The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.                       - Helen Keller

Magnolia Women's Recovery Program, Inc.
Magnolia Women's Recovery Program, Inc.'s main goal is to increase the health of children born to their chemically dependent mothers.  Through its individualized treatment, Magnolia reduces the pediatric complications associated with "toxic" births and seeks to reunite postpartum mothers and their children as soon as possible in order to allow for the crucial early stage development of the infant.  In addition, through its substance abuse treatment and parenting skills training, Magnolia minimizes the resultant child abuse and neglect associated with substance abuse.   
Grant Award: $33,993

 
Alzheimer's Services of the East Bay       
Alzheimer's Services of the East Bay supports individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's/Diabetes/Cardiovascular disease to manage their chronic diseases while attending ASEB's dementia specific Adult Day Health Program.  In addition, ASEB supports the caregivers of these individuals with education, counseling and respite with a special emphasis on outreach to the female caregiver.  
Grant Award: $40,000

 
CALICO Center
Since its inception in 1997, CALICO (Child Abuse Listening, Interviewing and Coordination) Center has served as a multi-disciplinary hub, bringing together police officers, child welfare workers, and prosecutors to respond collaboratively to child abuse allegations, hear children's testimonies, and link children and families with vital therapeutic, medical and legal support services in Alameda County.  In 2005, CALICO served 588 children, most who were sexually abused, and many who were physically hurt, neglected, exploited as prostitutes, and/or witnessed violence in their homes or communities.  CALICO is often the place where these children recount their experiences in full for the first time.  A supportive and effective response from CALICO is therefore crucial in fostering a child's healing and ensuring that offenders are held accountable. 
Grant Award: $20,000 
 
CV Youth Soccer League
TOPS Soccer League
The Castro Valley TOPS Soccer League program is designed to promote physical fitness for children with special needs.  It gives children an opportunity to participate in a program that is run in a safe and appropriate environment.  The main objectives are for the children to get physical exercise, improve their social skills and have a good time doing it.
Grant Award: $5,000
 
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: $30,000
 
California State University, East Bay Foundation        
Mobile Audiology Screening Unit
The Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders (CDS) at Cal State East Bay not only operates a clinic where both adults and children can come to get their hearing screened, but they also take this service out into the community.  While their on-campus Clinic serves adults and children for diagnosis and therapy each quarter, most of their clients are served by their Clinic in community settings, such as preschools where they take the equipment out to them.  Their clients represent an underserved population because they often need more services than they are able to receive given the limited resources available to them in the community.
Grant Award: $57,500 
 
LaClinica de La Raza, Inc.
Promoting Health and Wellness for San Leandro Youth
La Clinica de La Raza, Inc has supported the San Lorenzo High Health Center (SLHHC) at San Lorenzo High School.  Services at SLHHC are available for adolescents who attend San Lorenzo and Royal Sunset High Schools, and in some cases local youth as well.  Both schools are located in San Lorenzo and primarily serve youth from the unincorporated communities of Ashland and Cherryland, two of the most diverse and rapidly changing areas in Alameda County.  Many of the students served by SLHHC have no health insurance, and even more lack a regular source of comprehensive and coordinated primary care services.  Without the SLHHC, these students would not have easy access to age-appropriate health services, health education or mental health/behavioral health services.  The grant funds supported a project aimed at improving the knowledge, health behaviors and emotional wellness of students attending San Lorenzo and Royal Sunset High Schools.  SLHHC's Health and Wellness project is a multi-pronged approach to health care which includes a particular emphasis on increasing young men's utilization of health care; targeted services for youth around health issues that affect them; and creating innovative health education programming focused on the pressing health concerns of today's youth.  In addition, La Clinica continues to provide San Lorenzo youth with access to comprehensive health care (general medical services, health education, first aid and urgent care, etc.) at San Lorenzo High Health Center. 
Grant Award: $26,400 
 
Row Chabot
After School Rowing Scholarship Program
Row Chabot, Inc. is a non-profit organization that has entered into a long term partnership with the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) to develop and oversee year-round after school programs in rowing for local middle and high school aged youth (grades 8-12) residing in the Eden Township Healthcare District.  The specific target population encompasses the cities of Hayward and San Leandro, and the urban unincorporated areas of Castro Valley, San Lorenzo, Ashland and Cherryland.  These communities are generally underserved in terms of recreational opportunities due to socioeconomic disadvantage and, in some cases, due to the lack of municipal infrastructure to advocate for improved services. Row Chabot is dedicated to offering the benefits of rowing to all young people, regardless of ability to pay.  The grant funds enabled 12 socioeconomically disadvantaged youth the opportunity to participate in this unique program.
Grant Award: $15,000
 
Tri-City Health Center                           
HIV/AIDS Benefits and Housing Advocacy-Hayward
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.  The City of Hayward remains fourth highest in reported AIDS cases in Alameda County, and their Hayward caseload is increasing by an average of four clients per month.  With these grant funds Tri-City Health created a new program component that will empower clients in achieving two milestones in strengthening their own safety net: securing income and/or benefits that will assure adequate access to medical care and basic needs, and securing appropriate, permanent long term housing. 
Grant Award: $50,000 
 
Alameda County WIC Program    
Healthy Babies for Life
Alameda County WIC provides breastfeeding education and support services to low income mothers residing in the Eden Township area.  Their goal is to increase the successful initiation and duration of breastfeeding among low income mothers who reside in the Eden Township area.  The funded Breastfeeding Peer Counselor (BFPC) provides education and support, and breast pump loan/give-away for prenatal and breastfeeding women who are participants at the Hayward WIC program office.  The BFPC also continues to provide recently implemented lactation rounds to primarily low income postpartum mothers at Eden Hospital Birth Center, and continues to develop a system for referral with Eden Township area medical providers.
Grant Award: $75,000
 
CV High School PTS Association
Sober Grad Cruise 2007
Every year high school students are injured or killed as a result of graduation night drinking/drug use and driving.  Sober Grad Cruise 2007 provided a safe and fun activity to celebrate graduation day for the 2007 seniors.  This activity provided a positive, healthy environment for one very important night for the 2007 graduating seniors of Castro Valley High School.
Grant Award: $2,000
 
Davis Street Family Resource Center
Davis Street FRC Eden Wellness Project
The goal of the Davis Street FRC Eden Wellness Project is 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 Ashland.  The three main focuses of their holistic approach to health care services are access to free acute medical and dental care to uninsured and underinsured people; access to comprehensive health and dental educational services in the form of one-on-one and small group consultations; and access to additional basic needs resources including, but not limited to, food and clothing, child care, job preparation and housing resources and mental health services. 
Grant Award: $75,000
 
Legal Assistance for Seniors
Eden Legal 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
 
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: $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: $25,000
 
East Bay Agency for Children
CAP Training Center: Eden Area Prevention and Mental Health
East Bay Agency for Children's Child Assault Prevention (CAP) Training Center provides a comprehensive suite of CAP training activities and school-based mental health services in the Eden Area.  This program provides high-quality, long-term mental health services to a minimum of 50 low-income children at Eden Area schools with impaired social and psychological functioning. 
Grant Award: $45,000 
 
Eden I&R
24 Hour Information & Referral Telephone Hotline 2-1-1
In November, 2006 Eden I & R began providing 2-1-1 services to Alameda County.  2-1-1 is a single point of access that allows free health and human services information and referral in multiple languages.  The program goals are to increase access to health, housing and human service resources by making available a toll free multi-lingual 24 hour a day 7 day a week information and referral telephone line.  The program also enhances and maintains accurate and comprehensive information on over 1,250 health and social service resources and over 54,000 housing units.  The program also participates in annual disaster preparedness drills, events and partnerships with such organizations as the Emergency Manager's Association, the Office of Emergency Services, the Red Cross, VOAD, CARD, and others.   
Grant Award: $25,000
 
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: $65,000 
 
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, Inc.
Healthy Smiles/Sonrisas Sanas
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, Inc. (TVHC) is implementing a new initiative called Healthy Smiles/Sonrisas Sanas, an oral health education and prevention project working in conjunction with their Community Health Education Department, dentists from their Dental Department, as well as OB/GYN and Pediatricians from their primary care practice.  TVHC uses a variety of resources including the "Healthy Smiles for Mom and Me" curriculum sponsored by First 5 of California, as well as the "Smart Smiles" curriculum developed by the American Dental Association to reduce health disparities and improve knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about how to prevent and reduce the burden of oral health disease among low-income and uninsured children and their families.
Grant Award: $39,091

 

dba Congregations Organizing for Renewal (COR)
Promotora & Community Leader Training for Health Education & Access
A one year grant which built on their successful provision of on-going training of health promoters (promotoras) and COR leaders to bring health education and increased access to Spanish-speaking communities in the unincorporated areas of Cherryland and Ashland, and San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Hayward, and Union City.  Their goal is to increase the skills and outreach of at least 100 COR leaders and promoters, resulting in improved access to health information and insurance enrollment for at least 150 families and enrolling at least 75 children over one year.  They also will reach at least 300 residents in the Eden Area with critical health information and will ensure that at least 15-20 COR leaders are trained to become certified application assistants through the Alameda County's Outreach, Enrollment and Retention Utilization Project.
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 the Hayward Area Senior Center site.
Grant Award: $12,000