2004 GRANT AWARDS

Grantee

$ Amount

Program Description

Advanced Behavioral Health
(Middletown)

75,000

To support uninterrupted children’s mental health services until state funding resumes in September.

Asian Family Services, Inc.
(Hartford)

To expand core services, strengthen operations and infrastructure, and diversity funding sources.

Asian Family Services, Inc. 
(Hartford)

10,000

To recruit new board members and partially fund the executive director.

Asylum Hill Family Center, Beat the Street program
(Hartford)

To improve the health status of racial and ethnic community members living in this neighborhood adjacent to downtown Hartford through culturally specific health promotion and risk reduction strategies.

Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition
(Bridgeport)

To promote healthy eating and exercise among Latino and African-American children attending early childhood programs, including child care providers, in Bridgeport.

Bridges – A Community Support System, Inc.
(West Haven, Milford, Bethany, Orange, Woodbridge, Amity and the lower Naugatuck Valley)

To oversee the work of four local systems of care community collaboratives that are charged with providing families of children with severe mental health problems community-based, family-focused, culturally competent care that is grounded in evidence-based diagnosis and treatment practices.

Child Health and Development Institute
(Farmington)

To fund the publication of a Spanish language edition of “Caring for Connecticut’s Children: A Handbook of Parents and Caregivers of Young Children.”

Christian Activities Council
(Hartford)

To support Albany/Vine Street Task Force Block Party Initiative in August 2004.

Citizens for Quality Sickle Cell Care, Inc.
(New Britain)

To support capacity building and strategic planning.

Community Foundation of Greater New Haven
(New Haven)

To support the New England Black Philanthropy conference in June 2004.

Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
(Hartford)

To continue educating and organizing neighborhood residents who are at risk of suffering from environment-related health problems throughout Connecticut.

Connecticut State Conference of the NAACP (National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People) Branches
(Statewide)

To complete a comprehensive study of the status of African-American health in Connecticut. The report will provide an accurate picture of real and perceived barriers to health and recommendations for state policy-makers.

Council on Foundations
(Washington, D.C.)

13,040

To provide partnership support to this nationwide foundation association.

E.B. Kennelly Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization
(Hartford)

75,000
over three years

To improve the health status of racial and ethnic community members living in Hartford’s southwest corner neighborhood through culturally specific health promotion and risk reduction strategies.

Environment & Human Health, Inc.
(North Haven)

7,098

To support the printing and distribution of "The State of Nutrition and Physical Activity in Our Schools" to Parent Teacher Association presidents and other members throughout Connecticut.

Faith Congregational Church, Living Well Health Ministries/Faith Community Initiatives, Inc.
(Hartford)

To improve the health status of racial and ethnic community members living in this predominantly African-American church through culturally specific health promotion and risk reduction strategies.

Family Services of Central Connecticut, Inc.
(New Britain)

10,000

To support the Billing Enhancement Project.

FAVOR, Inc.
(Rocky Hill)

300,000

To continue developing an effective parent advocacy movement in Connecticut to ensure that families of children with severe mental health problems have access to the best community-based care available.

Focus Alternative Learning Center, Inc.
(Canton)

10,000

To support the Focus on Parenting Program.

Generations Family Health Center
(Willimantic)

To continue to increase HUSKY children’s access to continuation restorative oral health services in Windham and parts of New London and Tolland counties. Funds will be used to subsidize personnel costs and purchase computer technology to better capture patient data and health information as well as maximize revenue sources.

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
(Washington, D.C.)

To provide partnership support to this nationwide organization.

Grantmakers in Health
(Washington, D.C.)

To provide partnership support to this nationwide health grant-makers association.

Hartford-East Hartford Oral Health Collaborative
(Greater Hartford area)

To improve its data collection and care coordination systems. Also, plans will be developed to expand dental services to all East Hartford school children. (The Children’s Fund of Connecticut, Inc., will contribute an additional $20,000 in the first year).

Healthy Divas
(Bridgeport)

To expand the Healthy Divas Program to the most disenfranchised women in the community through education and healthy lifestyle incentives.

Human Resources Agency of New Britain
(New Britain)

To improve the health status of racial and ethnic community members living in New Britain’s North-Oak neighborhood through culturally specific health promotion and risk reduction strategies.

Khmer Health Advocates Inc.
(Hartford)

To help evaluate the telemedicine model it developed for underserved, limited English-speaking people (mostly survivors of Cambodian genocide living in Connecticut).

Latinos/as Against AIDS
(Hartford)

To support the April 2004 Air Bridge Conference: Responding to the Universal Face of HIV.

New Britain Oral Health Collaborative
(New Britain)

To serve an additional 760 children for preventive services through school-based health services and 725 children for restorative care at the community health center and the Hospital for Special Care (The Children’s Fund of Connecticut, Inc., will contribute an additional $20,000 in the first year).

Nubian Sisters Cancer Support Group
(New Haven)

To improve the health status of predominantly African-American and Latina New Haven women through culturally specific health promotion and risk reduction strategies.

One Connecticut, Inc.
(New Haven)

To support its advocacy Campaign Equitable Taxation and Support of the Social Safety Net.

Prayer Tabernacle Church of Love Health Ministry
(Bridgeport)

To improve the health status of racial and ethnic community members living in Bridgeport’s East End neighborhood through culturally specific health promotion and risk-reduction strategies.

Southeast Mental Health Care System at LEARN
(Old Lyme and New London County)

To develop and implement a plan to increase organizational cultural competence of KidCare mental health care providers.

Southeast Connecticut Oral Health Initiative
(New London County)

To continue increasing dental services for children covered under the HUSKY program through school programs and care coordination services.

State of Connecticut Commission on Children
(Hartford)

To fund the analysis and distribution of the “Social Health Index.”

Student Health OUTreach (SHOUT) [
New Haven]

To increase health care utilization in New Haven through the development of a health care resource guide and an educational campaign to increase HUSKY enrollment.

The Consultation Center
(New Haven)

To support the April 2004 conference, Equity, Access & Outcome: The Role of Prevention Science in Reducing Health Disparities.

The Dental Center of Stamford
(Stamford)

To help reduce its 2004 year-end deficit and allow the center to continue providing oral health services to Fairfield County residents.

The Institute for Community Research
(Hartford)

To fund scholarships for community-based organizations to attend the conference, Crossroads: Critical Issues in Community-Based Research Partnerships.

True Colors, Inc. (Manchester)

To support the evaluation of the Mentoring Program.

University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine
(Farmington)

To support a planning meeting with four African-American fraternities to develop strategies to increase the number of African-American men matriculating and graduating from UCONN schools of medicine and dental medicine.

Waterbury Oral Health Initiative
(Waterbury area)

To screen at least 1,200 children, improve collaboration efforts through self-assessment and continue its community education and outreach activities (The Children’s Fund of Connecticut, Inc., will contribute $20,000 over the next year).