• Minority Health Month Grantees
• Hero/Shero Criteria Form and Nomination Form
• Proclamation for Minority Health Month
• Hero/Sheros and Local Kickoff Coordinators for Minority Health Month

In 1987, the Ohio General Assembly enacted legislation that created the Commission on Minority Health, the nation’s first state office of minority health in response to the disparity in health status between Ohio’s minority and non- minority populations. Today, the national minority health network includes the Office of Minority Health, U.S. Public Health Service and 35 state offices of minority health.

The Commission funds 24 month Demonstration grants, Health Priorities Trust Fund grants, Minority Health Month grants and grants for Systemic Lupus Erythametosus support groups. Additional services are provided through an HIV/AIDS Demonstration grant funded by the Office of Minority Health, U.S. Public Health Service.

Created in April 1989, Minority Health Month is designed to be a 30-day, high visibility, health promotion and disease prevention campaign. Conducted with and by community based agencies and organizations, this celebration reaches into urban, suburban and rural areas of the State.

Minority Health Month was designed to:

• promote healthy lifestyles;
• provide crucial information to allow individuals to practice disease prevention;
• showcase the resources for and providers of grass roots health care and information;
• highlight the resolution of the disparate health conditions between Ohio’s minority and non-minority populations; and
• to gain additional support for the on-going efforts to improve minority health year round.