APPLICANT DEFINED
ALPHAPOINTE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND
Applicant Defined, $74,250
The Senior Adult Services program helps continue independence for those who experience age-related vision loss. Alphapointe offers education and professional services to senior citizens, their family members and caregivers. Specialists assess the client's at-home needs and provide training in the compensatory skills of blindness, such as proficiency in independence in independent living and the use of low-vision equipment. Staff perform regular in-home visits to assist in daily activities and continue care giving.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Johnson - 25%, Jackson - 20%, Wyandotte - 5%
AMETHYST PLACE
Applicant Defined, $50,000
Amethyst Place provides supported housing for women who have had a history of substance abuse and their children. The program exists to promote sobriety, build and practice new life skills, and prepare the families for independent housing and interdependent living. When a family is accepted into the program, they receive support and supervision in a drug and alcohol-free environment. They are involved in a treatment plan individually developed for each family and they have access to educational and support groups as well as other community resources. The program serves seven families at a time in an apartment building in the Old Northeast section of Kansas City. They are requesting funding from HCF to help fund supportive housing for low income recovering women and their children. Funds will be used for salary support and professional fees. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
BETHEL NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER
Applicant Defined, $61,000
The Bethel Youth Fit For Life project is to motivate underserved youth ages 5-14 to learn and practice basic health behaviors for their growth and development. The Bethel Youth Fit for Life project will be offered to 100 youths during 20 weeks of summer and during after school programs; eight weeks in the summer of 2008, 12 weeks in the fall of 2008. The program will also offer healthy snacks throughout the 12 months. This grant will provide the resources to operate a program that includes physical fitness and nutrition education and program coordination, evaluation and measurement of outcomes. Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
CABOT WESTSIDE HEALTH CENTER
Applicant Defined, $75,000
Cabot Westside Health Center's Mental Health Awareness and Treatment Program addresses the barriers Cabot's primarily poor, Hispanic patient population face in accessing mental health services. Lack of health insurance, inability to pay for care, shortage of bilingual/Spanish providers, and lack of culturally competent services hinder access to mental health treatment. The 2008 program expands services beyond the services provided in 2007 and will increase patient access to the services of mental health professionals, provide mental health screenings to patients, and continue providing psychotropic medication free of charge to Cabot's uninsured and underinsured patient population who cannot afford prescribed medications. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 89%, Wyandotte - 7%, Johnson - 2%, Cass - 1%, Jackson - 1%
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST. JOSEPH, INC.
Applicant Defined, $75,000
Healthy Lifestyle Choices provides access to health screenings and follow-up; real-time, multi-media health literacy education relevant to chronic conditions; referral assistance; and nurse/case management services to a minimum of 275 underserved, underinsured, and uninsured individuals who are users of ten designated emergency assistance sites in Jackson County, Kansas City, and Cass County, Missouri. The nurse/case manager visits each site twice a month to provide screenings, referrals, and follow-up services with real-time access to the health literacy web portal, Lasting Lifestyles. Short-term case management is provided to those most in need while they set and strive to achieve personal health goals.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 80%, Cass - 10%, Jackson - 10%
CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
Applicant Defined, $75,000
The Infant/Toddler Therapy Program is a comprehensive, individualized education and therapy program for blind or visually impaired infants from birth to age three and their families. Services are provided in the home and at the Center. The goals of the program are: to monitor the child's developmental skills; to assess, monitor and maximize residual functional vision; to provide educational and emotional support to families; and, to provide a means for families to connect with other families. The program typically serves 100-150 babies and toddlers and their families annually within a 90 mile radius of Kansas City.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 38%, Jackson - 34%, KCMO - 14%, Wyandotte - 7%, Cass - 4%, Lafayette - 2%, Allen - 1%
CITY OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, MUNICIPAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
Applicant Defined, $75,000
The purpose of this project is to assist each woman who is incarcerated at Kansas City's Municipal Correctional Institution (MCI) with the appropriate resources she will need to re-enter society and decrease her chance of re-offending. To accomplish the goal of this project, the focus will be to minimize barriers that hinder these women from successfully re-integrating into the community. The requested funding would be utilized to support two co-coordinators, two staff from UMKC, project training, project monitoring, clinical supervision and project evaluation.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 90%, Wyandotte - 7%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 1%
COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES (CSS) - GREATER KANSAS CITY SPOE
Applicant Defined, $74,750
Organization requests funding from HCF to support services for children with disabilities living in Jackson County. CSS operates this program under Missouri First Steps. In 2006, CSS was awarded the state contract for System Point of Entry (SPOE) for the Kansas City Region. CSS is responsible for oversight, implementation and service coordination for 548 children, of which 451 reside in Jackson County. CSS is requesting support of this program for one year to defer unfunded expenses associated with system change, development, and for the provision of an additional Service Coordinator who will service the Jackson County area. Grant outcomes include reducing time in referral status, increasing referrals from health organizations, and maximizing billable time.Geographic Area Served:Jackson -100%
CORNERSTONES OF CARE
Applicant Defined, $73,539
Cornerstones of Care (COC) is requesting funding from HCF to fund a portion of start up costs associated with implementing a Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care program in the Kansas City area. The funds will be used to purchase equipment and supplies for the first year of implementation and start up consultation services from TFC Consultatnts, Inc., as well as to cover travel costs for four COC employees to attend the required pre-service training provided by TFC Consultants, Inc., in Oregon.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
DEVELOPING POTENTIAL, INC.
Applicant Defined, $60,000
Developing Potential, Inc. serves adults with developmental disabilities, autism, and behavioral support needs. Many of the people we support also have significant medical challenges. DPI's Increase Access to Services Project is designed to ensure the essential, but unfunded, services of nursing care as well as occupational, physical, and speech therapies for adults with developmental disabilities in the Kansas City metropolitan area. (This proposal requests funding only for the nursing portion of our project).Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 95%, KCMO - 5%
DISMAS HOUSE OF KANSAS CITY, INC.
Applicant Defined, $74,848
Organization requests funding to hire a business development manager for the agency, purchase an independent certified financial audit for FY2006 and/or FY2007, and purchase one desktop and one laptop computer for the new business development manager's position. The acquisition of the business development manager and the updated financial audit will strategically position and strengthen Dismas House's capacity and sustainability to provide valuable substance abuse counseling services to the underserved and uninsured indigent men and women re-entering society from incarceration and their families.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
GILLIS CENTER INC
Applicant Defined, $75,000
The purpose of this grant is to help Gillis increase its capacity as we move toward the adoption of 'best practices' that are evidence-based and trauma-informed in our Residential and Day Treatment programs. We have spent the past several months evaluating our programs in order to better meet the increasingly complex and acute difficulties of the children and families we serve. At the same time, we are trying to effectively meet the challenges of increased regulation, changes in Medicaid, and new requirements from the state and school districts (our primary referral sources). In order to reinforce our Residential and Day Treatment programs, we will need to hire six new employees, for which we make this request.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 70%, Jackson - 26%, Lafayette - 2%, Allen - 1%, Cass - 1%
HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
Applicant Defined, $75,000
Harvesters' BackSnack program is designed to give school children access to good food on the weekends and during school holidays, by providing a backpack filled with nutritious food for each participating child to take home on Friday or the last day of school each week.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-83%, Jackson-11%, Wyandotte-6%
JACKSON COUNTY FREE HEALTH CLINIC
Applicant Defined, $72,000
The Jackson County Free Health Clinic (JCFHC) requests $72,000 to hire a part-time development officer, initial funds for a paid Executive Director and a stipend for the volunteer Patient Assistance Program Coordinator. The intent of this grant is to capitalize on the excellent reputation of the clinic to begin a community-wide development effort. JCFHC has been a volunteer-driven organization serving Eastern Jackson County well in the last eight years. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 98%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
KANSAS CITY FREE HEALTH CLINIC
Applicant Defined, $75,000
The Kansas City Free Health Clinic requests funding to continue our work to improve access to high quality and culturally appropriate care for under- and uninsured patients, with particular emphasis on patients with limited English proficiency and those with chronic diseases. Requested funds will be used for September-through-November 2008 support of the General Medicine Program. The Clinic's current Foundation Defined Grant from the Health Care Foundation will end in August 2008 and the earliest that a future award could begin is December 2008. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 70%, Jackson - 9%, Wyandotte - 6%, Johnson - 5%, Cass - 1%
KANSAS CITY PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 (KCPT)
Applicant Defined, $75,000
A series of public discussions will be conducted over several weeks on KCPT's community affairs programs. KCPT will also seek coverage of the six children's fitness and nutrition topics through Network KC.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 60%, Wyandotte - 20%, Allen - 5%, Cass - 5%, Johnson - 5%, Lafayette - 5%
KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION
Applicant Defined, $52,000
JayDoc provides urgent and preventive care medical services at no charge to patients. Through the efforts of student volunteers in Social Services, JayDoc also equips patients with referrals to other Safety Net Clinics so they can find a medical home for ongoing health care. This funding provides working capital and allows JayDoc clinic to retain the services of an administrative assistant.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 63%, Johnson - 18%, Jackson - 9%
LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI
Applicant Defined, $75,000
In the Medical Case Management Project, Legal Aid of Western Missouri's staff act as medical case managers for Spanish-speaking, migrant farmworkers and their families who come to Lafayette County each year for the apple harvest. The grant is for the project's third year. Geographic Area Served:Lafayette - 100%
LEXINGTON R-V SCHOOL DISTRICT
Applicant Defined, $28,000
The Brighter Futures Consortium is a new initiative of the six public school districts of Lafayette County. Together the districts account for over 5,700 students and over 560 professional educators. The six school districts have a long history of working together to benefit the educational needs of the students of Lafayette County, with superintendents, principals, counselors and directors of special education meeting routinely to discuss educational issues within the county. Outside of the school districts, staff is collaborating with community agencies, such as the Children's Division and the Lafayette County Juvenile Office, on a monthly basis to better serve student needs. The goal of the Brighter Futures Consortium is to develop and implement methods of preventing and reducing mental health issues among youth ages 0-19, during the regular school day. The Consortium will bring mental health services to students in a familiar school setting and eliminate the multiple obstacles and barriers that currently cause many students to not receive the help they need. This initiative will be accomplished through the hiring of one full-time licensed social worker and a part-time coordinator, and by contracting with appropriate licensed professionals who could include licensed clinical social workers, professional counselors, psychologists, registered play therapists and certified substance abuse counselors.Geographic Area Served:Lafayette - 100%
MEDICAL SOCIETY OF JOHNSON & WYANDOTTE COUNTIES FOUNDATION INC
Applicant Defined, $75,000
Organization requests funding for partial payment for the 2008 KCCareLink Fees for nine Johnson and Wyandotte County safety net clinics. Having these safety net clinics using KC CareLink is essential for the Wy/Jo Care specialty referral program. Through KCCL the clinics determine Wy/Jo Care eligibility, request SRS to screen patients for government assistance, make referrals and provide health information. Wy/Jo Care makes primary care requests, receives referrals, sends appointments, reports and communicates with the clinics through KCCL. Funding is for partial payment of the 2008 KCCL fees covering network connectivity for one year.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 75%, Johnson - 25%
METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY
Applicant Defined, $75,000
This project will provide access to photo ID's and copies of birth certificates for poor and homeless persons in the Kansas City area. Photo ID is a prerequisite to enter social and medical service systems subsequent to Homeland Security laws since 2001.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 70%, Wyandotte - 30%
MIDWEST FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION ASSOCIATION
Applicant Defined, $72,000
MFCAA will assist foster and adoptive families in creating healthy, long-term, nurturing homes, through the Strengthening Our Families (SOF) project. This program addresses primary prevention for children at increased risk of re-abuse, instability in care, and detrimental long-term physical health and mental health outcomes. SOF will target newly licensed foster or adoptive families (five years or less). SOF will provide the education and tools to develop parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete support in times of need and developmental children's activities, in an effort to retain a reliable, stable group of experienced foster and adoptive families.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 92%, Cass - 4%, Lafayette - 4%
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION INC.
Applicant Defined, $75,000
This research project will determine if adding technology to an existing child abuse prevention program can improve program outcomes. Specifically, the University of Kansas is researching the effect of adding cell phones to existing Project Safecare programs in the hopes of improving program fidelity and increasing positive parenting behaviors.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 50%, KCMO - 40%, Jackson - 5%, Johnson - 5 %
NORTHLAND HEALTH CARE ACCESS
Applicant Defined, $75,000
Northland Health Care Access through a partnership with the North Kansas City School District and the Clay County Public Health Center will deliver much-needed health care services to uninsured and Medicaid-eligible children and their families enrolled in the district via the Crestview School-Based Clinic in Kansas City, Missouri. Geographic Area Served:KCMO -100%
PATHWAY TO HOPE, INC.
Applicant Defined, $74,700
Because of the increased number of individuals and families needing assistance with dire mental health issues, the needs for Pathway To Hope have exceeded its capacity. Therefore, this capacity building initiative is exceedingly important in order for the agency to provide efficient services for its clients. The line-item budget, as submitted, will add trained employees, provide for staff development and be used for the purchase of and monthly payments for a cell phone, an item that is extremely important, for it enables clients to contact an employee quickly. Additionally, this capacity building funding will be used for utility payments, office supplies, and for general household supplies for the mentally ill residents in Blake House.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 85%, Jackson - 5%, KCMO - 5%, Wyandotte - 5%
REDISCOVER
Applicant Defined, $75,000
Integrated Physical and Psychiatric Treatment (IPPT) will ensure that the primary health care needs of adults and children with mental illness are met and that care is coordinated, responsive and appropriate. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 55%, KCMO - 43%, Cass - 2%
ROSE BROOKS CENTER, INC.
Applicant Defined, $73,839
The Children's Program at Rose Brooks Center provides support and services to children to prevent future violence. The Children's Program is an on-site advocacy and therapeutic program for children residing in the emergency shelter. The program provides individual and family counseling, case management, family enrichment activities and a childcare drop-in center. In 2007, the Rose Brooks Center Children's Program provided 239 children with life saving services.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 65%, Wyandotte - 13%, Johnson - 9%, KCMO - 8% Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 2%, Allen -1%
SHEFFIELD PLACE
Applicant Defined, $75,000
With the support of The Health Care Foundation, Sheffield Place will partner with The National Center on Family Homelessness, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, and the Midwest Trauma Treatment Center to bring our commitment to best practices beyond application into life transforming actions. This project is the second of a three-step process of revolutionizing the provision of services to homeless families in our nation. Funding will be used to create a fully Trauma-Informed atmosphere at Sheffield Place and improve our mental health services to homeless mothers and their children.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 5%
SOMALI FOUNDATION, INC.
Applicant Defined, $70,466
Assisting refugees with accessing healthcare providers and navigating the healthcare system. Our staff is trained in the Jewish Vocational Service 'Bridging the Gap' course for medical translation and interpretation. We provide transportation as well as interpretation and are available to clients after our normal service hours.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 90%, Wyandotte - 7%, Johnson - 3%
SOUTHWEST BOULEVARD FAMILY HEALTH CARE SERVICES OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
Applicant Defined, $75,000
The activities of the social services programs of Family Health Care are to provide direct services and referrals for patients after needs assessments. Family Health Care provides mental health assessments, education, individual, family and group therapy, advocacy, and treatment referrals through a sliding scale for patients requiring crisis counseling and longer term supportive therapy. Referrals for other specialized services (such as in-patient treatment) are provided when needed.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 80%, Jackson - 10%, Johnson - 10%
SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES
Applicant Defined, $75,000
Staff at Swope Health Services will refer their patients whose Medicaid benefits have been denied or terminated to Legal Aid of Western Missouri. LAWMO's staff will represent these Swope patients in Medicaid appeals to obtain or preserve Medicaid benefits for them.This is a replication of the Medicaid Appeals Project at Truman Medical Center, which has resulted in more than 300 TMC patients obtaining Medicaid benefits and has generated more than $2 million in revenue for TMC. That project is now fully self-funded.Demograpjhic Area Served:KCMO - 98%, Jackson - 2%
SYNERGY SERVICES, INC.
Applicant Defined, $74,551
Synergy's clinical staff developed a new and more effective treatment approach for building attachment between mother and child who are recovering from the effects of domestic violence. Synergy found that it was more effective to treat the mother's trauma before beginning the crucial process of helping traumatized mothers and their children reattach through attachment therapy. Synergy is requesting support to hire two positions at the SafeHaven Women's Center who will be essential for the agency's ability to sustain and enhance our high standard of care, including the implementation of preliminary trauma reduction therapy.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 56%, Jackson - 16%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 3%, Cass - 1%
THE CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL
Applicant Defined, $75,000
The TIES program is an intensive multi-agency effort providing comprehensive home-based services to pregnant and postpartum women and their families affected by alcohol or other drugs and/or HIV. It's goals are to promote healthy outcomes, support drug treatment, encourage positive parenting and build on family resources. It is directed by the TIES Consortium and the TIES Advisory Council of Community Advocates. It uses a community oriented, multi-disciplinary approach to providing culturally appropriate individualized services in partnership with families addressing both their resources and challenges in meeting their goals.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
THE PLAZA ACADEMY
Applicant Defined, $75,000
The Plaza Academy's mental health clinical services are delivered by a Ph.D. Developmental and Child Psychologist who is also a research scientist. Our Clinical Director is responsible for: the individual, group, and familial therapeutic care of adolescents who present with co-morbidity accompanied by school failure and socio-familial dysfunction; the design, implementation and management of a comprehensive treatment model which controls psychiatric symptoms and elevates academic, social, and familial functioning; and, the management of an empirical research design by which we institutionally monitor, control, and adjust treatment as well as measure the program and other institutional outcomes.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 30%, Johnson - 25%, Wyandotte - 25%, Cass - 10%, Jackson - 10%
THE REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF KANSAS CITY
Applicant Defined, $75,000
The Institute is the leading provider of medical rehabilitation services for children and adults who have experienced a serious illness or injury resulting in a loss of physical and/or cognitive function. Through specialty medical rehabilitation services, the Institute helps these individuals regain lost abilities or learn new skills in order to regain their greatest level of independence.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 24%, Jackson - 22%, KCMO - 12%, Wyandotte - 6%, Cass - 4%, Allen - 2%
THRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC
Applicant Defined, $75,000
The Thrive Capacity Building and Outreach Initiative is an effort to create a sustainable organizational infrastructure for Thrive Allen County, and to expand health and wellness outreach to residents in the most impoverished, rural areas of Allen County. The requested funding allows Thrive to solidify its role as a creative, proactive and visionary organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in Allen County.Geographic Area Served:Allen - 100%
TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC.
Applicant Defined, $75,000
Turner House Children's Clinic's Staff and Space Expansion Project will expand the capacity of the clinic to provide quality health care to an increasing number of children by addressing issues related to capacity. The project will add a full-time, bi-lingual Nurse Practitioner/Clinic Manager and expand the physical space of the clinic with two exam rooms, a treatment room, and a larger waiting room. The project will improve access to care for uninsured and underserved children of Wyandotte County so that more children receive physical examinations and immunizations, and better screening for preventable and chronic conditions.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 94%, Johnson - 4%, Jackson - 2%
UNION STATION KANSAS CITY
Applicant Defined, $75,000
Bodies Revealed is a unique educational exhibit that will visit Union Station from February 29 through September 1, 2008. The exhibit was designed with one purpose in mind -- health education. The exhibit will feature 21 real human bodies, each focusing on a particular anatomical system and displays of specific organs that focus on diseases, particularly preventable medical conditions such as lung cancer and heart disease. The exhibit promotes healthy lifestyles and aims to visually show how unhealthy habits can contribute to disease and unexpected deaths.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 40%, KCMO - 30%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 10%, Cass - 5%
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
Applicant Defined, $74,989
This project will establish a screening clinic at the Heart of America Indian Center (HAIC) in collaboration with the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC). It will serve as a culturally secure location where uninsured and underinsured American Indians (AI) in the Kansas City metroplex can receive free basic healthcare screening and culturally-appropriate health education. It will also serve as a referral system into the various safety-net facilities in the area. Additionally, it will provide medical and nursing students and social work interns at KUMC with valuable experience working with this underserved community.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 50%, KCMO - 50%
VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Applicant Defined, $75,000
The Vision Research Center, a program of the Vision Research Foundation of Kansas City will purchase a very cutting edge piece of equipment called the OCT/SLO Combined OCT and Confocal Scanning Ophthalmoscope CSO (SLO) System which will give the ophthalmologists an 'inside' look of the retina from all directions to provide patients with early diagnosis, research and treatment of ocular diseases.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 86%, KCMO - 10%, Johnson - 2%, Cass - 1%, Wyandotte - 1%
YOUTHNET OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
Applicant Defined, $75,000
YouthSpace directly engages 60 Westport High School freshman and sophomore students over the course of their high school years to address three youth outcomes - learning to be productive, to connect, and to navigate - which are closely associated with the Health Care Foundationís definition of mental health. Westport has committed dedicated space and access to YouthSpace members during the school day. Professional youth workers, experts at interacting with youth, begin by helping YouthSpace members explore their interests, talents and skills. Over time, with support, young people employ them in projects that positively impact their school and their communities.Geographic Service Area:Jackson - 100%
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AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF THE CENTRAL STATES
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $48,939
Organization proposes to deliver the CDC best practice Asthma-Friendly Schools Initiative in Johnson and Wyandotte County schools in order to improve the knowledge and ability of 300 area families, district school nurses, and area physicians to diagnose, treat, and manage pediatric asthma.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 75%, Johnson - 25%
BLACK HEALTH CARE COALITION, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
The Black Health Care Coalition will implement 'Unlocking Your Potential' in two middle schools in the urban core of Kansas City, Missouri. The program is designed to build youth assets, leadership skills, conflict resolution skills and parental engagement.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $30,000
SMART Moves (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training) is a prevention program that helps young people avoid four of the most immediate threats to their well-being: alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and teen pregnancy. The program has been scientifically evaluated and works by exposing young people to protective factors that promote positive behaviors, health, well-being and personal success. With these protective factors, young people have the tools to overcome the many challenges they face. With fun and engaging activities, SMART Moves provides information and skills needed for youth to adopt the attitudes and behaviors of healthy lifestyles and positive character development.Geographic Area Served:KCMO- 49%, Jackson County -35%, Wyandotte-16%
CALVARY COMMUNITY OUTREACH NETWORK
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
Calvary Community Outreach Network seeks to implement a behavioral intervention that has been found to be effective in reducing sexual risks among various populations, including African American youth. Our three primary objectives are: 1) Development of age and religiously appropriate tools and activities based on youth-tailored Role Model Stories (RMS), educational interactive games, and churchwide events; 2) Training of Youth Ministry Directors, Youth Peer Leaders, and Pastors from African American churches in order to increase their skills in delivering pre-developed Tool Kit materials/activities to enhance adolescents' skills in making abstinence and safer sex decisions, the skills of their parents to talk with their children about these decisions, and churchwide support of youth; and 3) Implementation of religiously-tailored RMS-based intervention to promote sexual abstinence and safer sex with a church-based youth population.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 70%, Wyandotte - 30%
CANCER ACTION INC
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $45,000
Cancer Action respectfully requests $50,000 from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City to support three of the most critical and highly utilized 'safety net' services offered to cancer patients through our organization. These services, which are a part of the agency's Patient Services Program, include prescription assistance, nutritional supplements and transportation to cancer-related appointments. Cancer Action's Patient Services Program is designed to reduce stress by meeting critical and often life saving needs of those with cancer in the Kansas City area. The grant will help provide these crucial services to underserved persons living with cancer throughout the five county metro area, with a specific emphasis on clients living in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 28%, KCMO - 27%, Johnson - 23%, Wyandotte - 19%, Cass - 3%
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
This program assists mothers who lack resources and support systems to help them care for their newborns who are considered at risk because of health or environmental issues. As a medically based program, referrals come from medical personnel following delivery when it is determined the baby is at risk because of health issues or home environment. This is the only program wherein a pediatric nurse travels to the home within 36 hours of discharge to provide follow-up care and ensure the mother is able to care for the child. The nurse also examines the home environment for safety, infant equipment, refrigerator, formula, diapers, etc. These items are provided free of charge if needed. The target population includes mothers and newborns that are poor, uninsured or underinsured.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 45%, Wyandotte - 30%, Johnson - 20%, Jackson - 5%
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $49,998
Therapeutic, psycho-educational and home-based services designed to help children and families build upon their strengths to prevent abuse and improve family life.Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 100%
CHILD PROTECTION CENTER, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $41,452
The number of children served at the CPC is growing. To serve them more promptly the CPC must add an intake coordinator to gather information about the child over the telephone efficiently, accurately and with necessary confidentiality. Currently this task is performed by the receptionist. However, because of the heavy work load and public nature of the reception area, the intakes cannot be completed promptly and confidentiality can be breached. The CPC also is seeking funding to provide partial support for the Executive Director's salary as well as operating support including telephone service for the organization and travel reimbursement.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 93%, Cass - 6%, Lafayette - 1%
CITY OF INDEPENDENCE, HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $20,000
The project, Healthy Women Healthy Community, will incorporate existing programs as well as develop new strategies to empower women to healthier lifestyles through better food choices, tobacco cessation and access to care. The components of this project include strategies that focus on shopping for health, a nutrition education program; stopping for health, a smoking cessation program; assessing for health, cardiac assessment profile; and resources for health, developing a women's health coalition. Our target population includes uninsured or under insured women and their families.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
CITY OF OLATHE, KANSAS
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $30,000
Olathe Medical Taxi Coupon Program provides transportation to low-income Olathe residents who are either 60 years of age or older, or have a documented disability. The City of Olathe is the fastest growing city in the State of Kansas. With this growth means a continuous increase in the number of residents needing to utilize transportation options. With the funding requested in this grant application, the Olathe Taxi Coupon Program will be able to strive to meet the ever-increasing demand from Olathe residents for medical related trips. This will allow improved access to medical appointments for individuals in need.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 100%
COALITION OF HISPANIC WOMEN AGAINST CANCER
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $18,734
Eight organizations work in partnership to organize a Health Focus event in the Hispanic community. The goal of this initiative is to increase knowledge and awareness of the risk factors of cancer, diabetes, mental health, cardiovascular disease as well as promote healthy lifestyles to include healthy eating, physical activity and smoking cessation during the event. The project aims at increasing awareness and access to care for the uninsured/underserved participants by using a case management approach. Post event, the focus will be on a referral system to local safety net clinics so that families can have access to a medical home.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 90%, Johnson - 5%, KCMO - 5%,
COMMUNITIES CREATING OPPORTUNITY ORGANIZATION
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
To improve health care access, CCO will focus on two critical issues: the 150,000 children in Missouri who have no health care coverage and the growing trend among hospitals required to provide charity care to sue low-income patients for unpaid medical bills. CCO will convene a religious Health Care (HC) Roundtable for the purposes of establishing a sustainable grassroots advocacy structure for health care reform in Missouri. The HC Roundtable will bring together the religious community from across the state, merging it with CCO's strong local advocacy network, to create a powerful, faith-based voice for ethical health care reform.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 60%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 15%, Jackson - 10%
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KCK/WYANDOTTE COUNTY
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
Organization seeks funding for costs associated with implementing its Families and Schools Together (FAST) program in two elementary schools in Kansas City, KS. FAST is an 8-week, multi-family, early intervention/prevention program designed to build protective factors to enhance resiliency against school failure, juvenile delinquency, child abuse and substance abuse in families. The program targets the mental health and wellness of the whole family. Participant families attend eight weeks of research based structured activities designed to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors. CIS proposes to conduct two cycles (Fall and Spring) in each school. Funds are requested for materials and supplies used during the weekly activities, evaluation costs, training, stipends and staff.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $49,500
Through the Medical Enhancement for Co-Occurring Disorders project funded by the Health Care Foundation in 2006-2007, CMHS provided primary health care services for clients at 3 separate locations. CMHS successfully secured sustainable resources to continue the project but only in two of those three locations. In order for CMHS to secure sustainable funds for the final location Renaissance West (RW), CMHS is requesting funds to continue this program that provides 75 indigent, uninsured clients at RW with primary health care services including lab work, medical tests, prescribed medications, assessments, checkups, and short-term care.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
COTERIE, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $12,000
The Dramatic AIDS Education Project (DAEP) is a unique AIDS and STD prevention program provided by professional actors from The Coterie Theatre and medical profession students from UMKC School of Medicine, who are trained as peer educators. The program has proven to be an innovative and informative way to bring the AIDS and STD prevention message to schools, social service agencies, community centers and juvenile detention centers. DAEP has reached over 100,000 area youth, ages 13-18. The research component of the program has proven the effectiveness of a dramatic medium over a lecture medium in increasing knowledge about HIV/AIDS and affecting intentions to reduce high risk behavior.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 15%, Johnson - 14%, Wyandotte - 11%, Cass - 8%, Lafayette - 2%
EDUCATION FIRST, ATHLETICS SECOND COALITION
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $12,500
Organization seeks support from HCF to assist with the Health and Fitness Academy for the 2008 fiscal year. HCF funding would assist in providing nutrition and fitness programs to youth between the ages of 8 and 18. The organization will provide preventative health and fitness programs in the urban metropolitan Kansas City area, concentrating on meeting the health and fitness needs of youth who live in dire economic conditions that consist predominately of single parent/guardian homes. 300 youth will participate during the program year.Geographic Areas Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 50%
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS & NORTHWEST MISSOURI INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $25,000
The Fit for Life program, developed by the council is designed to institutionalize concepts of healthy living. Recognizing that emotional health is as important as physical health, Fit for Life is a holistic program designed to increase awareness, understanding, and appreciation of one's own uniqueness; in addition to increasing physical activity and frequency of making healthy food choices.An expanded Fit for Life program will serve girls, ages 6-11 and will incorporate an array of program elements, including a council-developed Fit for Life book and patch program, whereby they receive recognition for completing a pre-determined quantity of program elements.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 42%, KCMO - 25%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 10%, Cass - 8%, Lafayette - 5%
GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $42,170
The Counseling Program will provide cognitive behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy, crisis intervention, group therapy, sand therapy, play therapy and art therapy for approximately 55 children (26% of our student population) at GORDON PARKS.Geographic Area Served: Jackson-100%
HEALTH PARTNERSHIP CLINIC OF JOHNSON COUNTY
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $28,000
The project will fund a bilingual intake coordinator to better facilitate the enrollment of new patients into Health Partnership Clinic's (HPC) medical home. Components would include eligibility verification and assessment of eligibility for other resources (Medicaid, medicare,etc), education on use of the medical home and patients rights & responsibilities, enrolling patient in HPC's Electronic Medical Records system/Electronic Health Record (EMR/EHR), providing access to HPC's EHR card for each new patient and scheduling of appointments for new patients.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 100%
INTENSIVE FAMILY COUNSELING
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $38,165
Intensive Family Counseling, Inc. (IFC) is in a stage of organizational growth and recognizes the need to further develop the financial capacity and soundness of the organization. IFC will work to diversify its funding base in order to ensure stability and continuity of services for at-risk children, youth and individuals, and families in need of mental health and counseling services. The program activities will include a part-time Grants Specialist and specific focus by the Executive Director to reach the goals of increasing revenue by 15% and increasing services by 10%. Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 69%, Wyandotte - 18%, Jackson - 13%
JACKSON COUNTY CASA
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
To strengthen the internal capacity of Jackson County CASA and position it to continue to increase the size and quality of its guardian ad litem services, the organization is requesting funding in the amount of $50,000 from HCF. The funds will provide substantial, critical assistance to the agency to help cover costs totaling $58,505 associated with the salary, benefits and taxes for one FTE position of Resource Development Director.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
The funding we are seeking from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City is intended to allow us to deepen our State Fiscal Analysis Initiative work in the Foundation's service area, and also allow us to conduct time-limited research and related training with advocates and service providers in the Foundation's service area.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 40%, Wyandotte - 40%, Allen - 20%
KANSAS CITY ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $30,000
The Kansas City Anti-Violence Project (KCAVP) is the only organization in Missouri and Kansas solely dedicated to providing services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and hate crimes. The organization provides information, support, referrals, advocacy, emergency assistance and housing, and other services to LGBT victims of violence (including domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes) within the Kansas City metropolitan area. KCAVP is requesting funds to support portions of the salary of their executive director, which are not specifically funded by other sources.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 45%, Jackson - 25%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 15%, Cass - 5%
KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY CENTER
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
This project will continue funding for one MSW level case manager who will help screen Municipal Court referrals for placement in a community residential substance abuse treatment program, monitor progress, provide case management services that will assist such clients in obtaining mental health services, employment, housing and various other ancillary services. In addition, it will provide funding for transportation, I.D.,client incentives, evaluation and program support.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 70%, Jackson - 30%
KANSAS CITY HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $48,500
The purpose of this outreach and education project is to assure that African Americans in our community understand issues related to end of life, and options for care. Information about hospice and palliative care, advance directives, how to access care and related subjects shall be provided, and how communication channels and relationships which could facilitate care shall be established. Target audiences for these efforts will include churches, health care providers, media, clubs, organizations and employers.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 30%, Johnson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%, Jackson - 15%, Cass - 10%, Lafayette - 5%
LEARNING COOPERATIVE - DBA KANSAS CITY ACADEMY
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $5,150
Organization requests funding to support a new program at the Academy, Healthy Food for Healthy Lives. They are requesting funds to purchase materials for a 'Free Fruit Kiosk;' fruit to stock the kiosk, making fresh fruit available year-round; and materials to set up a 'Hoop House' over their organic garden in order to extend the growing season.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
MATTIE RHODES CENTER
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
In order to increase organizational capacity and serve the community in a more efficient and effective way, Mattie Rhodes Center (MRC) requests $60,600 to install a new telephone system, certify the Visions with Hope 360 program for Spanish-speaking families with children with disabilities; and publish and distribute a formal Cultural Competency Plan for mental health agencies serving Spanish-speaking communities. Each of the three components represents a one-time investment and will bring the community greater access to MRC's services.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 85%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 5%
MERCY & TRUTH MEDICAL MISSIONS INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
To complete the installation and operation of two dental operatories at the clinic in Raytown, Missouri, by installing dental units, adding digital imaging and electronic medical records. The dental clinic will provide dental services for the underserved and uninsured residents in Jackson and surrounding counties.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 40%, Cass - 30%, Allen - 10%, KCMO - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%
MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION, MID-AMERICA HEAD START
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $49,932
MARC, in partnership with Children's Mercy Hospital and the Kansas City Police Department, requests funding for the proposed period of March 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008. Requested funding will be utilized to pilot a program to reduce the number of unrestrained or improperly restrained Head Start child passengers. Parents/caregivers will be provided information designed to increase their understanding of the importance of properly restraining child passengers according to state laws. Safe and correct Child Passenger Seats will be provided to all Head Start children and families with an identified need.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
MISSOURI COALITION FOR BUDGET & POLICY PRIORITIES DBA MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
The Missouri Budget Project (MBP) is a statewide, nonpartisan non-for profit that informs the public about Missouri's budgetary and fiscal policy options. MBP requests funding to support its work to: Improve public policies for all Missourians, particularly those that impact low income citizens; increase public awareness of and engagement in state budget and fiscal policy debates; enhance advocacy efforts of organizations serving low income Missourians; ensure that policy makers have the necessary information to make sound budget and fiscal policy decisions for Missourians throughout the state and, in particular, the greater Kansas City region and counties served by the Foundation. Geographic Area Served:KCMO, Cass Co, Jackson Co, Lafayette Co (no percentages given)
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $38,500
The Detention Officer CIT Program (DOCIT) will prepare officers to respond appropriately to jail incidents involving inmates with mental illness.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 50%
OLATHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER/JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
This project would provide necessary funds to offer classes and child care for parents. Families will be offered classes on wellness, disease prevention, parenting, survival skills, budgeting, and community culturation.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 95%, Wyandotte - 5%
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $49,733
Operation Breakthrough's adult health clinic allows parents to enter and remain in the workforce and offers access to needed services. The adult health clinic is located on site at Operation Breakthrough's satellite clinic of Children's Mercy Hospital. This program provides preventive and routine health care and mental health services to more than 300 adults each year. Our health program is designed to make health care more accessible to the parents/caregivers we serve, thereby reducing their reliance on costly emergency room visits and increasing the amount of preventive care and wellness education that our parents receive.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
PARTNERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
Clean Air KC supports smoke-free ordinances and policies in the metro area; as well as a comprehensive approach to reducing tobacco use and exposure to second hand smoke in our community. Clean Air KC has a particular interest in promoting 100% smoke free workplaces, and through its proven model has brought protections from environmental tobacco smoke to more than 16 communities in the metro. Tactics include community based education regarding dangers of ETS to residents and policy makers, and web based communication, education and support. Technical assistance and training is also provided to grassroots groups interested in this issue.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 40%, Jackson - 20%, Cass - 15%, KCMO - 15% Johnson - 10
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
The purpose of this program is to support and generate grassroots activity to promote 100% smoke-free public places and workplaces throughout the Greater Kansas City Area. Funding is being requested to match current funding for Johnson County, Kansas. The primary focus of funding will be in Wyandotte, Jackson, and Cass Counties, as well as Kansas City, Missouri.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 30%, KCMO - 30%, Wyandotte - 30%, Cass - 10%
PETS FOR LIFE, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $7,500
The purpose of our program is to provide the therapeutic touch of pets and volunteers for people bound by their physical and mental limitations in local institutions. Our volunteers and their pets help people of every age, race, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation.The target population that we will be addressing suffer from co-occurring disorders (substance abuse and psychological issues), depression, family, domestic and child abuse across the lifespan, including low income, indigent, and underserved populations.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 30%, Johnson - 30%, KCMO - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF KANSAS AND MID-MISSOURI
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
The volunteer program at Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid Missouri supports all aspects of administrative, community education and outreach, development, and clinical programs. The vision of the program is that the patient experience will be maintained and enhanced through volunteer efforts.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 48%, Jackson - 22%, Wyandotte - 16%, Johnson - 14%
REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
Emergency Client Assistance is a comprehensive program that meets the basic needs of individuals facing chronic poverty: the low income, the elderly, the homebound and the homeless. It provides assistance with shelter, utility and medical expenses, food, clothing and transportation. Medical Matters is an outreach of this program and benefits the elderly, the underserved and the medically indigent. It provides assistance with payments for prescription medications and durable medical goods; offers community resource information to support ongoing medical needs; provides free legal assistance with Medicare and Medicaid filings, Advanced Directives and Durable Power of Attorney.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 90%, Wyandotte - 10%
SAFEHOME, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $21,483
The program provides primary medical care to victims of domestic violence and their children during their stay at SAFEHOME's shelter.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 41%, Jackson - 21%, Wyandotte - 20%, KCMO - 18%
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $17,650
The program provides primary medical care to victims of domestic violence and their children during their stay at SAFEHOME's Shelter.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 39%, Wyandotte - 23%, Jackson - 21%, KCMO - 17%
SAINT LUKES HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $35,000
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City Post Discharge Outpatient Services Clinic provides direct health care for uninsured patients. The Clinic provides outpatient care for patients needing outpatient rehabilitation therapy including physical, occupational and speech therapy, equipment to support the needed therapy, outpatient infusion services, wound care services, prosthetics and orthotics and other much needed services. Saint Luke's requests $70,000 to support the Post Discharge Outpatient Services Clinic and continue to provide care to allow these patients to heal and return to work.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 68%, Jackson -12%, Johnson - 8%, Cass - 6%, Wyandotte - 6%
TLC FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $30,966
TLC's Functional Family Therapy is provided to youth in its residential facility who are preparing to reintegrate with their family and transition home. Functional Family Therapy has been cited as a Blueprints Program for Violence Prevention and has proven to effectively reduce adolescent violent crime, aggression, delinquency and substance abuse. The model consists of three phases: Engagement and Motivation (establishing credibility with the family and increasing hope and expectation for change); Behavior Change (developing/implementing behavior change plan); and Generalization (applying new skills to range of situations). Outcomes include stronger relationships, and reduced negativity, blaming and hopelessness within family.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 50%, Wyandotte - 50%
TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $45,501
TMC will measure whether health care providers with intensive and extensive training in cultural competency earn higher patient satisfaction scores than untrained providers. The Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill Green Clinic offers Internal Medicine primary care for adults. We will train Green Clinic providers and compare them to untrained providers in two similar clinics. Outcomes will be measured by the Press Ganey Medical Practice Survey, which will quantify and analyze many dimensions of patient satisfaction. Our cultural competency training will be guided by published research and an expert in the UMKC School of Medicine.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 84%, Jackson - 13%, Cass - 1%, Wyandotte - 1%
UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 258-HUMBOLDT
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $50,000
Serving approximately 513 preschool-12th grade students, Unified School District 258 will implement the Healthy Humboldt project beginning July 2008. This 12-month project will align with the 2008-2009 school year, gathering household health data on our students and their families. Information will be gathered through Household Health Surveys and individual student health assessments. Using this information as a baseline, further assessment of the community's needs will be attained through a community-based health fair and community health surveys. Additionally, presentations to local organizations and groups will bring awareness to the need for this school-centered wellness initiative.Geographic Area Served:Allen - 100%
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY, KCUR
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $35,000
KCUR is applying for a grant to fund a position for health care reporting. Regular health-related reports will air on The Walt Bodine Show, Up to Date, KC Currents, and spot news and features.Geographic Area Served:KCMO, Jackson, Johnson, Wyandotte, Lafayette & Cass Counties
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY (VAC-KC)
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $25,000
Organization seeks to implement a model program which makes use of culturally appropriate use of key symbols with the Vietnamese culture, to raise awareness of the importance of one's health in their lives and the benefits of prevention and care as an integral part of daily living. By modeling after the 'Health is Gold' program, VAC-KC can use the developed outreach and awareness materials to jump start its bi-state campaign.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Johnson - 25%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 10%,
WYANDOTTE COUNTY EXTENSION COUNCIL
Applicant DefinedADG Discretionary Funds - President/CEO, $19,850
This grant proposal is requesting funds to increase the service capacity of K-State Research and Extension. It will be used to establish a Nutrition Resource Center. The Resource Center will be a fully functioning demonstration kitchen. The kitchen will also feature a library of reference materials for use by the public. Current staff have identified programming that will meet a need that can be offered. Extension Center staff has already identified community partners who will be able to use the center. The educational focus will be teaching healthy lifestyles to improve overall health. The evaluation component, led by Dr. Carol Fink, will assist with the future program planning, data collection tools and methods and feedback based upon ongoing evaluation. Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
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APPLICANT DEFINEDADVOCACY
COMMUNITIES CREATING OPPORTUNITY ORGANIZATION
Applicant DefinedAdvocacy, $75,000
This project has two key goals: 1) in the long-term, CCO aims to continue building an informed cadre of uninsured and under-insured citizens who can act on their own behalf to impact health care priorities in Missouri; and 2) in the near-term, CCO aims to make key health care policy changes at the local, state and national levels that will improve lives for families in Missouri, especially in Jackson, Cass, Clay and Lafayette Counties. With this application, CCO is requesting funding for the continuation and expansion of the Healthy Communities initiative. With this continued partnership, CCO will support an organizing campaign to bring the voice of grassroots leaders to local, state and national policy. Funding would primarily be used to engage a wide base of uninsured and under-insured constituency around their health care interests that will build the type of community organization needed to impact policy and affect funding decisions.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 80%, Jackson - 10%, Johnson - 4%, Wyandotte - 4%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN
Applicant DefinedAdvocacy, $75,000
Partnership for Children requests a $75,000 grant to support health-related advocacy work on behalf of indigent and underserved children in Kansas City, Missouri. PFC will work with partners at the local and state level to develop an advocacy agenda and action plan to increase children's access to quality, affordable health care services.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
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APPLICANT DEFINEDADVOCACYLOBBYING
METROCARE
Applicant DefinedAdvocacyLobbying, $33,000
Change Missouri statute to expand the State Legal Expense Fund to cover physicians, their office staff, medical practices and tertiary care facilities who donate their services to low-income, uninsured patients in the MetroCARE program.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 95%, Jackson - 5%
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HEALTHY LIFESTYLES
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
Healthy Lifestyles, $150,000
The purpose of this program is to address the growing problem of childhood obesity by increasing the capacity of schools to build healthy environments that promote physical activity and healthy eating for their students and staff. The program is based on the socio-ecologic model. This model suggests that by working with multiple levels of a social system over time, significant policy and environmental changes can be achieved. The program will provide 45 schools in the greater Kansas City area with intensive technical assistance on the development of policies and programs that lead to a healthy school environment. Program staff will work closely with each school and district to identify local gaps, develop locally-tailored action plans, help overcome local barriers, broker resources, and achieve sustainable change.Geographic Area: KCMO - 30%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 15%, Cass - 15%, Lafayette - 15%, Jackson - 10%
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF THE CENTRAL STATES
Healthy Lifestyles, $185,163
SLAM IT is a multi-year sustainable project with three components: 1) Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU), a nationally known teen tobacco use prevention program where trained teens present to younger youth within their school district/community on the importance of avoiding tobacco and embracing a healthy lifestyle; 2) the development of Clean Indoor Air (CIA) Units, which are clubs of CIA Agents (teens and young adults advocating for tobacco control issues); and, 3) CIA Units promoting a white paper developed by this organization which supports effective local tobacco control policy change.KCMO - 100%, Cass - 100%, Jackson - 100%, Lafayette - 100%, Johnson - 100%, Wyandotte - 100%
ASSOCIATED YOUTH SERVICES
Healthy Lifestyles, $75,722
Associated Youth Services is requesting an 18-month grant in the amount of $75,722 in support of an existing program component, a new fitness and healthy lifestyles component for at-risk teens; and the evaluation of a pilot personal fitness challenge model. The Hip Hop For Health: Hip and Fit Project aims to provide critical health care information and screenings to 3,000 Wyandotte County youth through a health fair format. Secondary students are targeted to increase knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding nutrition and exercise. The youth will be encouraged to join an ongoing after-school fitness group which will promote increasing activity levels and healthy eating.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
BLACK HEALTH CARE COALITION, INC.
Healthy Lifestyles, $269,343
Organization seeks funding to expand the Healthy Lifestyles Program for Teens (for which they received HCF funding last year), to include populations between the ages of 4 and 7. The 17-week program provides once-per-week visits by a nutritionist to teach and model healthy eating habits, and visits twice-per-week with a fitness consultant who teaches low- and high-impact aerobic and anaerobic activities along with strength training. A nurse measures participants' blood pressure, blood glucose, height, weight, BMI and body fat before and after program participation and the program is under the direction of the BHCC medical director.KCMO - 75%, Wyandotte - 25%
Healthy Lifestyles, $154,260
We propose to present sustained coaching in regular fitness and healthy nutrition to children and teens aged 7-15, each paired with their parents. The program will be accompanied by health promotion that builds on the successful 'Eat Small' campaign, produced by the same social marketing department at KCPT-TV. Fit Family pairs will also be given a regular home schedule of ways to continue healthy living and share their efforts with their families. It is hypothesized that by assisting in the adoption of healthy behaviors for the entire family the program will be more likely to produce results that can be sustained and affect all of its members, even those not directly involved in the program. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Wyandotte - 40%, Jackson - 10%
CITY OF INDEPENDENCE, HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Healthy Lifestyles, $92,970
KID POWER is a program for children ages 8-13 in school/community organizations focusing on childhood obesity. It empowers children to make good decisions about healthy foods, and become more physically active. The KID POWER curriculum has thirteen modules, focusing on fitness, food, fun, and involves parents.CATCH (Coordinated Approach to Child Health) is a school/community health promotion program used to reduce child obesity and diabetes. The Kids Club is a physical activity and nutrition education program designed for elementary aged children in after-school and summer programs. The curriculum uses education strategies, group discussion, education games, activities, and parental involvementGeographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
CITY OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Healthy Lifestyles, $190,000
The City of Kansas City, Mo., Health Department plans to create and engage a coalition of metropolitan area agencies and organizations dedicated to educating young children and their caregivers on the dangerous health implications of second hand smoke. In the 18-month period, we will develop and implement an educational outreach campaign and evaluate those results which will serve to direct our continuous efforts in the following 18 months.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 36%, Johnson - 25%, KCMO - 24%, Wyandotte - 9%, Cass - 4%, Lafayette - 2%
CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
Healthy Lifestyles, $164,030
Because too many children are becoming overweight, in part because they don't eat enough fresh fruit and vegetables, the University of Missouri-Columbia Extension, Nutritional Sciences requests funds for a collaborative project to 1) increase consumption of locally grown fresh produce among kindergarteners and their families in the Kansas City metropolitan area and 2) teach them the skills they need to make food choices that improve their health and reduce their risk for overweight and obesity. The project will engage children in experiential learning and involve parents and community members by linking schools and families to local food growers.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
Healthy Lifestyles, $196,329
The purpose and goal of this project is to support the development of healthy lifestyles among youth with disabilities that results in improved nutrition and increased physical activity.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
DELASALLE EDUCATION CENTER
Healthy Lifestyles, $75,000
The purpose of the DeLaSalle Healthy Lifestyles Project is to educate students about the importance of good nutrition and exercise in their lives and to help them use this information to adopt healthier eating habits and increase their physical activity. This will be accomplished through health/physical education classes where students will learn about nutritional content of various foods, develop personalized eating plans, and engage in physical activities. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
EL CENTRO, INC.
Healthy Lifestyles, $150,000
Healthy Habits, Healthy Latinos is a grassroots health care initiative, targeting people aged 0-25, that addresses the first three indicators published by Healthy People 2010--Physical Activity, Overweight and Obesity, and Tobacco Use. Using a Promotoras model, community volunteers collect data for our chronic disease management registry and provide education on making behavioral changes.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
GUADALUPE CENTER, INC.
Healthy Lifestyles, $140,000
Guadalupe Centers' project proposes to facilitate opportunities for physical exercise, nutrition education and general health education targeting Hispanic youth and older adults. This project will increase knowledge regarding overall health and nutrition in addition to increasing access to physical exercise. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 95%, Cass - 5%
HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
Healthy Lifestyles, $122,086
Harvesters' Childhood Nutrition and Healthy Eating programs meet the immediate needs of the low-income clients while also giving them the skills and knowledge they need to make healthy choices. Both programs include a nutrition education component, a hands-on meal/snack preparation activity that is age-appropriate, and the provision of food in the form of meals or groceries.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 71%, Wyandotte - 25%, Johnson - 2%, Lafayette - 2%
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Healthy Lifestyles, $95,895
Housing Authority Health and Wellness Program promotes healthy lifestyle choices among public housing residents by increasing awareness through the system-wide dissemination of culturally sensitive, health-related information that addresses the specific health concerns of a minority population. The program uses printed materials, exercise programs, educational tools, play-centered learning activities, healthy food alternatives, and public events as vehicles to promote healthy habits. The Program conducts health assessments through focus groups and surveying of all households, including non-English speaking households. The program tests best practice models for youth-targeted programs that offer creative approaches to encourage nutrition and fitness goals.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
KANSAS CITY ACORN
Healthy Lifestyles, $35,000
ACORN's Healthy Lifestyles for Urban Youth Project will train urban youth to make better nutritional decisions, encourage area businesses to sell healthier food and to advocate for better and safer recreational options in Kansas City, MO and Wyandotte County.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 70%, Wyandotte - 25%, Jackson - 5%
KANSAS CITY CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE
Healthy Lifestyles, $10,000
The Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture promotes health through increasing the accessibility of fresh fruits and vegetables to urban residents. KCCUA helps individuals, organizations, and neighborhoods establish and run community based farms that grow food in the neighborhoods where people live, work, shop, and play. By integrating farming and gardening into the life of the city, KCCUA is helping people change their relationship to the fruits and vegetables that are essential to a healthy lifestyle.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 43%, Jackson - 41%, Johnson - 16%
KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS, INC.
Healthy Lifestyles, $111,514
The Schoolyard Gardens Program would include a full-time Schoolyard Gardens Coordinator and would expand the Schoolyard Gardens pilot started 1-1/2 years ago. Additional schools would be added to the program, and services to all member schools would be expanded to include site assistance, access to gardening equipment, consultation, learning modules, teacher workshops, assistance with support from suppliers, volunteers and parents, and help from program partners.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%, Johnson - 10%
KANSAS CITY MISSOURI SCHOOL DISTRICT
Healthy Lifestyles, $150,000
We will train high school students to become Health Ambassadors to mentor middle and elementary students in healthy eating and physical fitness. High School students from Lincoln College Preparatory Academy, Central High School, Westport High School, Northeast High School, Southeast High School, and the African Centered Education Campus will participate. Each high school student will complete a semester of leadership training on Nutrition, Life Skills, Physical Fitness, and Education. Penn Valley college students, from the Physical Education Department, will provide training on teaching the residential physical Fitness Challenge and supervision of the high school students.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
KANSAS CITY QUALITY IMPROVEMENT CONSORTIUM, INC.
Healthy Lifestyles, $120,000
The Healthy Habits Youth Empowerment plan is establishing, for the first time in the Kansas City bi-state region, an integrated, community based, coordinated and comprehensive health promotion, prevention program targeting minority youth from four different ethnic groupings. Its purpose is to tailor unique youth and adult mentor programming tailored to specific communities throughout the bi-state area and to specific cultural norms and experiences with the target minority populations. This bi-state model has the potential to benefit almost 400,000 youth in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, including large numbers of youth from the four targeted populations.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 45%, Wyandotte - 25%, Johnson - 15%, Jackson - 15%
KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES
Healthy Lifestyles, $150,000
Score 1 for Health provides free, in-school elementary health screenings at 54 elementary schools in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas. In addition to basic comprehensive health screenings to identify health challenges, Score 1 is addressing barriers to care and encouraging families to follow through on referrals generated through screenings. Additional nursing staff, a full-time Referral Tracking Coordinator, and a programs outcome analyst will bring even greater health care access to Kansas City's neediest families.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Wyandotte - 34%, Jackson - 16%
KANSAS CITY URBAN YOUTH CENTER
Healthy Lifestyles, $98,828
The Healthy Choices Program seeks to address the concerns of many in the urban community about the lack of adequate nutrition and fitness for the youth, which has led to the problem of obesity. Through this project, KCUYC provides urban youth, ages 10-16, and adults nutrition and fitness education and activities through the afterschool program, Monday through Friday, as well as at weekly family events, and monthly community health events.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
MISSOURI COALITION FOR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
Healthy Lifestyles, $125,000
This project is a collaboration between the Kansas City Chronic Disease Coalition, Maria L. Boudreaux and Associates, and the Housing Authority. It will provide resources, models, methods and processes so that young families on a limited budget can plan, shop, prepare and feed their unique family a healthy diet three times a day for no more than $25/week/per person. Project activities will include static and dynamic components as well as a broader community component. Families from the Coalition and the Housing Authority will be asked to participate as models for the plan and possibly act as community facilitators in moving the project to the Kansas City metro area. During the community component, other community gatekeepers and leaders will also be recruited to participate in the program and will learn to demonstrate that they too are feeding their families a healthy diet on a fixed budget.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
MOTHER'S REFUGE
Healthy Lifestyles, $95,000
The program is designed to help homeless, pregnant and parenting teenagers establish lasting proper nutrition and fitness patterns. Through this program, we will purchase fresh produce and lean meats. Our clients will learn how to cook with these foods. We will teach them nutritional information necessary for healthy pregnancies. We will also purchase a YMCA group membership. The girls will learn the importance of proper fitness and regular exercise. They will exercise at the YMCA, routinely. Finally, the program will include smoking cessation and tobacco prevention classes. The young residents must learn the dangers of smoking while pregnant and parenting.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 80%, Jackson - 20%
NILES HOME FOR CHILDREN
Healthy Lifestyles, $100,000
The 'Hip Health' initiative at the Niles Home for Children is a holistic approach to ensure that its children and staff are informed and equipped to lead healthy lifestyles. The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City awarded the initial funding for the initiative to provide medical and dental services to all residents, as well as training to youth and staff. As Niles continues to further develop the six components of the initiative, the agency believes it will realize its overall objective of equipping about 150 youth and 55 staff each year to lead healthier and more active lifestyles.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 25%, Wyandotte - 15%, Allen - 5%, Johnson - 5%
PARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER, INC.
Healthy Lifestyles, $41,786
This project is an expansion of the Parental Intervention in Preventing Childhood Obesity, Birth to 3 Years. It will involve:1.Training PAT programs in Allen, Johnson and Wyandotte counties.2.Distribution of the Nutrition & Fitness curriculum to 130 parent educators in the Kansas counties.3.Training and distribution of the Nutrition & Fitness curriculum to 100 professionals working in child care facilities in all six counties.4.Development and distribution of a curriculum for ages 3 to 5 years.5.Training two parent educators in the region to provide on-going technical assistance about using the curriculum with families.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 35%, KCMO - 30%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 10%, Cass - 6%, Lafayette - 3%, Allen - 1%
PE4LIFE
Healthy Lifestyles, $150,000
Wellness Program Implementation Project funds will be used to advance the depth and reach of an established program that imparts quality physical education for students in schools throughout the metropolitan area, and specifically includes the following activities:o Improving the quality of Physical Education programs for all elementary students in Kansas City Missouri School District (KCMSD)o Using PE4life Academies as training facilities to further the development and improvement of physical education programs in other schools and districts throughout the metro areao Training for physical educators to deliver PE4life best practices, including established protocols for data collection and evaluationGeographic Area Served:KCMO - 80%, Johnson - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%
SAMUEL U. RODGERS HEALTH CENTER
Healthy Lifestyles, $183,184
Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center (SURHC) and the University of Missouri Extension Office Family Nutrition Education Program (FNEP) request a two year grant to reduce the prevalence of obesity among SURHC's WIC, pregnant women and pediatric patients. The FIT WIC program will consist of two components: the first component will consist of nutrition counseling from a registered dietitian; and, clients will also attend FNEP classes to learn how to prepare low-cost, nutritious meals. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
SHEFFIELD PLACE
Healthy Lifestyles, $139,002
Request is to support and enhance organization's Healthy Lifestyles project. This is a collaboration of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, UMKC's School of Nursing, and Sheffield Place. Program will provide on-site services designed to address the issues of physical inactivity, poor nutrition/obesity, and smoking to homeless families living at Sheffield Place.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 5%
SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES
Healthy Lifestyles, $150,000
Organization requests a two-year grant from HCF to establish 'Healthy Lifestyles from the Beginning', a project that will reduce the incidence of overweight and obese children among low-income and minority families in Jackson County by helping women adopt appropriate nutrition and fitness practices during pregnancy and commit to good health habits for their child during the first year of life and beyond. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 98%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
Healthy Lifestyles, $110,000
The purpose of the proposed project is to improve the health and well being of children and decrease rates of obesity and associated conditions among children into adulthood. This will be accomplished through a new program at Swope, 'Breastfeeding for Health.' The program will promote an increase in the initiation and duration rates of breast-feeding among African American women, whose breastfeeding rates are the lowest in the nation. Increasing the number of breastfed babies will result in a decreased risk of obesity and other chronic and infectious diseases of child and adulthood. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 98%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
THE CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL
Healthy Lifestyles, $175,000
Children's Mercy seeks to further implement the chronic care or ecological model for childhood obesity in the Kansas City community. The project involves partnering with the Maternal and Child Health Coalition to assist in achieving Weighing In's recently revised goals and objectives. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 85%, KCMO - 5%, Johnson - 5%, Wyandotte - 5%
Healthy Lifestyles, $368,342
Organization requests funding to continue support for PHIT KIDS (Promoting Health in Teens and Kids), a multidisciplinary weight management clinic for children ages two and older who are overweight or obese. The program serves ethnically-diverse, low-income children living in Kansas City. PHIT KID's goal is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity and its co-morbidities by providing children and their parents with the tools they need to achieve and sustain appropriate weight levels and improvements in their overall health.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 13%, Wyandotte - 7%, Johnson - 3%, Cass - 1%
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY
Healthy Lifestyles, $135,704
The Family Conservancy, in close partnership with the Kansas City Kansas Housing Authority (KCKHA), will establish a full-time presence at a KCKHA residential site to provide health and fitness programming for pregnant and parenting teens, their children and their extended family.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
THE SOCIETY OF ST. ANDREW INC
Healthy Lifestyles, $100,000
The SoSA West headquarters will coordinate the acquisition, shipment, and delivery of large volume loads of donated fresh produce to Kansas City through Harvesters - The Community Food Network. The anticipated result is an additional five million pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables for those in need.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 53%, Johnson - 20%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 5%, Cass - 4%, Lafayette - 3%
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.
Healthy Lifestyles, $114,993
Recently, the U.S. Surgeon General noted the importance of educating the healthcare community about healthy eating and physical activity as well as the need for training healthcare professionals in effective prevention and treatment techniques for pediatric obesity. Because the majority of children spend significant portions of their waking hours in the public school setting, school-based health services hold enormous potential to affect change in children's health status. The overall goal of the proposed project is to increase the capacity of school nurses to respond to the pediatric obesity epidemic, by providing training in prevention and treatment techniques for pediatric obesity.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 25%, Johnson - 25%, Wyandotte - 25%, Jackson - 15%, Cass - 10%
TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
Healthy Lifestyles, $78,847
The Jackson County Health Department conducts three different series of nutrition and fitness classes which will serve 570 children from January 2008 through June 2009. Alisa Smith teaches the classes at churches, libraries and community centers. Reports from parents and her own observations suggest that the classes do help children eat better and exercise more. The primary reason for a grant is to allow Alisa more time for data collection and evaluation. We are requesting $78,847.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
Healthy Lifestyles, $150,000
Truman Medical Center, the largest provider of 'safety net' health care in the Kansas City metro area, will offer three sessions of 'BodyWorks' classes to at least 50 families of mothers and their daughters aged 9-13. The BodyWorks Toolkit for Healthy Girls and Strong Women begins with trainers who help parents serve as role models for their children. The toolkit provides parents ways to make specific behavior changes to prevent obesity and help maintain a healthy weight. Participants will measurably improve their nutrition and exercise habits. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 85%, Jackson - 15%
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
Healthy Lifestyles, $220,000
The purpose of the project is 1) to expand the current Healthy Hawks program to meet the identified demand, and 2) to add a parental health improvement component to our current intervention. Healthy Hawks is a successful pediatric obesity clinic tailored for low-income minority families in Wyandotte County. Because of current staffing limitations few children are served each year and the current grant would allow us to greatly expand these numbers. Also, due to the importance of parental health habits to child health, we propose to add an explicit parent health improvement component to our existing family based intervention.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 90%, Johnson - 80%
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI EXTENSION COUNCIL OF JACKSON COUNTY
Healthy Lifestyles, $130,454
To encourage children to eat more fruits and vegetables and be more physically active, Jackson County Extension, in collaboration with University of Missouri Extension, Kansas City Community Gardens, Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City, and elementary schools in Kansas City are targeting a school garden program in Jackson County. This project will focus on at-risk fourth and fifth graders. Urban children will receive an understanding of where food comes from and they will be encouraged to be better stewards of the environment through growing school gardens. 'Eating from the Garden' teaches children about nutrition by relating nutrition to garden activities.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 80%, Jackson - 20%
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
Healthy Lifestyles, $115,000
Through the Headstart, Outreach and Health Services Divisions we are proposing to be able to continue healthy behaviors around the well-known risks of physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use for the low-income population of Cass County. Our current program has successfully incorporated family enrichment trainings and education programs through Head Start and our Outreach Divisions. We reach families through our Women's Health clinics with screenings and counseling regarding the risks of obesity and tobacco use. We feel we have a program that motivates and develops skills to translate knowledge to action.Geographic Area Served:Cass - 99%, Jackson - 1%
YWCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
Healthy Lifestyles, $87,500
The YWCA will serve 130-150 girls over a three-year period. The girls will be served in school, after school, and during summer sessions. The YWCA's Health and Fitness staff will work directly with the Kansas City, Kansas School District's Wellness Ambassadors to provide professional development opportunities and resources for working with students. As a plan to promote 'Fitness Mentors,' the YWCA would like to support the Wellness Ambassadors by offering opportunities to access the center with students, attend health education and culinary classes and also access the YWCA's national data on the issue of health disparities. By serving as a resource to the district employees- most specifically the Wellness Ambassadors - the YWCA hopes to empower the staff to continue modeling healthy behaviors for the students. As schools adopt a culture of wellness, teachers and students must work in partnership to promote healthy lifestyles. The ultimate goal is to move the participants from thought to action and, ultimately, behavior change.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
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MENTAL HEALTH
BENILDE HALL
Mental Health, $83,600
Expanded and enhanced services to dual disorder clients through development of Skills Assignment Groups and Process Therapy Groups. Homework/Handout Group, Skills Coaching Group, and Advanced Dialectic Behavior Therapy Group would be added to existing DBT therapy services. The request would also increase the amount of slots for a contract psychologist to provide individual therapy to the neediest clients.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
Mental Health, $107,000
Benilde Hall, which serves homeless, chemically dependant men, requests multi-year funding to provide on-site mental health services and medication adherence to men with co-occurring disorder, substance abuse and mental illness. Support would provide: implementation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy groups; individual therapy for those residents with the greatest need; medication compliance program; and staff training on mental illness & treatment.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
CHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES CENTER, INC.
Mental Health, $175,000
The purpose of the proposed grant is to support critical early intervention clinical services to young children who have experienced abuse, neglect and/or other trauma, resulting in diminished emotional, behavioral and social functioning.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 55%, Jackson - 33.3%, Johnson - 4.2%, Cass - 3.3%, Wyandotte - 1.4%, Other - 2.8%
CITY OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, MUNICIPAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
Mental Health, $900,000
The Bridge Project will deliver intensive, individualized services that address the needs of inmates incarcerated at the Municipal Correctional Institution. The program will focus on inmates who currently go unserved by utilizing current programming available at MCI. The program will include diagnosis, counseling, and case management. The outcomes will end the cycle of incarceration with inmates in supportive stable housing.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 91%, Wyandotte - 7%, Cass - 2%
COUNTY OF LAFAYETTE
Mental Health, $132,000
The Lafayette County Sanction Treatment Opportunity Progress (STOP) program was the second drug court established in Missouri and the first established to serve a rural community. Funding will allow this growing program to create two new integral positions, a court administrator and a participant tracking officer. These staff additions will improve the court's ability to obtain medical evaluations and medications for clients unable to obtain the services on their own. Geographic Area Served:Lafayette - 85%, Jackson - MO 15%
Mental Health, $198,300
The Lafayette County S.T.O.P. program is requesting support from the HCF to fund a Domestic Violence Court project for 3 years. HCF funding will support treatment and staff for the program. There will be up to 30 clients. Domestic Violence cases will be referred by the courts to the program. At this time, members of Probation and Parole and Treatment Facilitators will provide a 26 week proven national recognized program to hold accountable domestic violence offenders. Counseling for the offenders as well as the victims will occur. This will cut down on recidivism and lessen the load of traditional criminal courts.Geographic Area Served:Lafayette - 100%
CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - UMKC
Mental Health, $28,283
The Empowerment Program, developed in 2001, is a collaboration between the Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Rose Brooks Center. Its mission is to serve refugee and immigrant women and their families living in Jackson County in the areas of mental health, resettlement adjustment, and domestic violence. The Program provides innovative prevention, mental health and psycho-educational outreach services with the purpose of eliminating barriers to mental health and domestic violence services. The Program is funded in part by the Jackson County Mental Health Levy to provide services in Jackson County.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 45%, Jackson - 45%, Johnson - 5%
Mental Health, $175,000
The Program to Improve Triage and Quality of Intervention for Recidivist Suicidal Persons seeks Year 3 funding. With collaborators Western Missouri Mental Health Center, Truman Behavioral Health Services and Mattie Rhodes Counseling Center, we will continue building the program to include additional mental health clinicians to further build the system to reduce suicide recidivism. Objectives include (1) continue to refine topology to triage for suicidal persons; (2) expand into new populations; (3) enhance the linkage and intervention systems; and (4) continue to help agencies improve the systems of care for persons with suicidal concerns, minimizing repeated hospitalizations.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
EL CENTRO, INC.
Mental Health, $112,556
Request is for funding of an ongoing domestic violence counseling and advocacy program. This non-denominational faith-based empowerment program, funded by federal Victims of Crimes Act funds from the Kansas Governor's Office, focuses on breaking the cycle of violence for Latina immigrant women through counseling, emergency support services, advocacy and a survivor's support group, led largely by survivors of domestic violence and a children's healing arts program. Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 85%, Johnson - 10%, Jackson - 5%
FRIENDS OF RECOVERY ASSOCIATION
Mental Health, $40,000
Request will be used for the Oxford House program in Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. Oxford Houses are transitional houses for recovering alcoholics and addicts.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 70%, Wyandotte - 30%
FRIENDS OF YATES
Mental Health, $329,259
Organization proposes to provide a school-based, culturally-specific and evidence-based mental health screening and intervention program for high-risk youth aged 10-17. The proposed project design is based on Wyandotte County data that illustrated the need for innovative intervention strategies to improve the mental health status of African Americans. The data indicated that, although African Americans were exposed to high rates of violence and suffered mental health consequences (e.g. post traumatic stress disorder), they did not seek help through traditional service delivery systems. The purpose of the proposed program will be to utilize screening and intervention to link youth and families to resources necessary to address mental health conditions.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
Mental Health, $600,000
In its fifth year of service, with a goal of increasing access to domestic violence (DV) advocacy and mental health services, BridgeSPAN (Safe Patient Advocacy Network) is an innovative community-wide partnership between the longstanding (25 years) Kansas City Metropolitan Family Violence Coalition (MFVC) and 33 metro-area hospitals/clinics addressing DV as a serious health care issue. The three main program components are: health care staff training; on-site direct advocacy/referral services; and policy/protocol administration. Staff Advocates from five MFVC partner DV provider organizations provide crucially needed health care staff training sessions and on-site, round-the-clock, victim advocacy and referral services.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 66%, Wyandotte - 13%, KCMO - 8%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 2%
GOOD SAMARITAN PROJECT
Mental Health, $60,000
This organization received a one-year grant from HCF in 2006 to develop 'Family Centered Counseling.' The goal was to implement mental health services for high-risk, HIV-positive African American women who need services, but who- for a variety of reasons- do not access mental health services offered under the Ryan White Care Act. The program addresses the barriers to care by providing a unique mix of therapeutic interventions that are culturally sensitive and consumer friendly, including: psycho-educational classes and group counseling in a social setting, combined with intensive counseling for individuals, couples and families in the home. The organization seeks funding to continue this program for an additional 19 months. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 10%
GUADALUPE CENTER, INC.
Mental Health, $65,000
The Guadalupe Center's DĚa Por DĚa (Day By Day) Treatment Program offers Level V (Recovery Support) outpatient substance abuse treatment. DĚa Por DĚa provides bilingual (Spanish and English), and culturally sensitive individual and group counseling, client education, case management, and community support services. The time frame a client may participate varies, however the average length of care is between twelve to sixteen weeks. The program provides free treatment to residents throughout the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. It reaches low income, uninsured men and women. Additionally, our program provides bilingual alcohol and other drug education to the Latino community via an array of outreach efforts.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 45%, Wyandotte - 27%, KCMO - 19%, Cass - 7%, Jackson - 2%
HEALTHY FAMILIES COUNSELING & SUPPORT
Mental Health, $105,000
HFCS offers an array of mental health services including Outpatient Mental Health Therapy to children, families and adults to help with a wide variety of emotional and/or behavioral problems, which would not be affordable if they weren't subsidized or offered on a sliding fee scale. In-home mental health services are provided for children/adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral problems that have placed them at significant risk for out of home placement. Services are provided at varying intensities (depending on the needs of the child), links are created between clients and community resources, and a monitor service delivery is given to the child and their family. These services are highly successful in helping children remain and succeed in their home, school and community. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
HOPE HAVEN OF CASS COUNTY
Mental Health, $21,000
Victims of domestic violence often suffer emotional trauma from experiencing abuse. Hope Haven proposes to contract services from Pathways to provide both on-site and off-site treatment for victims and their children. In addition, Pathways would provide staff training and consultation for staff members when necessary. With the addition of Pathways, we will be able to extend therapy to children and clients with multiple issues which have been unable to access services in the past. Geographic Area Served:Cass - 100%
HOPE HOUSE, INC.
Mental Health, $93,426
Victims of domestic violence require more than safe shelter; women who are repeatedly beaten and degraded have long-term physical and mental health issues that must be addressed in order to break the cycle of domestic violence. It is the overall goal of the health project for women to make positive choices about their healthcare.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 45%, KCMO - 39%, Wyandotte - 4%, Cass - 1%, Johnson - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
HOUSE OF HOPE, INC.
Mental Health, $124,207
Project S.H.E. provides in-shelter services to children, continuing services to women integrating back into their communities after shelter residency, and support services to non-resident victims of domestic or sexual violence and their children.Geographic Area Served:Lafayette - 100%
INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Mental Health, $620,000
The Mental Health Initiative, a partnership between the Independence School District and KVC Behavioral HealthCare, is a project that provides in-home family therapy and assessment for children and families. The project will eliminate lag-time-to-care by creating immediate access to services. The Independence School District contracts with KVC Behavioral HealthCare to provide in-home therapeutic services, 'telemed' psychiatric services, consultation services, therapeutic support groups, and crisis intervention services for children and families that are enrolled in any programs provided by the Independence School District. Funding is needed for licensed clinical therapists, a part-time project coordinator and project clerk, and a professional evaluation of the project.Georgraphic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE
Mental Health, $40,000
In 2006, HCF supported the developing of a mental health curriculum for advanced interpreters and creating a sustainability plan for continuing training. In 2007 and 2008 JVS plans to provide this twenty hour training three times a year, for a total of six three-day sessions over two years. The target audience will be interpreters who have passed Bridging the Gap with a high score, have committed to serving the non-profit service sector, and have experience as interpreters.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 28%, Cass - 10%, Wyandotte - 5%, Johnson - 5%, Lafayette - 1%, Allen -1%
KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY CENTER
Mental Health, $150,000
The provision of co-occurring treatment services to Missouri state offenders classified to two of KCCC's offender residential facilities. Co-occurring services are provided by professional staff in conjunction with the presiding probation or parole officer.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 25%
KANSAS CITY FREE HEALTH CLINIC
Mental Health, $400,000
Project would provide outpatient behavioral health services for underinsured and uninsured adults, ages 19-64, with depression, and/or co-occuring substance abuse and psychological issues.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 80%, Wyandotte - 9%, Johnson - 7%, Cass - 3%, Lafayette - 1%
KANSAS CITY QUALITY IMPROVEMENT CONSORTIUM, INC.
Mental Health, $65,000
Shedding Light on Depression in Multiple Sector Settings is a two year comprehensive program involving the medical community, neighborhood and faith networks, schools, multi-cultural organizations and the media in addressing and responding to issues and solutions for persons diagnosed with depression.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 40%, Johnson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%, Jackson - 20%
Mental Health, $50,000
(Year II portion of two-year Depression program - Shedding Light on Depression in Multiple Sector Settings)To build upon the work being completed under current funding to develop specific materials that will then be ready for distribution in the community through specifically-targeted cultural settings. Year II implementation will focus its endeavors on community training and distribution of the developed materials for use within the targeted community sector settings. The following targeted audiences will be focused: Medical Sector, School Sector, The Media, Community, Faith Sector and Multi-Cultural Sector and Preschoolers and their caregivers.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 40%, Jackson - 20%, Johnson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%
KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES
Mental Health, $50,000
Beyond Depression in the Later Years provides training to medical students, preceptors, clergy, parish nurses, aging agencies and community members on geriatric depression and treatment. With potential to create systemic change in how quality care for geriatric depression can be delivered in the Kansas City region, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences will utilize 3 Geriatric Depression Toolkits created for 1) medical providers, 2) the community and 3) those who live with depression and their significant others.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 45%, Jackson - 25%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 11%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 2%
KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, INC.
Mental Health, $148,300
Children removed from their families due to abuse or neglect suffer from developmental and neurological conditions much more frequently than the general population. Diagnostic services to identify and treat these conditions are scarce in our community, with very long waiting times, and families have trouble negotiating the process for treatment. KVC Behavioral HealthCare is developing a multidisciplinary treatment approach in our outpatient clinics to provide specialized diagnostic services and treatment for children with these risk factors. This is a major step to help prevent their institutionalization and chronic mental health problems as adults.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 58%, Johnson - 42%
LEXINGTON R-V SCHOOL DISTRICT
Mental Health, $150,200
The Brighter Futures Consortium is an initiative of the six public school districts of Lafayette County. The six school districts have a long history of working together to benefit the educational needs of the students of Lafayette County. The Brighter Futures Consortium will address and provide access to mental health services to students during the regular school day.Geographic Area Served:Lafayette - 100%
MATTIE RHODES CENTER
Mental Health, $390,000
Request for funding would sustain the Latino Mental Health Program for indigent, Spanish-speaking clients residing in Jackson County, Missouri, as well as to enhance the ability to provide services in Kansas. Geographic Area Served:Jackson- 90%, Johnson - 5%, Wyandotte - 5%
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF THE HEARTLAND
Mental Health, $84,845
Sabbaths of Hope is a project that enables clergy and other faith leaders to recognize types and symptoms of depression, provide referral and linkage to treatment options, and offer more effective support to congregants suffering from depression. Sabbaths of Hope addresses racial/ethnic disparity issues in depressive disorders by placing particular emphasis on securing involvement of faith communities of high minority membership. Faith community participants receive training and resources to enable them to conduct educational events for congregants and colleagues. All depression related activities culminate on a regionally designated Sabbaths of Hope weekend in May of each year.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 30%, Wyandotte - 25%, Jackson - 15%, KCMO - 15%, Cass - 8%, Lafayette - 7%
METROPOLITAN MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
Mental Health, $135,000
This project seeks to enhance the capacity of African American faith leaders and faith communities as proactive agents in the identification and treatment of depression. Targeted audiences are: 1) faith leaders, 2) faith congregations/ assemblies, and 3) individuals both faith and non-faith affiliated. Targeted within these audiences are: victims and perpetuators of domestic and/or criminal violence. Project objectives are to: 1) enhance general awareness of depression, diagnosis and modalities for treatment, 2) provide information concerning mental health facilities/services and access challenges, and 3) provide programs, forums and opportunities for the acquisition of strategies and practices that enhance and sustain mental health. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 97%, KCMO 3%
METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION TO COUNTER SEXUAL ASSAULT
Mental Health, $375,000
Sexual assault and abuse is pervasive in our community and directly tied to long-term mental health problems. MOCSA seeks to lessen the negative mental health effects of sexual violence through educational interventions. The project will deliver the following results in approximately 30 school districts across the metro area: 1) students will have sexual violence safety and prevention skills, 2) parents will know how to access resources and services, and 3) school personnel will have expertise to respond effectively to disclosures of sexual abuse and incidents of sexual violence. A comprehensive project evaluation will yield new best-practice information for the field.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 72%, KCMO - 11%, Johnson - 10%, Wyandotte - 4%, Cass - 3%
Mental Health, $230,000
The purpose of the Mapping Individual Solutions to trauma (MIST) Project is to increase the coping skills and mental health of women and men in low-income populations and in at-risk communities who have been victims or are at risk for first-time or recurrent sexual assault.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 50%, Jackson - 50%
MIDWEST CHRISTIAN COUNSELING CENTER
Mental Health, $90,900
Midwest Christian Counseling Center's Midwest Family Healing Services Program serves to provide psychotherapy to indigent and underserved victims of domestic violence and child abuse. This program is unique given MCCC's rare capacity to address issues related to faith during counseling. Through this program, our highly trained staff will provide psychotherapy to 150 victims of domestic violence and/or sexual abuse for an average of six, one-hour sessions. The effectiveness of therapy will be measured through a baseline survey administered prior to the start of services, at the sixth session and upon termination from treatment.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 55%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte 15%, KCMO - 10%, Cass - 5%
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
Mental Health, $100,000
The project will provide clinical supports and treatment to older adults with depression in Jackson County, including Grandview, Lee's Summit, South Kansas City and North Kansas City.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 75%, KCMO - 25%
NILES HOME FOR CHILDREN
Mental Health, $185,859
The Second Chances Program will allow Niles Home to increase various types of mental health and social services offered to clients while at Niles and after they are discharged. The agency would be working with clients' families, other agencies, and the community to offer strength-based, culturally competent, clinically appropriate treatment designed to meet the individual needs of the client, including those identified with extreme emotional and behavioral issues, and to help them reintegrate into their families and communities.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 9%, Cass - 1%
OLATHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER/JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Mental Health, $40,000
Request is to fund the hiring of a Mental Health Care Counselor for twelve months. This would allow OFRC to continue their health care services to low income Hispanic and homeless adults and children. Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 100%
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH, INC.
Mental Health, $564,700
To provide mental health support services to children and parents/care givers who suffer from mental illness, post-traumatic stress, depression, low self-esteem, and substance abuse.Geographical Area Served:Jackson - 100%
PATHWAYS COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, INC.
Mental Health, $307,800
Request would provide comprehensive behavioral healthcare services to Cass and Lafayette County residents suffering from co-occurring disorders, depression and family, domestic violence and child abuse. Geographic Area Served:Cass - 50%, Lafayette - 50%
Mental Health, $316,312
Pathways Community Behavioral Healthcare proposes to serve the adolescent populations and their families residing in both Cass and Lafayette Counties. Through two innovative programs, Functional Family Therapy (FFT) and the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA), Pathways will be able to serve both substance abuse and mental health needs of adolescents and their families. Funding will be utilized to support staff and staff trainings, resources required to provide service provision, and staff travel. Outcomes will be measured by the number of clients served through both approaches and client satisfaction survey's.Geographic Area Served:Cass - 50%, Lafayette - 50%
REDISCOVER
Mental Health, $394,709
Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) will ensure that the substance abuse needs of adolescents and adults with mental illness are met and that care is coordinated, responsive and appropriate.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Mental Health, $500,000
The mission of the Jackson County Safe Family Coalition (SFC) is to reduce the co-occurrence of child abuse and domestic violence by changing policy and practice through a coordinated and integrated community response that will provide safety, enhance well-being, and provide stability for children and families. Since 2001, the SFC has been a successful collaborative initiative between child protection, adult and family courts, county and city prosecutors, judges, domestic violence shelters, law enforcement, probation and parole, social workers, and mental health service providers to collectively provided direction and expertise to improving the response to child abuse and domestic violence.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
RESTART, INC.
Mental Health, $170,000
Request should fund the addition of a staff therapist to the Mental Health Services staff and the continued support of our current clinical case worker; these personnel will provide evaluation and treatment of co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders to a greater number of the chronically homeless population. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
ROSE BROOKS CENTER, INC.
Mental Health, $382,093
The expansion of our Outreach Therapy Program will help to provide immediate services such as individual therapy, case management and immediate access to resources to improve the lives of the women and children that we serve and to break the cycle of domestic violence.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 65%, Wyandotte - 13%, Johnson - 9%, KCMO - 8%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 2%, Allen - 1%
SAFEHOME, INC.
Mental Health, $145,862
SAFEHOME's Clinical Counseling Program, located in Johnson County, KS, provides no-cost, confidential counseling support for victims of domestic violence and their families, serving women and their children who live at the SAFEHOME shelter or in the community.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 42%, Jackson - 21%, Wyandotte - 20%, KCMO - 18%
SAMUEL U. RODGERS HEALTH CENTER
Mental Health, $489,527
Request is to continue the ongoing work on the Co-Occurring Conditions Program. Because of startup delays, SRHC plans to request a carryover of year one grant funds under separate cover. Funding will enable them to continue identifying, treating and managing the mental health of patients enrolled in area substance abuse programs.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 89%, Johnson - 4%, Wyandotte -1%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
SHEFFIELD PLACE
Mental Health, $112,500
Sheffield Place's Therapeutic Services project will provide much needed mental health services to a population (homeless mothers and their children) that is resistant to traditional means and faces multiple access barriers. The purpose of this project is to improve mental, emotional, and family functioning. A minimum of 30 families (at least 30 mothers and 45 children) will receive a variety of evidence-based services from our multidisciplinary team. With the exception of some of the case management services, all services will be provided at our facility where the mothers and children live.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 5%
SPOFFORD
Mental Health, $307,000
Request for multi-year continuation of the Strengthening Families Program, which is a year-round, comprehensive, multifaceted program centered on the core service of school-based case management services offered in collaboration with local school districts. The objective of the program is to facilitate at-risk elementary and middle school-aged students' access to coordinated services for mental health, social-skills development, and other basic needs so that risk factors are reduced and protective factors are increased. Thus, it will become possible for the children to obtain the skills and resources to function successfully in their homes, school, and in the community.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
SUNFLOWER HOUSE, INC.
Mental Health, $101,958
The Sunflower House Child Assessment Program provides a safe, child-friendly place for children, ages 0-17, alleging sexual or physical abuse to tell the most intimate details of their abuse to trained social work Intake Specialists. This effort is coordinated with more than 30 local law enforcement and state child protection agencies to ease the trauma to children reporting abuse.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 60%, Wyandotte - 40%
SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES
Mental Health, $250,000
This funding would support a qualified mental health professional, or court monitor, who connects clients with mental health care, monitors their compliance with the treatment plan, and reports to the court.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
SYNERGY SERVICES, INC.
Mental Health, $185,020
To provide therapy, counseling and case management resources to victims of abuse and neglect. These include: Transitional Living programs for adults 16-21 who are homeless and have outgrown the foster care system. This would also provide an Emergency Shelter, Women's Center, Children's Center, and Teen Parent Mentoring program. Geographical Area Served:KC MO- 50%, Jackson - 31%, Johnson - 8.6%, Wyandotte - 8.4%, Cass - 2%
THE CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL
Mental Health, $150,000
The goal of this initiative is successful replication of a multi-faceted, family-centered, public/private model of the Kansas City Metropolitan Task Force on Drug Exposed Infants to develop comprehensive services to reduce child maltreatment in families affected by substance abuse in Cass and Lafayette counties in Missouri. Geographic Area Served:Lafayette - 74%, Cass - 26%
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.
Mental Health, $249,000
The Beach Center on Disability at the University of Kansas and the Wyandot Center propose a partnership to address the extensive needs of at-risk children and their parents who have co-occurring disorders and who live in Wyandotte County. We are requesting to implement a multi-tiered system of support in which the professional staff at the Wyandot Center with support from the University of Kansas will implement a parenting education program and a train-the-trainer professional development model to better serve families who have co-occurring disorders.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
TRI-COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
Mental Health, $150,000
Request is for continued support in providing services aimed to expand access to appropriate mental health care for older adults suffering from depression by heightening awareness of late life depression as a treatable illness, training volunteers and professionals involved in serving older adults, screening and linking individuals with appropriate care, and developing collaborative relationships with community partners where older persons seek services or reside. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
Mental Health, $210,000
The project will expand and enhance Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) services in both mental health and substance abuse programs of the agency. IDDT is an evidence-based practice for delivering services to individuals experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions. Integrated services offer mental health and substance abuse services to persons by the same treatment team in the same place, offering persons served the best opportunity for meeting their recovery goals. Additionally, the project will initiate a community coalition of mental health and substance abuse treatment organizations with the goal of sharing information, technical assistance, and advocacy.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 257
Mental Health, $199,419
SAFE BASE, USD 257 after-school program, requests funding for Strategies For Success, a two-year project to provide mental health and counseling services to its students and families. Strategies For Success will provide additional counseling and therapy opportunities with longer contact time. It will limit the removal of students from classroom learning for counseling services, creating additional challenges for students already lagging behind. Increased knowledge of mental health issues by staff, parents/guardians, local law enforcement and the community will occur through countywide speaker presentations.Geographic Area Served:Allen - 100%
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
Mental Health, $150,079
The TeleHelper project will train health professional students (the target population) in pediatric depression evaluation and treatment. Youth depression is a significant public health concern, with one in five children experiencing a depressive episode by age 18 and many more children suffering with mood-related concerns. Despite the high need for early identification, healthcare professional students receive little or no education about youth depression. The project will utilize online modules to train students across disciplines about youth depression. Training will focus on guideline-adherent skills as well as practical clinical experience, including school and daycare based telemedicine clinics.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 90%, Johnson - 5% Jackson - 5%
YOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE!
Mental Health, $90,000
The goal of this grant is to address the need for mental health services and to increase use of professional mental health services for high-risk teenage girls in four middle schools and high schools in Wyandotte County. Young women on the Move provides a weekly after-school strength-based curriculum emphasizing resiliency, health and life skills. The program is grounded in cognitive behavioral theory and 5 stages of change.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
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MENTAL HEALTHDEPRESSION
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER, CENTER FOR TELEMEDICINE
Mental HealthDepression, $99,485
To increase early identification of youth depression in Kansas City, Kansas schools and extend evidence-based, culturally appropriate treatment through the TeleKidcare program, which aims to bridge the gap between high healthcare need and poor access using school-based videoconferencing in the Kansas City, KS (USD 500) public schools to tackle a single public health crisis, youth depression. The proposed project, TeleHelp, will utilize the TeleKidcare partnership to expand training opportunities for USD500 and other local school professionals to recognize early warning signs of depression across children and adolescents in the Kansas City region. It will support a new interdisciplinary clinic dedicated to treating depressed youth and provide additional training to the University of Kansas Medical Center providers in culturally competent care for depressed youth.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 95%, Johnson - 5%
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SAFETY NET
AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION
Safety Net, $57,000
We are seeking assistance to create a new and innovative program, the Re-building Block, a street-like setting which is designed for the stroke survivor as well as other neurological disorder survivors in the Kansas City area. This new program will be located at our Missouri location and will assist the client in activities commonly participated in within the most realistic setting, a mock community. Familiar, lifelike settings from the community, such as a grocery store, bank/ATM, discount store, restaurant, car, and garden are available to use in a safe environment before venturing out into the city to try without assistance.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 35%, Johnson - 10%, Wyandotte - 5%
BAPTIST-TRINITY LUTHERAN LEGACY FOUNDATION
Safety Net, $125,000
To provide emergency medical assistance to low income, uninsured and under insured individuals in the Kansas City metropolitan area in the following categories: dental emergencies, diabetic supplies, durable medical goods, prescriptions and vision care.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-37%, Wyandotte-33%, Johnson-15%, Jackson-14%, Cass-1%
BLACK HEALTH CARE COALITION, INC.
Safety Net, $65,000
The Black Health Care Coalition will conduct the 'SISTA' (Sisters Informing Sisters on the Topics of AIDS) program for African American women in the Jackson County Jail and the Kansas City Municipal Correctional Institution. SISTA is an evidence based HIV female prevention program that was designed to be culturally specific for African Americans. The SISTA sessions develop HIV prevention strategies, healthy self-esteem and positive decision making skills amongst participants. We will conclude the program with Community Information Fairs where participants will receive HIV testing, health screenings and community services after they have left these short term correctional settings.Geographic Area Served: Jackson-60%, KCMO-40%
CABOT WESTSIDE HEALTH CENTER
Safety Net, $153,600
Cabot Westside Health Center's Oral Health Program promotes preventive oral health care and provides direct dental services to the predominantly uninsured, Hispanic population Cabot serves, ultimately improving patients' quality of life.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-89%, Wyandotte-7%, Johnson-2%, Cass-1%, Jackson-1%
CANCER ACTION INC
Safety Net, $78,000
Cancer Action's Patient Services Program is designed to reduce stress by meeting critical and often life saving needs of those with cancer in the Kansas City area. The agency offers a comprehensive array of programs and services addressing the physical, social, emotional, financial and spiritual needs of people with cancer and their families. Our caring professionals and volunteers improve the quality of life for those with cancer by providing direct practical services, financial assistance, ongoing emotional support and case management, education and wellness programs offering empowerment, hope and comfort. All Cancer Action programs and services are free of charge.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-30%, KCMO-26%, Johnson-22%, Wyandotte-18%, Cass-3%, Lafayette-1%
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST. JOSEPH, INC.
Safety Net, $349,860
Community Denture Program Expansion offers seniors and persons with disabilities in Kansas City, Jackson, Cass, and Lafayette Counties in Missouri; and Johnson and Wyandotte Counties of Kansas access to affordable pre-denture and denture services. Uninsured and underserved persons no longer have adequate dental care to prevent edentulism, the loss of natural teeth, since Medicaid discontinued coverage for these services. To ensure effective participation and completion of client outcomes, the expansion includes access to transportation and a geriatric social worker for support and referrals to community resources necessary for independent living and positive overall health and wellness.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-55%, KCMO-35%, Cass-3%, Lafayette-3%, Johnson-2%, Wyandotte-2%
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION
Safety Net, $82,645
Services designed to meet the immediate needs of families and children who have experienced abuse or are seeking to prevent abuse, which will have to be put on a waiting list to receive services. Activities include: Risk factor assessment, community linkage and support to reduce risk; child group therapy to stabilize traumatized children and reduce their anxiety by providing personal safety skills training and affect regulation interventions. Providing these services in Spanish will also provide a safety net to those who may not be able to utilize services in the community due to language barriers.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
CHILD PROTECTION CENTER, INC.
Safety Net, $558,000
The Forensic Interview and Evaluation Program provides services to children ages 2-17 living in Jackson, Cass and Lafayette Counties who are alleged victims of abuse. The interviews and assessments, conducted in a safe, neutral, child friendly setting, are used to ensure children who are victims of abuse are identified, their safety secured and that they are referred for all necessary medical and mental health treatment. All services are provided with the goal of minimizing trauma imposed on child victims by the system, ensuring their physical and emotional wellbeing and restoring the victimís sense of dignity and self esteem.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 56%, Jackson - 34%, Cass - 8%, Lafayette - 2%
CITY OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI,16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FAMILY COURT DIVISION
Safety Net, $124,000
The purpose of the Kansas City Municipal drug court is to expand and enhance services, while eliminating barriers to substance abuse treatment.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS INC
Safety Net, $57,296
CHC/SEK is proposing the establishment of a safety-net dental clinic in Iola, Allen County, Kansas that will provide comprehensive dental services to all individuals regardless of the ability to pay.Geographic Area Served:Allen-100%
COMMUNITY LINC
Safety Net, $150,000
Community LINC, a homeless family safety net provider, is requesting a three year grant as a match for their government match requirement. The funds will be used to provide a variety of services that homeless families need to maintain their health. Geographic Area Served:Jackson County 100%
COMMUNITY NETWORK FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, INC. (COMMCARE)
Safety Net, $248,000
Safety Net Interventions for CIT Clients is a system-level collaboration designed to improve access to quality health and mental health service by persons who encounter police. It addresses multiple and complex issues of persons with mental illness and co-morbid medical conditions. CIT clients receive integrated care services including crisis response, medication, health and mental health services, and ancillary support services. The initiative involves the use of evidenced-based diversion services and clinical practices to facilitate positive health outcomes, reduce crime and violence and promote recovery and self-sufficiency.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
Safety Net, $118,363
The CMHS Telepsychiatry program will utilize video conferencing to provide psychiatric services such as evaluation, consultation, and medication management to patients in order to: reach clients in remote locations; provide immediate access to services for clients in crisis; maximize psychiatrist time; serve more clients; and reduce costs of transportation for clients. This program also has the potential to provide the opportunity for consultative services between psychiatrist, primary care physicians and other healthcare providers.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY
Safety Net, $155,000
The purpose of the grant is to provide funds toward a health program in the Central City Catholic Schools and to provide funds for Cristo Rey Kansas City High School toward the salaries and benefits for the part time high school nurse; full time counselor; part time physical activity coordinator; and health outreach coordinator for students and parents.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-80%, Wyandotte-20%
DELASALLE EDUCATION CENTER
Safety Net, $76,572
The 'Team of Care' and all counseling services available at DeLaSalle aim to assist students in becoming secure, confident individuals so that they stay in school, become engaged in their learning and progress to a positive, successful future.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
DUCHESNE CLINIC
Safety Net, $175,000
Duchesne Clinic provides a wide range of integrated healthcare services for the uninsured poor in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Services include primary health care, medication assistance, mental health care, emergency dental care, vision care, and some specialist care. As our patients (all adults) do not have any health insurance, Duchesne Clinic receives no insurance reimbursement for our services, and relies on fund development to support clinic operations. Without our core clinical staff and medical supplies, the clinic would not be able to provide services or leverage donated care from our volunteer physicians who provide care for our patients on and off-site.Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte-100%
EL CENTRO, INC.
Safety Net, $150,000
El Centro's Patient Navigation Initiative will be culturally competent and utilize an evidence-based model of health-intervention among low-income, uninsured or underserved, primarily Hispanic, adults in Wyandotte and Johnson County. The Healthcare Navigation System will employ a Universal Health Assessment Tool to assess the health risks and barriers to healthcare of clients coming to El Centro's Argentine Family Services and Johnson County Family Services with a healthcare need, and will work with Family Services caseworkers to create a patient navigation plan to address the barriers. Typical barriers that will be addressed successfully will include: communication and language difficulties, financial and insurance difficulties, fear, distrust and/or emotional concerns. The barriers will be addressed by bilingual Patient Navigators through their connection with and within community healthcare organizations and other community resources, through patient education and patient advocacy, and through volunteer support of El Centro's Promotoras Program.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte-90%, Johnson-8%, KCMO-2%
FRIENDS OF JOHNSON COUNTY NURSING CENTER INC.
Safety Net, $60,000
The project provides in-house behavioral health services to the 112-bed skilled nursing center. Services include both staff training and support and resident care. The project addresses the care issue that many frail elders face in regards to behavioral health issues as well as physical health challenges. Behavioral health needs include dementia or Alzheimer's care, care for serious mental illnesses and personality disorders. Services include periodic staff training, periodic support/information session for residents' families, participation of a Qualified Mental Health Professional in care planning, as a resource specialist, Chair of JCNC Behavioral Health Committee. Will conduct Critical Incident Debriefing as needed.Geographic Area Served:Johnson-75%, Wyandotte-5%, Cass-1%, Jackson-1%, KCMO-1%
GOOD SAMARITAN PROJECT
Safety Net, $63,173
Good Samaritan Project will conduct prevention education, testing, personal risk-reduction counseling and linkage to care for more than 3,000 high-risk youth in Jackson and Wyandotte counties.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-70%, Wyandotte-25%, Jackson-5%
GREATER KANSAS CITY LINC INC.
Safety Net, $60,000
To fund additional study of the feasibility of community-based primary care in a setting connected and integrated with the school and community of Kansas City, Missouri south of 75th Street.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-100%
HEALTH CARE COALITION OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY
Safety Net, $18,000
The Access and Adequate Care project would allow the Health Care Coalition of Lafayette County to subsidize the transportation costs of patients who utilize Rodgers-Lafayette FQHC and the local Rural Health Clinics. We plan to advance to phase II of the research study on a county-wide insurance plan. Our agency continues to address the access to care issues and by providing transportation vouchers to patients, we are directly influencing the rate of follow up care. Previous HCF funds have been used to research transportation needs and the results were favorable to a system. Funds have also been requested for marketing.Geographic Area Served:Lafayette-100%
Safety Net, $100,000
Access to healthcare encompasses both the ability to sustain current services provided to the uninsured and underserved and the need to identify barriers those individuals experience in accessing the healthcare services. Lafayette County 4-Health: Access & Sustainability, has two major focuses that work cooperatively to provide a strong safety net of services for Lafayette County. The first focus is the identification of barriers to healthcare access for residents of Lafayette County. The second focus is the development of a comprehensive plan to sustain the services provided the uninsured and underserved, which will include a business and marketing plan for the 4-Life Center.Geographic Area Served:Lafayette - 100%
HEALTH PARTNERSHIP CLINIC OF JOHNSON COUNTY
Safety Net, $200,000
In 2008, the HPC Board of Directors established a concrete plan for medical home implementation. This model provides a more comprehensive scope of services, focusing on primary care, chronic disease management and wellness and prevention activities. To accommodate this model, the Overland Park clinic will relocate to a larger facility in the fall of 2008. Critical to HPC's medical home expansion will be patient centered scheduling, patient care coordination and quality improvement. Funding will be used to staff the positions necessary for medical home implementation, with the ultimate goals of providing quality care, reducing health care costs, and creating greater access. Geographic Area Served:Johnson-100%
JACKSON COUNTY FREE HEALTH CLINIC
Safety Net, $34,700
The Dispensary provides medications for patients. These medications are used to 1.) bridge patients until bulk medications come from Patient Assistance Program; 2.) supply medications that are not available from Patient Assistance Program; and 3.) provide one time medications (antibiotics, ointments, etc). The dispensary allows the Jackson County Free Health Clinic to provide immediate, on-site medications to then leverage long-term, consistent medications donated from pharmaceutical companies. Appropriate lab monitoring and physician follow up accompany the provision of medications for chronic medical illness.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 99%, Cass - 1%
Safety Net, $29,770
One of the most critical components of the JCFHC is the on-going Diabetes Program, a comprehensive approach to primary care management of patients with Type I and Type II diabetes. The program includes regular visits with Primary Care practitioners, diabetes education classes, individual dietary, exercise and medication counseling. Laboratory data are followed per protocol. There is a strong emphasis on prevention so diabetes education classes, smoking cessation efforts, appropriate vaccinations, and diabetic eye and foot screening are provided.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-97%, Cass-1%, Johnson-1%, Lafayette-1%
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE
Safety Net, $155,000
Request to support JVS Interpreter Services, a project to raise the standard of care for limited-English proficient communities in Kansas City, Jackson, Clay and Lafayette Counties. The service provides skilled bilingual interpreters to area clinics, hospitals and agencies.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 44%, Cass - 5%, Lafayette - 1%
KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY CENTER
Safety Net, $75,000
In order to deliver improved and more consistent treatment, reduce paperwork, expand capacity, reduce frustration, and increase revenues from existing funding partners, KCCC is in the process of implementing a new state of the art client care system. This solution addresses three major challenges in our organization today: scheduling, billing and automated treatment plans/electronic health records. In order to continue to provide the excellent service we are known for, and still remain competitive, KCCC must transition to an electronic billing, scheduling, treatment and reporting system.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 25%
KANSAS CITY FREE HEALTH CLINIC
Safety Net, $300,000
The Kansas City Free Health Clinic will improve access to high quality and culturally effective medical and dental care for under- and uninsured patients, with emphasis on those with chronic diseases.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-77%, Jackson-10%, Wyandotte-7%, Johnson-5%, Cass-1%
KU ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION
Safety Net, $72,555
This proposal highlight two clinical programs in which students from the University of Kansas provide needed care for one of the most vulnerable populations in the metropolitan area. JayDoc Free Clinic utilizes the volunteer efforts of medical students to provide essential medical evaluation and care for the medically underserved in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The Medical-Legal Family Health Care Project (which has recently been dubbed 'LawHawks' ) involves law students from the University of Kansas School of Law in providing essential legal assistance to indigent patients at the Southwest Family Health Care Clinic and JayDoc Free Clinic, to help resolve chronic legal problems that affect the health of clinic patients. Using different professional methodologies, both organizations work to improve the health and medical access of the underserved population in the metropolitan area.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte-80%, Johnson-10%, Cass-5%, Jackson-5%
KU HEALTH PARTNERS, INC.
Safety Net, $200,000
Silver City Health Center, located in the Argentine community of Kansas City, Kansas, exists to address the primary care, health education and prevention needs that impede the health and well-being and impact the illness, injury and chronic disease trajectories of Wyandotte County residents. SCHC commits to providing high-quality, culturally-sensitive, and holistic services within the limited resources faced by many residents needing care -- meaning that we make health care affordable to the medically indigent and underserved. Our services include comprehensive primary care, preventive health education and community outreach, and tailored programs that ameliorate or substantially reduce the effects of chronic disease.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte-90%, Johnson-10%
LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI
Safety Net, $294,038
The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children is a partnership between Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Children's Mercy Hospital, and other healthcare providers, in which doctors and lawyers work together to find legal solutions to children's healthcare problems, when medical treatment alone cannot cure those problems.Examples of cases handled by the project include convincing a landlord to get rid of roaches or mold in an apartment because those conditions are causing asthma problems for a child or obtaining MC+ coverage for a necessary medical treatment for which coverage has been initially denied.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-70%, Jackson-29%, Cass-1%
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR DBA JEANNE JUGAN CENTER
Safety Net, $51,525
This project is to provide Residents and staff that serve and provide care for them, safer and more comfortable electric hospital beds. The new electric beds are more comfortable and replace outdated, crank style hospital beds and mattresses with springs, with foam matresses. Research has shown that the crank style beds have been shown to increase patient fall rates, as well as bed sore rates. When a bed sore has already been established, waterproof foam matresses and electric beds instead of crank beds will increase the rate of healing time. The salaries are for nursing staff who provide direct quality care to our elderly Residents, irrespective of their income. 98% of our Residents are two to three times the Federal poverty level.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-97%, Jackson-3%
METROCARE
Safety Net, $450,000
MetroCARE, NorthlandCARE, Wy/Jo Care and safety net partners are implementing a volunteer network of private physicians in the metropolitan area to provide services to low income uninsured residents. A patient eligibility screening and referral system will be implemented in partnership with KC CareLink, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Greater Kansas City, the Metropolitan Medical Society of Kansas City, the Missouri Division of Family Services and the Center for Practical Bioethics. Administrative services will be provided at no cost to participating physicians.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 35%, Wyandotte - 30%, KCMO 20%, Johnson - 15%
METROPOLITAN AMBULANCE SERVICES TRUST (MAST)
Safety Net, $66,800
Project goal is to first evaluate various aspects of a proposed change in utilization of emergency ambulance services and hospital emergency departments and then implement changes in how we handle requests for ambulance services.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 30%, Platte - 10%, Clay - 10%
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Safety Net, $272,727
Allied Health students attending MCC-Penn Valley will receive training within the radiologic program that will be enhanced with state-of-the-art imaging equipment and curriculum with culturally sensitive service components. More than 30% of radiologic technicians serve indigent and low-income persons during clinical rotations and when employed after graduation. The program will be delivered in the urban center and will have a focus on interacting with patients of diverse backgrounds. Students will exit the program with a greater understanding of serving indigent persons needing health care services.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-59%, Jackson-33%, Lafayette-2%, Wyandotte-2%, Johnson-2%, Cass-2%
MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION, MID-AMERICA HEAD START
Safety Net, $89,400
The over arching goal of this program will be to ensure that uninsured Early Head Start and Head Start children receive comprehensive health services and their families establish medical and dental homes. Children will complete all required physical and dental examinations as well as any necessary follow up treatment. Families for whom english is a second language will have translation services provided and families needing transportation will be transported to and from visits. This will be done in collaboration with community health providers,and lead by Head Start family advocates who will receive specialized training in helping families navigate these various systems.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
MISSOURI DENTAL FOUNDATION
Safety Net, $75,000
The Partnership for Smiles is a community-campus collaboration, which expands the capacity of safety-net dental providers to meet the oral health needs of low-income and indigent families in Greater Kansas City. The UMKC School of Dentistry places dental faculty and students in the clinics of nine safety-net dental providers, one to three days per week, to provide dental care. The participating centers include Cabot Westside Clinic, Kansas City Free Health Clinic, Operation Breakthrough, Samuel Rodgers Community Health Center, Seton Family and Health Services, Southwest Boulevard Family Health Services, Swope Parkway Health Center and TMC-Lakewood.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-70%, Jackson-20%, Johnson-5%, Wyandotte-5%
MOTHER'S REFUGE
Safety Net, $131,102
Support to provide case management for clients, access to healthcare, training of staff and volunteers regarding health issues, confidentiality, transportation and in-house health programs. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 80%, Jackson - 20%
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
Safety Net, $116,850
Emergency Department Professional Training is an educational approach to managing unnecessary utilization of hospital emergency rooms. Emergency Department Professionals are trained to respond appropriately to persons with mental illness in crisis and divert them into community based treatment. The project improves access to community services, reduces use of emergency services, facilitates safer communities, improves health outcomes, and results in greater cost-efficiency through accurate and effective treatment.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-70%, Cass-15%, Lafayette-15%
OLATHE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER/JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Safety Net, $50,000
The purpose of this grant is to provide needed medical resources to underserved Hispanic families. The families don't have insurance and don't speak English, so it's hard for them to find resources to meet their health needs. This grant will also help parents take care of themselves and their children. The project will focus on access to practitioners for health and life skills, hearing and vision screenings, and immunization shots for children. Mothers will receive pre-natal care, babies will be immunized, children and adults will receive needed dental care, and parents will learn about health services in their neighborhood. They will also be encouraged to attend any classes at the Olathe Family Resource Center.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 100%
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH, INC.
Safety Net, $105,450
The need for which Operation Breakthrough seeks funding is dental care for working-poor parents and their children. Our center, which offers childcare and social services to more than 600 children and their families every weekday, has a state-of-the-art dental clinic on site. Among the population of parents and children we serve there is tremendous demand for dental care due to the shortage of providers who will accept Medicaid patients and the high number of working-poor parents who are uninsured. Though we have both the clinic and hundreds of patients who need dental care under our roof, our clinic sits empty several days every week because we do not have enough dental professionals willing to volunteer their time. Currently we are only able to provide preventive and corrective dental care to our 330 preschoolers, while providing some corrective care to older children. Only in very rare emergency situations are we able to serve adults. Operation Breakthrough seeks funding to enable us to operate the clinic full time, expanding the clinic's reach to include preventive and corrective care for our 300+ enrolled school-age children and their parents. Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF KANSAS AND MID-MISSOURI
Safety Net, $75,000
Planned Parenthood of Kansas & Mid-Missouri (PPKM) will utilize support to lay the groundwork for building and implementing an information technology infrastructure to support electronic patient data management software systems that will improve resource management and enhance patient outcomes.Geographical area served:KCMO-70%, Wyandotte-15%, Jackson-10%, Johnson-5%
REDISCOVER
Safety Net, $227,224
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Services for Persons with Mental Illness and Co-Morbid Medical Conditions is a multidimensional approach to managing chronic disease. It addresses multiple conditions concurrently and focuses on improvements in psychiatric and physical health rather than symptom reduction. The initiative involves the use of evidenced-based clinical practices to facilitate positive health outcomes; links clients to community resources and ancillary services to promote treatment adherence; uses electronic records to help clinicians utilize practice guidelines, track indicators and plan care; and promotes high-quality services through coordinated policies and procedures.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
RESTART, INC.
Safety Net, $142,000
reStart's requests $142,000 to help fund Healthy Starts, a health care education and advocacy program. By combining Healthy Starts program staff with health care volunteers and community resources, we can work to resolve three key barriers in accessing health care for homeless families and individuals sheltered at reStart. These barriers include a lack of education on health and medical services available in the community; knowledge on navigating health care systems to access regular, personal and family health care benefits; and understanding basic personal health and hygiene, including early symptoms of illness and preventative measures for common ailments.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-100%
RIVERVIEW HEALTH SERVICES INC.
Safety Net, $180,000
Riverview's experienced parish nurse and social worker reduce barriers to medical care by assisting with access to medical care, medications, medical supplies, health education and self-management skills. The health educator and dietician offer group and individualized diabetes education and provide adjustments to the diabetes treatment regimenGeographic Area Served: Wyandotte-85%, Johnson-8%, Jackson-5%, KCMO-2%
ROSE BROOKS CENTER, INC.
Safety Net, $100,000
Rose Brooks Center's emergency shelter provides short-term residential services for women and children in crisis. The emergency shelter provides on-site individual, group and family counseling. Substance abuse counseling, housing and job assistance are also integral parts of the program. The emergency shelter operates from the strength-based perspective that all people have the potential to realize their hopes, dreams, needs and desires by utilizing their own strengths. Rose Brooks Center's advocates and therapists work with residents weekly throughout their stay utilizing the empowerment model to reinforce that clients can and will take charge of their lives.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-65%, Wyandotte-13%, Johnson-9%, KCMO-8%, Cass-2%, Lafayette-2%, Allen-1%
SAINT LUKE'S CANCER INSTITUTE
Safety Net, $104,735
Saint Luke's Cancer Institute has collaborated with Truman Medical Center for the Radiation Oncology Self-Pay Initiative. This program provides life-saving radiation treatments from the most technologically advanced equipment and highly trained staff. Although Truman offers most oncology services, it does not have facilities for radiation therapy. No agency that is a 'core safety net provider' offers radiation in the greater KC area. This is a gaping hole in the safety net that Saint Luke's will fill.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
SAMUEL U. RODGERS HEALTH CENTER
Safety Net, $345,393
The Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center is requesting $500,000 in equipment-only grant funding to purchase new medical clinic equipment and furnishings. The new equipment and furnishings will enable the Health Center to provide an additional 25,000 patient visits to 7,200 people.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-100%
SETON CENTER FAMILY & HEALTH SERVICES
Safety Net, $200,000
Now in its third year, Project Hope has provided in excess of 718 oral screenings, fluoride treatments, and dental hygiene kits for low-income school children, treated over 200 uninsured children and adults with fillings, root canals, diagnostic exams, crowns and dentures, and improved Seton's overall dental care for more than 7,000 patient visits through equipment upgrades. Project Hope aims to improve access to dental care for low-income children, the working poor, mentally ill, and racial and ethnic minorities in Greater Kansas City through Adopt-a-School Dental Care, Dental Equipment Upgrades, Indigent Dental Care, and General Dental Care.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-40%, Wyandotte-25%, KCMO-17%, Johnson-8%, Lafayette-5%, Cass-5%
SHEFFIELD PLACE
Safety Net, $235,000
Sheffield Place's 'Pathways to Care' project will provide homeless and formerly homeless families access to quality healthcare and ensure that they have a medical home. The purpose of this project is to improve the health of the families we serve, promote health education, and help them learn how to navigate the healthcare system. A minimum of 30-45 families will receive comprehensive, coordinated, client-centered primary healthcare services at our facility.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-75%, Jackson-10%, Wyandotte-10%, Johnson-5%
SOUTHWEST BOULEVARD FAMILY HEALTH CARE SERVICES OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
Safety Net, $99,922
This request is for funding to enhance Family Health Care's organizational capacity to provide quality direct care services for the poor in our community. FHC has a global approach to healthcare and provides medical, dental, mental health care, and special supportive programming, education and outreach to address issues of illiteracy, legal entanglements, lack of access to medications and limited fitness opportunities that inhibit ability of patients to achieve better health. Family Health Care has a firm foundation in the other two areas of capacity, facilities and staffing, and is asking for a portion of the third capacity component funds.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 80%, Johnson - 10%, KCMO - 10%
SUNFLOWER HOUSE, INC.
Safety Net, $95,052
Sunflower House provides on-site, comprehensive medical exams in a highly specialized and child-sensitive facility designed to meet the needs of children alleging abuse in the least intrusive manner possible. Medical staff, including an MPA-C and RN, have access to state of the art equipment and are specially trained in the assessment and evaluation of child abuse and neglect. On-site services, coupled with our extensive child abuse consultation and training, ensures that families and professionals have the information necessary to meet children's immediate and long-term physical and emotional needs.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 60%, Wyandotte - 40%
SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES
Safety Net, $320,000
Swope Health Services seeks funding to support one full-time dentist to provide services to uninsured adults for 24 months. Two years ago, Missouri eliminated Medicaid dental coverage for nearly all adults; Medicare does not cover routine dental care. This grant will ensure uninsured adults ages 20 and older have access to preventive and restorative dental care and a dental home, serving up to 3,000 individuals each year.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 89%, Jackson - 8%, Johnson - 2%, Cass - 1%
THE CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL
Safety Net, $50,000
The Child at Risk Evaluation (CARE) Clinic is the region's only open-access medical unit for children who are at risk for maltreatment. Since it's founding in 1994, the clinic has served as the area's only trans-disciplinary safety net unit that provides open access medical evaluations for children who are at risk for abuse and/or neglect. The clinic provides services seven days a week to all children from birth through adolescence. The mission is to restore, sustain, and enhance the health and developmental potential of children at risk for maltreatment.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-38%, Jackson-21%, Johnson-8%, Wyandotte-5%, Cass-4%, Lafayette-1%
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY
Safety Net, $95,000
The Family Focus/Dame La Mano program provides strengths-based, culturally competent support, health, mental health and educational services to empower the Hispanic population coping with issues related to acculturation, cultural and linguistic barriers.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-50%, KCMO-35%, Wyandotte-10%, Johnson-5%
TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
Safety Net, $240,850
More than 400 patients at TMC Hospital Hill require long term use of blood thinner medication. This anticoagulation therapy prevents blood clots from forming and causing a stroke, although the serious risks associated with this therapy require close monitoring. The proposed project would ensure that patients receiving anticoagulation therapy are monitored and receive appropriate services. Geographic Area Served:KCMO-88%, Jackson-9%, Johnson-1%, Lafayette-1%, Wyandotte-1%
Safety Net, $220,000
Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill is upgrading services to provide more comprehensive cardiovascular care. To improve safety and convenience for our patients, we will expand testing, accelerate diagnosis, begin performing interventional cardiology (e.g., reopening blocked heart arteries) and launch a cardiac rehabilitation program. We are requesting $341,220 to hire a lead sonographer and two cardiac rehabilitation nurses for one year.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 88%, Jackson - 9%, Cass - 1%, Johnson - 1%, Wyandotte - 1%
TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC.
Safety Net, $200,000
The Turner House Clinic Operations project is to provide core support of the organization to ensure stability of an infrastructure which has been strengthened by a staff and space expansion. The goal is to ensure access to health care for children regardless of their family's ability to pay; to provide a medical home for underserved children; reduce health care disparities for the primarily Hispanic population; and eliminate barriers to care related to provider availability.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte-94%, Johnson-4%, Jackson-2%
UNIFIED GOVERNMENT PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Safety Net, $180,000
Healthy Families Wyandotte and Healthy Families Johnson seek to improve health measures and reduce health disparities for the maternal-child population in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties by providing intensive in-home services to pregnant women and new parents of at-risk infants at no cost to the families.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 50%, Johnson - 50%
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY, INC.
Safety Net, $150,000
A community's healthcare safety net is only as good as the ability of its residents to find its meaningful points of access. The purpose of this grant request is to expand and enhance the excellent early results of United Way 2-1-1 in connecting low income families to the healthcare safety-net.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-44%, KCMO-42%, Wyandotte-7%, Johnson-4%, Cass-2%, Lafayette-1%
VIRGINIA BROWN COMMUNITY ORTHODONTIC PARTNERSHIP
Safety Net, $63,000
Smiles Change Lives (SCL) works with community partners to provide access to care for children from low-income families who need, but cannot afford, braces. For this grant, 40 qualified children from counties served by HCFGKC will receive SCL program services and an average of 24 months of orthodontic treatment, which will cure their condition and bring about a lifetime health benefit. In addition, this project will increase our capacity, efficiency and transparency through database modifications and the development of a marketing plan.Geographic Area Served:Johnson-32%, KCMO-30%, Wyandotte-21%, Jackson-6%, Allen-6%, Cass-4%, Lafaytette-1%
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
Safety Net, $200,000
Women's Health Services (WHS) provides confidential and personalized care to all women, regardless of ability to pay. The health services provided to women include cancer screenings, sexually transmitted disease testing and/or treatment, reproductive health care, contraceptive supplies, pregnancy testing, community health education, and health screenings including blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and BMI.Geographic Area Served:Cass - 95%, Jackson - 5%
WOMEN'S 12-STEP RECOVERY CENTER, INC. D/B/A FRIENDSHIP HOUSE/CATHERINE'S PLACE
Safety Net, $55,000
We propose providing our clients with much more direct access to medical care. The primary means of accomplishing this would be through hiring a Nurse Practitioner either on Saturday mornings or a designated evening for two hours per week. In addition to providing direct care, the nurse would be able to prescribe some medications and also provide instruction or information on how to obtain further medical service as required by the circumstance. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 30%, KCMO - 30%, Johnson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%
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