2024 Toronto Urban Health Fund Allocations and Review Process

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The decision

2024-05-27 · Board of Health · amended

As filed

The Board of Health: 1. Authorized the Medical Officer of Health to allocate $653.4 thousand in 2024 for seven (7) one-year projects. 2. Authorized the Medical Officer of Health to allocate $1,867.7 thousand to seventeen (17) three-year projects to implement year two services in 2024 as recommended by the 2023 Toronto Urban Health Fund (TUHF) Review Panels and as outlined in Tables 2 and 3 and Appendix 2 to the report (May 13, 2024) from the Medical Officer of Health.

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3. Authorized the Medical Officer of Health to execute Grant Agreements with the applicants identified in Appendix 2 to the report (May 13, 2024) from the Medical Officer of Health. 4. Directed the Medical Officer of Health to work in collaboration with urban Indigenous community organizations to evaluate and reset the Toronto Urban Health Fund Indigenous funding stream using an Indigenous-led approach to redesign, in keeping with principles of Indigenous-self determination and the City of Toronto's commitments to Truth and Reconciliation.

The vote

Adopt Item as Amended · Carried, 10-0

For (4)Alejandra Bravo, Ausma Malik, Chris Moise, Michael Thompson

Absent (2)Amber Morley, Gord Perks

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On the agenda

As the city filed it

The Toronto Urban Health Fund (TUHF) provides grants to community-based HIV prevention and substance use initiatives. Projects funded through the TUHF complement existing Toronto Public Health programs to provide effective services that focus on HIV, substance use and harm reduction programming to populations and groups that Toronto Public Health cannot access due to linguistic, cultural, and geographic barriers. This report outlines the TUHF's program criteria and priorities, application review process, and 2024 grant recommendations for Board of Health approval.

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The 2024 TUHF Review Panel recommend granting $653.4 thousand for seven (7) one-year projects and $1,867.7 thousand for seventeen (17) three-year projects that were approved in 2023. The grants total $2,521.1 thousand for the twenty-four (24) projects and are to be used between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025. The 2024 recommended projects focus on HIV prevention through sexual transmission, harm reduction, child and youth resiliency, and Indigenous health promotion.

Staff recommended

The Medical Officer of Health recommends that: 1. The Board of Health authorize the Medical Officer of Health to allocate $653.4 thousand in 2024 for seven (7) one-year projects. 2. The Board of Health authorize the Medical Officer of Health to allocate $1,867.7 thousand to seventeen (17) three-year projects to implement year two services in 2024 as recommended by the 2023 Toronto Urban Health Fund (TUHF) Review Panels and as outlined in Tables 2 and 3 and Appendix 2 to this report.

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3. The Board of Health authorize the Medical Officer of Health to execute Grant Agreements with the applicants identified in Appendix 2 to this report.

On the record

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