Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back...                   -  Anthony Robbins

CV High School PTSA
Sober Grad Cruise 2006
Every year high school students are injured or killed as a result of graduation night drinking/drug use and driving.  Sober Grad Cruise 2006 provided a safe and fun activity to celebrate graduation day for the 2006 seniors.  This activity provided a positive, healthy environment for one very important night for the 2006 graduating seniors of Castro Valley High School.
Grant Award: $1,500

The Better Health Foundation
Second Spanish Edition of the Bay Area Breast Cancer Resource Guide
The Second Spanish Edition of the Bay Area Breast Cancer Resource Guide is a community effort designed to empower, educate and provide access to the continuum of breast cancer care services - from early detection to survivorship and bereavement - for all Latinas and their families.  The Spanish Guide is made available to all Latinas, patients, their families, healthcare providers, and individuals free of charge at participating community health organizations and distribution partners.
Grant Award: $5,000

Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education
Senior Osteoporosis Screening Program
The Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education (FORE) has developed and refined an approach for preventative osteoporosis screening and follow-up for underserved older adults in the Eden Township Healthcare District.  The intervention has reached more than 4,000 individuals, over half of whom have or are at risk for, osteoporosis and future fractures.  Their program offers a unique community based approach to health education, health promotion, and access to health services.  Building on partnerships with existing organizations serving older adults, the program provides multiple entry points for bone health assessment and empowers participants to engage the healthcare system if needed and to make lifestyle changes that can reduce the risk of premature loss of mobility and death - both highly associated with hip fractures.  In addition, the program offers intervention for patients identified at risk for fracture by distributing donated calcium and vitamin D supplements during the year.
Grant Award: $30,000

Service Opportunity for Seniors, Inc./Meals on Wheels
The SOS/Meals on Wheels - Eden Township Healthcare Delivery Route Continuation and Enhancement Project
Meals On Wheels is a program/service whose primary function is to assist homebound seniors who by age related health issues are in need of supplemental balanced nutrition through their program's daily home delivered hot meal service.  The organization's mission is to promote nutritional health, decrease the possibility of premature institutionalization, foster and support self-determination, independence and the dignity of homebound seniors, by enhancing their nutritional quality of life through the program's specialized and unique "home delivered meals" system of care.
Grant Award:  $16,698

Building Futures with Women and Children
Emergency Shelter and Supportive Services for Homeless and Battered Women and their Children
The San Leandro shelter provides shelter, food, clothing and support services to homeless women and their children.  Supportive services include overall case management and connecting clients to resources in Alameda County, as well as other services that address the multiple issues that many of their clients face, including mental illness, substance abuse, and medical conditions.  Case Managers and counselors provide life skills training, drug and alcohol recovery support, employment and housing assistance, money and time management, benefits advocacy, parenting education, and an innovative Children's Program.  The San Leandro Shelter and Sister Me Home Safe House (whose clients are often referred to the San Leandro Shelter when they are out of immediate danger) are the only emergency shelters in San Leandro, serving Eden Area women.
Grant Award: $30,000

Alzheimer's Services of the East Bay
Alzheimer's Services of the East Bay (ASEB) supports families living within the District who are diagnosed with a dual diagnosis of Alzheimer's/Dementia and Diabetes.  The organization provides caregivers of enrolled participants respite services that will support the caregiver's need for self-care and employment.  ASEB nursing staff foster partnerships with the participant's caregiver to increase their confidence in the medical management of their family member.  ASEB's clinical team promotes and improves the health status of participants with the dual diagnosis of Alzheimer's/Dementia and Diabetes.
Grant Award: $10,000

Ashland Free Medical Clinic
The Ashland Free Medical Clinic provides health care without charge to the indigent, uninsured, and underinsured in the Ashland/Cherryland Community and the immediate surrounding areas of the Eden Township Healthcare District.
Grant Award: $15,000

Tri-City Health Center
Tri-City Health Center is the sole provider of comprehensive HIV care services to low income residents of South, Central and East Alameda County, including the Eden area.  Although advances in medical treatment have lessened the severity of HIV disease for many individuals, those living with HIV continue to face substantial challenges to overcoming barriers to managing their own care and lives.  These challenges are most often associated with mental illness, poverty, substance abuse, homelessness, medication side effects and the long term health impact of living with an illness that is often disabling. 
Grant Award: $40,000

Southern Alameda County Sponsoring Committee, dba Congregations Organizing for Renewal
Promotora (Health Promoter) Leadership Training Initiative
The design of the Promotoras Leadership Training Initiative is to respond to the needs of low-income families who are less likely to have adequate information about, access to, and comfort with health care systems.  The peer-to-peer relationships that the promotoras create in their neighborhoods result, over time, in a leadership role in which they are seen as experts and resource people for the many problems and needs in their communities.  As their leadership grows, community residents often ask for a broader range of support, though the promotoras are primarily trained to provide health care resources on such topics as diabetes, domestic violence, nutrition information, and HIV education and prevention.
Grant Award: $15,000

Christmas In April*Castro Valley Area, Inc.
The mission of Christmas in April*Castro Valley Area, Inc. is to help low-income elderly and people with disabilities live in warmth, safety and decency through volunteer renovation and repair of their homes.
Grant Award: $5,000

Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center
Proyecto OLIHN (Organizing Leaders in Health Intervention Now!)
The Proyecto OLIHN Program recognizes the deep impact of the tremendous challenges and obstacles facing youth and their families in the Eden area.  The Proyecto OLIHN responds to these issues by providing a wide range of youth services, outreach and family-involvement programs to strengthen at-risk youth from unintentional pregnancies and increased access and referrals to clinic reproductive health and contraceptive services.  Youth develop conflict mediation and behavioral skills to resist delinquent activities, build self-esteem and partake in cultural enrichment and family awareness programs.  The project offers youth leadership and empowerment after-school programs and academic assistance.
Grant Award: $47,500

Boys & Girls Club of San Leandro
Ashland Team Up for Youth/Growing Healthy Kids
The Boys & Girls Club of San Leandro was awarded a four-year commitment from Team Up for Youth to provide quality after school sports programs for children in the Ashland area.  In 2006, over 600 children participated in their after school sports programs.  They are currently running after school and summer sports programs at Hesperian Elementary, Hillside Elementary, Edendale Middle School, KIPP Summit Academy, and the Hayward Plunge.  These programs support health and wellness in the Ashland area.  It encourages interest and education about health and health issues at a critical time for young people who can make life choices of a life of health and wellness.   
Grant Award: $20,000

Davis Street Family Resource Center
Eden Wellness Project
The goal of the Eden Wellness Project it to mitigate the repercussions of poor health by delivering health, dental and health education services to uninsured and underinsured people who live in the Eden area, including the Ashland region.  The three main areas of focus of their holistic approach to health care services are: 1) direct free-acute medical and dental care; 2) access to comprehensive health and dental educational services in the form of workshops and one-on-one consultations; and 3) access to additional basic needs resources including, but not limited to, case management, food and clothing, child care, job preparation and housing resources and mental health services.
Grant Award: $70,000

Spectrum Community Services
Preventing Falls Among Seniors in the Eden Area
Falls among the elderly present one of the greatest health threats to this population and often severely limit independence by leading to premature institutionalization, lengthy hospital stays and mobility problems.  Spectrum's Fall Risk Reduction Program (FRRP) uses a multi-pronged approach to help prevent falls among Eden Area seniors - addressing the physical, behavioral and environmental factors that contribute to falls.  To do this, they employ strategies that educate about fall prevention; guide and make referrals for home safety modifications that can prevent falls; and offer training that builds strength, mobility, balance and fall prevention skills.  Their focus is on empowering participants - helping them to implement solutions and become more confident of their control over their own lives. 
Grant Award: $40,000

Legal Assistance for Seniors
Eden Outreach Project
Legal Assistance for Seniors provided legal assistance in the areas of Health Law and advocacy, general legal support (public benefits, guardianship, consumer issues, immigration, elder abuse and preparing for incapacity) as well as community education presentations to the residents of the Eden area.
Grant Award: $25,000

St. Rose Hospital Foundation
Silva Pediatric Dental Clinic Service Expansion
The Silva Pediatric Dental Clinic continues to see a growing crisis in childhood dental disease.  Many untreated children are experiencing extensive dental decay at epidemic proportions, an epidemic that is very treatable and can be dramatically reduced.  To meet the overwhelming needs of low income children in the Hayward and surrounding areas the organization proposed an expansion project at the Silva Clinic which would allow 60 new patients for dental care and treatment.  Through the project, 60 children would receive an initial dental exam, screening, x-rays, cleaning, education and prevention and all follow up treatment as needed.
Grant Award: $30,000

Greater Hayward Area Recreation and Park Foundation
Ashland Community Center
The Hayward Area Recreation and Park District (H.A.R.D.) is dedicated to improving the quality of life for citizens of all ages and continues to create community through people, parks and programs.  The Ashland Community Center is an esteemed community resource that provides a range of low and no-cost programs for the at-risk, low-income, underprivileged and underserved residents of Ashland.  The programs offered at the Ashland Community Center serve as a foundation for developing, building and supporting active, healthy, knowledgeable, productive, responsible, leaders in the Ashland Community.  Residents are able to further expand their possibilities through participation in positive programs that promote a healthy self-esteem in a safe and caring environment. 
Grant Award: $35,000

East Bay Agency for Children
CAP Training Center - Hayward Prevention and Mental Health Project
East Bay Agency for Children and their Child Assault Prevention (CAP) Training Center helps children in elementary and middle schools of the Hayward Unified School District (HUSD).  The program provides high-quality, long-term clinical mental health services to 50 low-income Hayward children who are at-risk of abuse or victims of abuse and assault.  These children, drawn from 7 targeted high-need HUSD elementary schools, are ineligible for full-scope Medi-Cal coverage, and thus services to them cannot be covered under CAP's existing public contracts.  In addition, CAP provides an interactive, school and community-based violence and abuse prevention curriculum to more than 3,555 children, youth, parents, teachers and youth service providers in these and other HUSD elementary and middle schools. 
Grant Award: $45,000

Family Services of San Leandro
(dba Family Service Counseling and Community Resource Center)
Ashland Life Skills Project
Family Service Counseling and Community Resource Center (FSCC) provides a comprehensive and strategic mental health services package to high-risk high school students, and their parents.  The primary recipients of this comprehensive package currently reside in the unincorporated district of the San Lorenzo Unified School District, known as the Ashland district.  The remaining recipients of the comprehensive package reside in Cherryland.  FSCC services the critical needs of children now attending Royal Sunset Continuation High School.
Grant Award: $30,000

The East Bay Cancer Support Group, Inc.
Support for Adult Cancer Patient Group and Adult Caregiver Group
Psychological support is critical to improving overall quality of life, yet there is a gap in cancer support services in our area.  The East Bay Cancer Support Group is the only place in southern Alameda County providing on-going, weekly support groups for cancer patients, their loved ones, and the bereaved.  Because their services are free, they are open to all in the community, who should not - at this very vulnerable time - have to worry about the cost of psychological care.
Grant Award: $15,000

Ombudsman, Inc.
Health and Respect: New Models of Long-Term Care
The purpose of this grant was to build on the foundation of expanded community outreach, best practices and training, and coalition building developed in the past in order to foster new models of long-term care that will meet the needs of a growing and increasingly diverse older adult population in the Eden Healthcare District.  Activities included in the Health and Respect project include education regarding wellness and abuse prevention, as well as identifying, tracking, and resolving issues related to inadequate care and neglect of health.  Representing the local community, most volunteer ombudsmen are senior citizens themselves, and through their work with Ombudsman, Inc. they exemplify a deep personal commitment to the empowerment of other seniors.
Grant Award: $25,000

Lincoln Child Center
Kinship Navigator Program
The only such service in Southern Alameda County, the Lincoln Child Center Kinship Support Services Program (KSSP) is a community-based, family centered, support and resource center for relatives who are raising another family member's children, thereby keeping children within their families, communities and cultures.  Caregivers and their kin children receive an array of home and community support service.
Grant Award: $15,000

Mercy Brown Bag Program
Mercy Brown Bag Program's mission is coordinating the distribution of high quality, nutritionally balanced, bags of groceries to low-income Alameda County seniors.  The program collaborates with others who share its vision and values to sponsor sites for the distribution of food.  Mercy Brown Bag Program has built a network of 15 food distribution site sponsors and 31 senior service providers to distribute their groceries, including their Hayward Area Senior Center site.
Grant Award: $12,000

California Reach Out and Read
Bancroft Pediatrics Medical Group Reach Out and Read of San Leandro County
Reach Out and Read provides parents with valuable information about their local public libraries, other community literacy programs, and how to access various resources within their community.  As a result of the program, parents develop more positive attitudes towards books and reading to their children, they read to their children more often, and children show significant improvement in expressive and receptive language.  The goal of the program is to provide literacy guidance to parents and free books for 1,500 children via the Reach Out and Read model of early literacy promotion.
Grant Award: $4,500