Alameda Health Consortium (AHC)

Project Title:  Alameda Community Based Enrollment Project

Type:  Issue Grant

County: Alameda

Grant Amount:
$35000

Start Date:
5/1/2005

End Date:
4/30/2006

Grant Focus:  Health\Direct service initiatives for health insurance enrollment and retention

Project Description: 
The Community-Based Enrollment Project supports staff at the community health centers and other community-based sites to assist uninsured children and families with obtaining health coverage. Community sites in this project include: health clinics, community-based service organizations, schools, and hospitals throughout Alameda County. Combined with Alameda County''s No Wrong Door pilot program, as well as the outreach efforts of the Alameda Alliance for Health, this 'out-stationed' model extends health coverage outreach to approximately 3000 children and families annually at more than 30 sites throughout Alameda County. Enrollment efforts through out-stationed, community-based sites have proven to be an effective way to ensure that families get personal assistance in being screened for health coverage programs, and ensuring that they are directed to the most appropriate health insurance program.

East Bay Agency for Children

Project Title:  Hawthorne Family Resource Center

Type:  Neighborhood Initiative Grant

County: Alameda

Grant Amount:
$50000

Start Date:
11/1/2005

End Date:
10/31/2006

Grant Focus:  Education

Project Description: 
The HFRC maintains and develops innovative services to support children and families, integrated into the daily life of the school.  HFRC core programs include:

-Family Support Team, a multi-disciplinary team of teachers, principal, social workers and other collaborating agencies, resource specialists and instructional facilitators serving as teacher and literacy coaches, providing mental health and/or academic intervention for students referred by teachers for behavioral challenges and/or academic failure.  FST reaches over 120 students each year.

-An on-site Community Mental and Dental Clinic, in collaboration with La Clinica de la Raza.  The clinic is open two days each week and provides physical exams and vaccinations required to enroll in school.  It is the primary care facility for many of the newly immigrated families in the area.  Clinic services are provided to 200 families each year.

-The Families Together Adult Education Program, which provides classes in ESL, Spanish literacy, GED, nutrition and basic computer skills.  Day and evening classes with free childcare is provided.  Over 220 Hawthorne parents and adults participated last year.

-The Parent Center, which offers activities centered on basic family needs, parent support for student literacy, parent leadership and financial health, serves 300 unduplicated Hawthorne parents each year.

-The Eagles'' Nest After School program, one of the largest school-based after school programs in Northern California, providing students with academic and enrichment activities outside of the classroom.  Activities include academic intervention, language development and tutoring, art and recreational activities, computer training, community service activities, and leadership development.  Eagles'' Nest serves an average of 350-400 students a year.

East Bay Community Foundation

Project Title:  Safe Passages

Type:  Issue Grant

County: Alameda

Grant Amount:
$30000

Start Date:
11/1/2005

End Date:
10/31/2006

Grant Focus:  Safe Communities\Development programs for youth and the adults that support them

Project Description: 
Safe Passages, in partnership with city and county government, coordinates resources and enacts policy to improve the health and well-being of Oakland''s children, youth, and their families.  Safe Passages implements proven school-based strategies and delivers services that help youth meet their potential for achievement.  Their violence prevention plan utilizes four strategies: Early Childhood, Middle School, Youth Offender, and After-School.  Safe Passages seeks continued UWBA funding for the Middle School strategy.

The Middle School strategy consists of a variety of services that strive to reduce incidences of violent behavior of Oakland youth.  Safe Passages'' school-based counselors provide students with individualized case management, targeted intervention, and mental health care.  Staff members seek to engage students'' families in activities that encourage parents to actively support their children.  Students, teachers, and staff at Safe Passages schools are trained in the Second Step curriculum of violence prevention.  After-school programs provide youth with safe and enriching activities during peak hours of youth offending.  During the 2005-2006 school year, Safe Passages plans to expand the strategy to include a peer mediation component.

Just for the Kids

Project Title:  Communities Just for the Kids

Type:  Issue Grant

County: San Francisco
Alameda

Grant Amount:
$50000

Start Date:
1/1/2005

End Date:
12/31/2005

Grant Focus:  Education\Literacy programs in early childhood

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Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District

Project Title:  Project Roadrunner

Type:  Issue Grant

County: Alameda

Grant Amount:
$50000

Start Date:
1/1/2006

End Date:
12/31/2007

Grant Focus:  Education\Fostering school-community collaboratives

Project Description: 
Project Roadrunner is a consortium of agencies, companies, service clubs, and religious groups who have come together to help the children and families and Marylin Avenue School.  Specific activities include a mentoring and recreational program, after-school summer academic tutoring, support for bilingual students, academic enrichment materials, and professional development for teachers.The goal is to help these students succeed in school by educating and enabling parents to be self-sufficient and to be advocates for their children. This year''s grant from UWBA will allow Marilyn Avenue School to hire a Community Outreach position.  The value of the position will also extend beyond Marylin, and will allow the position to reach older children at the middle and high schools in the community, as well to younger siblings.The Community Outreach position will: help connect parents to needed social services and inform and support parents about resources, provide training and maintenance of the Family Literacy program, inform and recruit parents for the Parent Faculty Organization, School Site Council, and Parent Action Teams, recruit parents for parenting, English and computer classes, help with truancy problems at the school, and connect families from all Title 1 schools to workshops, trainings and classes.

United Way of the Bay Area

Project Title:  Earn It! Keep It! Save It! - Alameda County

Type:  Issue Grant

County: Alameda

Grant Amount:
$20000

Start Date:
10/1/2004

End Date:
9/30/2005

Grant Focus:  Self-Sufficiency\Increase access to Earned Income Tax Credits

Project Description: 
The proposed project will build upon the initial successes of the Earn It! Keep It! Save It! efforts in Alameda County.  Utilizing a similar collaborative partnership strategy, the partnership will: Develop a community-based collaborative, conduct countywide marketing and outreach to educate low-income families about available income and asset development opportunities, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit and Individual Development Accounts; expand the availability of free tax assistance; increase the financial literacy and asset development skills of Alameda families.

Youth ALIVE!

Project Title:  Teens On Target

Type:  Issue Grant

County: Alameda

Grant Amount:
$30000

Start Date:
11/1/2005

End Date:
10/31/2006

Grant Focus:  Safe Communities\Development programs for youth and the adults that support them

Project Description: 
Youth ALIVE!''s violence prevention program, Teens on Target (TNT), is based on a public health approach that directly addresses conditions in the young people''s communities which frequently put them in fearful and often dangerous situations. The program builds on the qualities that youth have developed to deal with these conditions - fear and anger, passion, and distrust of authority. Their fear and anger is redirected to work towards change for themselves, the youth they are teaching, and their community; their passion is channeled to inspire others; their distrust of authority is flipped as they become leaders and enjoy peer and adult respect.  TNT staff and peer educators work closely with partnering school administrators and staff to arrange school-wide violence prevention assemblies and the six-session workshops at the middle schools. TNT also works closely in sharing information and planning and co-sponsoring events with other youth service groups, such as Project YES, One Land One People and La Clinica de la Raza''s Tiger Clinic.

Over the 2005-06 school year, TNT will saturate schools in East Oakland''s most violent neighborhoods by training and supporting 30 high school students to be peer educators, using leadership development principles and practices, who will in turn teach 350 sixth grade students at middle schools how to participate in preventing violence.  Workshops address forms of violence common in the students'' lives (gangs, family and dating violence, guns, and drug- and alcohol-related violence). TNT peer educators will also conduct violence prevention assemblies for 1,000 middle and high school students.  The program provides positive peer role models who offer real solutions to other youth and adults to prevent violence.  TNT peer educators will participate in the high school Positive School Climate Committees to advocate for improved high school safety strategies.