by JUNYAO YANG : missionlocal – excerpt
CANA project Somos Esenciales receives $6 million funding for community health intervention and research. Courtesy of Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas.
A Mission-based nonprofit has won a five-year $6 million federal grant to fund a variety of different health programs for Native American, Latinx and Black communities in the Mission.
Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas will receive $1.25 million from the National Institutes of Health for the first fiscal year of the five-year period, the NIH announced in September.
CANA will use the funds in four different areas: First, the nonprofit will fund mental health, career service and other wellness programs in Mission affordable-housing buildings. As part of the grant, it will test the efficacy of those programs…(more)