• The Chancellor and Provost, in reviewing COPC progress, gave their support to the establishment of a formal Working Group to develop the institutionalization of COPC.
• A Service-Learning Initiative is also underway within the University, and this effort is to be linked to overall institutionalization plans
• To help raise the level of campus dialogue on community service, the University Senate held a March Plenary on "The University in Civic Engagement: Service in the University’s Mission"; the plenary featured Ira Harkavy and was very well attended. The Senate’s Community Relations Committee will present a follow-up report to the Senate Council this fall to advance this dialogue.
• At the University of Pittsburgh June Board of Trustees meeting, the Chancellor cited the work of the University's COPC as an example of the University's continuing commitment to community outreach.

• Noted in the grant review as the least-focused COPC project area, Health and Wellness solidified neighborhood plans through surveys and focus groups in two communities.
• Community Health Partnerships (state designated) have been established in Hazelwood (HI-HOPES) and Oakland (name pending).
• UPMC Health System’s Department of Community Initiatives was successful in securing a $1 million Dept of Public Welfare grant for neighborhood health outreach and career development initiatives that will include $300,000 for a Community Health Demonstration Project in Hazelwood that will employ local residents as community health outreach workers and support to renovations of the neighborhood’s UPMC medical facility.

• Students are nearing completion of housing inventories in Oakland and Hazelwood.
• Service-Learning Capstone Seminar classes (Sabina Deitrick – Graduate School of Public and International Affairs) developed two reports: 1) Meyran Street Housing Report (Oakland) and 2) Hazelwood: Making New Connections. Reports were prepared by capstone students and formally presented to and disseminated in communities.
• Congratulations to Juanita Sanchez (Social Work) and Jane Hansberry (GSPIA), COPC interns who completed their graduate studies this spring.
• A University-Community Career Development Partnership participant was one of 10 persons receiving a Pennsylvania award for progress in moving from welfare-to-work.

• A new director, David Blenk, is on board the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation (previous executive became Pittsburgh’s Planning Director) and he is actively working to reinvigorate a housing initiative for the community.
• Hazelwood Initiative hired its first paid coordinator, Jim Richter.
• The Hazelwood Initiative (HI) demonstrated its leadership the local Planning/Visioning session for developing the former J &L Steel/LTV site, the city’s major brownfield.
• The Hazelwood Homepage, a community newspaper, is publishing monthly.
• The June graduating class of the Catalyst for Community Building 20-week training project included seven leaders from COPC Community Partners, Allequippa Terrace Residents Council and Hazelwood Initiative Community Health Partnership, HI-HOPES.

• A university leadership team attended the National COPC Conference in Denver.
• The University of Pittsburgh is excited about plans for co-hosting the National COPC Conference in Pittsburgh in 2001 along with Duquesne University.
• COPC presentations were made at the Neighborhoods USA conference in Pittsburgh.

• Orientation Meeting and tour of Hazelwood community.
• Meeting with University COPC coordinators to review housing needs and projected outcomes.
• Meeting with University COPC project manager regarding web design and development issues, community resources, BBI/University/COPC relationship and code enforcement issues.
• Established informational linkage with HUD Healthy Homes Program.
• Established informational linkage with HUD Fair Housing Program.
• Conducted orientation meeting with prospective OPDC computing and HRC satellite resource person.
• COPC Rental Guide for website and brochure developed.
• Apartment Standards Checklist for prospective renters and/or landlords in preparation.

• GSPIA doctoral student Sungsoo Hwang is working with HRC Director Bob Hopkins.

• Web site developed. See www.pitt.edu/~copc
• Sites around Oakland have been studied for community location of satellite HRC office. Possible location involves partnership with Health and Wellness component.
• Meetings with Oakland Community Council underway to determine informational materials to be distributed to student rental community in Central Oakland. Reviewed potential materials.

• Graduate student Ruth Feathers worked with OPDC January - June 2001 on GIS and housing survey data. (continuing through summer 2001)
• Ruth Feathers, also a student in Professor Deitrick’s PIA Neighborhood Initiatives course, condensed students’ class reports into one final report on Meyran Avenue. This provided a basis for further analysis of real estate data and trends in Central Oakland.
• Proceeding on housing survey update, including visual inspection of properties.
• Plans begun with OPDC, Oakland Community Council, Fair Housing of Greater Pittsburgh for "Housing Summit," with public and elected officials, in Fall 2001. OPDC data, GIS, and housing survey update will be presented, with recommendations for role for city to improve processes.

• Meyran Avenue report completed. Provided baseline data for further database development. Over 100 copies distributed to Oakland groups, individuals and city agencies. (Report attached.)
• Added data on south Oakland property values, assessed values and real estate transactions. Added to GIS.
• Preliminary housing analysis of South Oakland, concentrating on sales trends, especially for the developments OPDC did - Holmes Place and Holmes Court.

• HUD Healthy Home information available on Housing Resource Center web site.
• Healthy homes identified as a priority in the Oakland Community Health Inventory.
• Information materials on healthy homes and lead hazards being identified for student renter packets this fall.

• COPC partner participation in regular Oakland Building Inspection meetings raised concern with lack of enforcement activities.
• Code enforcement identified as a key focus for fall.
• Counting broken windows and code violations.
• Tracking "tags" for OPDC.

• Housing Summit in Oakland.

• COPC management team met with Fair Housing Partnership of Pittsburgh staff; agency has been undergoing reorganization.
• Fair Housing Partnership presented at the May COPC Partners meeting. Discussions yield a planned "fair housing" focus on international students (immigrant groups) and their mistreatment in Oakland’s housing market.

• Remaining public housing units demolished in Allequippa Terrace with former residents either relocated to new Oak Hill units or temporarily relocated to other public housing units under HOPE VI plans for the community.
• Oak Hill fair market rental properties marketed through the Housing Resource Center; Oak Hill properties have been much in demand.
• Meetings with Fannie Mae to discuss Employee Assisted Housing Program at the University and UPMC Health System for Oak Hill and Oakland in general.

• Ongoing work on Hazelwood Housing Inventory, regarding data collection, GIS mapping.
• Present updates of work to Hazelwood Initiative membership meeting and housing subcommittee meeting. Discussion of data needs and presentation
• Collection of information on Housing Stock Booklet.

• Capstone Seminar report: "Hazelwood: Making New Connections." Over 150 reports distributed to community, city officials and others. Students’ final presentation at GSPIA drew over 30 people, including community representatives. Presentation to May membership meeting of Hazelwood Initiative. Summary report presentation given to Hazelwood Initiative Housing Subcommittee. (Report attached)

• Students attended NUSA conference in Pittsburgh in May.
• Parcel by parcel survey by lot and block put on GIS.
• Housing survey data on: tax liens, property owners, code violations, planned demolition sites, government ownership collected, put in database and mapped on GIS.

COPC funds a student intern working at the food pantry in Allequippa Terrace, a public housing community adjacent to campus. This effort is increasing the number of households registered, improving the quantity and nutritional quality of the food residents receive, using the monthly food pantry as an information dissemination, and, ultimately, empowering the Residents Council to run the food pantry in an organized, efficient, and successful manner. The Allequippa Terrace Residents Council received another grant - proposal written by Urban Studies Program students - that provides funding to purchase additional food and cover the salary for a part-time resident worker. The COPC intern is working with that resident staff member to help her run the food pantry and to work with other local institutions on food drives to augment the pantry’s food supply.

Community-Family Resource Workshops are just being developed starting this summer. However, major Capacity Building Training has involved two COPC neighborhoods in the 20-week Catalyst for Community Building training conducted by the School of Social Work. Leadership of the Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill Residents Council and the HI-HOPES, Hazelwood Initiative Community Health Partnership participated in and completed this training.

Internship support has helped build membership and newspaper advertisement and production through outreach, marketing, and reporting activities over the past six months. Pagemaker training for Hazelwood Homepage (newspaper) reporting and production volunteers was conducted by the University of Pittsburgh Computer Training Center under the College of General Studies. Hazelwood Initiative’s leadership and Pitt faculty and students were a strong presence in the May community visioning session for the former J&L/LTV brownfield site that was conducted with City Planning support. Sabina Deitrick’s capstone course students conducted a study of Hazelwood and produced a report that helped provide further information and background for future planning. Hazelwood Initiative hired its first part-time staff person, an administrative coordinator, to handle day-to-day business of HI at the end of May, and he is being oriented to COPC efforts. Concern in Hazelwood has arisen over closing of Gladstone Middle School which also houses youth after-school programs; students have worked with local churches and an emerging HI Youth Committee to address this issue. COPC will seek to support this new direction.

The HOPE VI survey instrument was developed and tested with input and review from the Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill Residents Council. Evaluation surveying is now underway. The last of old housing units have now been demolished and tenants relocated in either new units or other public housing as other new construction moves along in earnest.

• The food pantry was able to place monthly orders for 108 households instead of 96 in order to accommodate newly registered families and to provide for families in the event of an emergency.
• The quality and quantity the food has improved. Fresh chicken (12 cases) and fresh ground beef (6 cases) instead of processed meats, fresh eggs instead of dehydrated egg mix, twice the amount of boxed pasta products. The AT food pantry has been able to order food that appeals to residents, e.g. cases of canned collard greens and, because there were inexpensive, multiple cases of candy, chips or cookies. In the past residents had little choice in their pantry stock.
• The student intern, working with staff from the food pantry and Allequippa Terrace Residents Council, has been able to provide some nutritional guidance to residents.
• Unfortunately, the initial grant from the anonymous local foundation has come to an end, and we are continuing to seek additional funding for this project.

• One of the most noticeable changes, and yet one that is difficult to measure, is an improvement in the efficiency and organization on food pantry distribution days. When Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank staff are unable to attend distributions, the residents are now able to distribute food in an organized fashion - something they were completely unable to do last fall, as no one would take on the responsibility.
• The student intern has also been fairly successful in establishing a more structured student volunteer program, as the same students began to return regularly each month. Flyers had been distributed to attract more students into the program.
• Working with the resident staff person outreach has continued with members and staff of a local church that conducts food drives to augment the pantry’s supply.
• Working at the pantry students identify other community needs and respond, e.g. senior citizens need help cleaning their apartments, so the intern is recruiting Pitt students
• A new student intern was recruited and began work at Allequippa Terrace in June.

• The School of Education has assigned a graduate student intern to begin working this summer with parents of children in Learning Center and Tutoring activities, as well as, School-to-Work activities, to identify topics for workshops for Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill and West Oakland.

• The School of Social Work completed a 20-week Community Builders capacity training workshop program that included leadership from the Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill Residents Council and from HI-HOPE, the Hazelwood Initiative Community Health Partnership. Seven COPC partner leaders graduated from Community Builder training.

• A graduate social work community organizing and social administration intern assisted the Hazelwood Initiative on membership development, community outreach to churches and service providers, newspaper and advertisement marketing to business community during the Spring term (continued from Fall term). A social work student has been assigned a 6-week summer stint helping with marketing of Fall 5-K Race and Oktoberfest.

• A Newspaper Committee has been organized and has been actively publishing the Hazelwood Homepage on a monthly basis. Members of this Newspaper Committee received two days of free Pagemaker training from the University Computer Training Center under the College of General Studies; COPC paid for course materials for community volunteers.

• An undergraduate journalism intern from the College of Arts and Sciences’ English Department was assigned to work with the Hazelwood Initiative and its newspaper through the summer. Work includes reporting, writing, production, and advertisement marketing and sales.

• The Hazelwood Homepage has become a regular monthly newspaper with a growing advertisement base. City of Pittsburgh Weed and Seed funds have supported the development and publication of this newspaper as COPC match.

• Hazelwood Web site is only at beginning stage. COPC will provide a new computer and software for housing activities, Pagemaker newsletter production, and web site development once construction of new Hazelwood Initiative offices are completed this fall. CDBG and Weed and Seed funds are supporting development of this new space.

• The Community Enhancement Research Network at the School of Social Work has worked with Housing Opportunities Unlimited, the service coordinating agency for Beacon Corcoran Jennison Partners, the HOPE VI developer, to design the survey instrument. The Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill Residents Council was active in review and revision of the survey to assess of the HOPE VI conversion of Allequippa Terrace public housing community to the mixed-income neighborhood of Oak Hill.

• Testing of the instrument has been conducted this summer, and the survey evaluation will get underway as soon as final revisions in instrument are complete.

• This summer former public housing units at Allequippa Terrace have been demolished, and tenants relocated either to other public housing awaiting completion of the Oak Hill development or to already renovated and new Oak Hill housing units. This situation will slow survey returns.

The COPC economic development project focuses on entrepreneurial training. Given welfare-to-work reforms, the need for low income, minority women to participate in entrepreneurial training is more necessary, yet more difficult and complex. Presently women, particularly minority women, who desire to pursue self-employment have few opportunities as alternatives to welfare. The Self Employment Opportunity Program (SEOP) of the Small Business Development Center is filling this void by providing training classes for women, and low-income residents in COPC communities. The SEOP consisted of 12 weeks of classroom presentations, one-on-one consulting, and a one-year follow-up period of monthly meetings and consulting. Participants identify a skill or expertise that could be transferred into an entrepreneurial venture. COPC has expanded this effort by offering training to 8-10 residents in targeted neighborhoods of Hazelwood, West Oakland, Oak Hill and Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill.

Curriculum for the entrepreneurial training was in place via the Self-Employment Opportunity Program. When the educational level of the class is known, adjustments may be necessary, as well as updating of various supplemental materials. The main focus has been placed on marketing efforts to fill the class. Toward this end:

• Project marketing outreach has included: meetings with Breachmenders to begin working relationship; contact with Oakland Planning & Development, local bankers, West Oakland citizens meeting; efforts in conjunction with Action Housing, Inc;
• Design of new brochure marketing Self Employment Opportunity Program
• Brochure finalized and distributed through marketing outreach identified above; replenished supplies of brochures at all locations

• Meetings with University and Community partners to strategize ongoing marketing efforts resulted in: distribution of 225 brochures in Oak Hill neighborhood in conjunction with Housing Opportunities Unlimited; article about the Self Employment Opportunity Program in the Hazelwood Homepage; database search in targeted zip codes; brochures distributed to a church congregation in Oakland
• Recruitment continues for the Self Employment Opportunity Program over the summer, and classes will begin in September (Summer child care was a concern)

Efforts continued through June with little response. Reasons for the minimal response:

• Targeted residents of Hazelwood, Oak Hill and Allequippa Terrace are too low-income and lack the economic resources to pursue entrepreneurship.
• Changes in welfare have been in place long enough that remaining unemployed are physically, educationally or psychologically ill-equipped to consider entrepreneurship

• Current economic slowdown has not reached entry-level positions in the Pittsburgh area, and those who desire and are capable of employment do secure jobs.
• People traditionally consider entrepreneurship during periods of high unemployment.

The University-Community Career Development Partnership project was linked with the COPC, particularly relative to the Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill HOPE VI initiative. The initial contract with Housing Opportunities Unlimited, the Human Service coordinating agency for the HOPE VI managing partnership was delayed and is in the process of being renewed into the second year. Recruitment for new participants is being done on an ongoing basis as eligible and interested residents are identified.

Outreach activities are intensifying in the Oakland, Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill and Hazelwood/Glen Hazel communities. UCCDP is intensifying its collaboration in Oakland with JobLinks to provide expanded job readiness and placement services for local participants and reduce any duplication of services. We are also asking for more support from the University to facilitate our joint efforts.

Student Interns for case management support and community outreach were recruited and employed for 2001. The School of Social Work also assigned doctoral GSA to develop evaluation research activities. Given the limited HUD funding available from the COPC grant, all Job Training activities were support by matching resources.

A UCCDP Advisory Board was formed for to provide guidance and support in advancing program objectives and is composed of strategically selected Pitt and UPMC staff members, community leaders, and local foundations. The AB will assist with efforts to gain more credibility and visibility for the program throughout the two institutions.

UCCDP’s 2001-2002 proposal for renewed funding by the Pittsburgh Partnership was approved for full funding and included the addition of a full-time Program Coordinator to assist with program management and enable UCCDP to provide more consistency of services to participants and to expand the retention efforts.

In seeking champions within the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, a close working relationship is being formed with the leadership of the Office of Community and Governmental Relations to provide support and endorsement with the University’s upper administration. At UPMC, closer alliances with Corporate Staffing are providing better opportunities for tracking our participants in the system and dealing with problems.

UCCDP held its annual Summer Picnic on June 30, 2001. Participants and their families, employment partners, mentors and friends of the program were invited.

Donations from local merchants were solicited and were given to the participants as door and game prizes at the picnic. Over 50 people attended the picnic.

In April 2001, Ms. Stacey Green, a UCCDP participant now employed by UPMC, received a PA Achievement Award presented annually to 10 participants statewide to recognize progress in overcoming obstacles and maintaining goals for self-sufficiency. 1,500 state workers and government officials, along with honorees and their families, attended the awards ceremony.

Expanded outreach efforts have been more successful and COPC residents coming into the program are integrated into the whole range of activities that are already being successfully implemented for UCCDP participants referred under other contracts. Since June 1, 2000, twenty-five participants have come through UCCDP. Of those, fourteen have moved into full-time employment with benefits, three are interning at Pitt and UPMC, and two are waiting to be placed.

• Continued Outreach/Recruitment in Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill HOPE VI, as well as in Oakland (JobLinks) and Hazelwood (Hazelwood Initiative and Glen Hazel Tenant Council): UCCDP staff has held informational meetings with interested community residents from these communities. Several participants have put applications in at UPMC and are awaiting the outcome of their applications. A second informational meeting is being planned for residents of Glen Hazel.
• Approximately seven people from Hazelwood and two from Allequippa have been referred and assessed. To date, one individual has been enrolled.
• Community residents have not yet moved to the Work Experience Internships component. The internships are primarily targeted at those seeking clerical positions. The current interested residents have targeted food service and housekeeping for employment.
• Job Placements: No COPC community residents have been placed into employment to date. Two have had interviews and are awaiting decisions.
• Supportive services provided: Application completion assistance and resume preparation has been provided to several participants.
• Children of UCCDP participants were involved in the 2001 Annual Summer Picnic
• Student Interns were recruited to assist with family support and support service case management, as well as to aid outreach and classroom-training activities – student interns are either direct practice or community organization/social administration MSW students. Current internships wrapped up at the end of June, and new student interns are being recruited for the Fall Term.
• Research: Two doctoral GSA’s are working with Interim Associate Dean and UCCDP Principal Investigator to develop evaluative research component for UCCDP. Proposal developed for Institutional Review Board, status pending.

• Two Graduate Assistant Student Interns were recruited as Tutor Coordinators during the Academic Year.

• Spring Term of 2001 nine tutors were recruited

• Approximately 20 students were served. Some tutors worked with more than one student. Each student was tutored one-on-one for two hours a week for approximately eight weeks. They met one hour either Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday. At the end of the term, children participating received a book as a gift to start or add to their personal library.

• Goals were established for each student, and included enhancing children's:

• literacy through reading and listening to stories, and reading and writing to acquire information and communicate information;
• mathematics and problem solving through assistance with homework, educational games and related activities;
• self-esteem through the provision of authentic opportunities for academic success-e.g., preparing for tests,, writing well-drafted papers, and accessing useful information; and,
• opportunities to pursue lifelong learning through goal setting, exploration of advanced education and career options.

• Students indicated on post-activity surveys that they:

• liked to read and be read to, but some found reading alone boring,
• wanted help with homework,
• found writing challenging but some indicated that it was fun; and,
• generally liked the math activities.

• Student Tutors indicated on their intake surveys that they:

• wanted to tutor to get experience in teaching or assisting children as they learn,
• learned about the tutoring through the University's school newspaper,
• were most often from suburban homes; and,
• were tutoring for the first time (most of the respondents)

• Parent involvement was achieved by asking each child to discuss their goal-setting activities with a parent or guardian and having the parent sign the goal-setting sheet.

The Breachmenders Project proceeded along five integrated "tracks" during the period from January through June 2001. These efforts included:

• development of the Handbook for New Beginnings staff and parents of students in the after-school tutoring program,
• development of the life skills student activities book for use by University of Pittsburgh mentors/tutors in the New Beginnings after-school program,
• initiation of a one-credit directed study offered through the Department of Instruction and Learning, School of Education, to train mentor/tutors for participation in the New Beginnings after-school program,
• career counseling exploratory program undertaken with middle and high school students in the School-to-Career Program and,
• on-going staff development for Breachmenders Ministries personnel connected with the K-12 School-to-Career Program.

• Handbook development: The handbook was developed to establish consistent rules, regulations, policies and procedures for the New Beginnings after-school program.

• Student activities book: Specific activities were identified to teach elementary students life skills of organization and management, interpersonal skills, problem solving and decision making skills and character education skills related to character characteristics such as respect, responsibility, cooperation, etc.

• Directed study to train mentor/tutors: Fourteen undergraduate students from the Future Educators of America professional organization at the University of Pittsburgh participate in a one credit term-long seminar designed to prepare them as mentor/tutors for work with K-12 students in the School-to-Career Program.

• Career Counseling Exploratory Program: Four career counseling instruments were used with middle and high school students to help them identify their career interests, work orientations, work/skills strengths and goal accomplishment styles. Individual student data will be used for work-site selection and the work-oriented seminar series designed to prepare students to enter the world of work or higher education.

• Staff development for K-12 School-to-Career personnel: On-going meetings were held with New Beginnings staff to orient them to the life-skills program that will be integrated into the after-school tutoring program.

Progress at the Breachmenders Ministries site was hampered during this first year of the COPC project due to organizational changes that were occurring as New Beginnings and Breachmenders formally joined in one organizational unit. In addition, several changes in the Youth Manager position led to a lack of structure in the over all program. We are looking forward to a more stable situation in the second year of the COPC project with the hiring of a new Youth Manager.

UPMC Health System's Department of Community Initiatives has been collaborating with the university of Pittsburgh's Professional Schools to improve the health status of residents in the neighborhoods of Hazelwood, Glen Hazel, Oakland, and Allequippa Terrace. The following are the four goals of the project:

• Develop a community health partnership in each neighborhood
• Perform a community health assessment
• Establish priorities for intervention programs
• Measure outcomes of these intervention programs

Between August and December 2000, community health partnerships were formed in all neighborhoods. The focus shifted to performing community health assessments during this past reporting period.

Hazelwood and Glen Hazel's community health partnership, HI HOPE (Hazelwood Initiative Healthy Outreach Promoting Empowerment) worked with the Department of Community Initiatives to perform the health assessment. The Allegheny County Health Department provided the partnership with an assessment outline. In addition to statistical data, the outline called for focus groups to be utilized so that community residents could be given an opportunity to express their opinions concerning community health. Five focus groups and one key informant interview were held in the community. These groups represented senior citizens, middle-aged adults, and youth. The key informant interview was with an assistant director of an alcohol/drug abuse halfway house. Common issues discovered were as follows:

• The community called for the expansion of community education on various health topics (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc.) at the senior centers and the local schools.
• The community called for the expansion of transportation to healthcare facilities and the senior center.
• The community called for the development of behavioral health and dental services.
• The community called for the development of programs for youth.
• The community requested that a service directory be developed and distributed throughout the community.

The partnership decided that the community service directory would be the most practice issue to address first. A committee was formed to develop the directory. They would like to have the directory published by September 1^st.

The Department of Community Initiatives received a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare to expand access to healthcare in Hazelwood and Glen Hazel. This grant will be administered with the assistance of the community health partnership. The health assessment will be a guiding force for the pilot program. Two community health advocates will be employed to connect residents with appropriate human services and health care services. A nurse educator will be employed to work with youth in the schools and senior citizens at the senior high rise, senior center and community churches. A project director will coordinate the pilot program.

Two graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh who are interning with the Bridging the Gaps program will be working with the Allegheny County Housing Authority's Youth Sports Program for seven weeks this summer. Another intern is working with Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill residents from a health center in the Hill District. Interns are being funded through the COPC Grant and Chancellor matching funds. Interns will develop educational program for youth; e.g., the students are developing an asthma initiative to educate both youth and coaches about asthma in sports.

The Oakland community partnership also utilized the Allegheny County Health Department's outline to develop their health assessment. Likewise, in addition to statistical data, the partnership held seven focus groups to gather the views of the community. The focus group reports are now being summarized and will be presented to the partnership at the July meeting. The partnership will then prioritize the issues and begin to work toward developing intervention programs and measuring their impact.

• Community Health Partnerships formed in Hazelwood, Glen Hazel, Oakland and Allequippa Terrace.
• Community health assessments performed in each community.
• Hazelwood's community health partnership prioritized the issues and began to work toward developing programs to address the issues
• Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare received by the Department of Community Initiatives and administered through the community health partnership in order to address the need to break down access barriers to quality health care. $300,000 for a community health demonstration in Hazelwood.
• Two University of Pittsburgh graduate students hired as summer interns to work with Youth in Glen Hazel. Funding provided by the COPC Grant.
• Oakland's community health partnership completed focus groups and will present findings to the community this summer in order to prioritize the issues.