Spring 2023 Healthy Communities Initiatives
ABLE Families
ABLE Families will purchase food and supplies and provide activities for its summer camp for children ages 5 through 14. The camp will be offered weekly for six weeks to children from the Kermit PK8 school in Mingo County, WV.
Grant Awarded: $2,411.82
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Appalachia Reach Out
Appalachia Reach Out will use funds to support monthly food pantry costs and provide additional healthy options. The organization will also work with Family Resource and Youth Services Centers to stock summer food pantries at five Martin County, KY, elementary schools.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
ARH Tug Valley Health Services, Inc.
ARH Tug Valley Health Services will initiate monthly diabetes support groups serving Floyd, Johnson, Pike, and Martin counties in Kentucky. Sessions will provide diabetic supplies, medically tailored food boxes, and healthy cooking education.
Grant Awarded: $19,604.20
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Arts in Action
Arts in Action will purchase classroom and performance supplies for its dance and visual arts programs, which provides individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to experience and learn about the arts. The organization also will purchase a new laptop and software for its volunteer receptionist.
Grant Awarded: $9,675
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
BackpackBuddy.org
BackpackBuddy.org will expand its summer delivery program that provides food and personal care items for students in Kanawha and Boone counties in West Virginia, and Martin County in Kentucky.
Grant Awarded: $17,340
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Big Laurel Learning Center
Big Laurel Learning Center will implement the “Resilient Minds, Active Bodies Program” in partnership with the Kermit PK8 school in Mingo County, WV. Funding will support a cook, guest instructors, staff training, and food for the summer camp.
Grant Awarded: $7,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Big Sandy College Educational Foundation
The Big Sandy Community and Technical College’s Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene Integrated Program, in collaboration with the Big Sandy College Educational Foundation, will partner with two skilled nursing facilities in Floyd and Johnson counties in Kentucky to provide senior residents with on-site preventive dental care, oral cancer screenings, and oral hygiene instruction.
Grant Awarded: $11,949
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Big Sandy Health Care
Big Sandy Health Care will provide patients enrolled in its Chronic Disease Management Program with educational assistance, a monthly food voucher, and container garden instruction and supplies.
Grant Awarded: $31,876
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Boone County Health Department
The Boone County Quick Response Team, in collaboration with the Boone County Health Department, will purchase food, clothing, hygiene, household, and safe sleep items for its clients. Funding will also be used for shelving, storage bins, and racks to store items at the health department.
Grant Awarded: $19,200
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Branches Domestic Violence Shelter
Branches Domestic Violence Shelter will provide essential supplies, such as bedding, mattresses, kitchen, and bathroom necessities, to individuals in Branches’ Housing Advocacy Program.
Grant Awarded: $4,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Cabwaylingo Appalachian Mission
Cabwaylingo Appalachian Mission will purchase food for its food pantry and provide for freight costs associated with procuring large food orders.
Grant Awarded: $12,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Charleston Thunder Sled Hockey
Charleston Thunder Sled Hockey will purchase new jerseys, protective equipment, additional sleds and home exercise equipment for players for the 2023-2024 season and the off-season.
Grant Awarded: $5,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Children’s Home Society of West Virginia
The Children’s Home Society of West Virginia will purchase food items for Cabell County’s Family Support Center at the Nancy Tonkin Children’s Resource Center.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Children’s Therapy Clinic
Children’s Therapy Clinic will support a contract therapist to conduct social skills group visits for children on the autism spectrum or who have delayed social skills.
Grant Awarded: $7,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Christian Associates/Cridlin Food and Clothing Pantry
Christian Associates will contract with an accountant to aid in the setup of QuickBooks accounting software and train staff and board members on how to maintain records, create a website, and purchase food for the food pantry.
Grant Awarded: $9,020
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Christian Associates/Cridlin Food and Clothing Pantry website
City of Pikeville Exposition Center Corporation
The City of Pikeville Exposition Center Corporation will support a touring production of a suicide prevention stage show in local schools, community centers, and clinics, and an arts therapy workshop for domestic violence survivors and their families during a summer festival.
Grant Awarded: $15,196
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Coalfield Health Center
Wild Wonderful Healthy Logan County, in collaboration with Coalfield Health Center, will purchase healthy snacks for its youth camp and host a pediatric fitness program.
Grant Awarded: $5,300
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Community Mission Outreach
Community Mission Outreach will continue operating its monthly food box home-delivery program for seniors and other individuals with mobility or transportation barriers. Funds will be used for supplemental food items, program and outreach supplies, and contractual delivery costs.
Grant Awarded: $7,998.20
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Compass Point Housing
Compass Point Housing will purchase “Welcome Home Kits” for clients who reside in its recovery homes in Lawrence and Scioto counties. The kits will include new bedding, a pillow, towels, a clothing hamper, and basic hygiene products. Funding also will be used to purchase new mattresses for the recovery homes.
Grant Awarded: $14,604.06
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
CONTACT Huntington
CONTACT will send staff members to the virtual International Human Trafficking Conference, the National Children’s Advocacy Center International Symposium on Child Abuse, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy training.
Grant Awarded: $10,312.50
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Cornerstone Family Interventions
Cornerstone Family Interventions will purchase diapers and formula to distribute to families participating in its child advocacy or home visiting services. It also will purchase food for group connection events and in-home family education supplies, therapy resources, and prevention outreach and training materials.
Grant Awarded: $9,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Crittenton Foundation
Crittenton Foundation will purchase new laptops for clinical staff at the Wellspring Family Services Huntington office to provide telehealth services.
Grant Awarded: $8,800
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Faith Health Appalachia
Faith Health Appalachia will facilitate individualized assessments and group workshops for staff and board members to build upon the organization’s recently completed strategic plan and focus on principles of functional leadership and team building.
Grant Awarded: $7,237
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Faith in Action of the Greater Kanawha Valley
Faith in Action of the Greater Kanawha Valley will establish a new intake assessment volunteer team. Funding will be used to support tablets for use in intake assessments, volunteer travel, and recruitment and appreciation events for volunteers.
Grant Awarded: $7,600
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Field of Hope Community Campus
Field of Hope will pilot its Youth Resiliency Program, providing at-risk students in Gallia County, OH, with prevention-focused services during after-school hours and on Saturdays during the school year.
Grant Awarded: $29,360
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Floyd County Senior Citizens
Floyd County Senior Citizens will purchase an automated external defibrillator (AED) and a choking rescue device for each of its six senior centers. Staff will be trained on equipment maintenance and use in the event of a medical emergency..
Grant Awarded: $12,953.70
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Golden Girl Group Home
Golden Girl Group Home will purchase supplies for art therapy activities for residents and staff members. Funds will also be used for mileage, meals, and admission costs for monthly field trips to visit local art museums, galleries, and attractions.
Grant Awarded: $9,684
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Goodwill Industries of KYOWVA Area, Inc.
Goodwill’s mental health counseling team will engage in personal wellness activities to cope with symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout, as well as professional development to enhance client services.
Grant Awarded: $11,941.85
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Grace Fellowship/Grace Community Kitchen
The Grace Fellowship Community Kitchen will purchase two stoves, two refrigerators, and food and supplies for its meal program.
Grant Awarded: $14,996
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Hand in Hand Ministries
Hand in Hand will purchase fresh produce, toiletries, and cleaning supplies to supplement food boxes distributed at the Auxier Center in Floyd County, KY.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Harvest for the Hungry
Harvest for the Hungry will purchase Boost nutritional shakes and grocery carts for its food pantry.
Grant Awarded: $3,850
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Heart and Hand Outreach Ministries
Heart and Hand Outreach Ministries will purchase food for weekend food bags for youth at South Charleston Middle School. Food-insecure students will receive a food bag each Friday during the school year..
Grant Awarded: $8,750
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Helping Hands of Greenup County
Helping Hands of Greenup County, KY, will purchase food for distribution through regular monthly and holiday food boxes.
Grant Awarded: $5,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Hillcrest Bruce United Methodist Ministries
Hillcrest Bruce United Methodist Ministries will implement the Healthy Living Project to assist people in need of dentures.
Grant Awarded: $32,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Hocking Athens Perry Community Action
Hocking Athens Perry Community Action will support the Bringing Healthy Home program in Gallia County, OH, which serves food-insecure women and their families during pregnancy and up to four months postpartum.
Grant Awarded: $10,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Hope’s Place
Hope’s Place will create a three- to five-year strategic plan for its organization. Funds will also be used to purchase gas gift cards for clients who have transportation barriers and need access to services.
Grant Awarded: $13,500
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Huntington City Mission
The Huntington City Mission will purchase two washer/dryer sets for use by shelter clients to launder personal belongings and for staff to launder shelter linens.
Grant Awarded: $4,796
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Huntington Museum of Art, Inc.
Through its ArtWorks! program, Huntington Museum of Art will partner with Cabell County Juvenile Drug Court to engage at-risk teens in the creation of a work of public art to be installed in the Huntington area.
Grant Awarded: $9,760
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Impact Prevention
Impact Prevention will assist youth-led teams in Lawrence and Scioto County middle and high schools in prevention efforts focused on topics like mental health, suicide prevention, and alcohol and substance misuse. .
Grant Awarded: $14,501
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Inspiring Dreams Network
Inspiring Dreams Network will continue the development of an online youth resource portal for at-risk youth, adults, families, and the community organizations that serve them. Funding will be used for a project coordinator, a web designer, and a VISTA to build the capacity and advance the organization’s mission.
Grant Awarded: $14,590
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Jeremiah Tree Foundation
Jeremiah Tree Foundation will purchase a laptop, printer, monitors, and QuickBooks for its organization. Funds also will support the volunteer training program and event supplies, speakers, and T-shirts.
Grant Awarded: $4,635
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Judi’s Place for Kids
Judi’s Place for Kids will improve its methods of sharing, storing, and retrieving client data in order to improve client services and collaboration with partner agencies.
Grant Awarded: $9,700
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Kanawha County Dental Health Council
Kanawha County Dental Health Council will purchase cordless prophy handpieces for the organization’s school-based clinics. Hygienists will use the handpieces to treat children with special health care needs who may not be able to sit comfortably in the clinics’ treatment chairs.
Grant Awarded: $7,393.96
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Kanawha Valley Collective
The Kanawha Valley Collective will hire a bookkeeper to handle day-to-day financial operations for one year. Funds also will be used to purchase appliances, cleaning and kitchen supplies, and self-stable food for the Roark-Sullivan Lifeway Center’s Emergency Shelter.
Grant Awarded: $28,263.37
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Kanawha Valley Home
The Kanawha Valley Home will host will purchase two washers and two dryers for its recovery home.
Grant Awarded: $5,037.95
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Keep Your Faith Corporation, Inc.
Keep Your Faith Corporation will develop a comprehensive marketing strategy, including the development of a new website, to grow its brand awareness and fundraising efforts.
Grant Awarded: $19,875
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Lawrence County Health Department
Lawrence County Health Department will conduct assessment, planning, and evaluation to explore strategies for implementing a comprehensive program to address and prevent obesity among adults in Lawrence County, OH.
Grant Awarded: $31,908
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Lawrence County Health Department
Lawrence County Health Department in Louisa, KY, will purchase portable dental equipment and consumable dental supplies for its Smile Savers program, which provides oral health services to students within the county. Funding will also be used to purchase gas cards for residents traveling to cancer treatment appointments outside Lawrence County.
Grant Awarded: $10,407
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Lewis County Family Resource Network
The Lewis County Family Resource Network will collaborate with Try This West Virginia to retain an AmeriCorps member to staff the Southern West Virginia Regional Network, which covers Cabell, Mason, Mingo, and Wayne counties.
Grant Awarded: $6,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Lincoln County Community Outreach Program
The Lincoln County Community Outreach Program’s peer recovery support specialist outreach team will support individuals in Lincoln County experiencing homelessness with blessing bags and host the Reach for Recovery event. Funding will also support board and organizational capacity building, and various community trainings.
Grant Awarded: $14,400
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Manna Meal
Manna Meal will purchase food for its evening food truck program at Roark-Sullivan men’s shelter.
Grant Awarded: $10,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Marshall University Research Corporation
The Marshall University Research Corporation will collaborate with the Marshall University Department of Dietetics to operate a nutrition education series for individuals in recovery from substance abuse disorder. .
Grant Awarded: $39,871.95
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Marshall University Research Corporation
The Marshall University Research Corporation will collaborate with the Marshall University Department of Social work to implement the TIME4K program in elementary schools and community-based agencies serving children impacted by substance use disorder in Cabell and Wayne counties in West Virginia
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Marshall University Research Corporation
The Marshall University Research Corporation will collaborate with the Marshall University Community Oral Health Team (COHT) to provide oral health care and education programs for senior citizens at senior centers in Boone, Lincoln, Mason, and Wayne counties in West Virginia. The project will culminate in the development of a white paper that will be used to educate policymakers, funders, and other key stakeholders about the need for improved oral health care programs and insurance benefits for senior citizens.
Grant Awarded: $28,412
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Marshall University Research Corporation
The Marshall University Research Corporation will collaborate with the Marshall University Center of Excellence for Recovery and its Prevention Empowerment Partnership to support two substance use prevention leadership programs for high school and college-age youth in Cabell and Wayne counties in West Virginia.
Grant Awarded: $37,844
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Mason County Family Resource
The Family Resource Network of Mason County will purchase nonperishable food and hygiene items for its blessing boxes in Mason County, WV. It also will partner with Mason County Schools to distribute hygiene kits to students in need and provide baby supplies such as diapers, wipes, formula, food, and clothing to a local church baby pantry
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
McDowell County Commission on Aging
McDowell County Commission on Aging (MCCA), in collaboration with WV Division of Tobacco Prevention, will expand its Spit It Out WV project to Mingo County, WV, which provides educational workshops about smokeless tobacco and its impact on the body with the goal of helping smokeless tobacco users quit. MCCA will also launch Through With Chew, a national campaign to educate people about the dangers of smokeless tobacco
Grant Awarded: $33,846
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Midian Leadership Project
Midian Leadership Project will provide nutritious meals and snacks to children at its extended-hours after-school program at Midian Safe Haven in Charleston, WV. A health and fitness VISTA will work to expand the feeding program, oversee the organization’s kitchen and fitness facilities, and implement nutrition and physical fitness education for youth. Midian will also engage in facilitated board development, strategic planning, and fundraising strategy development.
Grant Awarded: $22,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness, Capacity Building
Mountain Laurel Integrated Healthcare
Mountain Laurel Integrated Healthcare will purchase sensory and therapeutic supplies to enhance children and adolescent behavioral health services at its two outpatient clinics.
Grant Awarded: $8,074
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Partners in Health Network
Partners in Health Network will continue the CATCH My Breath (CMB) evidence-based vaping prevention program across Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam, and Wayne counties in West Virginia to reach at least 2,400 middle- and high-school students at 16 schools.
Grant Awarded: $50,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Pike County Health Department
Pike County Health Department (PCHD) will establish its Appalachian Youth (APPY) Smiles Dental Clinic, a new pediatric public health dental clinic that will be operated in collaboration with PCHD’s Bright Smiles Program, University of Pikeville’s School of Dentistry, and Big Sandy Community and Technical College’s Dental Assisting Program. The APPY Smiles Dental Clinic will meet the needs of uninsured, underinsured, and Medicaid-insured children in Pike County
Grant Awarded: $37,646
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Pikeville Area Family YMCA
Pikeville Area Family YMCA will purchase food to expand its outreach summer and school-year meal programs to additional at-risk youth in Pike County, KY.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
RLB Ministries/Backpack Buddies
RLB Ministries will purchase food for its weekend backpack program, which serves students in Lawrence County, OH.
Grant Awarded: $20,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Ramey Estep Homes
Ramey Estep Homes therapists will staff Camp Courage, a summer mental wellness camp for Boyd County, KY, elementary, middle, and high school students.
Grant Awarded: $17,380
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Rea of Hope, Inc.
Rea of Hope will support dental care costs for its residents who have successfully completed the first 90 days of the program.
Grant Awarded: $5,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Recovery Group of Southern West Virginia
Recovery Group of Southern West Virginia will purchase a laptop for its new community engagement specialist, install a new security camera system at the drop-in center and replace nonfunctioning cameras at its residential facilities, and purchase household items for residential program graduates transitioning to more permanent housing.
Grant Awarded: $12,828
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Recovery Point West Virginia
The Cabell County Recovery Coalition, in collaboration with Recovery Point West Virginia, will develop a three-year strategic plan. Funds also will be used for hospitality costs for coalition meetings.
Grant Awarded: $5,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Regional Family Resource Network
The Regional Family Resource Network will partner with the West Virginia State University’s Healthy Grandfamilies Program and The Booker T. Washington Community Center to provide quarterly picnic meals and activities for grandfamilies in London, WV.
Grant Awarded: $8,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Religious Coalition for Community Renewal
The Religious Coalition for Community Renewal will implement three projects at its Smith Street Station Apartments in Charleston, WV. The organization will purchase laptops and a charging cart to create a mobile computer lab for residents; upgrade its security system to address blind spots and broken cameras; and establish a community garden for residents.
Grant Awarded: $9,280.16
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Ronald McDonald House of Huntington, WV
Ronald McDonald House (RMHC) of Huntington’s executive director, family services manager, director of development, and grants and media coordinator will attend the global Ronald McDonald House Charities conference.
Grant Awarded: $9,155.56
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church will contract an outreach organizer to oversee and organize volunteers, as well as the Naloxone distribution, care bag, and weekly meal programs. Funds also will be used to purchase an iPad for data collection purposes.
Grant Awarded: $15,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Salvation Army of Huntington, WV
The Salvation Army of Huntington will purchase food to distribute at its food pantry in Hamlin, WV
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Salvation Army of Kentucky and Tennessee
The Salvation Army of Kentucky and Tennessee will supplement its weekend hot meal program for its Ashland, KY, shelter residents by purchasing additional food items including fresh produce, meats, and dairy products.
Grant Awarded: $10,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Scioto Christian Ministry
Scioto Christian Ministry in Portsmouth, OH, will purchase food and kitchen supplies such as roasters, pots and pans, crockpots, and paper products that will be shared between its two shelters.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Shelter of Hope
Shelter of Hope will expand and improve its street outreach services for individuals experiencing homelessness in Boyd, Carter, Greenup, and Lawrence counties in Kentucky by providing food, personal hygiene, and baby items.
Grant Awarded: $20,200
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Solutions Oriented Addiction Response (SOAR)
SOAR WV will sub-award funding to local recovery, public health, faith communities, nonprofits, and quick response teams in Boone, Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam, and Wayne counties in West Virginia; Lawrence County, Ohio; and Pike County, Kentucky to provide supplies for various harm-reduction community events, including Save the Life Day, throughout the year
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Soul Food
Soul Food will purchase food for its weekend meal backpack program serving students in Floyd County, KY.
Grant Awarded: $5,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Square One GJM
Square One GJM will purchase food for 282 food bags that will be distributed to people in need in Gallia County, OH.
Grant Awarded: $7,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
St. Vincent Mission
St. Vincent Mission (SVM) will purchase healthy food and hygiene products, and provide transportation for its food pantry. Additionally, SVM will collaborate with the Floyd County Long Term Recovery Group to host community mental health events and support groups throughout the county.
Grant Awarded: $21,400
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
STAR Club
STAR Club in St. Albans, WV, will provide a monthly family food box, healthy after-school snacks, and workshops for children and their families who participate in the club’s after-school program.
Grant Awarded: $11,200
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 across Scioto County elementary schools during the 2023-2024 school year
Grant Awarded: $25,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
The Galaxy Project
The Galaxy Project will contract with Planet Youth to implement the Islandic Prevention Model, a renowned substance use prevention program, in Olive Hill, Carter County, KY
Grant Awarded: $28,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building
The Healing House
The Healing House in Charleston, WV, will establish an on-site hygiene and personal necessities pantry; purchase household items for women transitioning to independent living from substance use disorder treatment, incarceration, or mental health inpatient facilities; and contract with Recovery Point’s Routes to Recovery program to provide client rides to and from appointments and group meetings.
Grant Awarded: $15,661.50
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
The Highlawn Community Alliance
The Highlawn Community Alliance (THCA) will address barriers to healthy lifestyles for Highlawn area residents in Huntington, WV, by promoting pedestrian-friendly infrastructure and providing community fitness activities and safety education.
Grant Awarded: $25,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
The REACH Initiative
The REACH Initiative will provide a series of trauma trainings for criminal justice professionals in nine West Virginia counties. The organization will also provide reentry kits that include food, hygiene items, and community resource materials to justice-impacted individuals transitioning from incarceration into local communities.
Grant Awarded: $21,307
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Think Kids
Think Kids will conduct an assessment of the tobacco prevention and cessation programming and resources available in Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, and Mason counties in West Virginia
Grant Awarded: $26,750
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Tri-State Family Connections
Tri-State Family Connections will contract with a program coordinator and a consultant to engage in facilitated board development and strategic planning
Grant Awarded: $10,017
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Tyler Mountain Cross Lanes Community Services
Tyler Mountain Cross Lanes Community Services will purchase food and bags for the organization’s pantry and two new computer monitors for its office
Grant Awarded: $6,000
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
Union Mission Ministries
Union Mission Ministries in Charleston, WV, will pilot its Sustainable Agriculture Healthy Eating Initiative for its Addiction Recovery Program residents
Grant Awarded: $10,075
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
The University of Kentucky Research Foundation will collaborate with the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion to implement a comprehensive, community-based vaping prevention program in Floyd, Johnson, Martin, and Pike counties in Kentucky
Grant Awarded: $29,954
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
University Physicians & Surgeons
University Physicians & Surgeons will collaborate with the Division of Addiction Science to analyze the genetic correlation of NR3C1 gene methylation with adverse childhood experiences, neonatal withdrawal symptoms, developmental delays, and family stability
Grant Awarded: $22,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation
Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation will expand its KRUSH mental health curriculum into additional schools in Cabell County, WV; Scioto County, OH; and Carter, Johnson, and Lawrence counties in Kentucky.
Grant Awarded: $6,250
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Wayland Historical Society
The Wayland Historical Society in Floyd County, KY, will conduct 12 community meetings and three community projects that promote health and wellness within the community
Grant Awarded: $6,700
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Wayne County Community Services Organization
Wayne County Community Services Organization will contract with Collective Impact to assist in the development of a three-year strategic plan.
Grant Awarded: $4,100
Focus Area: Capacity Building
Wayne United Methodist Church
Wayne United Methodist Church will purchase and install shelving, a refrigerator, and a freezer in its new food pantry building
Grant Awarded: $6,981.44
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy (WVCBP) will conduct an assessment of the impact of changes to federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility for “Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents” in Cabell and Mingo counties
Grant Awarded: $40,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Whitney/Strong
Whitney/Strong will expand its Save A Life program to Gallia, Lawrence, and Scioto counties in Ohio, and Boyd County in Kentucky. The program will offer free community training in suicide prevention and the STOP THE BLEED® program to reduce deaths
Grant Awarded: $29,130
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Widow’s Mite Food Pantry
Widow’s Mite Food Pantry in Williamson, WV, will purchase additional healthy food items, including meats and produce from local growers, to supplement monthly food boxes
Grant Awarded: $3,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Wings of Hope
Wings of Hope in Portsmouth, OH, will implement the Kid’s Kuisine nutrition program and Pump Iron for Life weightlifting and strengthening classes for youth ages 12 to 18 at the 14th Street Community Center
Grant Awarded: $8,850
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
WVU Foundation
The West Virginia University Foundation will collaborate with the School of Nursing to expand Faith Community Nursing programs throughout Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam, and Wayne counties in West Virginia. .
Grant Awarded: $24,600
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
WVU Foundation
The West Virginia University Foundation will collaborate with the School of Pharmacy to engage pharmacists in assisting patients to better manage hypertension through individualized health education and monitoring in Cabell, Kanawha, and Logan counties.
Grant Awarded: $14,640
Focus Area: Capacity Building, Health and Wellness
WVU Foundation
The West Virginia University Foundation will collaborate with the Children’s Vision Rehabilitation Program to administer programming that will address health and wellness needs of children with visual impairments in nine West Virginia counties.
Grant Awarded: $25,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
YWCA of Charleston West Virginia
YWCA of Charleston, West Virginia, will purchase food for daily meals and snacks served to individuals and families residing at its Sojourner’s Shelter for Homeless Women and Families
Grant Awarded: $10,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
