WELBORN BAPTIST FOUNDATION
SUMMARY OF GRANTS AWARDED 2009 

PROMOTION OF 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, child care providers, schools, and neighborhoods.

GRANTS AWARDED:  9 Grants totaling $583,718

Our first grants this evening, to Community Coordinated Child Care (4C) of Southern Indiana, Inc., 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 originally funded by the Foundation, 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.

4C has five programs which are being supported by Welborn grants:

Family Engagement:  Parenting
$105,000
Support for the Parents as Teachers, 1,2,3,4 Parents!, and Active Parenting programs which focus on helping parents understand developmental stages, appropriate discipline, self care, and positive interactions.  The funds will be used for staff support and materials.

Resource Library
$60,000
The intended result of continuing this service is to increase the accessibility of safe, high quality learning tools and equipment to child care providers and families throughout the service delivery area.

PlaySpaces
$50,000
PlaySpaces is a national effort to begin addressing the needs of young children who are homeless. In fact, there are up to 130 children homeless each night in Evansville. In group living situations it is critical that there is an area where babies and toddlers have the opportunity to use their gross motor skills and safely explore.

Leadership Management Project for Early Childhood Administrators
$40,000
These funds support a range of benefits designed to build strong leaders in order to sustain quality improvements. Supported activities include: scholarships for masters degrees and dual credit high school students, conference and training reimbursement, professional  development, podcasts and specialized technical assistance focused administrators.

Unlicensed Registered Ministry and Part Time Preschools:  Exempt Support
$60,000
These funds provide support for unlicensed registered ministries, including specialized mentoring, technical assistance, and funding to assist them in achieving a Level 1 on the statewide Paths to QUALITY system.

Introduction to Healthy Steps
Our second major area of early development funding is 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

Deaconess Family Medicine Residency
Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative
$68,718

This funding will be used to implement the Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative within the Deaconess Family Practice Residency

ECHO Community Health Care
Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative
$80,000

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
$40,000

This funding will be used to implement the Healthy Steps for Young Children Initiative within the St. Mary's Pediatric Clinic.

FAITH-BASED INITIATIVES
Goals: The Foundation recognizes the unique role that churches and faith-based organizations 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:  12 Grants totaling $281,500

Churches Embracing Offenders, Inc.
Family Unity/Reunification
$35,000
FUR is addressing the recidivism cycle of offenders and their families.  The most often-cited root cause of multiple generational offenders is drugs and alcohol, which also contributes to family instability, child abuse, domestic violence, and other issues experienced by our target population. FUR will use CEO, Strengthening Families, and Thinking for a Change to break that multi-generational familial recidivism cycle.

Good News Jail & Prison Ministry
Chaplaincy Programs at the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center and Henderson County Detention Center
$41,000
Good News is a faith-based ministry providing chaplains to America's jails and prisons. The current project is to continue development of the Vanderburgh County ministry with an experienced Senior Chaplain under the direction of a Regional Director.  The Senior Chaplain will maintain oversight of the established Henderson ministry, which will continue with a new full-time chaplain hired in November 2008.

The nature and scope of the project is to provide daily pastoral services to 600 inmates at the Henderson County Detention Center, Henderson, KY, and nearly 700 inmates in the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center, Evansville, IN.

The Dream Center
Tutoring/Homework Expansion
$30,000
The Dream Center provides at-risk youth a safe haven where they find emotional support, encouragement, guidance, mentoring and educational support which helps them grow their body, mind, and soul.  These funds will support the expansion of the Center’s tutoring/homework assistance program from a 3 day grade school program to a 5 day program, and will extend the Position of the Program Director, from part-time to full-time.

Child Evangelism Fellowship
Community Outreach Expansion Project
$10,000
This grant will provide for expansion of a community evangelical outreach effort to reach as many elementary school children as possible through the after-school Good News Club (AS-GNC) and summer 5-Day Club (FDC) programs.

This grant will support 5 new school clubs and provide for training and partial salary support for a part-time staff worker as well as evangelism training and summer missionaries.

TTT Christian Youth Ministries, Inc.
Project Proclaim 2009-2010
$35,000
Biblically-based peer evangelism and leadership training form the foundation of Project Proclaim.  With the support of caring adults, teenagers are taught and equipped to share their faith with their peers, and are given opportunities to develop their God-given talents and leadership abilities.

Potter's Wheel
EPIC 1:3
$15,000
EPIC 1:3 will teach Godly principles that will assist at-risk youth to become productive adults who will avoid lifestyles that lead to incarceration. This will be accomplished by presenting messages based on scripture and offering Christian fellowship during Friday evening youth services each week.

Central United Methodist Church
Flood of Justice Missions
$6,000
This is a home repair program for families or individuals that meet guidelines (such as income level, homes in obvious need of repairs, and if any disabilities are present in the given household). It involves a week long short-term mission opportunity for youth to come and be housed at Central United Methodist Church, and spend a Monday to Friday working on low income homes in the area. The work to be done will include interior and exterior painting, porch and wheelchair construction, and other minor home repairs, as well as a spiritual program to complement all of the work being done.

Evansville Christian Life Center
Family Restoration Project/C.H.O.I.C.E. Program
$20,000
This involves a program and salary support for the second year of the C.H.O.I.C.E. program.   C.H.O.I.C.E. was created to help families advance out of poverty toward healthier and more productive living by offering incentives for participation in various supportive services such as job skills training, educational and self-help activities.  The primary goal of this program is to help families transition to stability and self-sufficiency by providing opportunities and incentives for them to participate in programs that address the root causes of poverty.

Evansville Area Community of Churches
Transportation Package
$12,500
This grant covers expenses related to the movement of the mobile classrooms for  the Weekday Christian Education program. This program has been in place in Evansville area schools since 1942.

United Methodist Youth Home, Inc.
LifeMAP - Life Skills and Mentoring Adolescents Program
$30,000
Program support  for the LifeMAP program where life skills are taught individually and in group sessions. Topics include: obtaining personal documents, education and career development, employment, health and wellness, housing, nutrition and cooking, transportation, budgeting and money management, healthy relationships, substance abuse, obtaining community services, and parenting skills.

St. Paul's United Methodist Church (Posey Co.)
Reaching Out Afterschool/Summer Programs
$22,000
This grant supports an after school mentoring and tutoring program for youth ages 10-15 in the Poseyville area.

In addition to these grants, the Foundation will spend $25,000 to fund a Strategic Planning for Ex-Offender Program Consultant. This project will engage professional resources that can help develop a comprehensive and consistent approach to planning and implementing ex-offender ministry in the community.

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 : 4 grants totaling $195,000

Boys & Girls Club of Evansville, Indiana
New Facility Development
$50,000
Covering the capital construction costs of a 30,000 sq. ft. facility in a center city location that serves a large population of children ages 0-17, to replace an old facility that has been abandoned due to the expansion of nearby businesses.

ECHO Community Health Care
Facility Relocation
$75,000
Involving capital costs for the construction of a 12,000 square foot facility that is serving as the new home for the clinic.

Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science
Welborn Baptist Foundation's Family Place
$50,000
Providing funding for 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 science and technology.

St. Vincent's Day Care Center
Development Office Expansion
$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, and allow the agency to diversify services in the future, while strengthening current services for families and 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. The Foundation’s particular areas of emphasis include mentoring and family relationships and substance abuse prevention.

Grants awarded: 8 grants totaling $625,500

Carver Community Organization
Evansville Experience Corps
$45,000
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.

Youth Service Bureau
Youth Service Bureau's Innovative Treatment Strategies for Area Youth
$30,000
The Substance Abuse Treatment Initiative (SATI) will utilize research-based methods to specifically address and intervene in the lives of youth who are currently struggling or experimenting with addictive substances, including alcohol.

The Reducing Adolescent Aggression Program (RAAP) will specifically address and intervene in the lives of youth who are expressing aggression in inappropriate and dangerous ways.  The program  will provide them with the knowledge, understanding, and accountability to make significantly positive changes.

Young Women's Christian Association
Live Y'ers
$65,000
Live Y'ers is an after-school and mentoring program for at-risk girls attending Lodge and Culver grade schools, Glenwood Middle School, and Bosse High School. The curriculum includes an age-appropriate sex education program emphasizing abstinence and including information on sexual development, hygiene, STDs, HIV/AIDS, contraception, pregnancy, relationships, peer pressure, and decision making.

New Hope Development Corporation
New Hope Development Corporation Tutoring and Mentoring Program
$82,500
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.

Youth First, Inc.
School Social Work Services
$310,000
Through this project, Youth First will continue to employ up to ten highly trained and well-supervised Master's level social workers to use evidence-based prevention strategies at 16 to 18 public, parochial, and private schools in Vanderburgh, Warrick, and Posey counties.

Lampion Center
Bringing hope to children through trauma treatment.
$33,000
The Center will provide crisis counseling and support for victims of abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and their families in Evansville, both through Lampion Center and on site at Holly's House.

Girl Scouts of Raintree Council
Dr. Deak Extension Project
$30,000
The Girls Scouts of Raintree Council, together with Dr. Deak, have created a three-year, self sustaining, community based model that targets one of three main groups each year: Trainers, Parents and Youth.

Year 2, focuses on Parents. The Dr. Deak Extension Project will provide the latest information on gender based brain research and gender specific parenting to  not only parents, but all caregivers.

Holly's House, Inc.
Forensic Interviewer Position
$30,000
This grant provides 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.

IMPROVEMENTS TO COMMUNITY HEALTH STATUS
Goals:  It is well-documented that longevity and quality of life are affected by the environmental and population characteristics of their community.  Certain socioeconomic and health status indicators also have a bearing on health-related quality of life issues.

The Foundation has recently launched a community-wide initiative called move·ment, which aims to increase physical activity and foster healthier eating. Other areas of interest for the Foundation as improvements to community health status include chronic disease prevention and management as well as access to health care.

GRANTS AWARDED: 9 grants totaling $253,000

Evansville Christian Life Center
Roof Replacement
$100,000
These funds support the ECLC effort to replace the roof at its their facility at 509 S. Kentucky Avenue in Evansville.

Hospitality & Outreach For Latin Americans, Inc.
HOLA SALUD! (Hello Health!)
$15,000
This grant provides support for efforts to significantly expand health prevention and disease management outreach efforts promoting healthy choices among the fastest growing minority group in Southwest Indiana, Latinos.   H.O.L.A. will partner with Vanderburgh Minority Health Coalition in promoting and delivering programs such as Healthy Heart, Have a Healthy Baby , Operation Fit Kids, and the existing Youth First program of Strengthening Families. Additionally, H.O.L.A. plans to initiate Mental Wellness screenings and support groups to reach out to young adults and adults facing limited options for future careers as well as offer four health fairs per year.

Nativity Catholic Church
Juan Diego Latino Center
$15,000
The Juan Diego Latino Center will work to improve the delivery of health services and provide bi-lingual information to 1,000 Latino infants, adolescents and parents, with 4,000 client contacts, in the city of Evansville and Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties.

WNIN
Healthy Community (move*ment) Social Marketing Campaign
$60,000
WNIN's social marketing campaign, in partnership with the movelment and HEROES initiatives, will offer specific, simple and easily doable solutions for healthy lifestyle changes to individuals in order to improve the overall health of our community, thus impacting the quality of life, potential for educational attainment and overall economic prosperity of the Tri-State.

YMCA of Southwestern Indiana, Inc.
Healthy Kids, Healthy Community
$15,000
This funding will support HKHC activities that will be based at the YMCA Caldwell Community Outreach Center.

HKHC will utilize research-based curriculum to focus on different aspects of nutrition, physical fitness, and obesity in youth, and there are components for both children and adults.  Youth activities will include:
•Physical activities
•Community projects to promote health and wellness
•Daily food logs/info about healthy snack options

Salem United Church of Christ (Huntingburg, IN)
Get-WELL Huntingburg
$13,000
This is a community-faith-based health ministry wellness program to reduce obesity and lower the risks for chronic disease by educating adults about healthy lifestyle choices including diet and exercise.

ECHO Community Health Care
Building the Capacity to Serve:  Woodson Homeless Health Clinic Relocation, Sustainability Project
$20,000
The Woodson Homeless Health Clinic Relocation & Sustainability project will entail relocating the 'Homeless Health Clinic' from 907 SE 8th Street into the clinic location at 501 John Street. These funds will provide transitional resources for the relocation.

HEROES
Goals: Over the past eight 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, HEROES, to help schools in the Foundation’s 14-county service area create lasting improvements in child nutrition and physical activity. HEROES, which  stands for Healthy, Energetic, Ready, Outstanding, Enthusiastic, Schools, is based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s research-based and proven Coordinated School Health Model.

Schools in Gibson, Perry, Posey, Dubois, and Vanderburgh counties in Indiana, Wabash County in Illinois, and Henderson County in Kentucky, are now implementing the HEROES Initiative and are changing the cultures of their schools to focus on health.

GRANTS AWARDED:  10 Grants totaling $594,238. All of these programs were approved earlier this year and are currently underway.

Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation
HEROES- Coordinated School Health Initiative
$261,753

Perry Central Elementary (Perry Co.)
HEROES- Coordinated School Health Initiative
$39,328

Joshua Academy
HEROES- Coordinated School Health Initiative
$37,966

St. Philip Catholic School (Posey Co.)
HEROES-Coordintated School Health Initiative
$31,766

Wood Memorial Junior High School (Gibson Co.)
HEROES- Coordinated School Health Initiative
$40,403

William Tell Elementary School (Tell City)
HEROES- Coordinated School Health Initiative
$39,377

South Elementary School (Wabash County, Illinois)
HEROES- Coordinated School Health Initiative
$26,215

Cedar Crest Intermediate School (Dubois Co)
HEROES- Coordinated School Health Initiative
$26,215

South Middle School (Henderson County, Kentucky)
HEROES Coordinated School Health Initiative
$26,215

In addition to these grants, the Foundation will spend $65,000 to conduct evaluation activities related to the HEROES Initiative.

SPECIAL GRANTS

DONALD B. COX MEMORIAL GRANT
On an annual basis, the Board considers a special grant that is designated the Donald B. Cox Memorial Grant.  The grant may be awarded in any area of community need within the Foundation guidelines; it is intended to reflect the interests and concerns that Don Cox held during his lifetime.

The Bridge Medical Clinic
Women’s Health and Wellness
$15,000
This grant will fund preventive health screening and follow-up for working, uninsured women in Saline and Gallatin Counties in Illinois.

MARJORIE Z. SOYUGENC AWARD
On an annual basis, the Board considers a special grant that is designated the Marjorie Z. Soyugenc Award. The grant may be awarded in any area of community need within the Foundation’s guidelines; it is intended to reflect the interests and concerns of the first Executive Director of the Welborn Baptist Foundation, Marjorie Soyugenc.

Early Childhood Development Coalition
Social Marketing Literacy Project
$80,000
This grant will support year two of a children's book development effort designed to reach parents with consistent messages about the importance of early literacy and the benefit of specific behaviors and actions that will better prepare  children to enter school ready to succeed at learning. The book series promotes the primary message of the importance of literacy and information about the crucial role that brain development, health and nutrition play in the life of young children.

Totals: 51 grants totaling $2,787,956.