Community Transformation Grant
The Community Transformation Grant (CTG) in Minnesota is helping control health care spending and create a healthier future.
CTG will succeed by decreasing chronic diseases--such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes--through decreasing exposure to tobacco, increasing physical activity and healthy eating, and improving health care preventative services.
In 2011 Minnesota was awarded CTG by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Minnesota was awarded $3.6 million per year for five years through a highly competitive process. The five-year CTG project period runs through September 2016.
Local grants
CTG will support health improvement activities in local communities, building on strengths, minimizing duplication of efforts and maximizing impact.
Five current grantees with a high need and proven capacity were chosen, representing a large region of Northern Minnesota:
- Carlton-Cook-Lake-St. Louis-Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching
- Clay-Wilkin-Becker-Otter Tail
- Leech Lake Tribal Community
- Morrison-Todd-Wadena-Cass
- North Country-Polk-Mahnomen-Norman
For information about CTG from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, visit http://www.cdc.gov/communitytransformation/
Statewide CTG Leadership Team
8-29-2012 meeting
Highlights
Healthy Minnesota 2020:
Chronic Disease & Injury
(PDF: 1.7MB/28pages)
VOICE used storytelling and story-based dialogues to engage community members from various cultural backgrounds to share their insights how culture is connected to food, healthy weight and body size. A project of the Minneapolis Health Department, a video of the project is now available.
MDH partnered with the City of Minneapolis and Olmsted County, and after two years and ground-breaking work improving health on a community level, the project has come to a close. Learn more about their achievements.
Making it Better: Minnesota stories about people working to build a healthier community: http://makingitbettermn.org/
Health.OSHII@state.mn.us
