November 26, 2010
Parishes, schools agencies get grants
By PAUL R. LEINGANG (Message editor)
Welborn Baptist Foundation, Inc. has awarded a total of 74 grants to Tri-State not-for-profit organizations, totaling approximately $3.24 million for programs within the Foundation’s target areas of Promotion of Early Childhood Development, Promotion of Healthy Adolescent Development, Faith-Based Initiatives, Improvements in Community Health Status and School-Based Health Programs.
Welborn Baptist Foundation is the not-for-profit, private foundation created in 1999 from the sale of Welborn Bap-tist Hospital to St. Mary’s Medical Center and from additional assets of the hospital.
Following is a partial list of grant recipients:
- St. Vincent’s Day Care Center, Gross Motor Development Center, $10,000
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Guadalupe Center, Huntingburg, Bridge Building Through Language Acquisition, $30,000
- “Train the trainer” sessions for 10 local parish, school and hospital workers in Reality Spanish™, along with stipends for the newly trained to offer targeted Reality Spanish classes throughout the Diocese. Communication with the Latino population by medical personnel, teachers and clergy is thereby enhanced.
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Marian Educational Outreach, Faithfully Fit, $10,000
- Faithfully Fit is a sensory integration project at Holy Spirit School driven by teachers trained in Differentiated Instruction.
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Holy Redeemer School, Faith Based Collaboration, $40,000
- A collaboration of churches in four southern Indiana counties will offer substance abuse prevention programs in churches, church schools and surrounding communities. Seven Strengthening Families prevention programs will be offered for parents and their children, along with two “In It to Win It” classes and two Skills for Life programs.
- Youth First, Inc., School Social Work Services, $310,000
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Hospitality and Outreach For Latin Americans Inc. (HOLA) HOLA SALUD! (Hello Health!), $15,000
- This grant provides support for efforts to expand prevention and disease management outreach efforts promoting healthy choices among the fastest growing minority group in Southwest Indiana, Latinos.
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Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center, Jasper, Choose 8 to Lose Weight, $20,000
- Based on the successful health ministries program Get-Well Huntingburg, the Choose 8 to Lose Weight hospital based program will serve adults in Dubois County and the surrounding area.
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Nativity Catholic Church, Juan Diego Latino Center, $14,500
- Staffing support and supplies for a new health ministries and community garden project at the Juan Diego Latino Center, serving more than 1,000 Latino infants, adolescents and parents, with 4,000 client contacts, in the city of Evansville and Vanderburgh and Warrick counties.
- St. Mary’s Foundation, St. Mary’s Mobile Dental Clinic Expansion, $120,000
- St. Philip School, Posey County, HEROES-Coordinated School Health Initiative, $40,645
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St. Vincent Center for Children and Families, Little HEROES, $9,000
- HEROES stands for Healthy, Energetic, Ready, Outstanding, Enthusiastic, Schools, is based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s research-based and proven Coordinated School Health Model.