Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.                    -  David O. McKay

Building Futures with Women and Children
Emergency Shelter and Supportive Services for Homeless and Battered Women and Children
Two emergency shelters were opened in the Eden Township Healthcare District to aid homeless and battered women and children: the San Leandro Shelter and the Sister Me Home Safe House. Because there are so few emergency shelters located within the ETHD, the demand for beds is very high. For every 10 women who call needing a safe place to stay, only one can be accommodated. The grant helped enhance program services including adult case management, mental health counseling, group counseling, therapeutic children’s play activities, peer support groups, and more.
Grant Award: $40,000

 

Family Services of San Leandro
Royal Sunset Family Service Center
Royal Sunset High School is an alternative continuation high school, situated in Cherryland and serving students residing in the San Lorenzo school district who have been unsuccessful in regular public schools. Royal Sunset’s students are at exceptionally high risk of depression, suicide, violent crime, failing to graduate, obesity and health problems related to alcohol and other drugs. Family Service has been providing quality community mental health and social services to central Alameda County since 1926 and assumed leadership of the Royal Sunset program last year. The grant has helped sustain and enhance health services to the students.
Grant Award: $35,000

 

Ashland Free Medical Clinic
Ashland Free Medical Clinic
The Ashland Free Medical Clinic provides non-emergency urgent health care services in the Ashland community. The care is offered free of charge and made available to the indigent, uninsured and underinsured in the Ashland and Cherryland community and immediate surrounding areas of the Eden Township Healthcare District. The clinic operates with twenty-two physicians, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants, all of whom volunteer their time. The clinic offers primary health care services, basic dental care, mental health services, laboratory services and radiology evaluations. The grant has helped launch the new clinic.
Grant Award: $37,500

 

CommPre
Eden Area Alcohol Counter Advertising Project
Eden Area Alcohol Counter Advertising Project has addressed the widespread problem of alcohol abuse and under-age drinking by targeting the adults of the community to increase their awareness of the easy youth accessibility to alcohol and reduce alcohol advertising in the community. The campaign has brought attention to adults the myriad of ways that youth obtain alcohol from adults. The grant enabled CommPre to address these problems through policy change and by conducting an information dissemination campaign utilizing billboards and counter advertising in the targeted areas.
Grant Award: $35,000

 

San Leandro Boys and Girls Club
Hillside Elementary School Unit
The San Leandro Boys & Girls Club operates an after-school and summer program at Hillside Elementary School. The program serves 300 children living in the Ashland neighborhood. The grant has enabled the Boys & Girls club to expand the SMART Moves Program – educating children on the dangers of tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse and premature sexual activity – and the Kids Cuisine Program focusing on proper nutrition.
Grant Award: $20,000

 

East Bay Agency for Children
Child Assault Prevention Training Center, Eden Area Project
CAP is the only community-based program with an established curriculum on child abuse and assault prevention for children and youth in preschool through high school. CAP also offers a curriculum for children with special needs and disabilities, and provides a component for training parents, school staff, and other youth serving professionals. Other programs have a specific focus and target age group, while CAP serves all ages and offers a broad range of topics which include bullying, molestation, child abduction, sexual harassment, teen dating violence, domestic violence, hate-motivated behavior, and all other forms of abuse and assault. The grant has enabled the agency to broaden its services to more children, families and schools within the district.
Grant Award: $45,000

 

Family Emergency Shelter Coalition (FESCO)
Children’s Mental Health Support Groups
With assistance from the Community Health Fund grant, FESCO has been able to provide therapeutic support groups for children and youth in homeless families. With an increase in the number of youth aged 10-16 needing assistance, the severe stresses of homelessness combined with the issues of growing up created a tremendous need for mental health support for these children.
Grant Award: $20,110

 

Mercy Retirement and Care Center
The Mercy Brown Bag Program
The Mercy Brown Bag Program coordinates the distribution of high quality, nutritionally balanced bags of groceries to low-income seniors age 60+ in Alameda County. Starting in 1982 with one site serving 30, the agency now serve more than 1,500 needy seniors through 12 sites including Ashland Community Center and Hayward Area Senior Center. These two sites provide 230 Eden Area seniors with bags of nutritious groceries, twice monthly, free of charge.
Grant Award: $15,000

 

SOS Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels
The Community Health Fund grant has enabled the agency to expand and add two “hot meal” delivery routes for seniors residing in the District.
Grant Award: $16,104

 

St. Rose Hospital
Health Insurance Outreach
The Health Insurance Outreach Program (HIOP) was launched by the Hayward Health Insurance Task Force 2001, a group comprising the city of Hayward, local non-profit agencies, Eden Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente and St. Rose Hospital. The program is designed to address the three prominent health insurance issues: enrollment, retention and utilization. The program includes the following components:

Eden Counseling Service
Summer School Prevention and Intervention
This program provides counseling services for at-risk students involved in summer school programs at Castro Valley High School and Canyon Middle School over a six-week period. The student population includes those who may have been suspended for behavioral issues, truancy problems and other issues that put them at risk for violence. Services include crisis intervention and management, school-site assessments and individual counseling and referral for other services including family counseling.
Grant Award: $5,000

 

CALICO
Child Abuse Intervention & Advocacy Services
CALICO Center is a multidisciplinary interview and coordination center designed to support children, youth and developmentally delayed adults who are victims of sexual and physical abuse. CALICO Center reduces the trauma associated with the child abuse investigation by eliminating repetitive interviewing and coordinating a collaborative response in the best interests of the children. The agency works with various social services groups and law enforcement agencies to reduce trauma to the child involved. The staff consists of a diverse and bilingual group of professionals with the ability to service hearing impaired clients.

 

Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay
Supporting those with Dementia and their Caregivers
Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay has developed this program to support those individuals and their families who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia. The program provides dementia-specific care management to those families in the Eden Township Healthcare District and throughout Alameda County who choose to provide care in the home and do not use the day programs available in the community. The care management program includes home visits, care planning assistance, counseling, education, service planning and other support services.
Grant Award: $10,000