Handbags That Help: Grants Awarded
2008 | 2009
2009 - $51,742 total grants awarded
Caughman Health Center - $11,142
Caughman Health Center received a grant of $11,142 to
partially support a health educator social worker to
coordinate education and programming for low income pregnant
women. The goal of the program is to reduce the percentage
of low-birth weight babies and increase knowledge of
well-baby care in areas such as immunization and nutrition.
Hancock County’s current rate of low-birth weight babies is
8.8 percent (2009), up from 6.6 percent only ten years ago.
In 2006, 20.3 percent of Hancock County pregnant mothers
indicated that they smoked. About 30 percent of Caughman’s
current obstetric patients did not seek care until after
their 30th week of pregnancy. Caughman Health Center is a
subsidiary of Blanchard Valley Health System.
Hancock
Christian Clearing House - $25,000
Hancock Christian Clearing House received a grant of $25,000
to support classes, supplies, training and wages for the
“Partners in Progress” program. This program will address
the need for HCCH clients to become more self-sufficient and
accountable for their own situation. Each client who
requests assistance from the agency will be screened to
determine the conditions that may have caused their need to
seek help. Trained volunteers will then seek out solutions
for the client’s issue. Hancock Christian Clearing House
provides
financial emergency assistance to residents of Hancock
County for needs such as food, rent, utilities and medical
prescriptions. This program will be mandatory
before clients can be considered for additional assistance.
Open Arms
Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Services - $15,600
Open Arms Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Services
received a grant of $15,600 to support a Program Assistant
for Harmony House. Harmony House is a supervised visitation
and exchange program designed to assist families who have
experienced divorce, separation, violence or abuse. The
goals of this program are to protect children from
witnessing domestic disputes between parents during
visitations and exchanges, to provide a safe and comfortable
environment for children to visit with non-custodial parents
or relatives, and to provide a neutral location and third
party supervision of the transition from one parent to
another for unsupervised visitation. Like many local
agencies, Open Arms is facing reduced revenues and operating
budget cuts. This grant will allow the agency to continue to
provide these services at Harmony House.
2008 - $54,000 total grants awarded
Camp Fire of Northwest Ohio -
$3,400
Camp
Fire of Northwest Ohio received an HTH grant of $3,400 to
support their Summer of Science (SOS) day camp program. This
eight-week program targeted children from Findlay Commons
apartments, a low income housing community.
Children were able to creatively explore the scientific
world through hands-on learning and field trips -
opportunities they likely wouldn’t have had otherwise.
Habitat for
Humanity - $26,858
Habitat
for Humanity of Findlay/Hancock County received $26,858 from
HTH to partially fund the construction of a new home for a
single mother and her son. This particular home was also
selected as the second local Women Build project, making
this project especially fitting for HTH to fund.
This build was especially memorable for many
HTH members, who also volunteered their time to help on-site
as part of the Women Build effort.
Hancock
Center for Safe and Healthy Children - $23,742
Hancock County Center for Safe and Healthy Children, a local
child advocacy center, received a grant of $23,742 to
purchase video and audio recording equipment for two
interview rooms.
One of the key services the
Center provides is recorded interviews. In addition to
providing evidence for court, it minimizes the number of
times a child has to tell his or her story. The new audio
and video recording equipment allows the Center to capture
everything that happens in the interview room. The new video
equipment can pivot and zoom to view all areas of the room.
Enhanced audio capabilities eliminate background noise and
allow everyone in the room to be recorded, even the softest
of voices.
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