Log in

NEIGHBORS

YWCA Metropolitan in Glendale receives COVID grant

Maricopa County Department of Public Health to support health disparities

Posted 7/28/22

YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix was awarded a transformational grant by the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) to address health disparities that were created or worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

You must be a member to read this story.

Join our family of readers for as little as $5 per month and support local, unbiased journalism.


Already have an account? Log in to continue.

Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here

Otherwise, follow the link below to join.

To Our Valued Readers –

Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.

For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.

Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.

Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.

Sincerely,
Charlene Bisson, Publisher, Independent Newsmedia

Please log in to continue

Log in
I am anchor
NEIGHBORS

YWCA Metropolitan in Glendale receives COVID grant

Maricopa County Department of Public Health to support health disparities

Posted

YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix was awarded a transformational grant by the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) to address health disparities that were created or worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix, located at 8561 N. 61st Ave., in Glendale, will use the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 grant, Building Healthy and Resilient Communities, to develop suggestions for policy, systems and environment change, with specific emphasis on discovering ways to help seniors and LGBTQ youth recover and thrive in the post COVID-19 pandemic environment.

“Our approach is embedded in developing and leveraging radical partnerships with the people we intend to serve and our partnering organizations” YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix CEO Debbie Esparza shared in a statement. “This grant will enable us to create more safe spaces for courageous conversations, champion more changemakers in community and amplify voices of those who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and in this now endemic environment.” 

Jannah Scott joins the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix team as director of systems change initiatives to implement this grant. She will lead discussions with communities in Northwest Maricopa County, and serve as a convener and thought partner for meaningful change.

“We understand that race and ethnicity are key indicators of access overall, so we keep this lens front and center as we do this work,” Scott stated. “By listening to those in community who have borne the worst of this pandemic, we will be able to discover, learn from and share ‘ground-truth’ insight into policy, systems and environmental policy discussions. This will lead to meaningful changes that may be needed to address service barriers, whether structural or discriminatory.”

Through a structured theory of change process, recommendations will be offered to county officials on strategies to increase access to and eradicate racism and discrimination in mental health and public health systems for elders and LGBTQ youth ages 18-24.

This project is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of a financial assistance award totaling $498,689.45 with 100% funded by CDC/HHS.