| Organization and Project Description |
Grant Amount |
American
Cancer Society Mid-Atlantic Division
To hire a Community Mission Manager, who will be trained as
a Patient Navigator during the second year through a partnership
with Sentara-Obici Hospital. Program initiatives include outreach
to cancer patients and their caregivers, provision of patient
support services to improve access to treatment and establishment
of a local cancer resource network.
|
$124,516
2 years |
American
Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic
Funds for an Asthma Specialist to implement two asthma educational
programs for children asthma and the adults who care for them
The Specialist coordinates the programs and trains volunteers
in schools and community settings to be facilitators. |
$114,436
2 years |
American
Red Cross
To conduct a community wide needs assessment to identify
the current locations of AEDs (automated external defibrillator)
and trained personnel in Suffolk. Fifty new AEDs will then
be placed in businesses and schools in the community and
appropriate personnel trained on their use.
|
$135,086
2 years |
CANDII
CANDII, dba ACCESS (Aids Care Center for Education & Support
Services) is partnering with Suffolk Christian Fellowship
Center (SCFC) and implementing Suffolk SISTAS, a prevention
program designed to reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually
transmitted diseases in Suffolk.
|
$146,263
2 years |
Center for Hope and New Beginnings
Hiring of a Case Manager to reintroduce case management services
and implement programs and activities that support residents
in their transition from homelessness to self sufficiency.
|
$100,500
1 year
|
Chesapeake
Service Systems
Improving the health, wellness and development of individuals
with developmental disabilities through dietary training,
exercise and expanding work opportunities. |
$150,000
2 years |
City
of Franklin
Smart Beginnings planning grant to improve early childhood
services in the City of Franklin and Southampton County.
|
$89,288
2 years |
City
of Suffolk
Matching capital funds to help build a new Suffolk Health
and Human Services building for the Suffolk Department of
Health/Western Tidewater Health District and the Suffolk Department
of Social Services
|
$500,000
1 year
|
City
of Suffolk
Smart Beginnings planning grant to improve early childhood
services in Suffolk. |
$50,000
1 year |
Eastern
Virginia Medical School
Implementation and evaluation of a video based intervention
designed to increase safety of children riding in motor vehicles.
Videos shown in physicians’ offices, community health
centers and public health departments.
|
$131,865
2 years |
Eastern
Virginia Medical School Foundation
Loan forgiveness program for two underrepresented minority
physicians who will work in the Foundation’s service
area providing care to the medically indigent and others
|
$240,000
2 years |
Edmarc
Hospice
Expansion of the Pediatric Hospice/Palliative Care Program
in the Foundation’s service area. The holistic approach
includes medical care and support services for the terminally
ill child and counseling for parents and siblings.
|
$100,000
2 years |
Hampton
Roads Educational Communications (WHRO)
Funds for a Project Coordinator to contact Western Tidewater
childcare providers and school teachers and present them with
educational guides about obesity to help foster strategy/policy
change. Guides will contain the DVD Surviving Abundance: Overweight
Kids in Crisis, a short call-to-action video, discussion/action
guides, resource information and evaluation materials.
|
$168,148
2 years |
Horizon Health Services
Matching capital funds to help establish a new Federally Qualified
Health Center in Surry County.
|
$150,000
2 years |
Isle of Wight Christian Outreach
Program
Funds for rental of a building to house their programs, provide
a small office space and a place to grow the volunteer base.
Food assistance, home repair, dental help, angel tree, prescription
assistance, student assistance (lunch and field trip money)
and transportation to medical appointments are offered.
|
$31,000
18 months |
Let’s
Talk
NED (nutrition, education, effective communication and dance)
is a 50 week program for teens of the Suffolk and Franklin
Boys and Girls Clubs and other community settings. Participants
will learn about nutrition, food choices, communication and
will exercise and keep food and activity journals.
|
$93,188
2 years |
Norfolk
State University
To implement the Let’s Get Real program in collaboration
with Chi Eta Phi Sorority (nursing) and Bon Secours Hampton
Roads. Three churches in Suffolk and Surry will be the target
to implement a health promotion program including nutrition/cooking
classes, health screenings, exercise programs and genealogy
research to detect potential family health issues.
|
$149,878
2 years |
Paul
D. Camp Community College
Survey of health care employers in the Foundation’s
service area to help the College and other educational institutions
identify the need for new educational programs. Planning and
development of an Associates Degree Program in Dental Hygiene
in the second year of the project.
|
$123,481
2 years |
Paul
D. Camp Community College
Funds for a full-time Nurse Educator and a four-bed nursing
skills laboratory on the PDCCC Hobbs Suffolk campus to support
the college’s LPN to RN program and the Advanced CNA
program.
|
$150,000
2 years |
Peninsula
Institute for Community Health
Planning grant for pharmaceutical access network of providers
for the medically indigent in Suffolk and the surrounding
communities.
|
$80,300
1 year |
Peninsula
Institute for Community Health
Start up support for a dental clinic at the Main Street Physicians
office in Suffolk. Preventive dental care for children and
low income adults in Suffolk will be offered.
|
$400,000
2 years |
Roanoke
Chowan Community Health Center
Expansion of their existing health network to Gates County,
NC. Healthcare team members monitor patients with diabetes
or heart disease through new in-home monitors and two new
community kiosks.
|
$195,924
2 years |
Roanoke
Chowan Community Health Center
Funds for a health care needs assessment in Gates County,
NC to help plan for additional health care services for the
medically indigent.
|
$49,285
1 year |
Sentara
Obici Hospital
Community Health Outreach Program (CHOP) offers Home Health
Care and Support services and a Certified Diabetes Educator
for adults with diabetes and heart failure and a screening,
assessment and referral for first time mothers through the
Healthy Families Program.
|
$923,348
2 years |
Southeastern
Virginia Area Wide Model Program
Medication & Care Access Resource Specialist to help low
income older & disabled Medicare eligible residents of
Franklin, Suffolk, Isle of Wight County and Southampton County.
Eligible residents will be enrolled in Low Income Subsidy/Extra
Help benefits program, Medicare Part D, Medicaid or the Pharmacy
Connection.
|
$146,459
2 years |
Suffolk Meals on Wheels
Hot/cold meal delivery program expansion into Isle of Wight,
Orbit, Central Hill, Smithfield and surrounding areas. A new
Meal star delivery van, paid driver, one kitchen staff and
meals are funded.
|
$146,932
2 years |
Suffolk
Partnership for a Healthy Community
Funds for the operational support and matching capital for
the purchase and renovation of a permanent facility.
|
$950,369
2 years |
The
Children’s Center
Hiring of a Physical/Occupational Therapist to expand infant
and toddler therapy services for children in the Western Tidewater
area.
|
$136,250
2 years |
The
Genieve Shelter
Multi-level intervention to address the health issues of domestic
violence victims. Included are prevention and wellness activities
and acute and chronic care treatment. Six additional units
of transitional housing will be built.
|
$500,000
2 years |
The
Up Center
In-Home Counseling Services for children who are at-risk of
out of home placement in Suffolk and the surrounding area.
Services offered include intensive in-home counseling, family
Preservation counseling, and behavior aide services.
|
$150,000
2 years |
The
Up Center
Outpatient Clinical Counseling Services for Suffolk and the
surrounding area. Individual, family, couples, group clinical
counseling and psycho-educational groups are the focus. A
sliding fee scale is available for medically indigent and
uninsured individuals.
|
$150,000
2 years |
Theatre
IV
Funding for 30 performances per year of Hugs and Kisses -
an internationally acclaimed child sexual abuse prevention
and early intervention program. Children in public and private
schools in the Foundation service area, grades K-5, as well
as parents and the community will view the play over a two
year period with the opportunity for children to discuss feelings
afterward with actors.
|
$110,510
2 years |
Virginia
Legal Aid Society
Health, Education, Advocacy and Law (HEAL) project is a medical
legal collaboration designed to ensure the basic needs of
low income families for food, safe housing, income, family
stability & health insurance are met so that doctors can
be more effective in preventing and treating health problems.
|
$150,000
2 years |
Western
Tidewater Community Services Board
Funding for two full-time Clinicians to provide Functional
Family Therapy to adolescents with substance abuse problems
and their parents in Suffolk, Franklin, Isle of Wight and
Southampton County.
|
$149,871
2 years |
Western
Tidewater Health District
Funds to expand Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning
services that will address teen pregnancy rates, prenatal
care and pregnancy outcomes.
|
$554,166
2 years |
Western
Tidewater Health District/Suffolk Health Department
Funding for a Project Coordinator to develop an Action Plan
to address obesity issues in Suffolk through research, focus
groups and recruitment of community partners.
|
$117,409
18 months |
YMCA
of South Hampton Roads
Funds for a Project Manager and fitness scholarships to implement
an after-school program for Suffolk youth at-risk for obesity.
Children will learn about good health, diet and exercise and
then engage in fitness activities. Parents will receive nutritional
training and also engage in physical fitness.
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