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| Grant Listing // 2011 |
FOSTER CARE:
June 2011
Salvation Army St. Petersburg Area Command | St. Petersburg, FL
Awarded: $25,000
Providing a challenge grant for implementation of the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) Intervention project that focuses on children ages 20 months to 4 years old by helping them develop secure attachments to parents or caregivers, helping caregivers to learn to provide nurturance even when children do not appear to need it and to do so within a predictable environment. The continuum of care for children also includes providing in-home counseling to families identified as at-risk of removal due to abuse or neglect.
February 2011
Eckerd Community Alternatives | Clearwater, FL
Awarded: $35,000
Providing two-year support for a mentoring program for new foster parents in Pinellas and Pasco counties. The program provides trained, experienced foster parents as mentors to newly licensed foster parents during their first year of being a licensed foster parent. The program is designed to help new foster parents understand how the entire child welfare system works, including the courts, child welfare services and available community services. Mentors also provide support to new foster parents who are facing the challenges as well as the joys of being a foster parent.
EARLY CHILD CARE:
February 2011
Highlands Community Child Development Center | Tampa, FL
Awarded: $250,000
Creating the Ruth B. Eckerd Scholarship Fund, a scholarship endowment making quality child care services available to at-risk children of families facing financial hardships. Of the families HCCDC serves annually, 60% qualify for tuition support from the North Carolina Child Care Subsidy program. However, this subsidy does not cover the full cost of tuition. For each scholarship awarded, parents are required to pay a portion of the tuition cost according to their ability to pay.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT:
February 2011
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida - Cocoa, FL | Cocoa, FL
Awarded: $390,000
Providing a capital challenge grant of $300,000 to be used in the construction of a new facility to serve at-risk children in the Cocoa/Rockledge communities of Brevard County. An additional $90,000 provides some of the costs to operate the new facility for the first two years. This club is strategically located in an area of high need and will materially contribute to the community's assets addressing out-of-school time issues facing youth and families.
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