Selected Grants - Awarded June 2002
Diversity in the Health Professions
CABRILLO COLLEGE
Aptos, CA
$150,000 over three years
To support the establishment of a comprehensive system to increase diversity in the allied health professions.
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO, SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY PROGRAM
Sacramento, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to increase diversity in the health professions by enhancing the competitiveness of health professional school applicants.
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LATINO HEALTH AND CULTURE
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000 over two years
For core operating support to translate research information on Latino health into teaching material for students interested in health professions.
GREENLINING INSTITUTE
San Francisco, CA
$189,000 over two years
To support the development of the Health Academy Fellows Program, a multiethnic leadership and advocacy training program.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
San Francisco, CA
$160,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide interrelated medical school application programs.
WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
Pomona, CA
$150,000 over three years
To support the development of relationships and programs that increase the number of underrepresented minorities entering the health professions in the Inland Empire.
YOLO FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY
Woodland, CA
$90,000 over three years
For core operating support to improve access to mental health services by providing social work and/or counseling internships for bilingual, bicultural graduate students.
Environmental Health
CHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC.
San Francisco, CA
$170,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue neighborhood interventions designed to alleviate specific health risks and costs associated with environmental conditions in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
CLEAN WATER FUND
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support for Preventing Harm, a core program that conducts health educational workshops on the linkages between toxins and developmental disabilities and ways to reduce toxins in homes and the outdoor environment.
INNER CITY LAW CENTER
Los Angeles, CA
$130,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue the work of the Housing for Healthy Families program, which conducts outreach, health education, leadership development and community organizing to reduce environmental health hazards related to poor housing.
LOS ANGELES SAFE SCHOOLS COALITION
Toluca Lake, CA
$60,000 over two years
For core operating support to protect the health of children by strengthening efforts to reduce the use of environmental toxins in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
PEOPLE UNITED FOR A BETTER OAKLAND
Oakland, CA
$160,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Strategic Action for Environmental Health project.
THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
San Diego, CA
$160,000 over two years
To support the Environmental Health and Justice priority area of the Environment Program, which provides grants to organizations working to improve environmental health.
THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
San Francisco, CA
$200,000 over two years
To support the Environmental Health and Justice Initiative, which seeks to address the disproportionate impact of health problems related to environmental conditions on low-income and indigenous communities, and communities of color.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES, DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE CONTROL
Oakland, CA
$100,000 over two years
To support a planning effort to produce implementation options for an environmental health surveillance system.
Healthy Aging
CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE RIGHTS
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support for education, counseling, legal assistance and health policy programs for Medicare beneficiaries.
CENTER FOR HEALTHY AGING
Santa Monica, CA
$100,000 three years
For core operating support for the Physician Liaison Project, which links elders with needed community-based and medical services.
HOLLYWOOD SENIOR MULTIPURPOSE CENTER
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support to provide case management, preventive health and intergenerational services to underserved seniors.
INSTITUTE ON AGING
San Francisco, CA
$80,000 over two years
For core operating support for a suicide prevention service for elders and health education outreach for older African Americans.
LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE
Berkeley, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support for the “Over 60s” chronic disease and clinical preventive services program.
OLDER ADULT SERVICES AND INTERVENTION SYSTEMS
Camarillo, CA
$30,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide bilingual case management services to link seniors with health aides and other needed services in underserved rural areas of Ventura County.
SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO
San Diego, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue critical health and social services for low-income, at-risk and homeless seniors.
SHANTI PROJECT, INC.
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to enhance the infrastructures of health and other service-providing eldercare organizations through training and technical assistance to volunteer management staff.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND AGING
San Francisco, CA
$30,000 over one year
To support the planning of a statewide conference on improving clinical and community preventive services for older adults in California.
THE VOLUNTEER CENTER OF THE REDWOODS
Eureka, CA
$80,000 over two years
For core operating support of the Intergenerational Visiting and You project designed to strengthen the physical and emotional health of elders through social support.
WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER
Santa Monica, CA
$75,000 over two years
For core operating support for the Healthy Aging Clinics, which help clients maintain the healthy aging process by controlling chronic conditions.
Mental Health
CALIFORNIA YOUTH CONNECTIONS
San Francisco, CA
$200,000 over two years
For core operating support to develop leadership among the membership to inform policymakers and the public about strategies for improving mental health services for transitioning foster youth and to educate foster youth about available services.
GRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH
Washington, DC
$25,000 over one year
To convene a one-day issue dialogue to discuss grantmaking opportunities to improve mental health in California communities and nationwide.
LOS ANGELES GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$142,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the mental health services of a transitional living facility including case management, group therapy and individual counseling.
THE PASADENA CHILDREN’S TRAINING SOCIETY
Pasadena, CA
$142,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Transitional Independent Living Program for emancipating foster youth with mental health needs in Los Angeles County.
PROTOTYPES: A CENTER FOR INNOVATION IN HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
Culver City, CA
$142,000 over three years
For core operating support to provide mental health and substance abuse services at a residential program in Ventura County to assist women by offering housing, educational and vocational counseling.
SACRAMENTO EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING AGENCY
Sacramento, CA
$142,000 over three years
To build peer leadership as a component of a new program providing a variety of mental health, employment, educational and other support services for youth emancipating from the foster care system.
SAN DIEGO YOUTH & COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC.
San Diego, CA
$140,000 over three years
For core operating support to develop a system of care that provides for the screening, assessment and treatment of youth who suffer the consequences of co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse.
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
Culver City, CA
$142,000 over three years
To support a program offering a full spectrum of mental health and other services for young people transitioning out of the Los Angeles County foster care system.
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention
BLUE MOUNTAIN COALITION FOR YOUTH
West Point, CA
$50,000 over three years
To provide core operating support for the Teen Challenge program providing teen pregnancy prevention and sexuality education for adolescents in Calaveras County.
CALIFORNIA FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$1,200,000 over three years
To continue to improve and increase staff development and training opportunities for youth-serving professionals and paraprofessionals on issues related to healthy
adolescent sexuality and teen pregnancy prevention.
FILIPINOS FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, INC.
Oakland, CA
$85,000 over two years
To provide core operating support for the Taking Responsibility Project, a pregnancy prevention and leadership development program.
LAO FAMILY COMMUNITY OF STOCKTON, INC.
Stockton, CA
$50,000 over two years
To support the implementation of the Hmong Women’s Circle, which provides sexuality education to middle and high school students in Stockton.
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