WELBORN BAPTIST FOUNDATION
SUMMARY OF GRANTS AWARDED 2008
 

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:  5 Grants totaling $942,000
Our first grant this evening 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 was rolled 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.

Community Coordinated Child Care (4C) of Southern Indiana, Inc.
Child Care Quality Initiative
$500,000
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.

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

ECHO Community Health Care
Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative
$105,000
This funding will be used to implement the Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative within ECHO Community Health Care.

St. Mary's Foundation
Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative
$92,000
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
$92,000
This funding will be used to implement the Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative within the Deaconess Family Practice Residency.

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Early Childhood Development Coalition
Social Marketing Literacy Program
$153,000
One of the primary components of the Social Marketing Project is a children's book project that will include a companion television show and supporting materials for parents.

In this first year, the emphasis has been on social/emotional development and the young child's transition to kindergarten.  In year two the emphasis will be brain development, and in year three the emphasis will be on nutrition and health. In order to comprehend what they read, children must continually draw on relevant background knowledge.  Providing books, materials, and activities that reinforce a young child's environment is vital.  The Project books and programs will be developmentally appropriate and will highlight local attractions, people and activities children can connect with.

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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:  15 Grants totaling $441,000

Evansville Area Community of Churches
School-based Christian Outreach
$8,000
Expenses for person who moves the Weekday Christian Education mobile classrooms to different locations.

First Baptist Church, Mt. Carmel
Expansion of 'True Life' Program
$25,000
Continuation and expansion of program that includes life skills programs for youth, a Christian Cafe that provides meals once a week for students during their school lunch hour, field trips, and growing vegetables for the food pantry at the church.

St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Reaching Out After School/Summer Program
$25,000
After school mentoring and tutoring program for youth ages 10-15 in the Poseyville area.

Media Ministries, Inc.
Dream Center Outreach
$18,000
Assistance to provide a driver for the van that transports children to and from the Dream Center.

Child Evangelism Fellowship
Community Outreach Expansion Project
$15,000
Program support for 5 new school Good News Clubs, a summer 5-day Club, and training and partial salary support for 6 summer missionaries.

Liberty Missionary Baptist Church
City-Wide Renewal
$15,000
Basic program support for program to engage Tony Evans, a national leader in the movement to help African American communities rebuild themselves from within, to speak and provide consultation to the Evansville community.

Churches Embracing Offenders, Inc.
Family Unity/Reunification
$50,000
Year 2 of program to help ex-offenders re-integrate back into the community and deal with family issues by incorporating such strategies as Strengthening Families and the 'Thinking for a Change' programs.

Potter's Wheel
Planning grant
$25,000
Planning grant to assist the organization build its internal strength and capacity to deliver an effective program that helps youth whose family members are involved with the prison system avoid the cycle of incarceration.  This may include, but not be limited to, the use of consultants, experts in the field, and/or collaborative efforts with selected community partners.

Good News Jail & Prison Ministry
Prison Ministry
$75,000
Support for prison ministry expansion into the Vanderburgh County jail.  The activities during 2009 will include exploration of means to follow up on outcomes of participants in the program.

Young Life Evansville
Six-County Collaboration
$60,000
Evangelical outreach to middle and high school students after school in Vanderburgh, Dubois, Posey, Spencer, and Warrick counties in Indiana as well as Henderson County, KY.

TTT Christian Youth Ministries, Inc.
Project Proclaim
$50,000
Peer evangelism leadership training for youth.

United Methodist Youth Home, Inc.
LifeMAP
$35,000
Program support  for teaching young women ages 12-19  life skills such as study skills, meal preparation and healthy eating, money management, and obtaining and retaining affordable housing, during their placement at UMYH and follow-up of their success after they are on their own.

Evansville Christian Life Center
Family Restoration Project
$20,000
Support for program that provides counseling/self-help, job skills training, budgeting and money management, marriage/parenting classes, school and community-based activities, church and youth groups, character-building and skills for productive living to homeless and low-income adults and their children in Vanderburgh County.

Grace House
Support Groups Program
$10,000
Support for support groups in the Grace House residential program that addresses substance abuse for women 18 years of age and older.

Youth, Inc.
Building Improvement Grant
$10,000
Support for replacement of the furnace in the building at 111 NW 4th St. which Youth, Inc. purchased in 2008.

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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 $486,000

Boys & Girls Club of Evansville, Indiana
New Facility
$100,000
Capital 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.

ECHO Community Health Care
Facility Relocation
$75,000
Capital costs for the construction of a 12,000 square foot facility that will serve as the new home for the clinic.

Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science
Welborn Baptist Foundation's Family Place
$100,000
Funding of a colorful and inviting area where families are encouraged to experiment together in a wide variety of stimulating hands-on encounters that broaden awareness of health, wellness, science and technology.

Youth Resources of Southwestern Indiana
Development Coordinator support
$20,000
Part-time development coordinator to create a full-time development job sharing position in conjunction with the existing part-time development director.

St. Vincent's Day Care Center
Office of Advancement position
$20,000
Support for the Office of Advancement, which will help stabilize the financial picture of the agency, promote financial independence, secure a future for the mission and services provided for those in need, allow the agency to diversify services in the future, while strengthening current services for families and children.

ARK Crisis Prevention Nursery
Capacity Building Project
$41,000
A comprehensive project to build internal organizational capacity. Components include: best practice and curriculum research; Board Development and strategic planning, sustainability planning; marketing planning; technology improvements; professional development; and evaluation planning and implementation.

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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 : 10 grants totaling $977,000

Young Women's Christian Association
Live Y'ers
$73,000
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. 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.

Evansville Lutheran School
Positive Choices
$15,000
Support for Positive Choices sex education and teen pregnancy education program, using RealityWorks Real Care babies.  This funding will purchase School Baby Package and Accessories to provide students with realistic parenting simulation.

Marian Educational Outreach
Project Outreach Phase Three
$80,000
Phase III continuation of Brain-Based Differentiated Instruction training for teachers at six schools of the Evansville Catholic Diocese. Phase Three is designed to provide every teacher with the training and to maintain training support for schools involved in Phase One and Two. Phase Three is the continuum of the project to fulfill the need for every general education teacher to receive DI training.

New Hope Development Corporation
Tutoring and Mentoring Programs at 5 churches
$125,000
This program will establish a Tutoring and mentoring program based at five Missionary Baptist churches: New Hope Baptist Church; Nazarene Baptist Church; Liberty Baptist Church; Memorial Baptist Church and Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Each church will use existing educators within their congregations to coordinate their respective programs.

Buffalo Trace Council
Exceptional Needs Scouting
$17,500
A program to extend Scouting programs to children with special needs such as autism.

Girl Scouts of Raintree Council
Dr. Deak Extension Project
$30,000
The extension of the Dr. Deak Project for three more years. The Girl Scouts of Raintree Council will extend last year's highly successful Dr. JoAnn Deak Project for 3 years in order to:

-  Continue building a stronger Girl Scout program that best serves the needs and challenges of young women in our community;
- Expand the project through outreach and partnerships to benefit other area youth serving organization;
-  Facilitate change by continuing the conversation with the community about current brain research and the impact of gender differences on education and program delivery.

Youth First, Inc.
Substance Abuse Intervention
$465,000
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

Holy Redeemer School
Strengthening Families Church Collaboration
$40,000
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, Blue Grass United Methodist Church,  Holy Redeemer,  Holy Rosary, Holy Spirit in Evansville, St. John the Baptist Church in Newburgh, The Guadalupe Center in Huntingburg, The Gospel Center Church in Petersburg, Trinity United Methodist Church in Rockport and Embassy of Christ Church in Washington, Indiana.

Holly's House, Inc.
Forensic Interviewer position
$50,000
Support for the salary and benefits of a forensic interviewer. This position is key to  conducting effective forensic interviews of children. Such interviewing is a complex task, requiring in-depth knowledge of children's cognition and language, as well as a specialized skill set.

Carver Community Organization
Evansville Experience Corps
$81,500
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.

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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: 10 grants totaling $632,000

St. Mary's Foundation
Healthy Kids - Healthier Communities
$30,000
Mobile dental clinic serving low-income school-age children in Vanderburgh, Warrick, and Posey counties with preventive oral health education in both English and Spanish for students and parents through classes and health fairs, and fluoride treatments for children.

Southwestern Indiana Mental Health Center, Inc.
Community Mental Health Assessment
$60,000
In-depth study regarding the community's mental health needs, health care providers and the services they provide, as well as government in order to analyze gaps in services needed and provided.  The results will form the basis for an action plan for agencies to fill the gaps.

Evansville Christian Life Center
Roof Replacement
$300,000
This grant represents the second of a three-year capital grant to replace the roof at the Evansville Christian Life Center facility at 509 S. Kentucky Avenue in Evansville.

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center
Parish Nursing/Health Ministry
$25,000
Continuation of Heart-Healthy Way to Joyous Living cardiovascular wellness program with new outreach to adolescents and the Hispanic population in Dubois County. Also provision of Gatekeeper Instructor Training for the QPR suicide prevention program for parish nurses, clergy, physicians, pharmacists, law enforcement, and other key groups who have contact with persons who may be suicidal.

Tri-State Parish Nursing Organization
Health Communication and Information Project
$14,000
Development of the TSPNO web site, for the tri-state region that will facilitate the distribution of health education materials and resources.  Also seeks to provide professional development for parish nurses, promote two proven preventive programs, develop seminars, and develop more advanced practice parish nurses in the tri-state.

WNIN
Social Marketing Campaign for Healthy Lifestyles
$100,000
Continued support for social marketing campaign for healthy lifestyles as one of WBF's communication partners.  Program advocates for better nutrition and physical fitness through information and specific solutions for change. Primary target is audiences for whom unhealthy lifestyles are not yet ingrained - namely children and adolescents, as well as the parents of the children exposed to the campaign.

United Way of Perry County
Perry County Greenway Project
$45,000
A project that will add bike lanes to multi-use bike/trail system that will link many miles of walking, hiking and biking paths that are part of a comprehensive community-wide plan currently under construction to promote physical activity in Tell City.

Evansville Parks Foundation, Inc.
Walking Trails for Evansville
$11,000
Development of walking paths around two of Evansville's more central parking lots by adding striping for designated walking areas, motivational and educational signage, distance markers, and offering walkers pedometers for the grand opening weekend.  Locations currently under consideration include the Civic Center parking lot and Roberts Stadium.

Salem United Church of Christ, Huntingburg
Get-WELL Huntingburg
$9,000
Health ministry focused on persons at high risk for chronic diseases.  The program  includes two self-monitoring fitness programs, health screenings, stress reduction, and health education programs in English and Spanish.  It will be led by the church's health ministry team in collaboration with Memorial Hospital and other local agencies.

Nativity Catholic Church
Juan Diego Latino Center
$38,000
This is a multi-faceted program to assist Hispanics to integrate themselves into the English-speaking community with health, education, language, and cultural services.  The program helps develop Hispanic leaders to mentor and lift up others, trains qualified translators for health crises and health education, plans to develop a preventative health program and a safe environment for adolescents to have recreation.

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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 launched a new initiative to help schools in the Foundation’s 14-county service area create lasting improvements in child nutrition and physical activity. The Foundation has announced its support of a new initiative to back schools in their efforts to fight to resolve these issues utilizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s research-based and proven Coordinated School Health Model.

The project integrates national leading practices, such as the Coordinated School Health Model, and aligns 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.

GRANTS AWARDED:  6 Grants totaling $509,662. All of these programs were approved earlier this year and are currently underway.

Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation
Coordinated School Health Program
$341,493
Funding to implement the Coordinated School Health Program in a second cohort of EVSC schools including Stockwell, Hebron, and Delaware Elementary Schools, Evans Middle School, North, Reitz, and Harrison High Schools, and Henry Reis Alternative School.  Funding is to help PE teachers receive SPARK training, increase health and nutrition education, coordinate programs in each building, collect data for evaluation purposes, and staffing to provide infrastructure for school support, professional development and supplies over a 3-year period.

Perry Central Elementary
Coordinated School Health Program
$33,819
Elements of the Perry Central Elementary effort includes the SPARK PE program; a walking club and an after-school runners club;  the use of local organic farm produce and locally grown meat in school meals; broader community involvement.

Joshua Academy
Coordinated School Health Program
$33,850
The Joshua program will focus on 2 of the 8 components of Coordinated School Health (nutrition and physical activity) for the next few years but also make changes in the other 6 as well. Their plans for the first year are to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the school, develop an action plan of improvement, student education about nutrition through the 'Food Play' program, healthy changes in the food cafeteria, and a focus on being healthy and not on weight.

St. Philip Catholic School
Coordinated School Health Program
$33,300
The St. Philip program will include the SPARK PE program, choosing healthy foods for concessions, beginning a staff walking club, organizing a  community run, adding a dietician, nurse and physician as consultants to the school, organizing staff and family wellness fairs, sending out monthly newsletters to staff and parents.

Wood Memorial Junior High School (Oakland City)
Coordinated School Health Program
$34.000
Wood Memorial will implement SPARK into the PE program; collaborate with businesses and community organizations, including Gibson General Hospital. The hospital will be assessing students' BMI, lipid levels, glucose levels, and providing support of a nutritionist and dietician when needed.

William Tell Elementary School (Tell City)
Coordinated School Health Program
$33,200
The William Tell program will include changes in the cafeteria; incorporating SPARK into their current PE program; an after school walking club; staff and family wellness fairs;  and  the school will offer a week-long William Tell Wellness Camp during the summer months.

SPECIAL GRANT
DONALD B. COX MEMORIAL GRANT
Evansville ARC
Capital campaign support
$130,000
Support of the ARC capital campaign, which is an effort to raise $2.0 million necessary to improve its physical infrastructure.

Totals: 53 grants (including Cox Memorial Grant) totaling $3,987,662.