WELBORN BAPTIST FOUNDATION
SUMMARY OF GRANTS AWARDED 2005 

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 $474,000

Community Coordinated Child Care (4C) of Southern Indiana, Inc.
Child Care Quality Initiative
$474,000
Continuation of the programs initiated in 2005 to improve the overall quality of child care in nine of the Foundation's fourteen counties. The funding will be used to conduct a range of activities including:

1.      Paths To Quality - a laddered, voluntary rating system designed to encourage child care providers to take steps to improve the quality of child care service they provide.
2.      Mentoring Services related to the Paths to Quality program - a set of complementary services that will enhance the Paths to Quality effort.
3.      Continuity of Care - implementation of a program to strengthen the relationships between caregivers, parents and children.
4.      Resource Library - Staff and equipment for the Resource Library
5.      Early Childhood Education - an effort to improve the qualifications of caregivers.
6.      Leadership Retreats - a series of gathering focused on developing the skills and relationships among providers.

FAITH-BASED INITIATIVES
Goals: The Foundation recognizes the unique role that churches and faith-based organization play in addressing a host of important community issues. The Foundation continues to cultivate a strong interest in health ministries and encourages the efforts of church and faith-based organizations in areas such as adolescent development, family support and spiritual development.

GRANTS AWARDED:  17 Grants totaling $382,100

Catholic Charities, Evansville
Neighbor to Neighbor Program Planning Grant
$10,000
Planning grant to expand research on a faith-based program designed to help people who have serious financial challenges to take positive steps to improve their lives and the lives of their family members. Grant funds will be used to develop the professional training component, conduct training, develop training materials, hold a faith-based conference and continue research.

Trinity United Methodist Church (Rockport, Indiana)
Strengthening Families 10-14
$14,000
A partnership between with Trinity, Youth First, Inc. and South Spencer Middle School to provide the Strengthening Families program for 14 youth and their families. This funding will provide training of facilitators and training materials for two courses of the program.

Catholic Charities of Tell City
Strengthening Families 10-14
$7,000
A partnership with Youth First, Inc. to continue and expand the Strengthening Families program for 14 youth and their families. This funding will provide training of  facilitators and training materials.

Gateway Baptist Church (Newburgh, Indiana)
Health Ministry
$36,000
Initiation of a health ministry program based on the 'Fit-4 Fitness' and 'Fit-4 Nutrition' programs; fitness equipment to support both adult and youth fitness; construction of regulation soccer fields. The goals are to use sport to deliver a positive message to youth and families about God's love, sportsmanship and healthy living.

Community Marriage Builders
Program expansion
$9,500
Expansion into Warrick, Gibson and Posey counties. The funding will be used to support the formation of a task force in Warrick County and identify resources, increase the number of married and pre-marital couples involved in counseling sessions, enrichment classes, training sessions and mentor programs; and increase the number of Covenant churches in the County.

North Haven General Baptist Church
Health Ministries program support
$10,700
Established health ministries program seeking support for CPR/Basic First Aid, Christian youth activities and the Strengthening Families 10-14 program.

First United Methodist Church of Fort Branch
Health Ministry support
$10,000
Continued support for the Strengthening families and Safe Sitter programs as well as new programming focused on children and adults with Attention Deficit and Bipolar Disorder.

Holy Redeemer School
Strengthening Families Faith-Based Collaboration
$80,000
Collaboration of 12 faith-based organizations to offer the Strengthening Families 10-14 Program.  Included are Holy Redeemer, St. Philip, Corpus Christi, St. John the Baptist, St. Joseph, St. Theresa, St. Wendel, Princeton Catholic Deanery, Trinity Lutheran, St. Paul's Episcopal, the YMCA of Southwestern Indiana, and Greater St. James Community and Recreation and Education Center.

First Baptist Church, Mt. Carmel
True Life
$20,000
Program designed to meet the emotional and spiritual needs of pre-teens, teens, and their families.

Barnabas Ministries, Inc.
Adventure Weekends
$16,000
SPOT, or Single Parent - One Teen, weekends at Camp Reveal for structured activities focused on bonding techniques.

St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Reaching Out
$25,000
Year-round program for youth ages 10-15 to be in a safe, encouraging after-school environment.

Evansville Christian Life Center
Earn While You Learn Program
$25,000
Educational program to reduce the number of pre-term births and infant deaths through incentives for parents to attend classes on safe sleep and substance abuse prevention.

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center (Jasper, Indiana)
Health Ministry
$10,000
Community-based cardiovascular educational program to teach parish nurses how to develop wellness programs that concentrate on reducing risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease for their churches and communities.

TTT Christian Youth Ministries, Inc.
Project Proclaim
$50,000
Program that trains teenagers as evangelistic counselors who then share their faith with their peers in an effort to dissuade teens from alcohol, tobacco, drugs and sex.

Young Life Evansville
WyldLife
$25,000
'WyldLife' middle school program for Harwood, Glenwood, and Evans Middle Schools.  Funds requested to provide a full-time intern who will mentor the youth.

Evansville Area Community of Churches
Weekday Christian Education
$3,500
'My Proverb Plan' lessons for elementary school children about staying drug-free.

Baptist Children's Home & Family Services
Pathways Christian Counseling Services
$25,000
Expansion of 'Pathways' Christian Counseling Services for family and youth counseling.  The funds will allow BCHFS to work with the 40 member churches within the Southwestern Baptist Association (SWBA), continuing to build the financial and referral commitments needed from these congregations. This service will be based in offices on Oak Hill Road in Evansville.

Health Ministry Covenants and Clinical Pastoral Education
$5,400
The Foundation also initiated five Health Ministry covenants at $1,000 each. The recipients of those covenants were: Central Christian Church, St. Meinrad Catholic Church, St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, St. Boniface Catholic Church, Good Shepherd Catholic Church. Separately, $400 was granted to Central United Methodist Church for Clinical Pastoral Education.

GENERAL OPPORTUNITY
Goals:  Although targeted interests receive the majority of available funds, Welborn Baptist Foundation considers other worthy opportunities that fit within its chosen domains of health, social environment, and education.

Grants awarded : 5 grants totaling $435,000

Buffalo Trace Council
Capital Funding for new Scout Center
$100,000

A capital request to fund a portion of the 11,500 square foot Eykamp Scout Center. The facility provides 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.

FACILITY DEDICATED AND OPENED FEBRUARY 2005.

YMCA of Southwestern Indiana, Inc.
Facility construction
$100,000

Funding to support the Dunigan Family YMCA.

FACILITY DEDICATED AND OPENED IN JANUARY 2005.

Hands On Discovery, Inc.
Capital Campaign for New Museum
$100,000
Funding for an interactive exhibit on health and nutrition education within the new museum.

Boys & Girls Club  of Evansville, Indiana
Fundraising Manager
$35,000
Funding to hire and support a full-time fundraising manager to implement their board-approved action plan to improve sustainability.

Tri-County YMCA
Capital Construction
$100,000
Capital support for the construction of a new facility that will serve Dubois, Spencer and Perry counties.

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 : 10 grants totaling $629,000

Young Women's Christian Association
Live Y'ers
$60,000
Continued support for this pregnancy prevention program for girls.  Program is currently operating at four schools. The expansion will increase and enhance after-school programs for all four schools. Secondary goals of the program include prevention of substance abuse and increased likelihood of education past high school.

Buffalo Trace Council
Scoutreach Program Expansion
$25,000
Continued expansion of Scoutreach programs that provide after-school scouting for Cub Scouts and new troops for youth 11-14 years of age. Funds to support volunteers, fees, program supplies and activities. This request is for two years of support ($100,000 over two years).

Tales & Scales
Healthy Arts Project
$17,000
A partnership with Carver Community Organization to integrate the performing arts into their after school curriculum, focusing on the 100 participants in their SMART Moves and SMART Kids programs. Learning goals will be established in two areas: substance abuse prevention and the performing arts.

Warrick County School Corporation
Strengthening Families Program
$60,000
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.

ECHO Housing Corporation
Strengthening Families Program for Children Ages 6-9
$8,000
This is a 14 week behavior skills training program that will be conducted for the families of Lucas Place Transitional Housing facility. The focus is on improving  communication between parents and children. Parents will focus on clear communication, effective discipline, substance use, problem solving and limit setting. Children will focus on anger control, resisting peer pressure, compliance with parental rules, problem solving and communicating effectively.

Marian Day School, d.b.a Marian Educational Outreach
Special Education Teacher
$8,000
A program that will place a second full-time resource teacher in the Evansville Catholic High Schools to address the growing number of students and to attend to the specialized needs and coordinate the services of at-risk students in the school system.

Dubois-Pike-Warrick Economic Opportunity Committee, Inc. d/b/a Tri-Cap
Question, Persuade and Refer (QPR) Suicide Prevention program
$50,000
A program to provide staffing to implement the Natural Helpers and QPR suicide prevention programs in the Dubois County school corporations. Funding will be used to retain the services of a trained and qualified social worker, equipment and supplies.

Cannelton City Schools
Strengthening Families and After-school programs
$22,000
A request for funding for an after school recreation program and for the Strengthening Families 10-14 program. The goal is to provide a broad range of activities for 60 adolescents in the Cannelton area.

Patchwork Central, Inc.
Arts and Smart Choices
$10,000
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.

Youth First, Inc.
Substance Abuse Prevention
$369,000
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. 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: 13 grants totaling $966,850

ECHO Community Health Care
Diabetic Care Management Center
$344,000
Year 4 of 5 projected to establish the Diabetic Care Management Center, addressing root causes of type 2 diabetes and its complications through aggressive treatment, education, screening, and encouragement of lifestyle changes in underserved, uninsured, and underinsured diabetics.

The Bridge Medical Clinic
Chronic Disease Management Program
$30,000
Chronic disease management program targeting tobacco cessation, obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol for approx. 150 uninsured persons in Saline County, IL.  Efforts will include screening, education, and treatment.

YMCA of Southwestern Indiana, Inc.
Fit Kids
$50,000
Salary support and purchase of additional Youth Fitness Center equipment.  This program serves Vanderburgh, Posey, and Warrick Counties.

Gibson General Health Foundation
Lifestyles Diabetes Center
$80,000
Diabetes self-management education, awareness, and prevention program for Gibson and Pike Counties, including community outreach and collaboration with local health ministry programs.

St. Mary's Foundation
Healthy Kids - Healthier Communities
$58,500
School-based education initiative to area public and parochial schools to address the lack of dental care education for children.

Gospel Express Missions Ministries
Bee-Healthy Summer Camp
$20,000
Summer camp for approx. 100 elementary and junior high students, offering programs about physical activity, healthy eating, and substance abuse.

Southwestern Indiana Regional Perinatal Advisory Board
RPAB  Coordinator
$44,850
The coordinator is responsible for researching contributing factors and root causes of high infant mortality rates in Vanderburgh and surrounding counties.  Her role includes development and implementation of actions to address the findings.

Deaconess Family Practice Residency
Family Mapping
$69,000
Year 3 of the program to help women avoid rapid repeat pregnancies, providing the final follow-up services to the women and allowing for evaluation of the effectiveness of the interventions.  At the halfway point, the program appears to have exceeded its initial goal of reducing the rate from 25% to 10%, with the rate currently at 5%.

Marsha's Place Pregnancy Resource Center
Promoting Positive Pregnancies
$13,000
Program to promote healthy pregnancies and reduce infant morbidity and mortality.

Mission of Grace
Health Education Program for Hispanic/Latino Community
$17,500
Collaborative effort with VC Health Dept., ECHO Community Health Center, Mission of Grace, Nativity Catholic Church and others to provide diabetes screening and education, reduce overweight and obesity, and prevent and reduce smoking among Evansville's rapidly-growing Hispanic population.

Princeton Community Middle School
Physical Fitness and Wellness Center
$15,000
Planning grant to assist the Princeton Community Middle School to research and adopt revised health and physical education  curricula that will teach children healthy eating and exercise habits for life.

St. John The Apostle Catholic Church
SOUL Empowerment
$50,000
Health education, physical exercise and nutrition program for low-income center-city residents.  Operating expenses and expansion to youth under 18 years of age.

ECHO Community Health Care
OB Clinic
$175,000
OB clinic to provide prenatal and perinatal care for the growing number of uninsured, low-income pregnant women in Vanderburgh and surrounding counties.  Goals are earlier entry into prenatal care, decrease the number of infants born with low birth weight, and improve the immunization rate for infants born through the program.

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:  7 Grants totaling $653,000

Henderson County Schools
School-Based Health and Social Service Center
$90,000
Continuation of school-based health and social services for Henderson’s neediest students, and expansion to include pre-school students assigned to Central Learning Center.

Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation
School Community Council
$50,000
Continued support for improving physical education, nutrition, and health education as part of the full-service school initiative.  This grant will provide educational materials and equipment to four pilot schools through the end of 2005, with emphasis on teaching students lifelong physical fitness and healthy eating habits.

Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation
School Health Initiative
$144,000
Continued support for the School Community Council and expansion of health initiatives in schools.   Building on the success of this work over the past four years, EVSC has been able to gain over $8.4 million in federal support to strengthen their efforts in this area.

Chrisney Elementary School
Full-Service School Development
$45,000
Full-Service school development with focus on literacy, social, and health needs of the students and families.

Wabash Community Schools
Full-service School Initiative Continuation
$90,000
Full-service school development focused on after-school activities, social services, health-based programs for students, and parent education.

Perry Central Elementary
Full-Service School Initiative
$80,000
Full-service school initiative with focus on child and adolescent health, social services, literacy, family involvement, and substance abuse prevention.

Gallatin County Community Unit School District No. 7
School-Based Health Center
$154,000
School-based health center with focus on primary care, mental health, substance abuse prevention, health education and community outreach.

SPECIAL GRANT
DONALD B. COX MEMORIAL GRANT
American Red Cross, Southwestern Indiana Chapter
Automated External Defibrillator Project
$50,000
The Red Cross has been awarded $50,000 that will be used for the purchase and installation of eighteen (18) automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and eighteen (18) pediatric starter kits and training for 160 people. The defibrillators will be located in public facilities throughout the community.

Total grants $3,589,950 (including Cox Memorial Grant)