2006 Helping Hands Grants
Albertina Kerr Centers
Wraparound Oregon strategic planning support
To support a strategic planning process resulting in a plan for long-term governance of Wraparound Oregon, a collaborative initiative to build a coordinated system of services and supports for children with mental illness and their families in Multnomah County. $6,000
Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Northeast Oregon
Organizational planning session
To support a facilitated planning retreat with board and staff. $4,218
Bradley-Angle House
Open Meadow Alternative School Community 101
To support activities for children in transitional housing, and to support the youth grantmaking program of Open Meadow’s Community 101 class, which has selected this grantee in 2006. $1,000
Camp Fire USA - Portland Metro Council
Defibrillator for Camp Namanu
To purchase an automated external defibrillator (AED) for use in medical emergencies at Camp Namanu. $2,000
Central Oregon Council on Aging
Automatic external defibrillators for senior centers
To purchase an automatic external defibrillator for five senior centers. $5,252
Children's Diabetes Network
Development plan
To create a fund development plan to sustain the organization's growth. $1,350
Crook County Health Department
Operation New Building
To purchase exam tables and stools for three exam rooms in the health department's new building. $3,525
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
HIV Day Center bus passes and tickets
To provide bus passes for HIV-positive, low-income clients to access a supportive day center, substance abuse treatment, and medical and mental health services. $2,500
Lane County HHS, Human Services Commission
Community Health Centers organizational restructuring analysis
To examine the fiscal and administrative impact of continued growth and expansion on Lane County's community health centers, and to analyze the feasibility of consolidation. $7,250
Looking Glass Youth & Family Services
Suicide prevention staff in-service video
To produce an in-service training video for school staff for use in conjunction with "Never Enough," a video that addresses social issues from teens’ point of view, and encourages them to tell someone when they are concerned about a friend’s mental health. $7,500
New Avenues for Youth
Open Meadow Alternative School Community 101
To support harm reduction services for individuals experiencing homelessness, and to support the youth grantmaking program of Open Meadow’s Community 101 class, which has selected this grantee in 2006. $1,000
North County Recreation District
Arthritis exercise and aquatic program
To purchase a pool ladder for a new therapy program for people with arthritis and chronic pain. $4,500
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
Northwest Public Health Leadership Institute
To support a scholarship program and two conferences in public health leadership. $7,200
Office of Family Health, Oregon Department of Human Services
Nurse Family Partnership technical assistance
To support a two-day training for Oregon counties interested in implementing Nurse Family Partnerships, a program to improve the health and social functioning of low-income first-time mothers and their infants. $7,500
Oregon Disaster Medical Team
Catastrophic care conference
Support to send health care professionals to a national conference on catastrophic care. $4,280
Oregon Health Forum
Oregon Health Forum scholarship program
To support a second year of funding for recipients of the Oregon Health Forum Scholarship, awarded to high school seniors pursuing a health-related career. $3,000
Organizing People, Activating Leaders
Strategic planning
To support a strategic planning process for this new organization, which seeks to bring together community members and government to address environmental justice and public health issues in the Lents and Brentwood-Darlington neighborhoods of southeast Portland. $3,000
Pine Eagle Health Planning Committee
Defibrillator for Halfway/Oxbow ambulance service
To purchase a defibrillator monitor pacemaker. $7,500
Police Activities League of Greater Portland
Open Meadow Alternative School Community 101
To support a youth camp, and to support the youth grantmaking program of Open Meadow’s Community 101 class, which has selected this grantee in 2006. $2,000
Public Health Foundation of Columbia County
Business plan
To develop a Business Plan for a new hospital serving residents of the Columbia Health District. $6,000
Sisters of the Road Cafe
Open Meadow Alternative School Community 101
To support the hot meals / barter program, and to support the youth grantmaking program of Open Meadow’s Community 101 class, which has selected this grantee in 2006. $1,000
Southern Coos Health District
Engaging community in quality health care
To increase community participation in the development of a strategic plan for sustaining and expanding quality health care in Oregon's south coastal region. $7,500
Tillamook County Health Department
Improved integration with the medical community
To convene medical providers and community members for the purpose of identifying service gaps and developing a unified vision of medical care for the county. $3,500
Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center
Strategic planning 2006-2010
To support a joint, facilitated strategic planning process with Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center and Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation. $5,000
Wahkiakum Community Foundation
Complete blood machine
To help purchase a complete blood machine for the Wahkiakum Family Practice Clinic, a federally qualified health center in Cathlamet, Washington. $2,174
Yachats Community Health Clinic
Medical equipment
To purchase medical equipment as part of a clinic expansion. $5,000