Sunday, January 03, 1999
Health Foundation awards 8 grants
BY TIM BONFIELD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati has awarded nearly $365,000 to eight Tristate agencies including its first grants in Butler and Warren counties and southwest Indiana.
The independent foundation, created by the 1997 sale of ChoiceCare to Humana Inc., has given more than $5.5 million this year to agencies in a 20-county region. The foundation focuses on health services for the poor, school-based child health programs, substance abuse and severe mental illness.
The latest projects to win grants are:
• $120,882 to Tender Mercies in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood to hire staff for the agency's seventh homeless shelter, plus $11,000 for new accounting software.
• $84,130 to the Covington Independent Public Schools District for an early intervention project to help preschoolers with severe behavior problems.
• $62,000 to the Dearborn and Ohio counties' prosecutors' offices for a juvenile court program for teens with substance abuse problems.
• $36,509 to Babies Milk Fund to hire a part-time nurse practitioner and a medical assistant to work at a medical clinic at Bloom Middle School.
• $22,950 to Catholic Social Services of Butler and Warren Counties to hire a child therapist to serve victims of child abuse.
• $15,000 to Adoption Option Inc. to offer a sex-abstinence course in several Cincinnati public schools.
• $10,000 to Abilities First Foundation of Middletown to buy equipment needed to test the limits and needs of people with speech, physical and occupational disabilities.
• $3,000 to the Greater Cincinnati Breast Alliance to print two editions of a newsletter for women with breast cancer.
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