Cape Regional Medical Center Receives Grant

Cape Regional Medical Center and its partners across Cape May County will use funds to focus on improving health and health equity over the next two years. Cape Regional Medical Center is among the 12 communities selected as a grantee in a new initiative from New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) – the statewide grant making program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
“The funds from the grant will be used to continue and accelerate our work with the goal of developing and implementing strategies to reduce the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) in the communities of Lower Township, Middle Township, Wildwood and Woodbine, NJ,” stated Tom Piratzky, Executive Director, Cape Regional Foundation. “Our team, the Cape Regional Wellness Alliance, has representation from more than 32 organizations and has been developing and implementing a comprehensive education program about ACES since 2016.”
Through NJHI: Upstream Action Acceleration, 12 two-year grants totaling $100,000 each have been awarded to organizations to build on past or current strategies toward health improvement within New Jersey’s communities. Working “upstream,” these grantees will work collaboratively to achieve statewide impact in addressing social, economic and environmental factors that are known to influence health. These factors include income, employment, early childhood development, education, housing, nutrition and the built environment.
To learn more about this program, visit the Kicking ACES in Cape May County web page http://www.njhi.org/projects/kicking-aces-in-cape-may-county on the New Jersey Health Initiatives web site, or call Tom Piratzky, Executive Director, Cape Regional Foundation at 609-463-4042.