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Selection of Grants Funded in 2007
New
Jersey
Project Dulce:
$365,800
This project is aimed at improving the health outcomes of
the state's minorities suffering from diabetes, using a community-based
culturally appropriate nurse management and peer education diabetes care
model.
Broadway House for Continuing
Care
Palliative Care Suite
$250,000
WIth this grant, specialized care and treatment space
was expanded for end of life care. The tranquil palliative care suite
increases facility bed slots from 74 to 78 and provides a quiet and
dignified space where family and staff can support the dying process of
residents in their final days. The multi-model end of life and palliative
care services at Broadway House are integrated within a state-of-the-art
residential treatment model of for difficult-to-serve persons living with
HIV/AIDS.
Newark
Colorectal Screening and Education
Program
$193,200
This program increases awareness and education regarding the
need to get screened for colorectal cancer and provides free colonoscopies
to 1,000 uninsured individuals who are 50 years of age or older, do not
have medical insurance, and do not have any known colorectal cancer risk
factors.
North Jersey
AIDS Alliance, Inc.
Newark Convenient
Care
$179,500
Funding establishes a medical clinic in
Jewish Family Service of MetroWest
Houscalls
$164,000
An
integrated and seamless approach to the provision of social work and
health services to frail and homebound older
adults.
Daughters of Israel
Metro
Transport
$148,000
A signature partnership of the foundation and the
Jewish community to provide subsidized transportation services to
the elderly and the
disabled.
Fire Safety Center
$150,000
This grant supports a permanent Fire Safety Center and major
education programs designed to reduce the incidence of injury and death
caused by residential fires in the city of Newark and surrounding
communities.
Foundation of University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey
A Clinical Approach to Understand the Treatment of Hepatitis B and C
$136,160
With this grant, a curriculum will be developed
to train physicians, nurses and healthcare staff on best practices for
detecting chronic viral hepatitis, and pilot a new hepatitis screening
approach. Funds also enable a research study to demonstrate efficacies of
these tandom interventions in identifying patients at risk for
hepatitis.
Kean University Foundation
Institute for Adults Living with Communications Disorders
$130,000
Funding supports a newly created Institute for Adults
Living with Communication Disorders on Kean's campus. The Institute,
housed in the Center for Communications Disorders, will provide
speech/language/communication rehabilitation to adults in the surrounding
area on a sliding fee scale.
Jewish Family Service of
MetroWest
Synagogue Caring
Coalition
$125,000
A signature partnership of the
Healthcare Foundation, JFS and area synagogues provide social work
services on-site within participating synagogue
communities.
Clara Maass Medical Center
Foundation
Home-Based Health Care for Seniors
$92,250
This grant supports the implementation of Phase One of
the "Home-based Healthcare for Seniors" program, which takes health care
to seniors at home; transports them to the hospital for necessary testing
and treatment; and coordinates and facilitates their medical
care.
Community Hope
The Healthy Transitions Discharge Planning Project
$78,110
The Hope for Veterans program provides transitional
housing and supportive services to homeless veterans for up to 24
months. This grant adds a new position of discharge planning
specialist to prepare and support clients after they leave the
program.
Jewish Vocational Services of MetroWest
Community Based Assessment and Work Training
Program
$68,000
This grant supports a program that provides employment
opportunities for individuals with disabilities in preparation for long
term unsubsidized work.
Helen Keller International,
Inc.
ChildSight Program
$50,000
This grant supports a vision screening program between
September 2007 and August 2008 which would target children from 1st to 8th
grade in Newark public schools and allow expansion of the program in
Orange and East Orange.
Family Service
League/Montclair
Newark Rape Care Initiative
$46,600
The Family Service League operates the Essex County
Rape Care Center which provides 24-hour crisis response to rape survivors
and their families in addition to working with law enforcement and
hospitals to treat the rape victim in addition to prosecuting any rapists.
The grant establishes a satellite Rape Care Center in Newark from where
75% of hotline calls emanate.
ASPIRA, Inc. of New
Jersey
Promoting Safe and Healthy Communities
$31,800
The purpose of Promoting Healthy Communities is provide a framework for working with Hispanic youth and parents on HIV/AIDS by using ASPIRA's Youth Development Model, known as the ASPIRA Process-Awareness, Analysis and Action.
