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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration.
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CV High School Parent Teacher Student Association
Sober Grad Cruise 2010
Every year high school students are injured or killed as a result of graduation night drinking/drug use and driving. Sober Grad Cruise 2010 provided a safe and fun activity to celebrate graduation day for the 2010 seniors. This activity provided a positive, healthy environment for one very important night for the 2010 graduating seniors of Castro Valley High School. The funding provided by the Eden Township Healthcare District helped to offset the student fee, enabling more students to participate.
Grant Awarded: $1,000
Magnolia Women’s Recovery Program, Inc.
Magnolia Therapeutic Child Care and Clinical Services
Magnolia Women’s Recovery Program, Inc. is the only residential program in Southern Alameda County treating pregnant and postpartum women for chronic substance abuse. Magnolia’s mission is to assist pregnant and postpartum women to heal emotionally, physically, and spiritually from the devastating effects of drug and/or alcohol addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders, and to thereby decrease the incidence of harm to the children as a result of the mother’s addiction. The Eden Township Healthcare District funding will provide therapeutic child care to children ages 0-5 of mothers who are enrolled in Magnolia’s Perinatal Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program in Hayward. In conjunction with the substance abuse treatment that the mothers receive, this cross-disciplinary service is designed to provide support and trauma resolution for the children of addicted mothers, and to increase the parenting skills of mothers as they begin a new life without alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
Grant Awarded: $20,000
Mammogram Screening of Alameda County, Inc.
Take Charge with Bodyworks
Mammography Screening of Alameda, Inc. (MSOA) is a non-profit breast health organization providing education, and training tools for early detection to reduce breast cancer deaths. Their Survivor Empowerment/Support group has formed a new partnership with Bodyworks. Bodyworks is a tool kit used to educate communities, families and individuals to make simple gradual changes to reach and maintain healthy weight proven to aide in the reduction of obesity. Bodyworks goal is to prevent obesity, diabetes, cancer and chronic diseases through nutrition and physical fitness.
Grant Awarded: $2,500
La Familia Counseling Service
La Familia Family Resource Center Wellness Initiative
The La Familia Family Resource Center (FRC) in South Hayward provides health related services to residents of the Eden Township Healthcare District. The Family Resource Center is committed to serve all residents of Hayward, Cherryland and Ashland. Family Resource Center Family Advocates provide drop-in health and basic needs support, as well as intensive and consistent case management support to families experiencing simultaneous multiple challenges. Services are delivered using a rich and vast number of active partners following a collaborative service model. The South Hayward Neighborhood Collaborative (organized partners serving Hayward) formed in 1994 is central in helping residents access health and social services. The Family Resource Center is the hub of this collaborative making effective use of resources through service integration such as: information and referral, health outreach (i.e. insurance application assistance, immunizations), intake, assessment, basic and essential needs (i.e. food, clothing, shelter), and education and community support.
Grant Awarded: $25,000
East Bay Innovations
Oral Health Access Project
East Bay Innovations was established in 1994 to support individuals with developmental disabilities to live in their own homes, work in jobs of their choosing, and participate in all aspects of community life. Located in San Leandro, East Bay Innovations today serves 205 adults with developmental disabilities throughout Alameda County. The recent elimination of Denti-Cal coverage for most adult Medi-Cal recipients poses a threat to the oral health of many persons with development disabilities. The Oral Health Access Project will utilize a Benefits Counselor to navigate benefits and explore options addressing individuals’ dental coverage needs, while taking into account their unique, overall healthcare requirements.
Grant Awarded: $3,000
San Leandro Unified School District
The Toolbox Project
San Leandro Unified School District and the Toolbox Project will provide intervention services at all of the School District’s elementary schools. The Toolbox Project will serve children with challenges related to emotion, motivation, and socially appropriate behavior. The challenges these children face are often related to the sense of alienation and malaise affecting societies, and often expressed as intolerance, violence, addiction, divorce, and depression. The Toolbox Project services will be for at-risk 4th and 5th grade students. The program services will exclusively consist of the assessment of need for, referral to and provision of small group services at 8 school sites.
Grant Awarded: $25,000
Eden I & R, Inc.
24-Hour Health and Social Service Telephone Line, Alameda County 2-1-1
Alameda County 2-1-1 is a toll-free, 24/7 phone service that provides callers with information and referrals to health, housing, and human services in 170 languages. The easy to remember 3 digit number enables individuals and families in need to make a critical connection with appropriate community based organizations and government agencies. The funding enables Eden I & R, Inc. to provide updated health related service information and referrals to Eden Area residents.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Mercy Brown Bag Program
Mercy Brown Bag Program/Hayward Senior Center Site
Mercy Brown Bag Program improves lives by coordinating the distribution of nutritious groceries twice a month, free of charge, to low-income seniors in Alameda County. Last year the Hayward Area Senior Center project served 261 people in 169 households. Bags of groceries included fresh produce, fresh and/or canned vegetables, soup and/or fruit, pasta and/or rice, a protein item, and bread. The project is designed to address malnutrition of the low income elderly and assist with other unmet needs: isolation, depression, unsafe food practices, sedimentary lifestyle, inability to purchase essentials such as medicine, and minimal connection to other services offered in the Eden Area.
Grant Awarded: $13,000
East Bay Agency for Children
CAP Training Center: Eden Area Prevention and Mental Health Project
East Bay Agency for Children’s Child Assault Prevention (CAP) Training Center provides child abuse and violence prevention workshops in Alameda County for children, youth, school staff, parents, and youth serving professionals, and school-based mental health services at targeted Eden Area elementary schools. Grant funding from Eden Township Healthcare District over the years has allowed them to provide CAP prevention workshops to approximately 28,000 individuals and specialized therapeutic and psychosocial support services to over 360 children. The CAP Training Center is the only program in the Eden Area and Alameda County that provides this type of comprehensive service for low-income, under-insured children.
Grant Awarded: $10,000
CALICO Center
Family Support Services for Abused Children
Since its inception in 1997, CALICO, the 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. Their mission is to provide a supportive environment to interview children and facilitate a collaborative response to child abuse in which the needs of the children take precedence. In 2009, they served 187 Eden Area children, most of whom were sexually abused, and many of whom 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 Awarded: $15,000
Greater Hayward Area Recreation & Park Foundation
Ashland Community Center
The Hayward Area Recreation and Park District’s Ashland Community Center program offers over 45 free or low cost programs and events annually for all ages at the Ashland Community Center. These quality programs are designed to promote health and wellness, foster human development and strengthen community, safety and security. Programs include an after school and summer youth programs, citizenship classes, community outreach activities and events, English as a Second Language classes, financial education for youth, fitness and nutrition programs for adults and youth, food distribution programs for families and older adults, GED test preparation classes, health workshops, homework help, library services, senior programming, youth literacy programs and a free youth summer lunch program. These programs facilitate community problem solving by providing resources to residents that deter at risk behaviors and aid in developing healthy, caring, independent community members.
Grant Awarded: $20,000
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County
Bodies in Motion
Girls Inc.’s Bodies in Motion Program is a unique health intervention approach that targets girls in the neediest communities, who are most at-risk of developing serious health issues. The program serves girls, ages 8 to 16, who have been referred to Girls, Inc. by a physician because they have one or more of the following risk factors – a pre-exposure to adult disease, significant issues with weight, and/or a primarily sedentary lifestyle. The Bodies in Motion solo track service model, provided throughout the school year, incorporates individualized workouts with information about nutrition and healthy eating habits. Tailored to each girl’s unique needs, the program gives referred girls access to a personal trainer and the Girls, Inc. Fitness Center. An additional intensive summer program is offered during June and July, providing girls fitness and nutrition activities in a mixed age group environment. All programming takes the girl’s living situation, cultural norms, and access to resources into account in the interest of providing them with a realistic and relevant health and fitness plan. Through working closely with girls, parents and health providers, girls have made incredible improvements regarding their health and their self esteem in the program.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
La Clinica de La Raza, Inc.
Promoting Health and Wellness for San Lorenzo Youth
For the past seven years, La Clinica de La Raza, Inc. has operated the San Lorenzo High Health Center, a school based health clinic, at San Lorenzo High School. Services at the San Leandro High Health Clinic are available for adolescents who attend San Lorenzo and Royal Sunset High Schools and, in some cases, other local youth as well. Students served by the San Lorenzo High Health Clinic continue to lack health insurance and a regular source of comprehensive and coordinated primary care services. Without the Health Center, these students would not have easy access to age-appropriate medical, health education and/or mental health services.
Grant Awarded: $20,000
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 successfully prevents falls among Eden Area seniors – using a state-of-the-art approach to address the physical, behavioral and environmental factors that contribute to falls. The program will educate seniors about fall prevention strategies (including medication management); guide and make referrals for home safety modifications that can prevent falls; and provide training that builds strength, mobility, balance and fall prevention skills. The program’s focus is on empowering participants, helping them to implement solutions, and becoming more confident of their control over their own well being.
Grant Awarded: $25,000
Alameda County Deputy Sheriffs’ Activities League, Inc.
Youth Leadership and Urban Farming
The Alameda County Deputy Sheriffs’ Activities League has a youth leadership program called Furthering Youth Inspiration which consists of 50 youth who work to develop their skills, abilities and leadership, as well as creating community activities for local youth and families in an effort to prevent violence, obesity and teen pregnancy. One of the programs the Furthering Youth Inspiration organization works on is the Ashland/Cherryland Garden Network Urban Agricultural program, which trains and hires youth and community members to grow produce which is then sold at affordable rates back to the community. The revenue then goes back into the Ashland/Cherryland Garden Network to sustain employment opportunities.
Grant Awarded: $25,000
Family Emergency Shelter Coalition
Physical and Emotional Awareness for Children Who Are Homeless (PEACH)
The Family Emergency Shelter Coalition (FESCO) helps homeless families move toward self-sufficiency. They operate a 24-bed emergency shelter and 12 units of transitional housing in Hayward and the Cherryland District. In addition to providing nutrition, case management services, housing placement assistance, and a budgeting and savings program, they offer mental health services to their residents and alumni. These services include both individual and group therapy for adults and children. Mental health services are provided by a Clinical Supervisor (a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), who also supervises the work of graduate interns who have completed a master’s degree in counseling and are completing the hours of supervised work required for licensure as MFTs. The project goal is to improve the physical and mental health awareness of the younger homeless children in their care, while simultaneously enabling their parents to gain greater benefit from the mental health counseling they provide.
Grant Awarded: $5,000
Service Opportunities for Seniors (S.O.S.), Inc. Meals on Wheels
Maximizing Meals on Wheels Delivery to Homebound Seniors
S.O.S. Meals on Wheels delivers hot, nutritious meals daily to frail and homebound seniors in the Eden Area, as well as a daily well-check and social service referral as needed. Government funding support remains stagnant while demand for meals has increased, forcing seniors to a waiting list for meals. The grant funding helps to support three driver routes in the Eden Area and to expand their newly developed program to convert select meal routes from paid to volunteer drivers. S.O.S. will be able to serve all high-priority seniors in the Eden Area within a week of their request for meals.
Grant Awarded: $41,000
Tri-City Health Center
Mensajeros (Messengers)
Mensajeros (Messengers) is a partnership between two agencies – Tri-City Health Center and the Hayward Day Laborer Center – engaged in addressing the needs of a vulnerable population at risk for HIV: Latino day laborers in the Eden Area of Alameda County. The partnership will deliver a peer-to-peer model with the goal of increasing adoption of HIV risk reduction strategies among Latino day laborers and providing greater access to HIV testing and HIV care. Mensajeros expands the services of the two agencies serving Latino day laborers in the Eden Area. Tri-City Health Center currently provides minimal HIV prevention outreach in the Eden Area and HIV testing services in Downtown Hayward and Fremont, while the Hayward Day Laborer Center provides health education workshops at its drop-in site in South Hayward.
Grant Awarded: 30,000
Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay
Dementia Specific Adult Day Health Care
Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay provides an innovative program that is designed to monitor the medical, physical, emotional, spiritual, and social needs of each program participant. The caregivers are provided with respite hours that allow them to remain employed or just take a moment for their own personal needs. Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay’s programs are designed around the seven Quality of Life Domains. Staff is trained to understand the components of a healthy quality of life for the individual living with cognitive decline due to their diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. This allows Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay to provide a wealth of information in their care planning and documentation. Each program participant has an individualized care plan that is reviewed by a multi-disciplinary team that consists of a Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Dietician, Physician, Program Director, and Recreational Therapist. Each program participant has his or her own care plan reviewed and updated every 3 to 6 months.
Grant Awarded: $10,000
California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc., Community Counseling Center
Community-focused, Strength-based Interventions for Children and
Families Conquering Adversities
For 30 years, the Community Counseling Center in the California State University East Bay’s Educational Psychology Department has provided counseling services to Eden Township Healthcare District residents who are poor, at-risk, underserved, and/or ethnic minorities. The purpose of the Strength Project is to help children and infants, as well as their siblings and parents, to overcome increasingly high levels of stress in healthy ways. The Community Counseling Center has contributed significantly to the Eden Township Healthcare District through its continued commitment to excellent, low-cost counseling service and educational preparation of its Marriage Family Therapist (MFT) trainees. In order to meet the community’s increasing needs for counseling and their trainees’ need for experience, the Strength Project in the Community Counseling Center will provide four important expanded services: two types of play therapy (helping children to work through their feelings while parents learn from their play), parenting training, and solution-focused couples’ counseling (helping parents to identify solutions and generate healthier responses to stress).
Grant Awarded: $40,000
Eden Medical Center Foundation
Women’s Breast Health Demonstration Project
Eden Medical Center’s Breast Health Program will provide low income women in Southern Alameda County with free mammography screenings and education on breast health and breast cancer. Through this program, Eden Medical Center is working directly with local community health clinics such as Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center and Davis Street Family Resource Center. The Breast Health Program will target low income, minority women in Southern Alameda County, with inadequate or no health insurance, 40 and older (or younger than 40 if there exists a family history of breast cancer, or have discovered something new in their breast that they do not understand). In addition, the program aims to educate low income, minority women on the importance of breast health and foster better understanding of breast cancer.
Grant Awarded: 5,000
Davis Street Family Resource Center
Campaign to Purchase the Davis Street Family Resource Center
For over 39 years the Davis Street Family Resource Center has provided critically needed services to the families with the greatest need in the Eden Area. Their goal is to create a permanent home for the Family Resource Center so that they can create a substantial center despite the ups and downs of the economy. They know that families will continue to need health care and medical services, mental health services, child care and child care resources, employment and housing assistance, food and clothing, alcohol and drug prevention, access to education and parent information, and other forms of information and referral services. Their goal is to purchase the building at 3081 Teagarden in San Leandro to ensure the future for the center so that they may provide quality services to those with the greatest need.
Grant Awarded: $500,000
Alameda County WIC Program
Eden Township Area – Healthy Babies for Life
The goal of the Eden Township Area – Healthy Babies for Life program is to increase the successful initiation and duration of breastfeeding among low-income mothers who reside in the Eden Township area. A Breastfeeding Peer Counselor provides education and support, and breast pump loan/give-away for prenatal and breastfeeding women who are participants in the Hayward WIC program office. The Breastfeeding Peer Counselor also provides recently implemented lactation rounds primarily to low-income postpartum mothers at Eden Hospital Birth Center, and continues to develop a system of referral with Eden Township area medical providers.
Grant Awarded: $75,000
Emergency Shelter Program, Inc.
Community Health Outreach and Shelter Services for Women and Children
The program objective is to expand the existing services of the Emergency Shelter Program to include women and children in Hayward who need similar services to those offered in their shelter because they have limited access to health care. There are populations in the city of Hayward and surrounding communities that are underserved in regard to access to health insurance and health care, particularly women (and their children) who are experiencing domestic violence in their homes and other women (and their children) who may be poverty-stricken and on the verge of losing their homes or who are new immigrants. The program will provide multi-lingual, multi-cultural health and related services to low-moderate income women and children in Hayward, including health insurance assistance, counseling for mental and substance abuse issues, general case management and referral to social and health services, legal assistance, advocacy, information about food and shelter, education/prevention/safe exit regarding domestic violence and child abuse, job preparation assistance, and women’s support groups.
Grant Awarded: $30,000
Cornerstone Community Development Corporation, dba Building Futures
With Women and Children
Healthcare and Housing for Eden Area Women and Children
For over twenty years Building Futures with Women and Children has provided one of Alameda County’s most vulnerable populations – homeless and battered women and children – with a comprehensive safety net of services: shelter from the streets; case management to set and achieve goals; referrals to County social services; and programs and support services that can make a profound positive difference in their lives. Literally thousands of women and children have received life-changing support through their shelters, housing and support services. While women and children from the Eden Area are served at all three of their emergency shelters and transitional housing site, the majority are served in their San Leandro Shelter, a 30-bed shelter for homeless women and children. In addition to providing shelter and food, the San Leandro shelter provides opportunities for their clients to address their barriers to permanent housing and rebuild their lives.
Grant Awarded: $30,000