Fall 2021 Healthy Communities Initiatives
Adult Advocacy Centers
The Adult Advocacy Centers (AAC) will engage two expert consultants to develop two new screening and assessment tools for human trafficking victims with disabilities. The consultants also will develop a training curriculum for utilizing the tools and conduct outreach with partner agencies in Gallia, Lawrence, and Scioto counties in Ohio.
Grant Awarded: $26,600
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Advocate House
Advocate House will upgrade and repair its facilities with the purchase of two washer and dryer sets, security cameras and monitor, and a shower stall.
Grant Awarded: $5,582.66
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association (AHA) will expand its Target BP program to at least five additional primary care clinics across Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam, and Wayne counties. Additionally, the AHA will provide continued technical assistance to the six primary care clinics supported by the Pallottine Foundation of Huntington’s Fall 2020 Healthy Communities Initiative grant award. The AHA will equip the five expansion site clinics with an automated blood pressure machine for clinic use and provide clinics with self-measuring blood pressure monitors to distribute to patients for at-home use. Patients will receive educational materials and infographics that detail how to self-measure blood pressure accurately.
Grant Awarded: $46,290
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Arts in Action, Inc.
Arts in Action will purchase performance and classroom supplies for the SuperStars program. Through this program, Arts in Action will provide weekly dance and music classes to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities at two-day habitation programs in Charleston, WV
Grant Awarded: $7,409
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Aspire! Conservatory of Fine & Performing Arts, Inc.
Aspire! Conservatory of Fine & Performing Arts, Inc. will provide weekly music therapy services to four youth residential groups at Ramey-Estep Adolescent Residential Treatment Center in Boyd County, KY.
Grant Awarded: $9,721.60
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Tri-State
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Tristate (BBBSTS) will expand its mentoring programs to Kanawha, Mason, and Putnam counties. The organization will conduct promotional outreach, form school and business relationships, recruit volunteers, and match 40 children with mentors during this grant period.
Grant Awarded: $25,600
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Big Sandy Area Community Action Program, Inc.
Big Sandy Area Community Action Program will provide $50 vouchers to 180 low-income households to purchase seeds, plants, and fertilizer to build home gardens in Floyd, Johnson, Pike, and Martin counties in Kentucky.
Grant Awarded: $9,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Bob Burdette Center, Inc.
The Bob Burdette Center will train staff members to implement an evidence-based model for supporting children’s healthy social and emotional development. The organization will also train key staff members as Pyramid model facilitators. Staff members will participate in further professional development hours focused on behavioral support strategies.
Grant Awarded: $8,366.08
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind
Cabell Wayne Association for the Blind (CWAB) will reinstate the Travel Training Program, which provides mobility training in clients’ homes, neighborhoods, and the greater community to promote clients’ independence. CWAB also will contract with an accounting firm to transition its financial accounting system to QuickBooks.
Grant Awarded: $14,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Camp Appalachia
Camp Appalachia will host four overnight weekend survival camps monthly during December 2021 through March 2022. Funding will support 22 camper registrations for the survival camps. Funds also will be used to purchase youth mental health, substance use disorder, and outdoor education curriculum, and supplies and camping equipment for the survival camps.
Grant Awarded: $10,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Charleston Thunder Sled Hockey
Charleston Sled Hockey will purchase protective equipment and jerseys for team members. Funds also will be used to purchase one small and one large sled to accommodate additional participants.
Grant Awarded: $3,850
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Children’s Home Society of West Virginia
Children’s Home Society of West Virginia will engage a media consultant to produce four promotional videos and manage a four-month digital marketing campaign to enlist foster parents in Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Mingo, and Wayne counties, as well as western Putnam County in West Virginia.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Community Mission Outreach
Community Mission Outreach will provide monthly food box home delivery to seniors and other individuals who are not able to access the organization’s drive-thru pantry in Chesapeake, OH. The organization will contract with a local recovery program to provide delivery services.
Grant Awarded: $5,900
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
CONTACT Huntington, Inc.
CONTACT Huntington will employ a part-time prevention educator who will provide prevention education services in Mason County. This position also will coordinate the work of an additional six prevention educators working in Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, and Wayne counties. Funds also will be used to purchase prevention curriculum and supplies.
Grant Awarded: $25,129
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Ebenezer Medical Outreach, Inc.
Ebenezer Medical Outreach will further develop the Huntington Unity Garden and grow produce to supplement its Farmacy Program and community pop-up markets.
Grant Awarded: $12,150
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Family Resource Center of the Huntington WV Housing Authority
Family Resource Center of the Huntington WV Housing Authority (FRC) will expand an existing enclosed garden area at Marcum Terrace by heightening current raised beds, add additional beds, and construct high tunnels to triple the fresh produce crop yield and extend the growing season. FRC will offer filmed cooking classes and printed cookbooks for Marcum Terrace community members.
Grant Awarded: $12,251.20
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Floyd County Homeless Shelter, Inc.
Floyd County Homeless Shelter will upgrade its laundry facilities by replacing an existing washer/dryer set with two new washer/dryer sets. Funding will be used to purchase two washer and dryer sets and associated supplies and wiring as well as labor costs for the installation of the washer/dryer sets.
Grant Awarded: $9,116.77
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
God’s Appalachian Partnership
God’s Appalachian Partnership will purchase hygiene and cleaning supplies for distribution to clients and for use in in-home education services in Floyd and Pike counties in Kentucky. It will also engage a strategic planner to lead a weekend workshop for its board of directors.
Grant Awarded: $14,800
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
God’s Pantry Food Bank
God’s Pantry Food Bank will purchase produce and distribute it to food pantries, congregate feeding programs, mobile pantry programs, and other food access programs in Carter, Floyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Martin, and Pike counties in Kentucky.
Grant Awarded: $30,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Grace Fellowship Community Kitchen
Grace Fellowship Community Kitchen will provide 120 backpacks containing winter supplies such as gloves, hats, and nonperishable food items to people experiencing homelessness. Food items also will be purchased for weekly community meals that will take place twice weekly in Pike County, KY.
Grant Awarded: $4,320
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Habitat for Humanity of the Tri-State, Inc.
Habitat for Humanity of the Tri-State will engage a consultant to lead its board of directors and staff through the development of a three-year strategic plan.
Grant Awarded: $6,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Hand in Hand Ministries
Hand in Hand Ministries will purchase fresh produce, toiletries, and cleaning supplies to supplement food boxes distributed at the Auxier Center. The program will serve 60 families monthly from Floyd, Johnson, and Martin counties in Kentucky.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Haven of Rest Family Ministries, Inc.
Haven of Rest will purchase food and supplies for weekend meal backpacks to be provided to students in collaboration with school-based Family Resource Centers in Martin County, KY.
Grant Awarded: $6.380
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
HAWC Foundation
The HAWC Foundation board of directors will complete training, including modules on the pandemic, self-assessment, and executive assessment. Some HAWC Foundation staff members at the Focus Center will complete finance and human resources training. The HAWC Foundation will outfit the Focus Center with technology infrastructure, equipment including a server, phone system, firewall box and extension box, and related accessories.
Grant Awarded: $14,274
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Helping Hands of Greenup County, Inc.
Helping Hands will purchase and install camera and alarm system upgrades to its building.
Grant Awarded: $8,500
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Hope’s Place, Inc.
Hope’s Place will provide three evidence-based education and prevention trainings, offer support groups, and host a series of one-day workshops to non-offending parents and other community members.
Grant Awarded: $49,651.50
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Huntington First Church of the Nazarene
Huntington First Church of the Nazarene will purchase supplies to establish the Highlawn Community Garden, which will include 30 raised beds on church property. The organization will collaborate with community partners to provide education on growing and preparing healthy foods.
Grant Awarded: $6,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Impact Prevention (Tri-State Family Connections)
Impact Prevention will expand its youth-led addiction prevention efforts by partnering with high schools in Lawrence and Scioto counties in Ohio to add additional youth-led programming teams. A certified prevention specialist will assist the youth-led teams in prevention efforts focused on topics like mental health, suicide prevention, and substance misuse. The teams will also participate in collaborative community connection events, community beautification projects, and prevention programming at local elementary schools. In addition, Impact Prevention will engage youth as peer mentors for the organization’s Youth Empowerment Activities summer camp.
Grant Awarded: $17,582
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Inspiring Dreams Network
Inspiring Dreams Network will develop an online resource portal for at-risk youth, adults, families, and the community organizations that serve them. The portal will be a “one-stop shop,” enabling youth and adults to easily connect with social-emotional development and social determinants of health resources.
Grant Awarded: $19,300
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
JDRF
JDRF will host two events bringing national Type 1 Diabetes experts to communities in Kentucky and West Virginia to connect patients with specialty care, resources, and support. Events will be hosted in partnership with local organizations and healthcare providers. JDRF will provide honorariums to juvenile diabetes researchers who participate in the events.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Kanawha Valley Home, Inc.
Kanawha Valley Home will establish a partnership with The Smile Center in Charleston, WV, to provide dental examinations, cleanings, X-rays, and dental care plans for residents in recovery at Kanawha Valley Home.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Lily’s Place
Lily’s Place will purchase a Cordata electronic medical records (EMR) system to improve communication and the efficiency of case management, counseling, and peer support services. Lily’s Place also will use the EMR system to track and share data related to the long-term effects of neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Manna Meal, Inc.
Manna Meal will purchase food to supply its daily feeding program.
Grant Awarded: $30,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Marshall University Research Corporation
The Department of Family & Community Health at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine will partner with Quick Response Teams (QRT) in Mason, Putnam, and Wayne counties to launch the “mobile blessing box” program.
Grant Awarded: $19,250
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Midian Leadership Project
The Midian Leadership Project will equip the Midian Center’s kitchen with a commercial refrigerator and freezer, and provide food for team meals and children attending its afterschool program.
Grant Awarded: $7,100
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Pathways, Inc.
Pathways will launch the “Raise the Bar” initiative to provide physical wellness support to 25 youth who are clients at “The Drop.” Clients will be encouraged to exercise at least three hours weekly and will receive a one-year gym membership at No Limits Fitness and access to special classes at the gym. Clients also will participate in yoga classes at “The Drop.”
Grant Awarded: $8,595.93
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
R L B Ministries/Backpack Buddies
R L B Ministries/Backpack Buddies will purchase food to use primarily for its backpack program and as needed for emergency food boxes.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Rea of Hope, Inc.
Rea of Hope will contract with a consultant to provide budgeting, grants management, and fundraising technical assistance to the organization.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building
ReBUILD, Inc.
ReBuild will purchase snacks to distribute to individuals who visit the center for services. The organization will also provide breakfast and activity fees for children participating in Upward Huntington’s physical activity programs.
Grant Awarded: $7,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Recovery Group of Southern West Virginia, Inc.
Recovery Group of Southern West Virginia (RGSWV) will purchase Recovery Dynamics guidebooks, Recovery Dynamics evaluation packets, Alcoholic Anonymous books, and supplemental Twelve Steps books for distribution to residents. RGSWV also will purchase two computers, two webcams, and two microphones for resident use at the organization’s two centers.
Grant Awarded: $4,232
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Regional Family Resource Network
The Regional Family Resource Network (RFRN) will partner with the Putnam County Wellness Coalition to host a one-day event for kinship care families at Valley Park in Hurricane in the Spring of 2022.
Grant Awarded: $3,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Religious Coalition for Community Renewal
The Religious Coalition for Community Renewal will pilot the mobile software program, “Show The Way,” to improve data collection and, in turn, support people living in unsheltered locations. The street outreach team will utilize “Show The Way” to track referrals and outcomes related to its work assisting clients in accessing social services and benefits and obtaining housing and identification documents.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Safe Harbor of Northeast Kentucky
Safe Harbor of Northeast Kentucky will purchase art supplies for use in therapeutic pottery, painting, sewing, and craft classes provided to clients and their families by the shelter’s studio coordinator and community partners. In addition, the organization will improve shelter safety by installing additional security camera coverage.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church outreach ministry will distribute winter care bags and meals to people experiencing homelessness. Funds also will be used to purchase a laptop for the outreach ministry volunteer.
Grant Awarded: $9,426.96
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Spina Bifida Coalition of Cincinnati
The Spina Bifida Coalition of Cincinnati will develop a spina bifida toolkit for medical personnel, first responders, case managers, and other individuals in Gallia, Lawrence, and Scioto counties in Ohio and Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Mason, Putnam, and Wayne counties in West Virginia to increase awareness and understanding of the disease.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Square One GJM
Square One GJM will launch the “B.I.K.E.” program, which will offer case management and support for victims of trauma and domestic violence. Upon completion of the program, clients will receive a bicycle to minimize transportation barriers in accessing additional community resources and employment opportunities.
Grant Awarded: $4,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
St. Vincent Mission, Inc.
St. Vincent Mission will provide medically indicated food boxes to clients with chronic diseases. The mission also will offer educational cooking classes on how to prepare diabetic-friendly and heart-healthy foods and snacks. Cookbooks will be provided to cooking class participants. The mission also will purchase hygiene and cleaning supplies to distribute to food pantry clients.
Grant Awarded: $12,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Steven A. Hunter Hope Fund
The Steven A. Hunter Hope Fund will purchase Power Packs and distribute them to students in Scioto County elementary schools.
Grant Awarded: $25,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
The Education Alliance
The Education Alliance (EA) will expand its Social Emotional Learning Toolkit to include a broader framework to build mentors’ capacity to address post-pandemic trauma, help children develop protective factors, and improve mental health equity among vulnerable populations. EA will pilot and evaluate the toolkit’s effectiveness by training AmeriCorps mentors serving in after-school and school-based programs in Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, and Wayne counties.
Grant Awarded: $27,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Think Kids
In the second phase of the regional Health and Hunger series, Think Kids will focus on increasing collaboration between the phase one stakeholders and identify additional partners in Boone, Lincoln, and Logan counties. It also will engage new stakeholders from Cabell and Kanawha counties. Think Kids will travel across the five-county region, hold meetings, and engage partners to advance implementation strategies for recommended policies and programs.
Grant Awarded: $26,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Unlimited Future, Inc.
Unlimited Future, Inc. will train team members to facilitate workshops aimed at improving community gardeners’ capacity to share resources and grow supply and service chains as part of a “neighborhood” cooperative. The organization will develop and provide community workshops on sustainable gardening and cooperative strategies with the goal of decreasing food insecurity in the Fairfield neighborhood of Huntington, WV.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Wayne County Community Services Organization, Inc.
Wayne County Community Services Organization, Inc. will purchase document scanners for the home health program, desktop computers for staff use, and first aid and wellness kits for clients.
Grant Awarded: $6,075
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
