List of Grants
List of Grants
2011-12 Caring Community Grantees
A total $1.5 million in grants for 27 nonprofit healthcare agencies, ranging in size from $15,000 to the $100,000 maximum, was approved by Sequoia Healthcare District directors on April 6, 2011.
This funding represents about seven percent of Sequoia Healthcare District’s more than $10 million in total community support, but has an outsized impact on the district’s most vulnerable populations — homebound seniors, infants and children who would otherwise not receive healthcare, the hungry and homeless of all ages.
This is the 11th grant cycle for the Caring Community program, which in total has returned more than $23 million to the community.
Sequoia Healthcare District directly assists more 35,000 women, children and seniors in the district, which includes the cities of Atherton, Belmont, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Carlos, Woodside, and portions of San Mateo and Foster City from Skyline Boulevard to the Bay.
Awardees are:
• Adapt Foundation ($15,000), mental health program for friends and family affected by drug and alcohol addiction — www.adaptfoundation.org
• Advocates for Accessible Recreation (AFAR) ($50,000), providing scholarships for needy families and assisting in program development for the Redwood City Special Needs Program — www.afarinc.org
• Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula ($75,000), Triple Play: A Comprehensive Health & Wellness Program empowering youth & families to strengthen their physical, mental, and social well-being through athletics, physical education, family engagement, substance abuse prevention, health education and healthy meals — www.bgcp.org
• Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula ($40,000) to extend after-school program to include additional 100 wait-list children.
• Catholic Charities ($60,000, for an adult day care center in San Carlos, funds to be used to offset monthly dues for those who cannot pay full tuition.
• Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children ($50,000), serving African American and Latino/Hispanic foster children of all ages — www.casaofsanmateo.org
• City of San Carlos Recreation Department ($25,000), supporting the senior lunch program and providing food subsidies for low-income seniors — www.cityofsancarlos.org
• Children’s Health Council ($30,000), financial aid for resident families who need access to the Children’s Health Council clinic — www.chconline.org
• Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse ($100,000), enabling CORA’s Family-Centered Mental Health (FCMH) program to provide counseling to clients, decreasing post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, preventing re-victimization, diminishing abuse in children affected by domestic violence, and preventing the intergenerational transfer of violent behaviors. CORA is the only comprehensive services agency in San Mateo County solely dedicated to ending the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence — www.corasupport.org
• Edgewood Center for Children and Families ($100,000), HealthyKin empowers relative caregivers and parents by providing non‐judgmental and respectful health care services in a safe, confidential and caring environment; services include Chronic Disease Self‐Management Programs (CDSMP), fitness and nutrition workshops, in‐home nursing case management, exercise classes, and family disaster planning — www.edgewood.org
• El Centro de Libertad ($50,000), ethnically appropriate peer counseling, school-based prevention and substance abuse outpatient treatment for youth — www.elcentrodelibertad.org
• Friends of Veterans Memorial Center ($50,000), — Adaptive Physical Education Program, exercise and physical activity for medically-referred seniors www.redwoodcity.org/parks/cc/veterans.html
• Kainos Home and Training Center ($35,000), mental health initiative for developmentally disabled adults — www.kainosusa.org
• Lesley Senior Communities ($75,000), supporting continued operations of the Assisted Living Facility at Lesley Terrace, an affordable housing community for older adults with extremely low incomes who need assistance with activities of daily living to maintain independence — www.lesleyseniorcommunities.org
• San Mateo County Mental Health Association ($30,000), supporting a public nurse serving 24 formerly homeless adults with severe mental illness — www.mhasmc.org
• Mid-Pen Resident Services Corporation ($50,000), continuing LiveItUp program facilitating lifestyle changes, improving food choices in the community and connecting unserved and underserved residents in five housing communities to affordable, high-quality healthcare and resources — www.midpen-housing.org
• Mission Hospice and Home Care ($35,000), supporting an expanded program of in-home services and palliative care for the homebound and outreach to faith-based communities — www.missionhospice.org
• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) San Mateo County ($20,000), for programs to demystify and eliminate the stigma of mental illness — www.namisanmateo.org
• Ombudsman Services of San Mateo County ($50,000), to help investigate elder abuse cases, including quality of care, financial and elder abuse at certified long-term care facilities — www.ossmc.org
• Pathways Hospice Foundation ($60,000), for the Chronic Care Management Program supporting homebound patients in the acute phase of chronic illness, coaching them to actively manage their disease with the goal of reducing preventable re-hospitalizations – www.pathwayshealth.org
• Peninsula Family Services ($50,000), supporting tai chi, yoga, healthy breakfasts and wellness programs for older adults at the Fair Oaks Adult Activity Center — www.peninsulafamilyservice.org
• Peninsula Volunteers ($100,000), supports Meals on Wheels, delivering 150,000 hot, nutritious meals to homebound elderly and disabled adults annually; with each delivery a driver checks on the well-being of each client daily — www.peninsulavolunteers.org
• Redwood City Police Activities League ($35,000) after-school health and wellness program for middle school children in the Taft neighborhood.
• St. Anthony’s of Padua Dining Room ($100,000), providing 25,000 hot lunches for the homeless and low income families annually at St. Anthony’s Redwood City dining room — www.paduadiningroom.com
• Sheriff’s Activities League ($25,000), Eat Right, Get Active, Reduce Screen Time program for central county youth — www.sanmateo.ca.us
• Second Harvest Food Bank ($100,000), alleviates hunger and improves nutrition to low-income families through its Produce Mobile and Family Harvest programs — www.shfb.org
• Service League of San Mateo County ($25,000), to provide services that promote health, prevent disease and support lifetime changes among high-risk women served by the Hope House residential and transitional programs — www.serviceleague.org
• Shelter Network ($100,000), Family Wellness Project, to help vocational education food service youth improve the diet of low-income and homeless children susceptible to obesity and Type 2 diabetes — www.shelternetwork.org
• Society of St. Vincent de Paul ($25,000), direct assistance for working poor families and individuals — www.svdp-sanmateoco.org
• Youth and Family Enrichment Services (becoming StarVista July 1, 2011) ($75,000), supportive housing, mental health and substance abuse counseling for homeless, runaway and former foster youth — www.yfes.org
