Community Health Grants 2007

Goal: Improve the health of communities, particularly underserved populations, by expanding access to services, promoting prevention to reduce illness, and advancing health policy reform.

105 grants totaling $2,513,000

Objective: Advance policy reform efforts that improve access to health services. Total: $170,000

Building a Healthier San Francisco Coalition
To support the Healthy Communities Network project.
San Francisco
$20,000

California School Health Centers Association
To increase the number of health centers in public schools in the Bay Area and to enhance their sustainability.
Oakland
$25,000

Health Access Foundation
To educate and mobilize Bay Area organizations and individuals to engage in public policy debates to increase access to healthcare for underserved populations.
Sacramento
$30,000

Mental Health Association of San Francisco
To improve access to and quality of mental health care for low-income and underserved populations.
San Francisco
$25,000

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
To improve information and access to abortion and contraception for Bay Area residents.
New York
$25,000

Planning for Elders
To increase access to home and community-based long-term care services for seniors and people with disabilities through education, organizing, and advocacy.
San Francisco
$25,000 

SalvaSIDA, Inc.
To increase access to culturally and linguistically appropriate HIV/AIDS prevention and care services for Latinos in Alameda County.
Oakland
$20,000

Objective: Support local efforts designed to reduce and/or eliminate disparities in health status due to poverty, disproportionate exposure to environmental agents/hazards, and/or race. Total: $35,000

Asian Pacific Islander Family Resource Network
To provide Asian Pacific Islander parents with information about protecting their children from common health hazards found in food and at home.
San Francisco
$15,000

Human Impact Partners
To collaborate with West Oakland Neighbors and the West Oakland Toxic Reduction Collaborative on a health impact assessment of a development project and to share the findings with the community.
Berkeley
$20,000

Objective: Ensure access to the health services safety net. Total: $248,000

Alameda County Community Food Bank
To collect and distribute food, including fresh produce, to low-income individuals and families throughout Alameda County.
Oakland
$20,000

Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse
To support a 24-hour crisis hotline that provides assistance to victims of domestic violence in San Mateo County.
San Mateo
$20,000

Emergency Shelter Program, Inc.
To provide integrated mental health care and substance abuse treatment to victims of domestic violence.
Hayward
$20,000

Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
To collect and distribute food to combat hunger in Contra Costa County.
Concord
$20,000

Mission Neighborhood Centers
To support staffing for the Street Intervention Coalition, a community engagement coalition of 35 members addressing street violence across neighborhoods and ethnic groups.
San Francisco
$25,000

Monument Crisis Center
To increase the number of people served by a food distribution program through outreach, volunteer recruitment, and the hiring of additional bilingual staff.
Pleasant Hill
$23,000

People's Grocery
To improve the health of West Oakland residents by growing and distributing fresh produce and providing nutrition education.
Oakland
$20,000

Project Open Hand
To provide meals, groceries and nutrition counseling to people with HIV/AIDS and seniors in Alameda and San Francisco Counties.
San Francisco
$20,000

San Francisco Food Bank
To reach the city's most vulnerable families and individuals by expanding the network of neighborhood food pantries.
San Francisco
$25,000

San Francisco Women Against Rape
To support rape crisis services, which include a 24-hour crisis line, short-term peer counseling, support groups and case management.
San Francisco
$20,000

Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo
To provide groceries to low-income families with children in San Mateo County.
San Mateo
$20,000

Saint Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County
To support breakfast and lunch at the Free Dining Room and to expand outreach to low-income individuals and families.
San Rafael
$15,000

Objective: Improve access to healthcare, services, and treatment for those who are low-income, uninsured, and/or underinsured. Total: $1,015,000

Brookside Community Health Center, Inc.
To support the implementation of the business, capital campaign, and project management plans leading to the acquisition and construction of a new clinic site in central Richmond.
San Pablo
$25,000

Caduceus Outreach Services
To provide core operating support for psychiatric and social support services for homeless people with disabling mental illness and addictive disorders.
San Francisco
$25,000

Center for Early Intervention on Deafness
To provide early identification, diagnosis, and treatment to infants and children from birth to age five with hearing loss or deafness.
Berkeley
$25,000

Contra Costa CountyHealth Services
To provide health insurance enrollment assistance, health services navigation, and health education to high school students in Contra Costa County.
Martinez
$25,000

Family Resource Network
To improve access to healthcare and related services for underserved children ages 5-21 in Alameda County who have disabilities.
Oakland
$20,000

Futures Explored, Inc.
To provide start-up funds for new day programs in Livermore and Brentwood for medically fragile adults with disabilities.
Lafayette
$20,000

Guardian Adult Health Centers of California
To support adult day health services for residents in west Contra Costa County.
El Sobrante
$20,000

Healthy Oakland
To support the Save a Life Wellness Center, which provides free and low-cost medical care to uninsured and underinsured individuals in West Oakland.
Oakland
$20,000

Jelani, Inc.
To improve the information technology infrastructure of this organization that provides residential substance abuse treatment.
San Francisco
$15,000

Jewish Family and Children's Services
To enable low-income seniors to remain at home by providing a continuum of care services.
San Francisco
$80,000>

Kimochi, Inc.
To help monolingual Japanese and Korean seniors remain in their homes by providing care and support services.
San Francisco
$40,000>

Kovno Communications, Inc.
To support a Get Screened Oakland HIV/AIDS Outreach Campaign.
Berkeley
$20,000

LIFE ElderCare, Inc.
To reduce isolation and improve the health of seniors and disabled adults in southern Alameda County by delivering meals, providing friendly visitors, and expanding an in-home exercise program.
Fremont
$20,000

LifeLong Medical Care
To develop and implement a model for medical respite care for homeless people in Alameda County.
Berkeley
$25,000

Maitri AIDS Hospice
To support nursing and attendant care at a residential care facility for men and women living with AIDS.
San Francisco
$40,000>

Marin Community Clinic
To support the Health Education and Lifestyle Program (HELP), which provides chronic disease management services to low-income patients.
Novato
$20,000

New Leaf: Services for Our Community
To support integrated mental health, substance abuse, and psychiatry services to low-income, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, adult, and elder residents of the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$25,000

North and South of Market Adult Day Health
To provide adult day health services for elder and frail residents.
San Francisco
$40,000>

Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services
To promote the well-being of seniors living in two residences by providing health education and individual consultations with a nurse.
San Francisco
$20,000

Oakes Children's Center, Inc.
To support a therapeutic-educational day treatment program serving severely emotionally disturbed children and for counseling programs in public elementary schools.
San Francisco
$50,000>

Operation Access
To mobilize medical volunteers and hospitals to provide healthcare services and surgical care for those who are uninsured in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$50,000>

Positive Resource Center
To provide benefits counseling and employment services for people with or at risk for HIV/AIDS and/or mental illness.
San Francisco
$20,000

Public Health Institute
To provide continued support for staffing the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative, a collaborative effort of eight public health departments to address the social and environmental conditions that underlie health inequities.
Oakland
$40,000>

Survivors International
To develop the fundraising capacity of an organization that provides psychological and support services to Bay Area refugees and immigrants who are survivors of torture and gender-based violence.
San Francisco
$25,000

Tenderloin Health
To expand the in-home AIDS case management program that serves low-income residents of the Tenderloin neighborhood.
San Francisco
$80,000>

Transitions Clinic
To support the Transitions Clinic, a new service at the Southeast Health Center in Bayview Hunters Point to provide healthcare and referrals to community services for people recently released from prison.
San Francisco
$25,000

United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County
To provide health education and physical activity for seniors and to promote their involvement in local advocacy efforts around health issues.
Oakland
$20,000

Universityof California at San Francisco
To support student scholarships for the Medical School's new program to focus on the needs of underserved, urban populations.
San Francisco
$90,000>

West County Adult Day Care/Alzheimer's Respite Center
To provide quality day care and supportive services for low-income families through a six-day-a-week program of therapeutic and educational activities, personal care, and counseling for people with Alzheimer's disease and other frail elderly.
Richmond
$20,000

Women's Cancer Resource Center
To develop a Community Health Advocate program to train African American women to educate women in their community about cancer.
Oakland
$20,000

Women's Community Clinic
To strengthen the recruitment, training, diversity, and skills of clinical and community volunteers at this free clinic.
San Francisco
$25,000

Women's Recovery Association
To provide comprehensive mental health and substance abuse treatment services to women in San Mateo County.
Burlingame
$25,000

Objective: Foster efforts to prevent poor health-status, disease, and disability through investments in health promotion and education. Total: $795,000

A Home Within
To expand a program that recruits therapists to provide free counseling to current and former foster children and youth around the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$20,000

Afghan Elderly Association
To improve the health of Afghan elders in Alameda County through health education and connections to health services.
Union City
$20,000

Alameda County Health Care Foundation
To pilot a program to prevent and reduce arm lymphedema in breast cancer survivors.
Oakland
$20,000

Alameda County Office of Education
To support the Health for the Hood Project, which will create a farm on the campus of Tennyson High School and integrate nutrition education into the curriculum.
Hayward
$20,000

Alameda County Youth Development, Inc.
To support and build the capacity for mental health treatment and job training for sexually exploited minors and Alameda County.
Oakland
$20,000

Alzheimer's Association of Northern California
To provide health education workshops and resources on Alzheimer's disease to residents of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties.
Mountain View
$20,000

Arc of San Francisco
To provide general support for this organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for the developmentally disabled in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties.
San Francisco
$20,000

Arthur H. Coleman Community Health Foundation
To provide a comprehensive diabetes education program for residents of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
San Francisco
$25,000

Blind Babies Foundation
To support early intervention services for children with visual impairments and their families throughout the Bay Area.
Oakland
$30,000

Central American Resource Center
To start a diabetes prevention program that will use Latino adults to educate their peers about nutrition and exercise.
San Francisco
$20,000

Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic
To develop and implement a long-term fund development plan for this organization that provides alternative medicine and support to women with cancer.
Oakland
$50,000>

Children's Hospital of Oakland
To support unreimbursed mental health services and case management for teens served by Youth Uprising/Castlemont High Health Center in East Oakland and McClymonds High School's Chappell Hayes Health Center in West Oakland.
Oakland
$30,000

Circulo de Vida Cancer Support and Resource Center
To provide cancer support groups, home and hospital visits, and cancer information and advocacy services for Latina women with cancer.
San Francisco
$30,000

Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disaster
To build the organizational capacity of this organization that provides disaster preparedness training to community-based organizations that serve vulnerable populations.
Oakland
$25,000

Community Advisory Council to the San Francisco General Hospital Breast Cancer Program
To support collaborative efforts of nonprofit organizations to strengthen the safety net of breast cancer services.
San Francisco
$30,000

Community Health Empowerment - Exchange Works
To support HIV/AIDS outreach, prevention, education, and risk reduction activities of the Syringe Exchange Program in Contra Costa County in order to decrease the transmission of HIV between injection drug users, their sexual and needle sharing partners, and their families.
Richmond
$20,000

Contra Costa Crisis Center
To support the Youth Violence Prevention Program, which includes a 24-hour school violence tip line and presentations for students and adults and to develop an online peer counseling program.
Walnut Creek
$25,000

East Bay Cancer Support Group, Inc.
To maintain support groups for cancer patients and their caregivers and to develop an organizational plan.
Castro Valley
$20,000

El Concilio of San Mateo County
To support Nuestro Canto de Salud, a multi-component chronic disease management program serving Latinos at risk of or with diabetes in San Mateo County.
Burlingame
$25,000

Familias Unidas
To support Proyecto Bienestar, a teenage pregnancy prevention and peer educator program serving Contra Costa County.
Richmond
$50,000>

Fritz Institute
To support a governance audit of the American Red Cross of the Bay Area and to assist a local jurisdiction in assessing its disaster preparedness.
San Francisco
$35,000

Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California
To provide intensive and ongoing support to children and seniors who are hard-of-hearing, deaf, or who have speech/language disorders, and their families in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$25,000

Homeless Prenatal Program
To support a pilot project, New Beginnings, designed to work with pregnant women at risk for giving birth to drug-addicted babies.
San Francisco
$30,000

Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower
To provide violence prevention education and self-empowerment skills to individuals with disabilities in Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Contra Costa Counties.
Santa Cruz
$20,000

La Clinica de la Raza, Inc.
To provide HIV/AIDS outreach and education to Latino men in Alameda County through the Manos Collaborative, a partnership with the Tri-City Health Center.
Oakland
$30,000

Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church
To support Focus on Fitness, a program that provides health screenings, health education, and physical activity sessions to reduce chronic disease among African American women and girls in Alameda County.
Berkeley
$15,000

Options Recovery Services
To expand fundraising capacity, support board development, and improve data collection for this organization that provides addiction treatment for low-income and homeless individuals.
Berkeley
$25,000

Regional Cancer Foundation
To provide free second opinions regarding diagnoses and treatment plans to cancer patients.
San Francisco
$15,000

SAGE Project
To support the Youth Services Initiative that specializes in substance abuse and trauma recovery for young women.
San Francisco
$20,000

San Francisco Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Work Group
To develop and implement, in cooperation with hospital staff, a program to reach new parents with information about the serious injuries caused by shaking babies and young children.
San Francisco
$20,000

Shanti
To expand a program that provides emotional support and practical assistance to low-income women with breast cancer.
San Francisco
$25,000

Sisters Network San Francisco
To provide African American women with information and referrals about breast cancer screenings, medical care, and community services.
San Francisco
$15,000

Disaster Preparedness and Relief
From Katrina, Loma Prieta,and other disasters, we know that communities isolated by poverty, disability, racism, and cultural language barriers turn for help to local, trusted safety net agencies – both secular and faith-based – when disaster strikes. In order to improve preparedness of neighborhoods and key organizations serving vulnerable Bay Area communities, the following organizations were funded, including faith-based organizations, training intermediaries, and several key partners. Total: $105,000

Eden Information and Referral, Inc.
To link people in Alameda County with health and human services through 2-1-1, a free phone line available 24 hours every day of the week.
Hayward
$35,000

San Francisco Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disaster
To assess the disaster preparedness needs of human service agencies and congregations and to develop a strategic plan for training agencies that serve vulnerable populations.
San Francisco
$20,000

South San Francisco PTA Council
To purchase emergency preparedness supplies for 10,000 students and teachers in the South San Francisco Unified School District.
South San Francisco
$15,000

United Way HELPLINK
To gain support for development of a multi-county 2-1-1 information and referral phone line for health and human services that is integrated into local and regional disaster relief and recovery systems.
San Francisco
$35,000

Oral Health Initiative                                
The Oral Health Initiative is in the second year of a three-year project designed to improve community-based opportunities for low-income Bay Area residents to access both prevention and treatment dental programs. The initiative also identifies and advocates for regulatory, legislative, and policy changes to reduce barriers to oral health services. Total: $80,000 

San Mateo Medical Center
To support a collaborative of public and nonprofit clinics in their efforts to expand dental services and oral health education for low-income pregnant women throughout San Mateo County.
San Mateo
$80,000>

School Wellness Mini-grants
The School Wellness Mini-Grants program was a one year project designed to support implementation of school wellness policies at the school district level that were mandated by federal law in 2006. Mandated components included setting goals for nutrition education and physical activity, establishing nutrition guidelines for foods available on school campuses, and measuring implementation of the policy. The following grants were funded under this project. Total: $65,000

Alameda Unified School District
To implement the Harvest of the Month curriculum, increase parent involvement, provide staff development, and conduct Wellness Policy evaluation and monitoring.
Alameda
$5,000

Allen School
To collaborate with the Shaping Youth organization to provide nutrition education to the fifth grade class of Allen School, and to produce a DVD on Wellness Policy implementation for distribution to school staff and parent groups.
San Bruno
$5,000<

Berkeley Unified School District
To support a series of staff development trainings for Berkeley Unified School District nutrition services staff, school garden coordinators, and cooking teachers to begin implementing the District's Wellness Policy.
Berkeley
$5,000<

Hayward Unified School District
To support implementation of the Hayward Unified School District Wellness Policy through the "Bridge to Health/Puente a la Salud: Wellness for All" project.
Hayward
$5,000<

Jefferson Union High School District
To support the implementation of the Wellness Policy at Jefferson Union High School through parent and student involvement.
Daly City
$5,000<

Marin County Office of Education
To provide staff training on the District Wellness Policy, identify strategies to involve parents in Wellness Policy implementation activities, and provide in-class nutrition education presentations.
San Rafael
$5,000<

Mount Diablo Unified School District
To engage the Ygnacio Valley Elementary School community in implementation of nutrition components of the District Wellness Policy, implement and evaluate a Harvest of the Month Program at the school, and partner with the District Coordinated School Health Program for Policy implementation.
Concord
$5,000<

New Haven Unified School District
To implement and promote the District Wellness Policy through the Health, Education, and Resource Team program.
Union City
$5,000<

Oakland Unified School District
To support staffing, management, and outreach and evaluation activities associated with the creation of a district wide Coordinated School Health Council to implement and evaluate the District Wellness Policy.
Oakland
$5,000

Ravenswood City School District
To implement the nutrition and physical activity components of the District Wellness Policy.
East Palo Alto
$5,000<

San Francisco Unified School District
To implement the Wellness Policy district-wide by identifying and training a Wellness Policy implementer at each middle and high school.
San Francisco
$5,000<

San Francisco Unified School District
To implement a site-specific Wellness Policy implementation project in 15 District schools: five elementary schools, five middle schools, and five high schools.
San Francisco
$5,000<

West Contra Costa Unified School District
To provide physical education professional development for West Contra Costa school teachers.
San Pablo
$5,000<

< Denotes grant term is less than 12 months.
> Denotes grant term is more than 12 months.