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| Brookside Community Health Center, Inc. | | In 2001, Brookside Community Health Center will provide over 20,000 visits for medical, dental, and pre-natal care to low-income residents of West Contra Costa County, over 1000 of which are to children age 0-5. For this project, the prenatal clinic will hold an accident and injury prevention fair. Our target group will be expectant mothers and mothers of children 0-5. During the event we will provide workshops in English and Spanish on poison control, car safety, making the home safe for baby, and general health care during pregnancy. We will also provide food and drinks and all participants will take a Safety Gift Bag home. | | $5,000.00 |
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| City of El Cerrito Recreation Department | | Family Focus Assemblies is a new collaborative pilot program started by eight parents and El Cerrito Recreation Department. FFA was launched when these parents served by City programs (four- Teeter Tots and four - Pre-School) joined forces to develop a fun interactive program for young children (0-5 years) and parents. More activities for this group and greater parental involvement is a high priority City goal. Six FFA will be held during 2002 in City recreation centers or parks. Themes will range from art to music to science and will be selected by the parents and coordinated by City staff. | | $5,000.00 |
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| Contra Costa County Office of Education | | Provide 50 teen parents with their children, (ages 1-5) two recreational, cultural, and educational activities which will increase positive family social interaction and bonding. Efforts will be extended to recruit single fathers who have custody or weekly visitation with their children. | | $5,000.00 |
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| East County Mother’s Club | | Our project and it’s goal is to provide all members of the East County Mother’s Club with the knowledge and skills to provide CPR to their families, friends and all children of the community, should the need arise. | | $5,000.00 |
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| Friends of the Richmond Public Library/LEAP | | LEAP’s Families for Literacy will offer Kindergarten Readiness events at five schools located in economically challenged neighborhoods in the WCCUSD. All of these schools have large populations of ELD/ESL students. Preschool parents will be encouraged to assist in the planning of these events, which will include workshops on getting children ready for kindergarten, craft activities for the children and an intergenerational story time for the families. Families participating in the events will leave with bags filled with preliteracy materials that can be used at home. | | $5,000.00 |
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Liga Latina de Concord
| | The Liga Latina de Concord (soccer league for all but mostly Hispanic children) wish to sponsor and organize a Learn to Swim project for preschoolers during the summer months. Classes’ to be held at Meadow Homes Pool or Concord Community Park Pool. | | $3,500.00 |
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| Los Medanos College School of Nursing | | The Los Medanos College Student Nursing Program is pleased to submit this request for a $1,750 Family-Friendly Community Grant for our "Glo-Germ Go-Germ" Project. This project will teach approximately 600+ local pre-school children proper techniques of hand-washing in a fun, interactive way, while stressing the importance of hand-washing as the most important way to prevent “getting sick.” | | $1,750.00 |
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| Meadow Homes Elementary - “Platicas” | | The “Platicas” at Meadow Homes Elementary School in Concord will establish Noches Majicas de Lectura or "Magical Reading Nights". We will design evenings of reading once a week for parents to come with their children for a night of learning and sharing. | | $5,000.00 |
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| Monument Community Partnership Meadow Home Action Team | | The Meadow Home Action Time will organize Dia del Nino at Meadow Home Park in Concord. This day will be full of activities and entertainments, for children and families of all cultures. The group will do all the organization and planning and coordinating and recruit volunteer from the communities for the event. The children will have wonderful memories for the day dedicate for them. | | $5,000.00 |
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| Monument Community Partnership Senior Action Team | | The Monument Community Partnership Senior Action Team will plan and implement a library for Preschool age children to be located in the new Monument Community Center. It will serve more than 50 young children and their families in volunteer led reading program and a book distribution program. The Senior Action Team will generate additional books from the community. | | $5,000.00 |
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NHU - El Nuevo Mundo Children’s Center
| | El Nuevo Mundo Children’s Center is located in West Richmond. We are the only bilingual pre-school that serves low income families. Most of our families are Hispanic and 80% of the parents speak only Spanish. We would like to address two very important problems. One is the lack of proper use of smoke and fire detectors in their homes plus safety measures in case of fire. The other problem is the unsafe use of charcoal grills indoors that has caused carbon monoxide intoxication in many cases. All the presentations will be done bilingual to a group of 150 adults and a 150 or more children. At the end of the presentation families will take a smoke and carbon monoxide detector with them. | | $5,000.00 |
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| Northern California Family Center | | We are proposing a Safety Fair Project that will go into the Crossroads High School classroom of forty-five pregnant teenagers in Concord, California. The project will consist of lectures, certifications, and demonstrations including the use of equipment necessary to improve the safety of the teen parents, their children, and the community in which they live. The teens will walk away with the tools and information necessary to safety-proof their homes and cars as well as the knowledge needed for protecting their children and themselves in times of crisis. | | $5,000.00 |
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Point Richmond Association of Moms (PRAM)
| | PRAM, a volunteer-run organization that connects and supports families with young children, plans to launch a new effort to expand and enrich our community of families and help the wider community to become more family-friendly. With the assistance of the Children and Families Commission, we propose to reach ouy to bring new, diverse families into our group, sponsor lectures for parents, from which they’ll gain additional information and skills, organize safe, nurturing and fun social events for families, and refurbish and equip our community center so that it will better serve young children. | | $4,000.00 |
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San Ramon Valley Child Care Association
| | San Ramon Valley Child Care Assn. Would like to coordinate a children’s fair for child care providers and their clients served. This day would consist of entertainment, educational books, activity booths, and food & drink in a fun environment for families and their children 0-5 years old. | | $5,000.00 |
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The Perinatal Council
| | Provide education and training in CPR and first aid to low-income parents of children age 0-5 in Brentwood and surrounding areas of far east county, focusing on Spanish-speaking-only families. There is no hospital in the immediate area. The proposed project will make these isolated communities safer by enabling parents to respond immediately to emergency medical situations until professional medical care can be provided. Certified bilingual instructors will conduct the CPR and first aid classes, each of which will be offered three times. The project will be coordinated and overseen by the Coordinator of The Perinatal Council’s Delta Family Resource Center. | | $5,000.00
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Washington Parents Preschool Group
| | We will transform a bleak expanse of asphalt into a safe, creative and exciting outdoor environment for preschool children. As a community - of parents, teachers, children and community members - we will envision the space, plan the build, organize the materials, fee the volunteers and then actually build a playground. The playground will be used during the school day by children attending the public preschool at Washington Elementary School in Richmond and will be open to the whole community in the non-school hours. | | $5,000.00 |
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| | | Total | | $74,250.00 |