Project Charge Press Conference
KC is part of a 14 member coalition, Project CHARGE (Coalition for Health Access to Reach Greater Equity). This capacity building project aims to strengthen Coalition's members health access knowledges and advocacy skills, assess health access needs of vulnerable API populations, educate decision makers on systemic changes necessary to increase access to low income API immigrants, educate vulnerable populations on health coverage, and disseminate learnings on health access on a national level.
Project CHARGE were joined by Assembly members Richard Gottfried and Ellen Young, City Council Members Alan J. Gerson, Robert Jackson, Chief of Staff John Choe of City Council Member John Liu's Office, and the Asian & Pacific Islander Health Forum (APIAHF), to launch a 4-year national campaign to eliminate health disparities on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 11 am in the Red Room, NYC City Hall.
Project CHARGE is 1 of 8 coalition funded by the Health Through Action, a groundbreaking national initiative between APIAHF and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The Kellogg Foundation awarded an unprecedented $16.5 million for Health Through Action. Project CHARGE will receive $600,000 over 4 years to increase financial access to health care for the diverse API community in NYC.
Specifically, Project CHARGE seeks to:
- Increase access to public and private health insurance, and
- Increase affordability of care, including prescription medication, and treatment services.
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