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Recognition by GEO and Council on Foundations - 2009 Georgetown University’s Center for Child and Human Development Study - 2009 Recognition by FSG Social Impact Advisors - 2007 Evaluation Report on the First Five Years of Grantmaking Sustainability Report Formative Evaluation Results-Oriented Grantmaking and Grant-Implementation (ROGG)Oral Health Impact Report 2006 Report to the Region on the First 5 Years of Grantmaking Journal of Public Health, CMOHI - 2010

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MassHealth Report CHNA 5 - Community Assessment Study Common Pathways - Worcester Community Indicators 2008 Massachusetts Health Council - Common Health for the Commonwealth

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Grants Made in 2010

*Grants Made in 2010*	$906,770

Choices: A Program for Youth at Risk in Webster/Dudley - Implementation, Year 2	$175,455
Hunger-Free & Healthy - Implementation, Year 2	$354,375
The Winchendon Project - Phase III Grant	$376,940

Title:

Choices: A Program for Youth at Risk in Webster/Dudley - Implementation, Year 2

Amount:

$175,455

Recipient:

The Boys & Girls Club of Webster-Dudley

Grant Type:

Synergy Initiative - Choices: A Program for Youth at Risk in Webster/Dudley

The Boys and Girls Club of Webster-Dudley is continuing to direct at-risk youth ages 12 - 15, toward positive alternatives by offering programming on a variety of issues to help youth make better choices. Counselors from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) are on site regularly and offer a weekly program dealing with self-esteem and self-confidence. Choices is using MSPCC's Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS) to measure improvements in functioning in various areas such as school, home, behavior and mood. Participants have been assessed at 3-month intervals and have shown improvement in functioning in these areas. Their advocacy agenda includes continued support for the Children's Mental Health Campaign, including efforts to require coverage for collateral services and working to ensure that the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative is implemented effectively, in order to enable behavioral health counselors to continue to provide services to the youth on site at the Boys & Girls Club.

Project Director:	Mr. Tony Poti
Fiscal Agent:	The Boys & Girls Club of Webster-Dudley

Title:

Hunger-Free & Healthy - Implementation, Year 2

Amount:

$354,375

Recipient:

Worcester County Food Bank

Grant Type:

Synergy Initiative - Hunger-Free & Healthy

For the second year of implementation, Hunger-Free & Healthy (HFH) will focus on continued efforts to increase SNAP (food stamp) enrollment through the efforts of an outreach worker who visits various food pantries and other social service locations throughout the city. HFH will also continue to work with the Worcester Public Schools to improve the nutritional quality of the meals offered in the schools; with Operation Frontline to offer cooking/nutrition classes and with the Regional Environmental Council to operate the Farmers' Market that they started in Main South, the Worcester Educational Garden and to expand some of the existing school/community gardens. HFH will work with the Great Brook Valley Health Center, the Worcester Housing Authority and the owner of two neighborhood corner stores to improve awareness of and access to more nutritional foods in the neighborhood. This may offer a model that could be replicated in other locations. HFH advocacy efforts will continue to focus on the creation of a statewide Food Policy Council, improvements in the food stamp program and the improved nutritional quality of school meals.

Project Co-Directors:	Ms. Jean McMurray Mr. Dennis Irish
Fiscal Agent:	Worcester County Food Bank

Title:

The Winchendon Project - Phase III Grant

Amount:

$376,940

Recipient:

Montachusett Opportunity Council

Grant Type:

Synergy Initiative - The Winchendon Project

Phase III of The Winchendon Project (TWP) will continue to build on the work done in each of the first two phases including providing school-based behavioral health services; coordinating school and community resources through the work of the Learning Supports Facilitator; continuing a social norming campaign to address youth substance use; working to integrate the provision of medical and behavioral health services; introducing the All-Stars curriculum (a program to delay the onset of or prevent substance use, violence and sexual activity in youths ages 11 to 14); and establishing Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (a community organizing program designed to reduce adolescent access to alcohol by changing community policies and practices) in Winchendon.

The goals of Phase III include:
- building the capacity of staff at Murdock Middle High School to address youth behavioral health and substance use issues so that they can be addressed before clinical intervention is the only option,
- continuing to provide school-based behavioral health services which will also include collateral services, and
- institutionalizing systems to ensure that school personnel continue to be aware of available community resources.

The Winchendon Project will continue to be supportive of the Children's Mental Health Campaign, most specifically in their efforts to ensure payment for collateral contacts which are especially important in behavioral health services for children.

Project Co-Directors:	Ms. Kathleen J. McDermott Ms. Catherine S. Apostoleris
Fiscal Agent:	Montachusett Opportunity Council