Healthy Orange County: 2000-2001 Grants

• Campfire Boys & Girls ($10,000)
  www.campfireoc.org
  Underwrites provision of "Smart Choices" after-school program designed to reduce teen pregnancy, violence and "risky behavior" in middle-school aged population. Funded effort targets youth in Santa Ana, Tustin and Anaheim.
• Dayle McIntosh Center for the Disabled ($9,990)
  www.daylemcintoshcenter.org
  Provides mentoring and wellness program for middle school and high school-age youth with disabilities.
• Family Support Network/Blind Children's Learning Center ($10,000) www.blindkids.org
  Identifies and screens children 0 - 6 years for developmental delays; refers for vision services as needed.
• Latino Health Access ($10,000)
  www.latinohealthaccess.org
  Produces and markets training materials, to permit other organizations to replicate LHA's successful "promotoras" program of community health workers. Funds for marketing of these training materials will permit expansion of services to low-income central Orange County families.
• NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) - Orange County ($5,272)
  www.namioc.org
  Expands volunteer training for parent peer support program, and develops a teen peer support program.
• Orange Children & Parents Together ($10,000)
  www.ocpt.org
  Funds design and institution of a prevention program for high-risk parents and approximately 200 children enrolled in early childhood education programs in the El Modena area within the City of Orange. Program will target in-home safety, unintentional injuries and child wellness.
• Planned Parenthood/Latino Youth Education Project ($10,000)
  www.plannedparenthood.org
  Design of a program to increase Latino adolescents? awareness of reproductive health and to decrease their risk-taking behavior, such as unprotected sexual activity.
• Social Model Recovery Systems (Touchstones) ($10,000)
  www.socialmodel.com
  Strengthens this residential program's adolescent alcohol, drug and mental health services by increasing their capacity to address childhood sexual abuse.
• VNA Home Health Systems ($4,000)
  www.vnahhs.com
  Support groups, to help parents of high-risk infants bond with their children, during and after their neonatal intensive care unit stay in hospitals in Santa Ana, Anaheim, and Orange.
• Women's Transitional Living Center ($10,000)
  www.wtlc.org
  "Lily Pad Care" project provides medical and developmental screenings for children staying at the Center; classes for mothers address the impact on children of family substance abuse, violence.