1992.
       "Coordinated and comprehensive local efforts are essential
if we are to remedy the complex health and social hazards that
are facts of daily life for young men in many minority
communities," Secretary Sullivan said.  
       "This program, now in its third year, stimulates local
strategies and interventions that can help young men learn sound
health practices and earn the skills, pride and self-respect that
they will need in order to contribute to our society."  
       Grants for minority male health and human service efforts
were awarded to nearly 100 communities during 1990 and 
1991.  
       "An extraordinary range of public and private
organizations have become involved in these projects, and we are
eager to recruit even more partners in this effort," said
Assistant Secretary for Health James Mason, M.D., who heads the
Public Health Service.
       The new funds, announced in today's Federal Register, will
support three types of grants.   
       One-year grants of up to $20,000 will support local
conferences to enable service agencies and minority community
groups to exchange information and develop strategies to assist
minority male populations within their communities.
       One-year grants of up to $50,000 will support planning and
development of minority community coalitions that intend to
address specific health and human service problems for defined
populations of high-risk minority males.  
       Three-year grants of up to $250,000 per year will support
intervention projects that will involve minority community
coalitions in carrying out demonstration projects intended to
ameliorate public health, social and related problems that
contribute significantly to premature death or poor quality of
life.       "This three-pronged approach gives communities in
various stages of readiness a variety of tools with which to
organize their responses to the crisis of health, education and
employment that affects racial and ethnic populations, and
minority men in particular," said Samuel Lin, M.D., acting deputy
assistant secretary for minority health.  
       Projects may address health issues such as alcohol and
other drug abuse; homicide, suicide and unintentional injuries;
HIV infection and sexually transmitted diseases; or mental health
problems.  They also may address social issues such as
unemployment, under-education, criminal backgrounds, child abuse
and neglect, homelessness, teen-age pregnancy or family
dysfunction.  
       The grant program is jointly funded by HHS' Administration
on Children and Families, Health Care Financing Administration,
Social Security Administration and Public Health Service.  It is
administered by the Office of Minority Health within the Public
Health Service of HHS.  


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