WELBORN
BAPTIST FOUNDATION
SUMMARY OF GRANTS AWARDED 2004
GENERAL OPPORTUNITY
Goals:
The majority of the available funds are directed
to the specific targets; the Foundation did
consider and award grants in areas outside of
the target areas which provide a valuable
service or which address important community
needs.
GRANTS AWARDED:
3 Grants totaling $43,000
St. Paul's
Episcopal Church
Teen Parent Education
$3,000
Purchase of parenting curriculum
for outreach to young and new parents. In
response to young fathers' interest in their
program for educating and supporting young
mothers, this curriculum benefits both mother
and father with positive parenting information.
Baptist Children's Home & Family
Services
'Pathways' Christian Counseling Services
$15,000
Funds to expand this family and
youth counseling program among approximately 40
churches within the Southwestern Indiana
Southern Baptist Association. Funds will support
the recruitment of financial and referral
commitments from these congregations. The
program will employ a master's level therapist
who would care for approximately 100 families
per year.
YMCA of Southwestern Indiana, Inc.
Service-Learning Initiative
$25,000
An initiative that promotes the concept of
combining meaningful community service with
established learning objectives. The purpose is
to teach youth to think about and analyze what
they are learning. This effort would be
implemented with youth already enrolled in
existing YMCA programs.
HEALTH MINISTRIES IN
CONGREGATIONS
Goals:
Health ministries programs have grown from the
recognition of the faith community’s
responsibility to care for the whole person,
including the physical, mental and spiritual
needs. The components of a health ministry may
include: health education, parish nursing,
visitation, support groups and spiritual care.
GRANTS AWARDED:
8 Grants totaling $177,347
Mt.
Vernon
General
Baptist
Church
Women's Health Fair
$2,500
Sponsorship, along with Posey County Step Ahead
Council, of a women's health fair.
Use of funds would be for screening and testing,
informational brochures and packets, and child
care during the fair.
First United
Methodist
Church
of
Fort
Branch
Expansion of Health Ministry
Outreach Programs
$8,500
Providing “Safe Sitter”,
“Strengthening Families”, and “Financial
Peace
University”
programs, for their congregation and the
surrounding community.
North
Haven
General
Baptist
Church
Health Ministry
Continuation
$10,000
Funding for the expansion of
existing ministry, with programs focusing on
substance abuse prevention, parenting, health
education, aging, visitation of the sick and
homebound, as well as the “Financial
Peace
University”.
St. Peter's United
Church
of
Christ
Expansion of Health Ministry
$10,550
Expansion of health ministry to
focus on fortifying families through programs
directed towards relationship-building skills,
growing through loss, end-of-life issues,
mothers' support group, seminar to strengthen
men's role in families, and family literacy.
St. John
The Apostle Catholic
Church
Parish Nurse
Outreach
$50,000
Expansion of parish nurse duties
related to increasing participation in SOUL
Empowerment nutrition and exercise program,
including extension of services to adolescents
10-18 years of age.
Evansville
Ministers’ Wives Council (First
Ebenezer
Baptist
Church)
Wellness Program
$30,000
Expansion of existing wellness
program, to include the creation of wellness
centers at each of its 21 member congregations.
Activities will be directed towards improving
the health and longevity of persons at high risk
for diabetes, heart disease, and cancer in many
of
Evansville’s
low-income neighborhoods. Efforts will include
screening, health education, and referrals for
those needing additional care.
Memorial
Hospital
and
Health
Care
Center
(Jasper)
Health Ministry
$12,115
Further development and expansion
of hospital program begun in 2003 that supports
health ministries in congregations in the
counties surrounding Dubois.
Eleven congregations are currently
participating.
Deaconess Family Practice
Residency
Spiritual Care Nurse
$53,682
Funding for second year of development of the
spiritual care nurse role, directed toward
helping patients with chronic diseases find hope
and motivation to better manage their diseases
through spiritual connection and support.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION
Alcohol abuse and illicit drug use are
associated with child and spousal abuse;
sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV
infection; teen pregnancy; school failure; motor
vehicle crashes; escalation of health care
costs; low worker productivity; and
homelessness. Alcohol abuse and illicit drug use
also can result in substantial disruptions in
family, work, and personal life.
Goals:
WBF wishes to support church and
faith-based efforts to address substance abuse
issues among youth and adults, including support
of programs designed to steer youth away from
illicit drug use in our community.
GRANTS AWARDED:
4 Grants totaling $82,153
Patchwork Central, Inc.
Arts and SMART Moves
$6,000
Funding to conduct the 'Stay
SMART' prevention program for youth ages 13-17,
presented by the Substance Abuse Council. The
goals of the program include: 1) increasing
participants' knowledge about alcohol and other
drugs, 2) increasing communication among staff
members, parents and participants regarding
alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, 3) helping
youth identify and resist peer and media
pressure to use alcohol and other drugs, 4)
helping teens develop and improve skills around
making decisions, resisting social and peer
pressure, and coping with the stress of growing
up.
The program will partner with Tales & Scales in
order to explore a new way to apply arts to the
task of substance abuse prevention.
Multi-Church Consortium
(represented by
Holy
Redeemer
School)
Strengthening Families Faith-Based Collaboration
$41,604
A collaboration
among five (5) churches, the YMCA of
Southwestern Indiana and Youth First, Inc. to
expand the use of the Strengthening Families
Program for Children Ages 10-14. The churches in
the collaboration include: Holy Redeemer, Good
Shepherd, St. Phillip,
Corpus Christi
and St. John The
Baptist Catholic churches as well as Agape
Family Ministries and the YMCA of Southwestern
Indiana.
The funds will be used for training of
facilitators, program materials and program
evaluation.
Cornerstone United
Methodist
Church
–
Chrisney,
IN
Strengthening Families Program
for Children Ages 10-14
$7,059
A project to continue and expand the
Strengthening Families Program for children Ages
10-14 at
Cornerstone
United
Methodist
Church
and
Chrisney
Elementary School.
The funding will be used to offset the cost of
training, materials and evaluation related to
the program.
Young Life
Evansville
Reitz
High School
program support
$20,000
This grant will provide staff support to pursue
specific activities including 1) contact work -
seeking kids, 2) operating a weekly club that
offers the Christian message, 3) conducting Mega
Weekend and 4) sponsoring kids at Young Life
camp. Grant funds will be used specifically for
staff support to conduct these activities.
Catholic Charities of Tell City
Strengthening
Families 10-14
$7,490
This program is a partnership with Youth First,
Inc. to initiate the Strengthening Families
program for 14 youth and their families. This
funding will provide training of facilitators
and training materials.
Total 2004 funding: $302,500 |
