Work and Health Initiative Computers In Our Future Program:

Break-Away Technologies
Los Angeles, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in South Central Los Angeles.
    $525,000
Career Resources Development Center
San Francisco, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in San Francisco.
    $525,000
C.T. Learning, Inc.
Fresno, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in Fresno.
    $525,000
Central Union High School District
El Centro, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in El Centro.
    $525,000
County of Plumas Department of Health Services
Quincy, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in Quincy.
    $525,000
The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in Santa Barbara.
    $525,000
Karuk Tribe of California
Happy Camp, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in Happy Camp.
    $525,000
P.F. Bresee Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in Los Angeles.
    $525,000
San Diego Housing Commission
San Diego, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in San Diego.
    $525,000
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in Riverside.
    $525,000
Women's Economic Agenda Project
Oakland, CA
    To implement the Computers In Our Future program and increase access to computer technology and training for youth, young adults, and low-income residents in Oakland.
    $525,000
Work and Health Initiative Winning New Jobs Program:

Los Angeles County Office of Education
Downey, CA
    To provide reemployment training to 2,200 individuals who have recently lost their jobs, as a means of enhancing their health status.
    $1,000,000
NOVA Private Industry Council/City of Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale, CA
    To provide reemployment training to 2,200 individuals who have recently lost their jobs, as a means of enhancing their health status.
    $1,000,000
Proteus, Inc.
Visalia, CA
    To provide reemployment training to 2,200 individuals who have recently lost their jobs, as a means of enhancing their health status.
    $1,000,000
Other Work and Health Grants:

Bay Area Social Services Consortium
Berkeley, CA
    To print and disseminate 5,000 copies of a booklet about welfare reform and its implications for the health of Californians.
    $15,000
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
San Francisco, CA
    To conduct a family child-care provider recruitment and training project in two Central Valley counties.
    $50,000
California Institute for Mental Health
Sacramento, CA
    To research and develop activities to create a package of behavioral health services for welfare recipients to promote their health and facilitate their employment.
    $60,000
California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
    To support the second year of the "Within Our Reach: Effective Home-Based Strategies for Family Support" conference in April 1997, in Sacramento.
    $15,000
Center for Governmental Studies
Santa Monica, CA
    To support an annual conference that brings together policymakers and health policy leaders to work on expanding access to health insurance for the people of California.
    $80,000
College of San Mateo
San Mateo, CA
    To provide support for the Workplace Wellness for Adult Disabled training program to better serve the disabled in San Mateo County who seek re-entry into the labor force.
    $75,000
Community Partners
Los Angeles, CA
    To enhance program effectiveness and dissemination through convenings of meetings among the 11 Computers In Our Future program sites of the Work and Health Initiative.
    $255,000
The CompuMentor Project
San Francisco, CA
    To develop an electronic communications system to advance the goals of the Work and Health Initiative to understand and demonstrate the relationship between employment and well-being.
    $32,000
Institute of Regional and Urban Studies
Palo Alto, CA
    For economic consultation to the Work and Health Initiative's Future of Work and Health Program and to fund projects that will advance this program, including two policy papers.
    $300,000
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
San Francisco, CA
    For convenings to enhance the program effectiveness and dissemination of the Winning New Jobs component of the Work and Health Initiative.
    $174,000
Oakland Private Industry Council
Oakland, CA
    To facilitate the planning and design of the Bay Area Construction Sector Intervention Project, a collaborative coordinated service delivery system to recruit, assess, educate, train, refer, place, and support 500 low-income people in construction jobs.
    $15,500
The Tomas Rivera Center/Policy Institute
Claremont, CA
    To research accessibility of childcare for low-income Latinos and resulting barriers to employment opportunities in San Bernardino County.
    $75,000
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
    To conduct a research and action project to better understand the reciprocal relationships between job and family, and to implement practical solutions to the problems posed by work and family conflicts.
    $75,000
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
    To develop a report on workplace health and safety issues facing rural youth, make strategic recommendations, and implement a community demonstration project in the Central Valley.
    $75,000
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
    To study the effects of underemployment on health status.
    $65,000