Title: Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This resolution recognizes the 20th anniversary of the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program. (REACH is a national program administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that aims to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest burden of chronic disease.)
The resolution further expresses the commitment of the House of Representatives to protecting and expanding investments to address racial and ethnic health disparities and encourages federal agencies to build on the work of REACH grantees.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 570 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 570

 Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Centers for Disease Control 
   and Prevention's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health 
                            (REACH) program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2019

 Mrs. Watson Coleman (for herself, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Judy Chu 
of California, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Cole, Mr. 
  Castro of Texas, and Ms. Bass) submitted the following resolution; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Centers for Disease Control 
   and Prevention's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health 
                            (REACH) program.

Whereas racial and ethnic minorities face strikingly high rates of racial and 
        ethnic disparities in chronic disease rates and other health and safety 
        outcomes;
Whereas, in September of 1999, Surgeon General David Satcher announced the first 
        grants under the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health 
        program, known as REACH, funding 32 community coalitions in 18 States;
Whereas REACH, created on the principle of community-based participatory 
        approaches, has provided the most impacted communities with the 
        necessary resources and tools to address racial and ethnic disparities 
        in chronic health conditions for the last 20 years;
Whereas REACH has been the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) 
        cornerstone effort to directly fund community-based projects to address 
        health disparities since 1999 and is today one of the only CDC programs 
        specifically dedicated to addressing racial and ethnic health 
        disparities in urban, rural, and Tribal communities;
Whereas the REACH program's model of robust community engagement and multisector 
        representation in all aspects of program planning, development, and 
        implementation has proved to be very successful in mobilizing efforts in 
        communities with the greatest disease burden to address their health 
        issues and priorities;
Whereas REACH grantees have partnered with key stakeholders in local communities 
        to work on eliminating health disparities that leave so many Asian 
        Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, African Americans, 
        American Indians and Alaska Natives, and Hispanic Americans living 
        sicker and dying younger than they should; and
Whereas under the most recently concluded cohort of REACH grantees, funded from 
        2014 to 2018, 2,700,000 people gained better access to healthy food and 
        beverages, 650,000 people benefited from tobacco-free interventions, 
        1,300,000 had increased opportunities to be physically active, and 
        750,000 people had better access to community-clinical linkages: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes the 20th anniversary of the Racial and 
        Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program;
            (2) commits to protecting and expanding investments to 
        address racial and ethnic health disparities that communities 
        of color face; and
            (3) urges Federal agencies to further build on the great 
        community-driven work of REACH grantees to address disparities 
        in chronic health among racial and ethnic minorities.
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