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Grants Awarded


Selection of Grants Funded in 2007


New Jersey
Hospital
Association

Project Dulce: New Jersey Diabetes Disease Management

$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 Beth Israel Medical Center Foundation

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 Newark for children and adults to treat common illnesses on an affordable fee for service basis, and provide preventive vaccinations, physical exams, and health screenings. The service offers accessible care to a medically underserved urban population, large numbers of whom are uninsured and underinsured. This social venture is designed to be self-sustaining within three years and eventually yield unrestricted income to further NJCRI's non-profit mission.


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.


The Newark Museum

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.

 

 
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