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New Grants and Donations for Community Health Services - Mays
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Success By Six grant (Sept. 07 - Aug. 08) in the amount of $60,000. $15,000 was appropriated in LCFY07 and $45,000 needs to be appropriated for LCFY08. The funds will be used to assist parents in improving/maximizing their family's health and development; enhance parent/child interactions, and provide tools to improve child's readiness for families who are considered to have factors that put them at risk for poor health and low kindergarten readiness. This grant will finance the following:
Full Time Nurse
Office Supplies
Travel
Success By Six grant (Sept. 08 - Aug. 09) in the amount of $25,000. $6,250 will be appropriated in LCFY08 and the difference is currently budgeted in LCFY09. The funds will be used to assist parents in improving/maximizing their family's health and development; enhance parent/child interactions, and provide tools to improve child's readiness for families who are considered to have factors that put them at risk for poor health and low kindergarten readiness. This grant will finance the following:
Full Time Nurse
Healthy Highland Park fund in the amount of $33,904. The Healthy Highland Park Task Force, established by the Mayor and City Council, aims to foster well-being, health, and a healthy life style among the citizens of Highland Park. After receiving a local grant from the Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park to produce an anti-tobacco media campaign, Healthy Highland Park approached the Tobacco Free Lake County program to collaborate on a campaign together. By pooling funding and resources, a county-wide mass media campaign was produced to highlight the benefits of Smoke-Free Illinois and offer tobacco cessation resources. Quotes from Lake County residents on why they like Smoke-Free Illinois were featured in newspaper ads, radio ads, billboards, on the World No Tobacco Day Walk T-shirts, and on a “Celebrate Smoke-Free Illinois” quilt displayed at the World No Tobacco Day Walk on 5/31 and at the First Bank of Highland Park the month of June.
Radio Spots
Newspaper Advertisements
Illinois Pioneer Coalition grants in the amount of $3,000. $900 will be appropriated in LCFY08 and $2,100 in LCFY09. Illinois is part of a national coalition called the Pioneer Movement to change long-term care for elderly and disabled persons from being institutionally-focused to person-directed care and services. The effort is to move providers of long-term care from requiring standard and inflexible routines for all residents to creating individualized and home-like situations for each resident. The Illinois Pioneer Coalition is promoting this change with numerous $1,000 grants, to encourage small changes that end up making large differences. We have been awarded three $1,000 grants and our Gerontologist, Sharon Roberts, is working with six long-term care facilities in Lake County to bring/enhance Pioneer practices to their facilities.
Gerontologist Time
Abstinence Education grant in the amount of $60,000. $25,000 will be appropriated in LCFY08 and the difference is currently budgeted in LCFY09. This will continue to fund programming to promote abstinence from early adolescent sexual activity.
Staffing
Reality Illinois grant in the amount of $29,000. $5,507 will be appropriated in LCFY08 and $23,493 in LCFY09. This will continue to fund the REALITY Illinois chapter and teen advisory panel to mobilize teens against tobacco.
Radio Ads
Billboards
Supplies
Printing Services
“Annual” Bioterrorism grant increase in the amount of $64,656.
Site Manager Training
Staffing
St. Martin de Porres fees in the amount of $15,000. $2,394 will be appropriated in LCFY08 and $12,606 in LCFY09. St. Martin de Porres High School received a $15,000 foundation grant to contract for health education programming. They approached the LCHD/CHC to provide these classroom sessions. We completed these sessions for the 9th grade class (about 75 students) and the 10th grade class (about 70 students). Additional programming has been requested for students not covered to date.
Program Supplies
Trainings
Suggested Motion
To accept the additional funding of $221,810 from the United Way, Healthy Highland Park, Illinois Pioneer Coalition, Illinois Department of Human Services, Illinois Department of Public Health and St. Martin de Porres. If deemed necessary to authorize the Executive Director to execute an emergency appropriation or line item transfer to allow for expenditure of these funds for enhanced programming in Community Health Services.