The
Greater
Health
& Human Services Grants
1. Believe In West Virginia – To continue and expand the outreach and distribution and receipt of products of Storehouse West Virginia. This grant will also cover the cost for publications to current and potential recipients. - $11,060
2. Center for Economic Options - The “BNBiz” Project builds the confidence and capacity of low-wealth business owners through facilitated exchanges and improved connections to available resources. - $1,813 for computer equipment.
3. Center for Rural Health – Support for the West Virginia Adolescent Immunization Project was developed to assist the state in leading the nation by preventing disease outbreaks and increasing immunization rates for adolescents. - $11,468
4. Charleston-Kanawha Housing Authority – This grant will implement a Good Housekeeping program to prevent residents from losing their assistance for severe housekeeping issues. - $10,000
5. Charleston Leadership Council on Public Safety – The “Excellence in Training for a Safer Community” is a center where the Charleston Police Department offers the latest law enforcement training enhancing officer and public safety. - $1,000 for program support.
6. Children’s Therapy Clinic – This grant will help provide free comprehensive therapeutic services (physical, speech, and occupational therapies and autism services) to low-income or uninsured children with special needs. - $9,000
7. Community Access – This grant will help the Transitions to Employment program for residents of Samaritan Inn, Daymark and the Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home. This project provides vocational assessments, budgeting, resume development job/career development, job placement, and 6-month follow-up retention support for residents of these programs. - $15,500
8. Community Development Outreach Ministries – This grant will help the Avesta Drive Community Center serve the needs of the families through after school programming, summer day camp, homework help, and other programs. - $15,300
9. Daymark – This grant will help the Patchwork Runaway and Homeless Youth Shelter make improvements to the front porch and a roof replacement for the Turning Point pre-independent living group home. - $11,745
10. Direct Action Welfare Group (DAWG) – This grant helps organize low wage workers, public assistance recipients, and people in poverty to create positive change in their lives and their communities.- $10,000
11. Domestic Violence Survivors Support Group – The Healing through Creativity Festival is an opportunity for all survivors of any trauma to share original works of every creative media and focus on positive aspects of healing to promote improved community understanding of trauma leading to the prevention or lessened impact of similar traumas. - $5,000 for program support.
12. Gabriel Project of West Virginia– This project will open outreach centers at St. Ann's Parish in Clendenin and First Presbyterian Church in St. Albans to provide meeting places for the Gabriel families to have their needs assessed and provide services for low-income pregnant women and their families with infants and young children. - $11,000 for program support.
13. Gauneka Ruritan Club – This grant will provide a roof replacement on the Gauneka Ruritan Community Center so they may continue to offer programs and services to individuals and nonprofit organizations in our community. - $10,500
14. Kanawha County Dental Health Council – This grant will computerize its staff with laptop computers to allow information sharing with Kanawha County Schools and ease of accessibility to provide necessary dental care in the community. - $4,495
15. Kanawha Valley Collective (KVC) – This project will provide program funds to continue and expand the impact that we have had on the homeless and those at risk that are served by our member agencies. - $10,500
16. Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home - To provide weekly group and bi-weekly individual counseling services to our residents, while still in recovery, in order for them to return to society and the community, mentally and emotionally stable. - $14,638
17. Make A Wish Foundation – This grant will help purchase equipment to show a professionally produced PowerPoint presentation and "Wish Stories" to outreach sources and the community. - $1,399
18. Mental Health Association in the Greater Kanawha Valley – This request is to fund the creation and distribution of resources for the Mental Health Comprehensive Program. - $5,200
19. Prestera Center for Mental Health Services – A screen printing business to employ and train individuals with disabilities was established to improve quality of life of employees and promote economic development in Kanawha County. - $15,000
20. Rainelle Medical Center – This grant will provide start-up costs for the new Meadow Bridge Schools Wellness Center in Fayette County, WV and will serve the health needs of students, staff, and families. - $12,000
21. Rea of Hope - Rea of Hope is a non-profit faith-based organization dedicated to providing a recovery home for women, 18 and older, who are recovering from alcohol and/or drug addiction. This grant will provide a program coordinator for the home. - $17,500
22. Religious Coalition for Community Renewal (RCCR) – This is a matching fund grant for their HUD grant to provide supportive services, operations, and outreach to homeless men at the Samaritan Inn.- $30,000
23. River Valley Child Development Center – WV Deafblind Project - This project strives to ensure that children with Cortical Visual Impairment have access to appropriate assistive technology. – $82,334
24. Roark Sullivan Lifeway Center (RSLC) – To provide health promotion/maintenance and education program for homeless men/women who are residents of the RSLC programs and expand our current program to include outreach services via health screenings/referrals to healthcare providers. - $37,000
25. Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club – Twenty children, grades K-3, will participate in the After School Excellence program Monday – Thursday weekly, throughout the 2007 - 2008 school year. Program participants receive one hour and fifteen minutes of reading instruction daily. Children will spend half the session in classroom training and half in the computer lab working on literacy modules. - $20,000
26. TEAM for West Virginia Children – This project will recruit, train and support community volunteers (CASA's) to be a "voice" for abused children in Boone, Lincoln, and Putnam County courts to ensure they grow up in a safe permanent home. - $29,000
27. Tyler Mountain Cross Lanes Community Services – The Christmas Basket Program provides baskets of food for families in need in the Tyler Mountain/Cross Lanes community so they will have a balanced meal for the holidays. - $2,000
28. United Way of Central West Virginia – Enhance the Christmas Bureau program by replacing the current Access database with a web-based database to minimize duplications and expand the number of agencies that participate in this program. - $3,750
29. West Side Neighborhood Association – This grant will pay for expenses related to implementing the work plan goals and objectives of the Charleston West Side Main Street project. - $15,000
30. West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence – The project will promote increased awareness, accessibility and participation by residents of the Greater Kanawha Valley in the WV Summit on Violence Against Women to be held in October 2007. - $5,001
31. West Virginia Community Development Project – This project will provide technical assistance in the form of board training, 501©3organizational development, fundraising, and strategic planning for nonprofits who need these services but are unable to afford to hire a consultant. - $14,000
32. West Virginia Division of Natural Resources – This project allows hunters to donate their legally harvested deer to the Mountaineer Food Bank for distribution to the hungry in the TGKVF region of West Virginia. - $15,000
33. West Virginia Health Right – The Healthy Heart project will improve the cardiovascular health of 300 patients that exhibit behaviors and/or lifestyles that contribute to the development of chronic health problems. - $34,388
34. West Virginia State University - NYSP (National Youth Sports Program) provides youth, ages 10 through 16, from underserved communities with the opportunity to receive benefits from structured sports and education programs. - $4,500
35. West Virginia State University Research & Development Corporation - The program will offer a family nutritional literacy program, Smart Moves, for girls that includes nutritional and physical literacy and fitness, a Walk and Talk mentoring program, and a week long summer day camp on healthy lifestyles for middle school girls. - $4,925
36. West Virginia University Foundation – This project seeks to educate and increase public awareness in the Greater Kanawha Valley about advance care planning and end-of-life care options and make resources available from the Center for Health Ethics and Law as well as in the local area. - $8,770
37. West Virginia University Medical Corporation (WVU Eye Institute) – A key program of the WVU Eye Institute works to improve independence, quality of life, and economic potential of WV’s children by focusing on children’s vision. The Children’s Vision Rehabilitation Project provides children with incurable vision loss the ability to access the visual environment independently. - $22,460
38. WomenCare – This project will help serve an additional 3,000 people over the next three years by purchasing medical equipment for the new site on Charleston’s West Side. - $25,000
39. Women’s Health Center – The gynecology program at the center provides women of all ages and incomes with preventive gynecological care, core services include pelvic and breast exams, pap smears, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted disease, pregnancy testing and birth control counseling and supplies. Free and reduced-fee services are provided for uninsured and indigent women. - $20,374
40. YWCA – This grant will help the Resolve Family Abuse Program purchase computer equipment for the domestic violence shelter and staff support for the Boone County office. It will also help the Sojourner's Shelter staff the peer-2-peer program and purchase safety equipment (chairlift). - $29.305
40 individual grants were awarded for a total of - $606,925