Funded Projects
Grants and Programs in Progress:
Past Projects, Awards
Outcome Evaluation
Summary for FY 08-09
(download pdf file)
Grants in
Progress: Healthy Family Functioning
A-TCAA
Family Learning Centers
Amador-Tuolumne Community Action
Agency
will receive up to $421,949 over a
four year period (FY 07-08 through FY
10-11) to operate two Family
Learning Centers in Sonora and in Tuolumne where parents of young children can
come daily to improve their skills in parenting, literacy, job skills, and
healthy living skills, and can be supported in their efforts with infant and
toddler care and transportation. The
program also has an early childhood education component. This
project works in close cooperation and with shared resources from Columbia
College, Tuolumne County Social Services Department,
Kings View Behavioral Health, Sonora Community Hospital,
Summerville Elementary School, and a variety of other community agencies.
This program is supported by First 5 CA School Readiness
funds, which provide 26% of the funding.
The Commission has provided partial funding for this program since
FY 01-02.
Infant Child Enrichment Services (ICES) Raising Healthy
Families
ICES
will receive up to $478,957 over a four year period (FY 07-08 through FY
10-11) to provide home visiting services and parenting instruction to families
who have been identified as at risk of child abuse, expanding these services to
more families in the community. The home visiting program also serves
families whose children are enrolled in School Readiness FIRST 5 Friendship
School, providing in-home instruction to parents on behavioral modification
strategies. The program will also provide a number of age-specific
parenting classes to parents with young children throughout Tuolumne
County. This program is supported by First 5 CA School
Readiness funds, which provide 24% of the funding. The
Commission has provided partial funding for this program since FY 01-02.
A-TCAA Transitional Housing in Columbia
A-TCAA
will receive up to $12,600 in 2010 to operate a transitional housing shelter in
Columbia, CA, to provide housing for pregnant women or families with young
children.
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Grants and Programs in Progress:
Health
Smile Keepers Early Dental Prevention and
Treatment
Smile Keepers, operated by the Tuolumne Co. Office of Education
was awarded $87,105 over a four year period
(FYs
07-08 through FY 10-11) to provide dental screenings, cleaning and fluoride/varnish treatments to
preschool children, and to provide dental education classes to expectant
parents or parents with children ages 0-5. This program is supported by
First 5 CA School Readiness funds, which provide 23% of the funding.
The Commission has provided funding for this program since FY 01-02.
Dental Help Fund
The Commission will provide up to $3,000 during the current
fiscal year to provide crisis dental care to young
children whose families are uninsured or underinsured.
The Commission has provided funding for this fund since FY 03-04.
Infant and Pediatric Oral Care Program
The Tuolumne Me Wuk Indian Health Center was warded $2,000 for a
pilot program to provide pregnant women and caretakers of children up to age 3,
with Chlorohexidine antibacterial mouth rinse and Xylitol gum while awaiting
dental treatment, to reduce the incidence of bacterial transmission to their
children.
Mind Matters Clinic, Inc.
Mind Matters Clinic, Inc was awarded $8,000 to
provide medical assessments and family counseling for children with autism or
ADHD.
Tuolumne Co. Public Health - Parent Nurse Partnership
Tuolumne Co. Dept. of Public Health was awarded $20,000
through FY 10-11 for a half-time public health nurse to provide home visits to
at-risk pregnant women, newborns, and young children. First 5 funds are
matched with federal Targeted Case Management funds at a 1:1 ratio.
The Commission has provided funding for this program since FY 07-08.
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Grants
and Programs in Progress: Early Childhood Education and Development
School Readiness
The Tuolumne County Superintendent of Schools Office receives
funds (up to $383,850 over a four year period) to administer the School
Readiness Program. Activities will include Child Find
Screenings in a variety of locations, identification of children who at risk
of leaving preschool and kindergarten settings because of behavioral problems,
enrollment of highest risk children in a short-term therapeutic
"Friendship School", and assisted transition back into a classroom setting.
Additional activities included on-site consultation for preschool and
kindergarten teachers and joint training opportunities. This
program is supported by First 5 CA School Readiness funds, which provide 67%
of the funding.
The Commission has provided partial funding for this program since
FY 03-04.
Tuolumne County Library
The Tuolumne County Library
will receive up to $1,000 in 2010 to purchase a seed collection of early
childhood Spanish language and bilingual materials for use in the Tuolumne
Branch Library and the World Of Wonder mobile library.
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Past Projects, Awards
Sponsorship for "Working in Partnership": $800
Sonora Family Shelter Play Area: $10,000
A-TCAA AmeriCorps Child Abuse Prevention Program: $21,500
PMDT Third Annual Families and Babies Drug Conference:
$1,000
Tenaya Parent Preschool Playground Improvement: $967
Jamestown School Healthy Start Capital Grant: $25,000
ICES - Raising Healthy Families In-Home Transportation Capital
Grant: $11,424
Emergency Children's Shelter Capital Matching Grant:
$50,000
Columbia College Library Children's Literature Collection:
$1,000
Tuolumne County Breastfeeding Coalition - Breastfeeding
Conference: $600
MWRC Children's Trauma Project, Caring Connections Project: $34,102,
$107,395
Sierra
KIDPOWER: $2,500
Jamestown Family Resource Center - AmeriCorps Support:
$2,000
Child Care Safety Grants: $40,893
Tuolumne General Hospital Pediatric Crash Cart: $1,000
Church of the 49ers
Preschool Flooring Repair: $2,975
Summerville Parent Nursery
School's Children's Garden: $500
ICES Site Renovation: $25,000 (capital matching grant)
Tuolumne General Hospital Family Wellness clinic renovation:
$10,800 (capital matching grant)
Tuolumne County Library
Born
To Read: $39,457
Kings View Behavioral Health services: $76,521
A-TCAA Head Start Spanish Translation services: $8,445
YES Partnership - Family Page Support: $15,000
Healthy Start Insurance Enrollment (A-TCAA and JFRC):
$48,215
TC Public Health - RIDE Immunization Registry: $17,947
A-TCAA Shelter Case Management: $25,000
Childbirth Education Consortium: $1,000
Infant Child Enrichment Services - CARES: $256,768
Yosemite Community College Dist/ Columbia College Child
Development Center: $50,000
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