December 2001
Area 1: Protect Children from Injury (ages
0 to 5)
Pacific Islander Outreach*
$100,000 over three years
For Pacific Islander Outreach Program, a program that promotes safe and
healthy home environments for Pacific Islanders living in East Palo Alto
and East Menlo Park. The program will teach non-physical disciplinarian
techniques to participants, as well as familiarize them with U.S. laws
regarding child abuse.
*Note: Pacific Islander Outreach closed in 2003. The remainder
of its $100,000 grant ($51,100) was returned to the Foundation's endowment
for future grants.
Samaritan House
$102,000 over two years
www.samaritanhouse.com
For Support for Samaritan House Family Center, a family resource center
that provides comprehensive, integrated prevention services aimed at improving
the health of families in north-central San Mateo County. Foundation funds
will be used for the hiring of a community worker who will work specifically
with families with children ages 0 to 5.
Shelter Network of San Mateo County
$100,000 over two years
www.shelternetwork.org
For 0-5 Children's Program, a multi-faceted program that focuses on preventing
child maltreatment in homeless families by providing an array of primary
and secondary prevention activities.
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Santa Clara and San Mateo
Counties, Inc.
$100,000 over two years
www.ucpscsm.org
For Child Maltreatment and Disabilities: Cause or Effect, a new project
in which the UCP will work collaboratively with child abuse reporting
agencies in San Mateo County to develop data on children with disabilities,
ages 0 to 5, who are abused or neglected.
Area
2: Promote Behavioral, Mental, and Emotional Health in Pre-Teens
(ages 9 to 13)
Asian American Recovery
Services
$200,000 over three years
www.aars-inc.org
For Project Lakas, a new project that will build a culturally competent
assets-based development model for Filipino youth living in Daly City, and
their families. The project also will provide middle school teachers and
parents with workshops about developing resiliency in youth.
Bay
Area Community Resources
$150,000 over three years
www.bacr.org
For New Perspectives Middle School Youth Enrichment and Leadership Program,
an after-school and leadership program for East Palo Alto middle-school
students.
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Santa Clara County
$75,000 over two years
www.bbbs-scc.org
For Community-Based Mentoring Program, a program that provides quality,
one-to-one adult mentoring experiences for young people throughout Santa
Clara County.
Bill Wilson Center
$120,000 over three years
www.billwilsoncenter.org
For Building Better Schools One Youth at a Time, a new, in-school program
to build assets in sixth-graders at three middle schools in San Jose through
workshops in leadership, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills,
and participation in community service.
The Children's
Health Council
$200,000 over two years
www.chconline.org
For Expanding Outcomes Research Initiatives: CHC and Catholic Charities
of Santa Clara County, a new evaluation project between the Children's Health
Council and Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County.
Cleo
Eulau Center for Children and Adolescents
$100,000 over three years
www.batnet.com/cec
For the Evaluation Project for the Cleo Eulau Center's Resiliency Consultation
to Challenged Schools Program, a new three-year evaluation of a project
that helps teachers in the San Jose Unified and Redwood City School districts
foster resiliency in preteens.
Community Foundation Silicon
Valley - The Mayfair Improvement Initiative
$150,000 over two years
www.cfsv.org
For Mayfair School Success Program's Truancy Collaboration, a program that
uses a holistic approach of comprehensive individual and family support
to build assets in preteens living in East San Jose who are at risk for
academic failure and other high-risk behaviors.
Community
Solutions for Children, Families, and Youth
$115,000 over two years
www.communitysolutions.org
For Afterschool Services and Parent Education Program, a program that provides
1) supervised after-school activities for preteens, ages 9 to 13, at a low-income
housing project in Gilroy and 2) positive parenting training at community
sites to overburdened parents of preteens.
Edgewood Center
for Children and Families
$200,000 over two years
www.edgewoodcenter.org
For the San Mateo Kinship Support Network. Funds will be used to refine
and evaluate the comprehensive services that strengthen the mental health,
and build developmental assets of preteens being raised by grandparents,
or other extended family members.
Franklin-McKinley Educational Foundation
$100,000 over one year
December 2001; Area Two
For Fair Exchange Teen Outreach Program, an in-school program in San Jose
that builds preteen resilency by providing interactive lessons about law.
Fresh Lifelines for Youth
$92,000 over three years
www.freshlifelinesforyouth.com
For Law for Your Life Prevention Program, an in-school program that provides
interactive lessons to preteens at Dartmouth Middle School (San Jose)
about the law to build youth competencies and foster their resiliency
to risk-taking.
Friends for Youth
$100,000 over two years
www.friendsforyouth.org
For Mentoring Assistance Program, a program that trains schools, non-profits
and agencies in both San Mateo and Santa Clara counties on effective mentoring
practices.
South San Francisco Public Library - Community Learning Center
$100,000 over two years
www.ssf.net/clc
For Homework Club, an afterschool program, for third- to fifth-graders,
that takes place in a public library in South San Francisco.
YWCA of Santa Clara Valley
$200,000 over two years
www.ywca-scv.org
For New Options - Middle School, a comprehensive after-school program
(currently at high schools) that will be expanded to serve preteen girls
and boys at a middle school in San Jose. New Options provides leadership
activities, recreational and cultural activities, reproductive health
education, and academic support.
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