Kids on the Block: To fund two age-appropriate, substance abuse prevention programs for Housatonic Valley High School and at least three elementary schools in northwestern CT.
Past Grants
2008
Diabetes Outreach & Management for Seniors: To prevent or delay the onset of diabetes and to assist seniors with disease self-management.
HealthWise 2008: General support for a health fair providing free health screenings to all attendees. (Approximately 300 + men, women, and children annually).
Care Car: To support a transportation program serving primarily Millerton, Amenia, Wassaic, and Dover Plains with some service in Pine Plains and Copake.
To fund the FCH Pharmaceutical Assistance Fund.
Rural Mental Health Initiative: To expand case management services into northwestern CT to identify, engage and work with individuals with severe mental illness to connect them to services and employment opportunities.
Somos Salud: To support a training program for local volunteers to become health promoters for the Spanish speaking community in northeast Dutchess County.
Community Education and Outreach Project: To fund a program providing prevention education in the Goshen and Warren school systems about bullying/teasing, dating and domestic violence and sexual assault.
Parent-Child Interactive Therapy Train the Trainer: To improve effectiveness of the agency’s parent training and support services.
Parent Educator Birth to 3: To support training additional people to conduct parenting skills workshops with parents of very young children using the Parents as Teacher curriculum in collaboration with a New York based day care facility.