The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (Maine DHHS) on Friday issued a request to waive competitive bidding on a $200,000 grant to the Mi’kMaq Nation Health Department to support “equitable vaccine access and vaccine confidence.”
According to the grant request, the Maine DHHS Office of Population Health Equity (OPHE) is requesting $200,000 to “Address racial/ethnic COVID-19 disparities through COVID-19 response efforts within the Public Health District.”
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The Mi’kMaq Nation Health Department, the provider, will use the $200,000 grant to “implement activities that increase equitable vaccine access and vaccine confidence through education, outreach and partnerships,” the request reads.
“OPHE’s theory of change centers on the idea that the organizations best positioned to impact change in communities are those whose leadership reflects the community they serve,” Maine DHHS wrote in the request to justify the grant. “As the Mi’kmaq Tribal Health Center, Mi’kMaq Nation Health Department is best positioned to do this work efectively.”
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Maine DHHS claims in the request that the grant amount is reasonable because the scope of the work is “comparable to the activities other organizations are taking on as part of the Vaccine Equity program.”
The funding would come as part of a $32.1 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC) made available under the 2021 federal Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act.
As of September 2023, Maine DHHS awarded 19 organizations with “COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Grants,” including grants of hundreds of thousands of dollars to several immigrant and refugee advocacy organizations in the state:
- Maine Access Immigrant Network: $181,000
- Maine Association For New Americans: $363,000
- Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services: $470,300
- Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition: $689,000
- New Mainer’s Public Health Initiative: $330,500
You got-a be shitten me.
If only the IMMIGRANT money would go to actual medical care instead of costs to ship more of them to Maine – we can’t afford the ones here already.
I”m hoping the Mi’kmaq are alot smarter than to take a vaccine that has killed and permanently maimed millions of people. Screw your “equity” Maine, SCREW YOU.
“…equitable vaccine access and vaccine confidence.”
…what even is such a thing!!? This scamdemic has passed and anyone who doesn’t know about it has been in a coma the last 4 years. What a virtue signaling, waste of money, piece of shyt grant!
Why isn’t anyone in Maine discussing the negative side effects of these bioweapons?
We keep setting money aside for a product that is neither safe nor effective.
This should be reported on.
Who the hell even knew there was a Maine DHHS Dept of Population Health Equity? What the f— is that anyway? Oh, I know. Just another beaurocratic waste of your money on a useless gov’t boondoggle employing losers who can’t make it elsewhere.
THIS IS BULL ! There is very high inflation from over spending AND you want to spend more. We have very dumb people in Augusta.
In other news, a study by personal finance website WalletHub analyzed property, income and total sales and excise levies in every US state to calculate which were the most ‘tax burdened.’ Thanks to the Maine leadership we were ranked #4th highest.
White man kill native Americans, what is new?
Hold on just one second. Let me get this straight DHHS want to spend all this money:
on ILLEGAL ALIENS. Let me repeat that spend money on ILLEGAL ALIENS but let Maine children DIE!!! Seriously what is wrong with the citizens of Maine? Are you so blind and stupid to what your state government is doing that you just turn a blind eye? The local MSM is useless just like the Legislature and Governor.
The government cares so much about Native American people that it’s determined that they too get an experimental vaccine that prevents neither infection by or the spread of, covid19.