WELBORN
BAPTIST FOUNDATION
SUMMARY OF GRANTS AWARDED 2004*
*All
Projects Listed Below were granted
in the name of the
Welborn Foundation, Inc.
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Goals:
The Welborn Foundation believes that early
childhood development is critical to a child's
academic success as he/she prepares to enter the
school environment. Because school readiness is
influenced by many factors, the foundation is
encouraging programs that invest not only at the
level of the child, but also support the family,
schools, and neighborhoods.
GRANTS AWARDED:
1 Grant totaling $75,000
Joshua
Academy
Closing the Gap Program
$75,000
Support for
program that sets high expectations and academic
standards for some of our community’s most
vulnerable children in pre-school through 5th
grade. This program also strives to instill
strong values in the children and teaches them
how to make positive choices in their lives.
Joshua
Academy
has incurred a number of expenses related to the
transition from a private school to a charter
school. This grant is to be used for those
expenses which include: teacher training,
equipment, curriculum, textbooks, changes to
food service arrangements, pupil transportation,
etc.
GENERAL
OPPORTUNITY
Goals:
Although targeted interests receive the majority
of available funds, Welborn Foundation considers
other worthy opportunities that fit within its
chosen domains of health, social environment,
and education.
Grants
awarded
:
4 totaling $320,000
Buffalo
Trace Council
Capital funding for
Eykamp
Scout
Center
$100,000
The third year of capital funding for a portion
of the new 11,500 square foot
Eykamp Scout Center,
which will be completed in early 2005. The total
amount granted to this project is $500,000, in a
five-year pledge. The facility will provide
strategic accessibility for youth and families,
a new training and conference center, new
outdoor program center, an expanded Scout Shop
as well as a larger resource room and library.
YMCA of Southwestern
Indiana, Inc.
Capital Funding for Family YMCA facility
$100,000
The third year of capital support
for the construction of the 40,000 square foot
Lowell & Helen Dunigan
Family YMCA which will also open in early 2005.
The total amount granted to this project is
$500,000, in a five year pledge. The facility
will host a number of programs for youth,
adults, active older adults, families and a
range of wellness programs.
Marian
Day School,
d.b.a Marian
Educational Outreach
Special Needs
Planning Grant
$20,000
Study to identify students with special needs
and determine how best to meet those needs
within each of the twenty-eight schools in the
Evansville Catholic Diocese.
Hands On
Discovery, Inc.
Children’s Museum
exhibit support
$100,000
This grant will provide support
for an interactive exhibit on health and
nutrition education within the new museum. This
is a pledge of $300,000 for the new Hands
On Discovery to be
located in the former Central Library building.
The museum will provide the community with a
larger and more interactive environment for
children and families that
promotes learning through exploration.
HEALTHY ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
Goals: Adolescence is a time when adolescents
are laying the groundwork for their future
health and well-being. The decisions
adolescents make about nutrition, physical
activity, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, sex, and
relationships affect their health and
well-being, both immediately and into their
adult years.
Teenagers’ openness to new
experiences also means that adolescence is the
time of life when 70% of the behaviors that
place young people at risk begin.
Grants
awarded
:
2 totaling $425,000
Warrick County School Corporation
Substance Abuse Prevention
$75,000
Funding for implementation of the
Strengthening Families program at seven schools
and the 'LifeSkills'
training at thirteen schools within the system.
Both programs are research-based with
intervention strategies that address the root
causes of drug, alcohol, tobacco, other drugs,
and parenting skills. Youth First, Inc. will
serve as facilitator for the projects and will
provide the training.
Youth First, Inc.
Substance Abuse Prevention
$350,000
Mission
of the program is to reduce substance abuse by
coordinating community resources to provide
prevention and early intervention for youth and
their families. This includes using proven
programs that seek to reach the root causes most
associated with substance abuse among young
people, including poor decision-making skills,
peer pressure, lack of family
support/supervision and inappropriate role
models. Program examples include the
Strengthening Families, Reconnecting Youth,
the SOBER UP!
as well as Adventure
Based Challenge programs. Current year funds are
expected to reach more than 4,500 young people.
This fourth year funding is expected to reach
7,600 young people. These funds will be used to
support the various staff and programs of Youth
First.
IMPROVEMENTS TO
COMMUNITY HEALTH STATUS
Goals:
It is known that persons' longevity and quality
of life are affected by the environmental and
population characteristics of their community.
In addition, certain socioeconomic and health
status indicators reflect county-level
health-related quality of life issues.
Those indicators include infant mortality, a
health status outcome commonly used as an
overall measure of the health and quality of
life in the community, since it often reflects
disparities in income, education, and access to
health care services. Several other health
status measures reflect social, education, and
economic differences, including African American
breast and cervical cancer rates, and injury and
death due to violence in the community.
GRANTS
AWARDED:
6 grants totaling $820,000
YMCA of Southwestern Indiana,
Inc.
Fit Kids
$50,000
FIT KIDS program, directed towards increasing
physical activity for children participating in
the before and after school programs, summer day
camps, and the downtown YMCA.
Funds are for purchase of additional fitness
equipment and support for program coordinators.
Southwestern Indiana
Regional Perinatal
Advisory Board
RPAB Coordinator
$45,000
Research into root causes of
infant morbidity and mortality in
Vanderburgh
County,
plus interventions directed towards
perinatal education
in workplaces, public education on safe sleep
and smoking cessation.
Impact
Christian
Health
Center
Continuation of Dental Program
$50,000
Dentist services for uninsured
and Medicaid population awaiting emergency care
in the
Evansville
area.
The Bridge Medical Clinic
Diabetic Wellness Program
$20,000
Diabetes screening, education,
and treatment program to serve Saline and
Gallatin
counties in
Illinois.
Deaconess
Hospital
Family Mapping
$75,000
The second year of support for a program
designed to address the rapid repeat pregnancy
rate, a key factor in infant mortality and poor
medical outcomes, among low-income families. As
most of these pregnancies are unplanned, the
program will provide education on pregnancy
prevention, regular follow-up, increased
utilization of family planning, and outreach to
high-risk populations.
ECHO Community Health Care
Diabetic
Care
Management
Center
$580,000 (2 grants)
The third year of funding, for this program and
facility, which opened in September, 2003,
dedicated to supporting and educating people
with diabetes on controlling their disease.
Services include monitoring of people already
diagnosed with diabetes, as well as screening
for people with high risk factors and family
history of diabetes. The Center maintains
full-time diabetes and nutrition educators on
staff, in addition to a physician.
SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH and
SOCIAL SERVICE CENTERS
Goals:
School-based health programs have evolved to
include far-reaching goals which integrate
health care, health education and preventative
efforts, mental health, and social services, all
in an effort to improve children’s success in
school and life. Successful models often work
through family-community-school partnerships.
GRANTS AWARDED:
5 Grants totaling $523,850
Gallatin
County Community Unit School District No. 7
School-Based
Health
Center
$215,000
Continued support for
school-based wellness center that serves as the
community’s only primary care provider, for more
than 900 students, their families, the faculty
and the staff.
Perry Central Elementary
Full-service School Initiative
$82,500
Expansion of full-service school
initiative from the elementary school into the
junior-senior high school, addressing root
causes of traditionally low educational
attainment and generational substance abuse.
Wabash Community Schools
Full-Service School Initiative Continuation
$90,800
Continued implementation of full-service school
initiative, including refinements of specific
programs and services, expansion of parenting
programs, piloting of prevention-based parenting
initiative, developmental screenings and
referrals.
Chrisney
Elementary School
Full-Service School
Development
$45,550
Further development of full-service school
initiative, emphasizing health, pre-school and
family literacy needs, and substance abuse
prevention.
Henderson County Schools
School-Based Health and
Social
Service
Center
$90,000
This support is for continued
development of a collaborative component of
full-service school initiative, addressing root
causes of their highest-risk students'
dysfunctional behavior, raising academic
achievement, improving family functioning, and
improving their lives in the community.
While assigned to the
Central
Learning
Center,
these students receive intensive interventions
in the areas of mental health, behavior
improvement, individual and family counseling,
and health.
GRAND TOTAL:
18 Grants totaling $2,163,850 |
