{"id":92019,"date":"2021-01-05T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-national-center-for-training-support-and-technical-assistance-nctsta-receives-funding-from-the-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-cdc-to-build-latino-latinx-community-capacity-t\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T14:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:24:05","slug":"el-centro-nacional-de-adiestramiento-apoyo-y-asistencia-tecnica-nctsta-por-sus-siglas-en-ingles-de-proceed-inc-recibe-fondos-de-los-centros-de-control-de-enfermedades-y-prevencion-cdc-para-desa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-centro-nacional-de-adiestramiento-apoyo-y-asistencia-tecnica-nctsta-por-sus-siglas-en-ingles-de-proceed-inc-recibe-fondos-de-los-centros-de-control-de-enfermedades-y-prevencion-cdc-para-desa\/","title":{"rendered":"National Center for Training, Support and Technical Assistance (NCTSTA) Receives Funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to Build Latino\/Latinx Community Capacity to Respond to COVID-19, through the Strategic Mobilization of Latino\/Latinx Serving Community-Based Organizations, Like the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition, and Others Across the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ELIZABETH, N.J.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 5, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; A disproportionate number of Latino\/Latinx communities across the US have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. According to the CDC, Latino\/Latinx individuals, when compared to non-Hispanic White persons, are 2.8 times more likely to become infected with COVID-19, nearly 4.6 times more likely to become hospitalized by the virus, and are 1.1 times more likely to die from it. PROCEED, Inc.,- NCTSTA, a nonprofit organization located in <span class=\"xn-location\">Elizabeth, New Jersey<\/span>, has been commissioned by the CDC to lead a national Capacity Building Assistance program, &#8220;Building Latino Community Capacity to Respond to COVID-19.&#8221; The program is intended to increase the capacity of Latino\/Latinx communities to respond to the pandemic, specifically in states where COVID-19 has hit Latino\/Latinx communities the hardest. To achieve its aim, PROCEED, Inc.,- NCSTA is funding and partnering with trusted national and local Latino\/Latinx-identified and Latino\/Latinx-serving community-based organizations (CBO&#8217;s) that work with Latino\/Latinx populations at elevated risk for COVID-19. Project components will include:<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg2105left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg2105left\" title=\" \" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1360345\/Chicago_Hispanic_Health_Coalition_PODER_en_SALUD_Logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Strategically assessing the impact of COVID-19 among Latino\/Latinx communities, or segments of the community, disproportionally affected by COVID-19 in key U.S. states. <\/li>\n<li>Designing culturally, linguistically, and situationally competent bilingual COVID-19 messaging for various segments of the Latino\/Latinx population. <\/li>\n<li>Training &amp; mobilizing teams of Promotoras\/Community Health Workers to deliver accurate COVID-19 prevention messages and community mitigation strategies to stay healthy during and after the pandemic. <\/li>\n<li>Convening a high-functioning Latino\/Latinx COVID-19 National Advisory Committee (NAC) comprised of partners, funders, and key community stakeholders across the US. <\/li>\n<li>Linking communities to local COVID-19 testing, treatment, resources and other health &amp; human services to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on the Latino\/Latinx communities in targeted regions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collectively, this national COVID-19 Latino\/Latinx coalition will help expand the projects&#8217; reach across various health, human services, faith-based, social, and economic sectors. The coalition will ensure that accurate, timely, and culturally &amp; linguistically appropriate information and resources are accessible to the most vulnerable Latino\/Latinx groups. Promotoras, trusted community health workers, will help facilitate awareness and science-based information related to COVID-19 prevention, testing, and treatment. They also will refer and link individuals and families to essential services offered by trusted local providers. Six community-based Core Partner organizations have been funded by PROCEED, Inc.,- NCTSTA to implement this initiative: Farmworker Justice, Latino Commission on AIDS (LCAO), <span class=\"xn-location\">El Centro<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Progreso Latino<\/span>, Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition (CHHC), and Rural Community Workers Alliance (RCWA). Together they will reach Latino\/Latinx communities in <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Kansas<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Missouri<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Rhode Island<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Illinois<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-location\">Oregon<\/span>. Jointly, they will work with Latino\/Latinx communities that include, but are not limited to, individuals with pre-existing chronic health conditions, women and families, immigrants, and essential workers (e.g., meatpacking workers, farmers), among other Latino\/Latinx segments across the acculturation spectrum. The project launched in September and will run through <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 2021<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntac\">**The &#8220;Building Latino Community Capacity to Respond to COVID-19&#8221; project is 100% supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under CDC\/HHS Funding Opportunity OT18-1802, entitled &#8220;Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation&#8217;s Health&#8221; via a Cooperative Agreement with PROCEED, Inc. The contents are those of the author(s)and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC\/HHS, or the U.S. Government.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Esther Sciammarella<\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:chhc@chicagohispanichealthcoalition.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">chhc@chicagohispanichealthcoalition.org <\/a><br \/>312-842-2340<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg9de5left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg9de5left\" title=\" \" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/644095\/CHHC_Logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3002335-1&amp;h=2452477418&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1360345%2FChicago_Hispanic_Health_Coalition_PODER_en_SALUD_Logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1360345%2FChicago_Hispanic_Health_Coalition_PODER_en_SALUD_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1360345\/Chicago_Hispanic_Health_Coalition_PODER_en_SALUD_Logo.jpg<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>Logo &#8211;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3002335-1&amp;h=3370484787&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F644095%2FCHHC_Logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F644095%2FCHHC_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/644095\/CHHC_Logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  PROCEED, Inc.; Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ELIZABETH, N.J.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 5, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; A disproportionate number of Latino\/Latinx communities across the US have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. According to the CDC, Latino\/Latinx individuals, when compared to non-Hispanic White persons, are 2.8 times more likely to become infected with COVID-19, nearly 4.6 times more likely to become hospitalized by the virus, and are 1.1 times more likely to die from it. PROCEED, Inc.,- NCTSTA, a nonprofit organization&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}