Grant Recipients
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Spring 2023This grant will support use of the national, evidence-based Healthy Schools Program to create and sustain healthy school environments. The goal is to increase students’ physical activity and healthy eating to reduce the risk of diabetes and related chronic diseases. (3 years)
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
Spring 2023This grant will support the MUSC Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness (BCCW) School-Based Wellness Initiative pilot that will provide an intensive, multitiered approach to school-based services for children at the highest risk of or living with diabetes. (3 years)
Prisma Health — Midlands
Spring 2023This grant will increase the reach of the Management of Maternal (MOMs) diabetes program to improve diabetes care for women during and after pregnancy through the development of a hub-and-spoke model to expand care into more counties. (2 years)
Prisma Health — Upstate
Spring 2023This grant will increase the reach of the Management of Maternal (MOMs) diabetes program by supporting telehealth expansion and use of technology to improve health outcomes for pregnant women with diabetes in more rural areas of the Upstate. (2 years)
Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
Spring 2022This grant will help launch a full expansion of the Kids in Parks program across South Carolina to encourage children and their families to spend time outdoors, increasing physical activity and healthy behaviors, including 138 new TRACK trails across all 46 South Carolina counties. (Four years)
Clemson University
Spring 2022This grant will provide integrated diabetes care over the lifespan of women from adolescence through old age in collaboration with Clemson Rural Health and the Regional Medical Center. (Three years)
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation
Spring 2022This grant will help prevent diabetes in women at high risk during their early reproductive years in partnership with Fetter Health Care Network. (Three years)
Prisma Health - Midlands
Spring 2022This grant will be used to provide women’s diabetes prevention and care through screening and prevention, improved diabetes management and postpartum care for women with pregestational or gestational diabetes. (Three years)
Prisma Health - Upstate
Spring 2022This grant will support diabetes education and care before and after pregnancy in collaboration with the MOMs in Control of Diabetes program. (Three years)
Rural Health Services
Spring 2022The goal of this grant is to provide medical care to low-income women with, or at risk for, diabetes using evidence-based strategies to empower women to achieve healthier pregnancies and birth outcomes. (Three years)
The University of South Carolina SNAP-Ed Implementing Agency
Spring 2022This grant will be used to conduct an assessment of high-performing Food is Medicine interventions to replicate and inform state-level policy and systems changes needed to reduce food insecurity. (One year)
Affinity Health Center
Spring 2021To support the integration of two CHWs to build capacity to improve prevention and management of diabetes (3 years)
Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health Services
Spring 2021To support the integration of two CHWs to build capacity to improve prevention and management of diabetes (3 years)
CareSouth Carolina, Inc.
Spring 2021To support the integration of two CHWs to build capacity to improve prevention and management of diabetes (3 years)
Health Sciences South Carolina
Spring 2021To build upon the existing Surgical Quality Collaborative, adding an intensive focus to improve diabetes management for patients before, during and after general surgeries (3 years)
HopeHealth, Inc.
Spring 2021To support the integration of two CHWs to build capacity to improve prevention and management of diabetes (3 years)
Tandem Health SC
Spring 2021To support the integration of two CHWs to build capacity to improve prevention and management of diabetes (3 years)
University of SC – Center for Community Health Alignment
Spring 2021To develop a community health worker (CHW) diabetes prevention and management model and provide ongoing coaching and technical assistance to Federally Qualified Health Centers on best practice implementation of the CHW diabetes model (3 years)
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Spring 2020To expand the Healthy Schools Program to twenty additional districts across South Carolina in order to create and sustain healthier school environments through a framework of best practices and a continuous improvement process for implementation (3 years)
Prisma Health Midlands
Spring 2020To form a joint obstetric-endocrine prenatal clinic at Carolina Diabetes and Kidney Center (CDKC) to improve health outcomes and ease the burden on pregnant women with diabetes living in Sumter. Telemedicine will extend the reach of this program to additional communities, including Clarendon and Richland (3 years — Clarendon, Richland, & Sumter)
Prisma Health Upstate
Spring 2020To expand the services of the Pregnancy Diabetes Clinic by increasing support of onsite endocrinology services, allowing the clinic to transition into a fully integrated joint obstetric-endocrine prenatal clinic model. Reach of clinic will expand to additional communities through use of telemedicine (3 years — Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Oconee and Pickens).
The Medical University of South Carolina’s Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness
Spring 2020To support the expansion of the “Docs Adopt School Health” program to eight school districts, a school-based prevention and wellness initiative and a list of best practices focused on nutrition, physical activity, employee wellness and social/emotional learning (3 years).
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Spring 2020To scale FoodShare statewide, increasing fresh food access, fresh fruit and vegetable consumption and providing nutrition and diabetes education to low-income families with the overall aim of reducing the prevalence of diabetes in children and adults (5 years — statewide)