Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment Program

Activities related to Community health made up the largest portion of the fy2022 budget in terms of expenses. In fy2022, cope continued to work with a coalition of multi-sectorial individuals and organizations to promote access to health services and healthy food on navajo nation. We continued to partner with local partners to expand the navajo fruit and vegetables prescription (fvrx) Program to provide families with the purchasing power to obtain fruits and vegetables from local retailers. We continued to offer training, educational materials, and Patient incentives to health educators and Community health representatives. We continued our cancer Program initiatives as well as activities geared toward supporting physical activity. We also continued to support key work related to the covid-19 response.

The third largest portion of the fy2022 Program budget went to capacity building activities designed to strengthen cope and to broaden the reach of cope's programs. Expenditures were allocated toward staff who are dedicated to activities such as evaluation, administration, human resources, and operations.

Community partnership activities in fy2022 comprised the second largest portion of the budget in terms of expenses. Much of this budget reflects subrecipients, contracts, and support directed toward our Community partners who play central roles in our programming including food access efforts, Program evaluation, Community health worker certification, and other coalition work. Cope also served as fiscal sponsor to a Community- based organization as another approach to support local capacity building.