BE IT RESOLVED, that an appropriation from the Minnesota Legislature through the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) in the amount of $5,329,274 during the period April 22, 2022 through March 31, 2024 be accepted; and that the Controller be authorized to disburse funds as directed; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the allocation of the appropriation from the Minnesota Legislature through the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) NTE $1,772,000 be added to the 2022 supplemental appropriations budget for Public Health; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hennepin County Public Health be authorized to increase their staff complement by 3.0 grant funded Full Time Equivalents (FTE); and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that acceptance of grant funding for the program by the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners does not imply a continued funding commitment by Hennepin County for this program when grant funds are no longer available. 

In its 2021 session, the Minnesota Legislature provided a $6 million annual appropriation for community health boards and tribal governments to build public health capacity.

Hennepin County Public Health applied for and was awarded funding in the amount of $5,329,274 to 1) build capacity for health equity and build a trauma informed organization, and 2) support for the Metro-area data project.

Public Health formed a Trauma Informed Team in December 2020 under a pilot cohort through the county’s Community Health Improvement Partnership (CHIP) where becoming trauma informed organization is a core strategy under CHIP’s community mental wellbeing priority. Public health is finalizing a logic model to guide its work, continues to share ideas and learning with other departments, and is collaborating externally to become trauma informed through the CHIP partnership and communities impacted by trauma.

This funding will support a 1.0 FTE to develop and implement a comprehensive Trauma Informed plan for public health; collaborate with other county departments, CHIP organizations, and communities; coordinate training; and manage targeted community contracts to help public health and others become trauma informed. Funding also will include contracts for training, developmental evaluation that includes cultural perspectives, and contracts to community organizations and media outlets to inform, support and complement the county’s trauma informed work.

The Metro-area data project will develop the infrastructure needed to identify, track, and manage data from electronic health records to construct community health indicators to track the health of residents. Funding will support a partnership with the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, which will coordinate and manage data collection from participating metro health systems through the Minnesota Electronic Health Records (EHR) Consortium. Funding will support a dashboard of key community health indicators based on clinical data from health systems serving most of the residents in seven county metro area.

This funding will support 2.0 FTE to manage project activities, including developing contractual deliverables, oversight, managing relationships with project partners, assuring grant deliverables are met and serving as a technical liaison with data product to end-users. Funding also will include contracts with Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute to accomplish the data management, analysis, and reporting, as well as contracts for evaluation and community engagement. 

Disparities reduction: These projects will promote health equity by providing a way to track disparities by race, income, geography, and combine that with information such as the Social Vulnerability Index and social determinants of health, and serve the residents of Hennepin County as a trauma informed organization.

APEX Coding (TI):   

Fund: 20 

Department ID: 538099 

Project ID: 1009297 

Budget ID: PROGR 

Revenue Account:  42360

Amount:  $793,430 ($260,000 for 2022)

APEX Coding (Metro): 

Fund: 20

Department ID: 536099

Project ID: 1009390

Budget ID: PROGR

Revenue Account: 42360

Amount: $4,535,844 ($1,512,000 for 2022)