Selected Grants Awarded March 2003
Diversity in the Health Professions
LINDA BURNES BOLTON
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000 over one year
For the 2003 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award to recognize and
acknowledge this individual who has made substantial
contributions to the diversity of California’s health professions.
CALIFORNIA RURAL INDIAN HEALTH
BOARD, INC.
Sacramento, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain Native American professionals in the
health field.
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH, COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES
AND MATHEMATICS
Long Beach, CA
$90,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of outreach and support services to disadvantaged college students
pursuing careers in the health professions.
PILAR DE LA CRUZ-REYES
Fresno, CA
$25,000 over one year
For the 2003 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award to recognize and
acknowledge this individual who has made substantial
contributions to the diversity of California’s health professions.
HEALTH CARE COUNCIL OF ORANGE COUNTY
Santa Ana, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain internships at community clinics through
the Minority Nursing Education Support Program.
LOS ANGELES PEDIATRIC SOCIETY, INC.
Inglewood, CA
$60,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Summer Medical Careers Program to
encourage high school students to enter the health professions.
MERCED COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT
Merced, CA
$90,000 over three years
To increase capacity to recruit and retain a diverse group of nursing students
at Merced Community College.
ROBERT MONTOYA
Sacramento, CA
$25,000 over one year
For the 2003 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award to recognize and
acknowledge this individual who has made substantial
contributions to the diversity of California’s health professions.
THE TOMAS RIVERA POLICY INSTITUTE
Claremont, CA
$100,000 over two years
To support a project titled “Increasing Latino Participation in the Nursing
Profession: A Statewide Benchmarking Project.”
Environmental Health
BREAST CANCER ACTION
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain public
policy efforts in California that focus on the links between toxic substances
present in the environment and the breast cancer epidemic,
as well as the need for greater use of the
precautionary principle.
CALIFORNIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND
Los Angeles, CA
$130,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
promotion of environmental health and justice in California through public
awareness
programs, policy advocacy campaigns and
coalition building.
CLINICA DE SALUD DEL VALLE DE SALINAS
Salinas, CA
$180,000 over three years
To develop, evaluate and disseminate culturally appropriate environmental
health education materials in English and Spanish for use in
prenatal care in a low-income, primarily
immigrant Latino population in Salinas.
LATINO ISSUES FORUM
San Francisco, CA
$180,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain and strengthen public policy work on
environmental health issues that affect Latinos.
LITERACY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of ongoing environmental health education and youth empowerment
projects that address the ecological and health concerns of Bayview Hunters
Point and other
low-income neighborhoods in San Francisco.
MA’AT YOUTH ACADEMY
Richmond, CA
$75,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain ongoing environmental health efforts in
Richmond.
VANGUARD PUBLIC FOUNDATION
San Francisco, CA
$190,000 over two years
To provide environmental health education through a regranting and technical
assistance program targeting environmental health
organizations and projects in the Central Valley.
Healthy Aging
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION SAN DIEGO CHAPTER
San Diego, CA
$90,000 over three years
For core operating support to strengthen
and sustain the Volunteer Respite Network
program for caregivers of seniors with Alzheimer’s disease.
CALIFORNIA HEALTH ADVOCATES
Paradise, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of Medicare education and advocacy services and strengthen the
infrastructure of the organization.
GROSSMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
La Mesa, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support to strengthen
and sustain the Senior Resource Center that provides community outreach and
preventive health services for older adults in east San Diego County.
LOCAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE, INC.
Oakland, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Community Circles of Care/Elders
Project that provides training and support for services of caregivers to the
elderly in the Bay Area.
THE OASIS INSTITUTE
St. Louis, MO
$90,000 over three years
For core operating support to strengthen and sustain HealthStages, a health
promotion and disease prevention education program for underserved Latino,
African-American and Russian older adults in Los Angeles.
PALM SPRINGS STROKE ACTIVITY CENTER
Palm Springs, CA
$80,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain stroke prevention programs in Riverside
and San Bernardino Counties.
PREVENT BLINDNESS
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of sight services to low-income, older adults in the Bay Area and
rural counties in Northern California.
REAL MEN COOK FOR EDUCATION
Marina Del Rey, CA
$180,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of prostate cancer outreach and screening services for men of color,
ages 55
and older.
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY,
GRADUATE GERONTOLOGY PROGRAM
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain advocacy and leadership development for
community-based Geriatric Care Management.
WEST COUNTY ADULT DAY CARE AND ALZHEIMER’S RESPITE CENTER
Richmond, CA
$60,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of day care services for low-income patients with Alzheimer’s disease
and other dementias in West Contra Costa County.
Mental Health
AT THE CROSSROADS
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of counseling-based street outreach and referral services to homeless
youth in
San Francisco.
CALIFORNIA ADOLESCENT HEALTH
COLLABORATIVE
Oakland, CA
$200,000 over two years
To develop a resource network on mental health issues with a focus on resources
for providers working with out-of-home, transition-age youth.
CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION
Sacramento, CA
$100,000 over two years
To prepare reports and convene public
policy forums on mental health issues affecting high-risk, underserved,
transition-age youth in California.
LOS ANGELES CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC
Los Angeles, CA
$120,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Life Learning Program that provides
mental health services for seriously emotionally disturbed youth, ages 15 to
25, in Central and South Central Los Angeles.
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
OF CALIFORNIA
Sacramento, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain grassroots mental health advocacy in
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
OPERATION SAFE HOUSE, INC.
Riverside, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of mental health services to runaway and homeless youth at a
Riverside shelter, as well as to residents at a new transitional living
facility for youth, ages 16 to 21.
STEP UP ON SECOND STREET, INC.
Santa Monica, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain Daniel’s Place, a program that offers
information,
education, referral services and support to
youth who are experiencing their first episodes of mental illness.
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention
ADOLESCENT HEALTH WORKING GROUP
San Francisco, CA
$80,000 over two years
To support the Emergency Contraception and Minor Consent Made Clear project, to
conduct outreach and education to youth and health care providers to increase
awareness of and access to emergency contraception for San Francisco teens.
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST COUNTY
Temecula, CA
$50,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain SMART Moves, a teen pregnancy prevention
program for youth, ages 6 to 15, in southwest Riverside County.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION
FOUNDATION
Sacramento, CA
$1,000,000 over three years
To continue the Youth for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Award Program for the
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative.
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE
Berkeley, CA
$50,000 over nine months
To support a youth track at the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative conference
in May 2003.
TEENS WITH TOTS PARENTING PROGRAM
Cupertino, CA
$40,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Teens With Tots Community Outreach
Program.
YOUTH NEWS SERVICE LOS ANGELES BUREAU
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000 over three years
For program support for “LA Youth” to
publish an ongoing series of articles on healthy adolescent sexuality.
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