2012 New Major Grants
Heart-to-Heart
Saint Agnes Foundation, Baltimore, Md.
Contact: Elizabeth Kaylor, Director of Grant Management
Endorsement: Sr. Ellen LaCapria, DC, Vice President, Mission Integration
Funding: $100,000 over two years (First year - $50,000; Second year - $50,000)
The goal of this program is to identify and monitor underserved, low-income African-American women at high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). It provides a community-based church intervention program that includes nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyle.
Guest House Medical Respite Program
Room in the Inn, Campus for Human Development, Nashville, Tenn.
Contact: Lisa Stetar, Expansion Project Manager
Endorsement: Jerry Kearney, Vice President, Mission Integration
Funding: $100,000 over two years (First year - $50,000; Second year - $50,000)
This program addresses a critical need by providing shelter, care, and supportive services for medically fragile individuals, including those discharged directly from area hospitals. The Guest House serves homeless individuals who are recovering from illness/injury, managing chronic conditions that have become acute, undergoing social detoxification and/or stabilization of mental health medications. This program is the only recuperative care program for homeless individuals in Middle Tennessee.
2012 New Start-Up Grants
E-3! Parish Partnership
St. Vincent’s Special Needs Services, Trumbull, Conn
Contact: Deborah Cox, Director of Development
Endorsement: Bill Hoey, Vice President, Mission Integration
Funding: $33,000 one-time grant
E-3! is a comprehensive program in the adult daytime program at St. Vincent’s Special Needs Services that will help engage, educate and empower the adults it serves. This program addresses the needs of adults who are non-ambulatory and non-verbal and require continuous and specialized physical and cognitive stimulation in the form of customized recreational and social therapy. Many of these individuals require adapted equipment in order to maintain or expand their range of motion and ability to move or communicate.
Centering Pregnancy Diabetes
Providence Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Contact and Endorsement: Matthew Lukasiak, Vice President, Mission Integration
Funding: $32,000 one-time grant
Providence’s Center for Life provides obstetrical and gynecological care to women, with or without insurance. The pregnancy diabetes program will be part of an emerging diabetes and wellness center of excellence, developed in direct response to community needs as they evolve.
Capacitar en la Frontera
Centro San Vicente, El Paso, Texas
Contact: Kathy Revtyak, LCSW, Co-coordinator
Endorsement: Sr. Suzanne Anglim, DC, Vice President, Mission Integration
Funding: $20,000 one-time grant
This program will be a collaboration between Centro San Vicente and Capacitar to train persons who will train others, so that healing services may be extended to more than 3,000 additional individuals over a two-year time frame. Direct recipients of the training services will fall into one of two broad categories: 1) grass roots or persons affected by violence or 2) individuals at traditional health, human and social service entities whose mission is to serve the poor and most vulnerable populations on both sides of the international border. The team of trainers will provide workshops in the United States and Mexico about how to tap into established network agencies to reach out to those in need of healing.
BodyWorks-Childhood Obesity/Family Nutrition Program
Lourdes Health Network, Pasco, Wash.
Contact: Erin Tomlinson, Foundation Specialist
Endorsement: Sr. Esther Polacci, CSJ, Vice President, Mission Integration
Funding: $15,000 one-time grant
This program is an obesity prevention program that will ensure a healthier future for the community’s youth. It will promote habits to maintain a healthy weight to reduce the risks of obesity and its associated chronic diseases, including healthy eating and increased physical activity among children, teens and their families.
2012 Ongoing/Established Grants
Project Hope
Marillac Social Center, Chicago, Ill.
Contact: Maureen Hallagan, Executive Director
Endorsement: Sr. Patricia Dunne, DC
Funding: $25,000 one-time grant
Marillac Social Center is a comprehensive social service agency located in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood. Project Hope is a program for impoverished, pregnant and parenting teens, ages 12-21. The overall goal is to help teen parents develop and establish safe, healthy and productive lives for themselves and their children.
SJS Community Center in Austin
St. Joseph Services, Chicago, Ill.
Contact: Lisa Sand Sullivan, Executive Director
Endorsement: Sr. Marsha Tierney, DC
Funding: $50,000 one-time grant
St. Joseph Services is expanding the 2011 “Centered on Basketball” program to support underserved individuals and promote positive lifestyle choices to advance health and safety of the community. This expansion will support all youth programming and weekend programs for youth and young adults.
Amsterdam Homeless Services
Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless, Amsterdam, N.Y.
Contact and Endorsement: Sr. Danielle Bonetti, CSJ, VP, Mission Integration
Funding: $30,000 one-time grant
This program will provide temporary emergency shelter and housing for those who are homeless in Montgomery County. It is anticipated that funding also will enable the shelter to add staff and offer services that can address some of the causes of homelessness in the community.
Holistic Diabetes Self-Management Project
Daughters of Charity Services of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Contact: Larry Mejia, President/CEO
Endorsement: Sr. Consuelo Tovar, DC, Director, Mission Development
Funding: $50,000 one-time grant
This program is an educational-based support group model, in which participants who have a common goal or problem to overcome meet weekly, listen to a brief presentation by a professional or peer group member and engage in discussion. As part of the discussion, they report on progress and problems encountered during the previous week.
2012 Programs Receiving Second-Year Funding
Diabetes Self Management Education in Southeast Arkansas
Daughters of Charity Services of Arkansas, Dumas, Ark.
Contact: Kathryn Musholt, CEO
Endorsement: Sr. Judy Warmbold, DC
Funding: $100,000 over two years
This program provides diabetes self-management education, tools, techniques and counseling to individuals who are uninsured or underinsured in the community. It is the only program of its type in the two counties it serves.
