WELBORN BAPTIST FOUNDATION
SUMMARY OF GRANTS AWARDED 2007
EARLY
CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Goals: The Welborn Baptist 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: 4 Grants totaling $865,000
Community Coordinated Child Care (4C) of Southern Indiana, Inc.
Child Care Quality Initiative
$520,000
This
grant will provide for the 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. It is worth noting that one of the programs, Paths to QUALITY,
has been officially adopted by the Indiana Family and Social Services
Administration and will roll out statewide in January 2008. This is a direct
result of the investment from the Welborn Baptist Foundation, Inc. as well
as the commendable efforts of so many child care providers in the region.
4C
will use these funds to promote higher standards for unlicensed registered
ministries and preschools. The goal for the new pilot programs is to
identify effective strategies targeted for license exempt care that could be
implemented by the State of
Indiana
in the future.
Paths
to QUALITY support programs
·
Unlicensed Registered Ministry Fund
·
Preschool Partners Progressing
·
Other
projects supported: Special Project Accreditation Awards, Resource Library,
Scholarships, Conference and Training Reimbursement , Leadership Retreat,
and Continuity of Care
Family
Support Programs
·
1,2,3,4 Parents! - continued implementation of this
parenting program that will help prevent abuse and neglect but will also
improve the way children behave socially, a significant indicator of school
readiness.
·
Parents as Teachers - Parents as Teachers is a parenting
program intended for parents who have children birth to five years old. The
mission of the program is to provide the information, support and
encouragement parents need to help their children develop optimally
during the crucial early years of life.
Early
Childhood Development Coalition
Early
Childhood Development program support
$125,000
The ECDC Social Marketing Literacy Project will focus on
social/emotional development in young children ages birth to five. It will
also emphasize the importance of early childhood and the strategies this
community and implement a number of projects that will focus on literacy
skills, cognitive development, and the transition to kindergarten. The
project will utilize a variety of media to provide information to parents
about the growth and development of young children.
Introduction to Healthy Steps
The
Healthy Steps Initiative
Part
of the Foundation’s interest in Early Childhood Development includes
insuring that very young children and their parents are receiving
developmental and behavioral services at a critical time in their lives.
Healthy Steps for Young Children (Healthy Steps) is a national initiative
that focuses on the importance of the first three years of life. This
initiative was developed by an interdisciplinary pediatric team at the
Boston University School of Medicine and piloted in 24 public clinic and
private practice/residency settings across the country. Healthy Steps
emphasizes a close relationship between health care professionals and
parents in addressing the physical, emotional, and intellectual growth and
development of children from birth to age three and seeks to incorporate
into the pediatric and family practice settings, preventive developmental
and behavioral services.
Healthy Steps
Services
Healthy Steps Specialists monitor child health and development, promote good
health practices, and respond to mothers' and fathers' concerns about their
developing infants and toddlers. Healthy Steps sites customize the following
services to best serve their families:
·
Enhanced well child care;
·
Child
development telephone information line;
·
Home
visits;
·
Informational materials for mothers and fathers that emphasize prevention;
·
Child
development and family health checkups;
·
Parent
groups;
·
Links
to community resources
St.
Mary's Foundation
Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative
$110,000
This
funding will be used to implement the Healthy Steps for Young Children
Initiative within the St. Mary's Pediatric Clinic.
Deaconess Family Medicine Residency
Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative
$110,000
This
funding will be used to implement the Healthy Steps for Young Children
Initiative within the Deaconess Family Practice Residency.
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 programs that
emphasize evangelism in addressing youth development, family support and
spiritual development.
GRANTS
AWARDED:
16 Grants totaling $578,900
Baptist Children's Home & Family Services (Carmi,
IL)
Livin'
& Givin' Bowl
$25,000
This
grant will support a youth mission program designed to promote peer
mentoring and volunteerism. These funds will be used to support for the
expansion of a youth group that assists BCHFS staff and residents with
on-site work projects and mission activities.
Grace
House
Substance Abuse Recovery Program for Women
$64,100
This
grant will support a substance abuse recovery program for women age 18 and
older seeking to recover from addictions. It serves up to 16 women at a
time in a 12-18 month program. This program is under the auspices of
Indiana Teen Challenge, a chapter of Teen Challenge International.
Child
Evangelism Fellowship
Good
News Club
$10,000
These
funds will be used for the establishment of 10 new after-school Good News
Clubs in area public elementary schools. Program consists of 16 weekly
meetings of Bible teaching.
Churches Embracing Offenders, Inc.
Family
Unity and Reunification
$50,000
These
funds will support the continuation of a program to re-integrate
ex-offenders back into the local community after release from prison and
break the cycle of recidivism. This program will focus on
strengthening the entire family unit through faith-based interventions
including Strengthening Families, Celebrate Recovery, and others.
Community Marriage Builders
Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grant support
$9,500
This
grant will provide matching funds to be applied to a $52,900 match
requirement (10% of federal grant award) for the 5-year Healthy Marriage
Demonstration Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services. This
grant supports marriage preparation and enrichment programs in Vanderburgh,
Warrick, Posey and Gibson Counties.
Evansville
Christian
Life
Center
Family
Restoration Program Planning Grant
$10,000
This
grant will provide support for staff and resources to research and develop a
new family restoration incentive program targeted at homeless and low-income
adults and their school-aged children in Vanderburgh County.
Program development will include investigation of potential collaborative
efforts with the numerous agencies in this community that share the same
interest in family restoration/stabilization.
First
Baptist
Church (Mt.
Carmel,
IL)
Expansion of "True Life" Program
$35,000
This
is a biblically-based program for building life skills for youth and
families, youth meetings, a gift meal delivery program, Christian Cafe, and
True Love True Life, a weekend focused on teen abstinence.
Good
News Jail & Prison Ministry (Henderson,
KY)
Prison
Ministry
$50,000
This
funding will support the Good News Prison Ministry at the Henderson County
Detention Center. The funds will help support the on-site chaplain, Bible
study programs, a 12-step recovery program and fundraising efforts.
Mission of Grace
Food
for Thought
$15,000
Continuation of "Food for Thought" program, focused on promoting
self-sufficiency among those who come to the mission for financial
assistance. Education program will 10-12 participants with 4 weekly 2-hour
classes with lessons on nutrition, fitness and health, budgeting, comparison
shopping and understanding labels, relationship issues, anger management,
stress management, self-esteem and purpose.
Media
Ministries, Inc.
Transportation Costs
$19,000
Assistance with transportation costs to bring more children to the Dream
Center. These funds will assist with increased use of the existing 4 vans
and fuel expense that is incurred when borrowing other vehicles. Structural
changes in the Dream Center neighborhood makes this service critical to the
needs of the area’s children.
TTT
Christian Youth Ministries, Inc.
Project Proclaim
$50,000
Biblically-based peer evangelism leadership training for adolescents ages
10-19.
Youth,
Inc.
Capital support
$50,000
Capital grant for purchase of a building that will provide a safe and
appropriate facility for all who participate in the ministry.
Young
Life
Evansville
4-County Collaboration
$60,000
Collaboration between five Young Life areas to reach adolescents in 4
counties: Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, and Henderson counties. Will utilize
the 5C approach:
1. contact work at schools;
2. clubs at schools;
3. campaigners - outreach;
4. camp;
5. committees of adults who support the
ministry.
Nativity Catholic Church
Juan
Diego
Latino
Center
$60,000
Continued development of an
Hispanic
Outreach Center that addresses root causes of problems related to
integrating new immigrants into the community.
Camp
Brosend (Newburgh,
IN)
Dining
Hall Renovation
$50,000
Construction costs for repairs to dining hall and replacement of its roof,
rafters, two walls, and a kitchen exhaust system.
Matthew 25 AIDS Services
Pastoral Care Program
$21,300
This
grant will provide pastoral care program for over 300 persons with
HIV/AIDS. This program is modeled on the pastoral care component of the
research-based Partners in Caring through Duke University.
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 :
7 grants totaling $937,000
Boys &
Girls Club of
Evansville,
Indiana
New
Facility Development
$250,000
This
grant represents the first year of a two-year $500,000 capital grant that
will support the construction of a new 30,000 sq. ft. facility in a center
city location that serves a large population of children ages 0-17, to
replace an aging facility.
Boys &
Girls Club of
Evansville,
Indiana
Development Program Support
$35,000
These
funds will support fund raising manager who is developing the club's
long-term financial sustainability plan.
Buffalo Trace Council
Urban
Camp
$150,000
These
funds will support capital improvements to outdoor facilities at the Old Ben
Scout Camp location. The use of these funds is limited to those elements
most consistent with the Foundation's interest in health and quality of
life, which are the development of community trails and the improvements to
the sanitation and water systems.
Youth
Resources of
Southwestern Indiana
Part-time Development Director
$20,000
These
funds will support a part-time development coordinator to create a full-time
development job sharing position in conjunction with the existing part-time
development director. The two individuals will job share the development
position and work with the executive director and board to coordinate all
fundraising efforts for Youth Resources.
Wesselman Nature Society
Facilities at Howell Wetlands
$67,000
Construction of a new facility that will provide basic needs for students
and other participants in environmental educational programs at Howell
Wetlands, such as shelter, restrooms, and classroom space.
Foundation Assisting In Recovery
Thinking for a Change
$10,000
"Thinking for a Change' behavior change program aimed at restructuring
negative thinking behavior of non-violent, non-dealing participants in the
Vanderburgh County Drug Court program.
ECHO
Community Health Care
Capital support for Facility Renovation
$405,000
Capital portion of request to expand pediatric services to families of
low-income children who are unable to find a medical home for their child.
This renovation will add 8 exam rooms to Division St. clinic, offices, and
separate waiting areas for well and sick children.
PROMOTION OF 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 :
8 grants totaling $976,700
Carver Community Organization
Experience Corps Project
$87,500
This
project will implement an "Experience Corps" project within Carver Community
Organization. This "Experience Corps" Project will utilize older adults to
mentor and tutor low-income students with the goal of improving academic
performance.
Holly's House, Inc.
Capital and operating costs
$100,000
This
funding will provide support the continued renovation of the advocacy
center. This funding will also support the operations of the center.
Holy
Redeemer
School
Strengthening Families Collaboration
$116,200
The
grant will support the Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative. The project
includes a collaboration of 9 faith-based and one secular organization to
offer the Strengthening Families 10-14 Program, Strengthening Families 6-9
and In It to Win It - The 7 Habit Way program. Included in the
collaboration are: Echo Housing, and North Haven General Baptist, Holy
Redeemer, Holy Rosary, Resurrection, St. Benedict in Evansville; St.
Joseph, St. Paul's Lutheran and Precious Blood Catholic Church in Jasper.
Life
Choices Maternity and Youth Home
Case
Manager and program planning support
$15,000
This
grant will fund salary support for the Case Manager and planning/program
support to re-develop the Behavior Modification Program.
Marian
Educational Outreach
Project Outreach (Phase II)
$100,000
This
grant will provide continued support for Project Outreach Phase Two which
will have two areas of focus. The Center on Education and Lifelong Learning
(CELL selected in Phase One) will continue to support Brain-Based
Differentiated Instruction (DI) training support for the teachers and
teacher coaches in the three pilot schools that were selected in Phase One
(Corpus Christi, Holy Redeemer and Holy Spirit). The second area of focus
will be to implement DI training for all faculty members in six additional
Diocesan schools that will be selected in Phase Two.
Both
of these focus areas aim to achieve the established goal of Project Outreach
which is "to raise the level of performance in the areas of academics,
social interaction and appreciation of diversity in all students and to
develop a learning community in the Diocesan parishes by empowering every
teacher with the necessary training to effectively serve a very diverse
population."
St.
Paul's United
Methodist
Church
Reaching Out After School Program
$25,000
This
grant will fund the continuation of a year-round after school program for
youth ages 10-14. Activities include group activities, field trips,
tutoring, community service projects, crafts, recreation, snacks, prayer and
character education activities.
Youth
First, Inc.
Substance Abuse Intervention Project
$453,000
This
grant will support the Substance Abuse Intervention Project. The SAIP
project targets youth between the ages of five and eighteen in Posey,
Vanderburgh, and Warrick Counties. Youth First's SAIP includes:
1.
School Social Work Program - Continued funding to support
nine social workers with special expertise in substance abuse
prevention/intervention for young people in 17 schools as well as the
clinical supervision of the SW team;
2.
Reconnecting Youth -
a school-based, semester-long program
for youth in grades nine through twelve (14 to 18 years old) who are at risk
for dropping out of school and may also exhibit multiple behavior problems;
3.
Adventure-Based Challenge - This experiential education
program helps high risk youth explore their potential and abilities through
weekly after-school group meetings and challenging outdoor activities;
4.
Project SUCCESS - The goal of this program is to
reduce alcohol abuse through individual and group education, community
referrals, and school-wide prevention efforts;
5.
WhyTry -
a strength-based approach to helping youth
overcome their challenges and improve outcomes in the areas of truancy,
behavior and academics. In the process, it reduces risk factors for
substance abuse and increases positive factors;
The
research basis of the Youth First programs is making a major contribution to
the youth and families of our community.
Young
Women's Christian Association
Live
Y'ers program
$80,000
These
funds will provide continued support for this pregnancy prevention program
for girls. Primary objective is to have girls in high-risk populations
graduate from high school and delay pregnancy. The program is currently
operating at four schools (Culver, Lodge, Glenwood and Bosse). Secondary
goals of the program include, emphasis on academics, life skills, career
education, prevention of substance abuse and increased likelihood of
education past high school.
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: 19 grants totaling $942,100
American Red Cross
First
Aid & CPR Training
$75,000
Specialized first aid and CPR training for low-income, Spanish-speaking and
hearing-impaired persons. This project will address the African American
and Hispanic communities, including Spanish-language training and materials.
The
Red Cross of SW Indiana will coordinate efforts with the Guadalupe Center,
Juan Diego Center, Sycamore Services, and others to recruit and train
instructors and promote the training to the audience.
Salem United
Church
of
Christ (Huntingburg,
IN)
Health
Screening and Wellness Programs
$6,500
This
program will provide early-detection health screenings and wellness programs
for individuals in the community of Huntingburg that are:
-
40 and
older, those uneducated about health risks;
-
those
who have lower incomes or no health insurance;
-
those
who need a health screening to determine risk for potential disease;
-
the
Hispanic population, who are mostly low-income and at increased risk for
obesity and the chronic conditions that develop as a result of it.
Deaconess Cross Pointe
QPR
Suicide Prevention
$42,500
QPR
Suicide Prevention Training for approximately 50 strategic individuals who
will then offer the Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper trainings to a wide
variety of groups. A gatekeeper is the first line of defense in recognizing
suicide and depression. The goal is to provide QPR gatekeeper training 150
times per year the first year, with 15,000 people being trained as
gatekeepers.
ECHO
Community Health Care
Pediatric Services
$108,200
This
grant will provide start-up expenses to expand pediatric services to
families of low-income children who are unable to find a medical home for
their child. The service will increase available appointments for infants
and children up to age 16, increase clinic space for pediatric services, and
employ a full-time pediatrician and support staff.
First
Ebenezer
Baptist
Church
Evansville Ministers' Wives Council Wellness Program
$20,000
This
grant will provide for the continuation of a health ministry begun by the
Ministers' Wives Council in 2003 to serve low-income areas of the
community. The focus of the ministry is to provide health screenings with
follow-up on irregular results, and wellness programs directed at helping
people decrease their risk for developing chronic diseases. The wellness
programs will include health education and increasing exercise/activity for
the people of all ages they serve.
Koch
Family Children's
Museum
of
Evansville (cMoE)
Healthy Living: access/ABILITY
$75,000
This
grant will provide one year of specialty programs designed to increase
awareness in children and families of disabilities and health-related causes
of disabilities by engaging youth through educational curriculum and a
dynamic exhibit.
The
program will focus on healthy living and specific health topics each month,
incorporating a nationally-recognized educational curriculum developed by
the National Institutes of Health for children aged 8-13. The project will
also bring an award-winning exhibit developed by the Boston Children's
Museum that engages children and families to learn what it is like to have a
disability.
Marsha's
Place
Pregnancy
Resource
Center (Henderson,
KY)
Earn
While You Learn
$12,800
This
grant will provide for the expansion of the "Earn While You Learn" program,
an accountability program that incorporates the use of non-denominational
Bible studies, parenting and life-skills education to help low-income
families obtain needed items for themselves and their families.
The
Rehabilitation
Center
P.L.A.Y. Project Home Consultant Training
$36,500
This
grant will support a play-based, family-focused, cost-effective model for
early developmental intervention services for children with autism and other
Autism Spectrum Disorders. The program utilizes a train-the-trainer
approach and is based on the proven Developmental, Individualized,
Relationship model but is more affordable for families.
Memorial
Hospital and
Health
Care
Center (Jasper,
Indiana)
Health
Ministry Support
$10,000
This
grant will provide for the expansion of the "Heart Healthy Way to Joyous
Living" cardiovascular health and screening program to 4 more churches.
This is a 6-week, heart health educational program is designed to help
participants understand their cardiovascular health. It provides
encouragement for them to make lifestyle changes that improve their health.
Methodist
Hospital (Henderson,
Kentucky)
Well-child Clinics
$19,900
This
grant will provide for the expansion of well-child clinics to help
low-income families obtain adequate basic health care for their children.
This grant allows the addition of staff to provide two well-child clinics to
address the EPSDT (Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment) Care
for Kids program and provide education to families about the benefits of
continuous health care, effective parenting, proper immunizations and other
childhood health issues in a family-centered environment.
Ozanam
Family Shelter
Playground and Promotion of Physical Activity
$46,900
This
grant will provide for the construction of a play area at the shelter and
creation of parent-child interactive programs promoting physical activity
and good nutrition for the families served by the shelter.
St.
John The Apostle Catholic Church
SOUL
Empowerment Nutrition and Exercise Program
$50,000
This
grant will provide for the continuation of affordable nutrition and exercise
program for
Evansville's
inner-city and ethnic minority individuals to reduce their risk of
developing chronic disease related to obesity. Goals include:
-
increasing awareness of health-related risk factors;
-
personalized exercise and nutrition education and activity programming
focused on behavior modification;
-
coordination with health ministry program for additional health needs;
-
development of fitness program for pre-school and early elementary school
children.
St.
Mary's Foundation
St.
Mary's Healthy Kids - Healthier Communities
$64,900
This
grant will provide for the expansion continuation of mobile outreach to
provide low-income, underserved children with preventive oral care education
and materials, including tooth brushes, toothpaste, and floss. Special
efforts will be made to provide a more effective program in the Hispanic
community where the need is greatest. Fluoride treatments will be provided
to 4,000 children.
Tri-State Business Group on Health
Regional Perinatal Advisory Board Coordinator
$50,000
These
funds will allow for continued focus on monitoring access to prenatal care
and reasons why women don't enter into care early in their pregnancies. This
information will be used to attempt to resolve barriers to care that have
been identified but not yet solved. This program will also promote the
"centering pregnancy" concept in collaboration with the March of Dimes.
University of
Evansville
School-based Wellness Program
$39,500
These
funds will support the first year of a proposed 2-year study to evaluate the
benefits of a new school-based program to identify and modify poor physical
movement patterns in adolescents before long-term functional abilities are
adversely affected.
A
training manual for 7th and 8th grade physical education teachers will be
developed as a result of this research.
WNIN
Social
Marketing Campaign Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
$82,600
These
funds will support a social marketing campaign directed toward promoting
healthier lifestyles through better nutrition and physical fitness. The
development of this campaign will be coordinated closely with WBF strategic
communication plan development.
Evansville
Christian
Life
Center
Capital Support for Roof Replacement
$150,000
This
grant represents the first year of a three-year $750,000 capital grant that
will replace the roof at the Evansville Christian Life Center facility at
509 S. Kentucky Avenue in Evansville.
SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH PROGRAMS
Goals:
Over the past six years, Welborn Baptist Foundation’s school-based health
programs have evolved to focus on helping schools create environments that
teach students, staff, and families how to live healthy lifestyles. At the
heart of these programs is the belief that active, well-nourished children
are better able to reach their potential to succeed in school and life.
In
2008, WBF will launch a new initiative to help schools in the Foundation’s
14-county service area create lasting improvements in child nutrition and
physical activity. Already, the Foundation has new staff on board to lead
this effort and has begun building on the successes of the past six years.
The
project will integrate national leading practices, such as the Coordinated
School Health Model, and align the foundation’s new initiative with
childhood obesity reduction/prevention goals outlined by national leaders,
such as the
Alliance
for a Healthier Generation and Healthy People 2010.
Family-community-school partnerships are essential to the success of these
programs.
GRANTS AWARDED: 1 Grants totaling $152,300
Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation
School
Health Initiative
$152,300
This
grant will provide support for full-time staff to coordinate continued
implementation of all 8 components of the Coordinated School Health Model in
EVSC schools, in conjunction with the Carol M. White Physical Education
Grant, the Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant, and the Indiana Department
of Education.
The
efforts supported by this grant focus on 2 middle schools and 6 elementary
schools (approx. 4,241 students) during 2008. These schools are at various
stages of implementation, with Dexter Elementary and Plaza Park Middle
School leading the way and providing the example and leadership to assist
the others.
SPECIAL GRANT
DONALD
B. COX MEMORIAL GRANT
Deaconess Foundation and Posey County
EMS
EKG
Equipment
$38,800
This
grant will fund the purchase and installation of biphasic 12-lead
Electrocardiogram machines in two
Posey
County EMS ambulances. Training of Emergency Medical Services personnel
will be coordinated by Posey County EMS.
Marrs
Township Volunteer Fire Department
AEDs
$13,000
This grant will fund the purchase
of six new biphasic Automated External
Defibrillators capable of pediatric and infant defibrillation (as
well as adult) to serve a minimum of 5800 people in portions of Posey,
Vanderburgh, and
Henderson Counties.
Training on the use of this equipment will be provided by the Marrs Township
Volunteer Fire Department.
Totals: 55 grants (including Cox
Memorial Grant) totaling $4,452,000.