Brandywine
Health Foundation Spring 2007 Grant Awards
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The board of directors of the Brandywine Health Foundation
(BHF) approved its Spring 2007 grant awards. Nearly $300,000
was awarded to non-profit organizations serving the residents
of central and western Chester County, bringing the Foundation’s
total giving in its first six years to over $4 million.
Grants were provided to the following organizations for the
purposes described below. Frances M. Sheehan, president and
CEO of the Brandywine Health Foundation stated that, “the
Brandywine Health Foundation’s board of directors recently
approved a new Strategic Plan, with a heavy emphasis on strengthening
the safety net for the uninsured, as well as health care education
and outreach programs designed to reduce racial and economic
inequities. In addition to the foundation’s significant
support for ChesPenn Health Services and Community Dental,
the organizations selected to receive these spring grants are
actively working to address the critical health needs faced
by our neighbors in the greater Coatesville area.”
Safety
Net Health Care Services:
Community Volunteers in Medicine
$15,000 grant to serve approximately
1,300 patients from the BHF service area with primary and
dental care, largely provided by volunteer practitioners
in their West Chester location.
Family Service of Chester County
$10,000 grant for fifth
year to expand from 1 day/ week to 1.5 days/week of bilingual,
bicultural counseling services on a sliding scale basis at
the Family Service office located in the Coatesville Center
for Community Health.
La Comunidad Hispana’s Project
Salud
$15,000 grant
to serve approximately 110 patients from the Coatesville area
who travel to Kennett Square to be seen by this experienced,
fully bilingual, bicultural nurse-managed health center that
is part of the social service agency for Latinos in Chester
County: La Comunidad Hispana.
Planned Parenthood of Chester County
$30,000 grant to provide
family planning services, gynecological care, and HIV+ primary
care to over 2,200 patients -- all from the greater Coatesville
area.
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Safety Net Health Support Services,
Outreach, and Advocacy:
Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
$15,000 for
second year to expand services from Delaware County into
Chester County.
Center on Hearing & Deafness
$10,000 for the third
year of outreach and advocacy for the deaf and hard of hearing
community with health care providers in central and western
Chester County.
Chester County Health Dept. Nurse-Family Partnership
$20,000
to assist in providing local match to DPW grant for this
national program with documented positive outcomes promoting
positive birth outcomes, and healthy parenting of children
in low-income, high-risk families.
Coatesville Area Senior Center
$6,500 to fund wide range
of exercise programs, including the ongoing Fall Prevention
Series, and PACE/PACENET/Medicare Part D prescription assistance
program at this Senior Center in the heart of Coatesville,
serving over 2,200 seniors in the past year.
Coatesville Center for Community Health
$10,000 for this
collaborative effort to coordinate bi-lingual health and
social services provided in the Center building.
Delaware Valley Grantmakers
$5,000 to participate in a
collaborative of health foundations exploring ways to more
effectively treat behavioral health problems in low income
populations through integration of behavioral health services
in primary care settings (such as ChesPenn).
Domestic Violence Center of Chester County
$10,000 to
provide bilingual domestic violence services in their Coatesville
Center for Community Health office.
Downingtown Area Senior Center
$6,500 for Fit and Fun
Program, Body Recall exercise classes and strength training
classes, tai chi, yoga and dancing classes, health screenings,
and prescription assistance.
Ken-Crest
$6,000 to provide START (Social/ Transition
Activities for Relationship Transformation Program) in collaboration
with the Chester County Department of Mental Health/Mental
Retardation, workshops and group meetings designed to teach
appropriate forms of social/sexual behaviors and relationship
skills to individuals age 18 and over with developmental
disabilities.
Maternal and Child Health Consortium Healthy Start Program
$25,000 to serve over 125 women each year in Coatesville,
facilitating their access to early and ongoing prenatal care,
pediatric care for their babies and toddlers, and linking
them with other needed services to improve the physical and
mental health of the family.
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Preventing Obesity:
Southeastern Pennsylvania AHEC Obesity Project
$20,124
to continue the exercise and nutrition program for 35-45
middle school girls at Scott Middle School this year as
part of a strong after school program (SPARKS, funded with
a Pennsylvania 21st Century Grant.)
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Reduce
Violence & Help
Kids Succeed:
Bridge of Hope
$5,000 to partially
support Girls of Hope, a mentoring
program for the daughters (ages 11-16)
of formerly homeless single women who
are alumnae or currently residing in
this faith-based transitional housing
program in Coatesville.
Crime Victims Center
$8,000 to provide
a second year of funding to The Link:
Anti-Drugs, Alcohol, and Sexual Assault
Program to more than 1,200 youth, ages
11-18, in CASD schools.
CYWA
$12,000 to provide free after
school programming in Coatesville to
30-60 children on any given day, and
another 15-20 teens participating in
the Teen Drop-In Center, which has a
drug and alcohol prevention program component.
Downingtown Area Communities That Care
$12,000 to fund this broad community
collaborative to provide After School
Mentoring in the Downingtown Area School
District, a collaboration among DASD,
Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the YMCA of
the Brandywine Valley’s after school
programs for children, and Bishop Shanahan
High School.
Octorara Communities That Care
$12,000
to fund this program using Big Brothers/Big
Sisters’ mentoring program in the
Octorara Area School District.
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Rouse/Chamberlin
Homes 2007 Strawberry Festival:
Brandywine YMCA, $7,000
Coatesville Public Library, $4,000
Rotary Club of Coatesville, $16,000
Thorndale Volunteer Fire Company, $13,000
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