Key Initiatives

St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities (SLEHC) driven by its ongoing assessment of community health needs, issues Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from time to time to solicit grant applications in support of identified needs.

Since 1998, SLEHC has issued a total of four initiatives with the fifth to be completed in 2001. Brief descriptions of the key initiatives with links to a few selected programs are listed below:

1998

Maternal and Child Health Collaborative (RFP #C2-98)
Designed to foster the development of new initiatives addressing significant maternal and child health problems in local Texas communities.

Family Health Collaborative (RFP #C3-98)
Designed to foster the development of new initiatives addressing significant family health problems in local Texas communities.

1999

Childhood Health Collaborative I & II (RFP #C2-99 & RFP #C3-99)
Designed to foster the development f new initiatives addressing comprehensive, affordable, accessible preschool childcare in local Texas communities.

2001
Congregational Health Ministries Collaborative (#C1-01)
Designed to promote community health in body, mind and spirit through partnerships with faith organizations (churches) and other community health and/or human service organizations.

Key Partnerships

SLEHC has also sought consultation from all the mobile health service providers in the Greater Houston Area to form the Greater Houston Mobile Health Forum (MHF). In addition, the East End Healthy Children Collaborative is a partnership of eight individual agencies working together to target children 0-18 who live in the East End community of Houston, Texas.