Funded Projects - Access to Healthcare

This portfolio focuses on decreasing financial barriers, increasing provider availability and enhancing appreciation of the benefits of care, particularly preventive care. Funded projects strengthen the safety net by serving uninsured children, build the capacity of care providers to meet the needs of underserved children and overcome barriers to care through community outreach to underserved families. The following projects build bridges to familiar, reliable sources of health care for Wake County's children and youth.

* indicates a closed grant

  • Advancing Health Care for Wake County Children

    Health Access Coalition of the North Carolina Justice Center
    Expand children's insurance enrollment and access to care and increase provider and advocate participation in the coalition.

  • Autism Access

    Autism Society of North Carolina
    Help hospitals and doctors' offices better accommodate patients with autism and help patient families access medical care more easily and more effectively.

  • Building Blocks: Shaping a Lifetime of Good Health

    Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle (BBBST)
    The purpose of the Building Blocks access to care program seeks to ensure that parents and caregivers of children enrolled in the BBBST program are informed advocates for their children's health and become actively engaged with their children in establishing a healthy lifestyle focused on prevention.

  • Building Capacity to Serve Spanish-Speaking Families in Pediatric Practices

    Wake County Medical Society
    Increase the capacity of pediatric practices to care for children of Spanish-speaking families and increase outreach to families. 

  • Capacity Building – Latino Initiative*

    Wake Health Services, Inc. (WHSI)
    Establish bilingual office support to better meet needs of Latino children, improve provider productivity and increase access to care.

  • CapitalCare Collaborative*

    Wake County Medical Society
    Improve access to care and quality of care for uninsured and underserved populations served through medical safety net providers. 

  • Child Mental Health Project (Hope for Children II and Children's Mental Health Services III)

    Triangle Family Services
    The primary purpose of the Child Mental Health Project will be to provide the highest quality mental health treatment services to children in Wake County who would otherwise not receive these services because of their uninsured or underinsured status. 

  • Children's Access Program – Phase I*

    Wake County Medical Society
    Increase enrollment of children eligible for Medicaid and N.C. Health Choice and assist enrolled children in accessing public and private practices accepting these insurances. 

  • Children's Access Program – Phase II*

    Wake County Medical Society
    Enroll eligible children in Medicaid and N.C. Health Choice and assist them in accessing public and private practices accepting these insurances. Make policy and administrative changes that reflect proven process improvements.

  • Children's Health and Development Program – Phase I*

    Wake County Human Services
    Optimize development for a group of at-risk children by creating coordinated screening and treatment program for children entering foster care or Child Protective Services.