St. Louis, Mo., June 28, 2010 -- Fifty-six Missouri nonprofits have received more than $2.5 million in grants recently awarded by the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH). Funding assists organizations that work to improve the health of thousands of Missourians across the state. Grants support organizational development, mental health and substance abuse treatment and education, women’s health, and tobacco prevention and cessation programs.
Six grants totaling $59,633 come through MFH’s Mental Health & Substance Abuse (MHSA) program. It currently supports nonprofits’ quality improvement activities to integrate mental health and substance abuse treatment services inside their organizations. Recipients of these grants are:
Bootheel Counseling Services, Sikeston, $10,000. Funding helps the southeast Missouri organization evaluate current programming, train staff on integrated mental health and substance abuse treatment, and develop consumer and family education groups.
Crider Health Center, Wentzville, $9,826. With the help of grant funding, the St. Louis-area center is reviewing and updating current policies and procedures on treating co-occurring disorders, and communicating them to staff.
East Central Missouri Behavioral Health Services, Mexico, $9,928. Grant funding helps the organization evaluate and enhance co-occurring disorder competency among staff at its Arthur Center.
Family Counseling Center Inc., Kennett, $10,000. Grant funding helps the southeast Missouri center enhance consumer involvement in co-occurring disorder program design, and improve participation in self-help groups.
Ozark Center, Joplin, $10,000. With grant funds, the southwest Missouri facility is providing co-occurring disorder training for staff, and updating program policies and procedures.
Queen of Peace Center, St. Louis, $9,879. Funding helps the center develop staff training and materials under its Strength-Based Assessment and Treatment Planning program.
Thirty-two grants totaling $534,969 were made under MFH’s Strategic Organizational Development (SOD) funding program. SOD supports specific, short-term interventions that help an organization or coalition build capacity, improve operational efficiency and become more effective in improving Missourians’ health. Grants were awarded to:
American Red Cross Mid-Missouri Chapter, Columbia, $14,745. Grant funding helps the organization perform board development and succession planning, and create a strategic plan.
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America - St. Louis Chapter, $20,000. With grant funding, the organization is obtaining technical assistance for its financial management systems, and restructuring its Project Concern program serving young people with asthma and allergies.
Barceda Families, Lamar, $11,500. Grant funding helps secure technical assistance in fund development, special event activities and service enhancement for this southwest Missouri provider of family advocacy and intervention services.
Bilingual International Assistant Services, St. Louis, $9,398. With grant funding, the organization is obtaining technical assistance in strategic planning, including fund development, financial management and communications strategies.
Community Living Inc., St. Peters, $19,768. The St. Louis-area behavioral health organization plans to use grant funding for strategic communications efforts as it adds new services for persons with disabilities.
Epilepsy Foundation of the St. Louis Region, St. Louis, $15,800. The organization plans to use grant funds to perform organizational assessment and board development activities.
Fordland Clinic, Fordland, $12,854. With grant funding, the southwest Missouri clinic plans to perform program evaluation, and identify community needs with the help of a market research consultant.
Future Well-Being of Mankind, Paris, $19,940. The northeast Missouri health outreach organization plans to use grant funding for technical assistance with its financial management systems. Funds also will help the organization implement a new strategic plan.
Gambrill Gardens Inc., Ellisville, $20,000. With funding, the St. Louis-area community for low-income seniors plans to perform board, staff and fund development activities.
Good Shepherd Children and Family Services, St. Louis, $17,998. Grant funds help the organization secure technical assistance in strategic planning and fund development.
HavenHouse St. Louis, $10,375. Funding helps the organization perform board development and board education activities.
Lemay Housing Partnership Inc., St. Louis, $20,000. The organization plans to use funding to obtain technical assistance for its financial management and tracking systems.
Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, St. Louis, $20,000. Funding helps the organization perform strategic planning activities, and develop board, staff and volunteer education programs.
Lydia’s House Inc., St. Louis, $19,949. The organization plans to use funding toward program evaluation activities and the enhancement of data management processes.
Mental Health America of Eastern Missouri, St. Louis, $20,000. With grant funds, the organization is enhancing its strategic communications efforts using an outside consultant.
Missouri Association for Social Welfare, Jefferson City, $19,860. Grant funding helps the organization obtain technical assistance in financial management and reporting.
Missouri Association of County Developmental Disabilities Services, Jefferson City, $8,920. The organization is using grant funds for technical assistance in financial management systems.
Missouri Hepatitis-C Alliance, Columbia, $11,715. With grant funds, the organization is securing technical assistance in strategic planning and board leadership education.
Missouri Jobs with Justice, St. Louis, $10,000. Funding helps the employment advocacy organization perform strategic planning and outreach activities.
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse – St. Louis Area, $18,000. With funding, the organization is performing strategic planning and capacity building activities.
Our Lady’s Inn, St. Louis, $19,700. Funding helps the organization evaluate the impact of its programs and health services for unwed and expectant mothers.
Paraquad Inc., St. Louis, $19,625. With grant funding, the organization is completing a strategic plan to increase its capacity to provide services for disabled citizens.
Pike County Health Department Home Care & Hospice, Bowling Green, $15,095. Grant funds help the northeast Missouri health department’s home care and hospice program obtain technical assistance in strategic planning.
Progressive Youth Connection, St. Louis, $14,525. The organization is using grant funds for fund and board development activities, and to increase support for its violence prevention services.
Redevelopment Opportunities for Women Inc., St. Louis, $15,500. Funding helps the organization perform capacity building activities and expand services to women impacted by domestic violence and homelessness.
Saint Louis Effort for AIDS, St. Louis, $20,000. With funding, the organization plans to enhance program evaluation and expand community outreach for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Samaritan Scotland Putnam Rural Health Network, Macon, $19,577. Grant funding helps the northeast Missouri network of hospitals and clinics perform workforce development and staff training activities.
Shepherd’s Center of Webster/Kirkwood Inc., St. Louis, $20,000. With grant funds, the senior services organization plans to obtain technical assistance with strategic planning, and perform board and volunteer development activities.
St. Louis Christian Chinese Community Service Center, St. Louis, $10,875. Grant funds help the center update its strategic fund development plan and provide training for board members and staff.
St. Louis Life, O’Fallon, $19,750. Funding helps the St. Louis-area organization with fund development activities to enhance services for young adults with developmental disabilities.
Therapeutic Horsemanship, Wentzville, $20,000. Grant funding helps the St. Louis-area organization perform fund development activities connected with its major gifts
campaign.
Trailnet Inc., St. Louis, $19,500. With funding, the organization is obtaining fund development assistance, and performing board and staff training.
MFH’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Initiative (TPCI) is a multi-year effort to reduce tobacco use in the state through a variety of funding strategies. MFH awarded a total of $840,503 through eight TPCI grants to:
Carter County Health Center, Van Buren, $37,657. With grant funding, the southeast Missouri center is promoting school-based tobacco prevention programs, training students to advocate for smoke-free environments, and gathering support for a smoke-free community coalition.
Families and Communities Together Inc. of Marion County, Hannibal, $100,000. Grant funding helps the northeast Missouri organization support tobacco prevention and cessation, train students to act as tobacco-free role models, and increase the number of tobacco-free environments in Lewis, Marion and Monroe counties.
Living Word Apostolic Church, St. Louis, $132,000. With grant funding, the organization is implementing the Project Smokebusters curriculum in five high schools in the St. Louis Public School district, creating a media campaign, and supporting tobacco policy change.
Missouri State University, Springfield, $149,958. Grant funds help the university implement Project Smokebusters in 12 southwest and south central Missouri counties, create media messages, and support tobacco policy change.
Polk County Health Center, Bolivar, $148,101. The southwest Missouri center is using grant funding to increase local access to tobacco cessation programs, and provide counseling and nicotine replacement therapy.
Randolph County Health Department, Moberly, $141,512. The central Missouri health department is using grant money to increase the availability of tobacco cessation services to area residents, and to advocate for smoke-free establishments and workplaces.
Westminster College, Fulton, $51,483. Grant funds help the central Missouri college implement Project Smokebusters in Callaway County, and teach students to advocate for tobacco policy change.
University of Missouri, Columbia, $79,792. With grant funding, the university is gathering information for an advisory board that will create a tailored intervention to reduce tobacco use in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning community.
MFH’s Women’s Health funding program currently supports efforts to reduce violence against women. MFH awarded a total of $1,114,556 through 12 grants to:
Alternatives to Living in Violent Environments (ALIVE), St. Louis, $99,690. Grant funding helps the organization enhance its Nights of Safety program and add case management services to assist more victims of intimate partner violence.
Audrain County Crisis Intervention Services Inc., Audrain, $44,333. The central Missouri organization is using grant funds to hire a full-time court advocate to assist more survivors of domestic violence.
Bootheel Counseling Services, Sikeston, $100,000. The grant helps the organization collaborate with a local domestic violence shelter to offer support and counseling services in four southeast Missouri counties.
Comprehensive Human Services Inc./The Shelter, Columbia, $88,940. With grant funding, the organization is providing immediate crisis intervention services to domestic violence victims under its First Responder Program.
Green Hills Community Action Agency, Brookfield, $94,169. Grant funds help the organization hire a full-time victim services advocate to assist residents of four north central Missouri counties.
Redevelopment Opportunities for Women Inc., St. Louis, $94,200. Funding helps the organization add more bilingual advocates for non-English-speaking victims of intimate partner violence.
Russell House, Rolla, $99,801. With funding, the organization is hiring one full-time and one part-time case manager to assist domestic violence and sexual assault victims in four central Missouri counties.
Safe House for Women Inc., Cape Girardeau, $94,815. Grant funds help the southeast Missouri organization hire a case manager to identify health conditions among victims of intimate partner violence, and help them navigate the health care system.
Safe Passage Domestic Violence and Crisis Intervention Center, Moberly, $99,873. The central Missouri organization is using grant funds to help uninsured and underinsured victims of intimate partner violence access medical, dental and mental health services.
Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence, Cape Girardeau, $99,223. Funds help the organization hire a full-time advocate and contractual therapist to expand advocacy and mental health care for sexual assault victims in 10 southeast Missouri counties.
Susanna Wesley Family Learning Center, East Prairie, $99,512. Grant funds help the southeast Missouri center expand advocacy efforts and counseling services for victims of intimate partner violence.
Women’s Support and Community Services d.b.a. Safe Connections, St. Louis, $100,000. With grant funding, the organization is increasing professional staff coverage of its 24-hour crisis helpline during key weekday evening shifts.
Established in 2000, MFH is the largest nongovernmental funder of community health activities in Missouri. MFH is in its eighth year of grantmaking, having issued more than $374 million in grants and awards to date. It is dedicated to improving the health of unserved and underserved residents in 84 Missouri counties and the City of St. Louis.
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