Supporting Community-Based Organizations in Advancing Vaccine Equity: Evaluation of Urban Institute’s Technical Assistance and Grant Management Support in the First Year of the Partnering for Vaccine Equity Program: Research Support

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• Personal Author:
  Heinrichs, Annie ; Megibow, Ebonie ; Taylor, Amaya ; Emmet, Susanna ; Azizi, Arezo ; Allen, Eva H.
• Corporate Authors:
  Urban Institute. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  To address racial and ethnic disparities in adult vaccination rates, particularly for COVID-19 and influenza immunizations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Partnering for Vaccine Equity (P4VE) program in 2020 (Black et al. 2022; Hernandez et al. 2022; Kriss et al. 2022; Siegel et al. 2022). In 2021, the P4VE program allocated $156 million to more than 500 national, state, local, and community-based organizations (CBOs) to improve equity in adult COVID-19 and influenza vaccination coverage. 1 CBOs participating in P4VE receive funding and technical assistance from skilled intermediary institutions to implement activities that promote equitable access to COVID-19 and influenza immunization in communities disproportionately affected by vaccine disparities.
  
  The Urban Institute (Urban) is one of several national intermediary entities responsible for recruiting, overseeing, and supporting CBOs participating in the P4VE program. In the first year of the P4VE initiative (May 2021 to April 2022), Urban provided subgrant funding, grant management support, and tailored technical assistance to 29 CBOs in 14 states and DC. CBO awardees primarily focused on addressing barriers to COVID-19 vaccines in racially and ethnically diverse and underresourced communities. P4VE funding supports a broad range of activities designed to promote vaccine confidence and access, such as training trusted community messengers to become vaccine ambassadors, developing culturally effective vaccine education materials, and hosting vaccine clinics in partnership with local public health departments.
  
  This report describes and assesses Urban’s technical assistance and grant management support delivered to CBO awardees to help them implement program activities, comply with federal grant requirements, and grow organizational capacity to promote vaccine equity in the first year of the P4VE initiative. Based on analysis of program management records and surveys of CBOs, awardees took advantage of Urban-provided supports and found them valuable. Table ES.1 shows Urban performance on key technical assistance and grant management indicators.
  
  This report was supported by Cooperative Agreement CDC-RFA-IP21-2108 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $18,162,815 with 100 percent funded by the CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, the CDC/HHS or the US Government. We are grateful to them and to all our funders who make it possible for Urban to advance its mission.
  
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• Subjects:
  Community Health Services Health Equity Health Resources Social Justice Social Values Vaccination Coverage Viral Vaccines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement CDC-RFA-IP21-2108 f
• Name as Subject:
  Partnering for Vaccine Equity Program
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  vii, 23 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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