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In Maine more than half the homicides each year are the result of domestic violence.
- Dept. of Public Safety's yearly Crime in Maine reports

Discretionary Grants
Grants of $5,000 or less

FY ‘08

$3,738  For support of its annual Spring Conference focusing on child abuse, child abuse prevention and the impact of child abuse on the health and welfare of children.

        hear ME now!
$5,000  To create and implement a marketing plan to promote the option for deaf and hard of hearing children to learn to listen and talk.

Northeast Assets Leadership Project
$1,500  Scholarship support for leaders and volunteers from Maine healthy community coalitions, projects pursuing inclusion for people with developmental disabilities or mental illness, or current or recent Bingham grantees to attend advanced training in Asset Based Community Development.

$500  For its annual Governor’s Forum on Cardiovascular Health

$1,050 Indicators of Maine’s Progress in Ending Partner Violence: A Snapshot of Current Relevant Research and Initiatives

$5,000  To work with the Maine Attorney General’s Office to offer a statewide conference for high school and college age men to help equip them with the tools and skills to become involved in the efforts to end violence against women.

$1,000  To support the action-planning activities of its annual Peer Leadership Conference.

        New Hope for Women
$1,000  To support the activities of the Boothbay Region Domestic Abuse Prevention Council yto provide the community with increased knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of emotional abuse and domestic violence and an improved ability to respond to victims and survivors.

        Spurwink
$3,000  To support the Speakers & Scholarships Fund of the New England Summer Wraparound Institute

FY ‘07

$5,000  A joint effort of the Lung Association and the Bucksport Healthy Communities Coalition to develop a prototype implementation strategy integrating environmental and energy concerns into a Healthy Communities framework.
BCBS of Massachusetts Foundation
$1000 - Health Coverage Fellowship for a Maine journalist.

$3,800  To design a comprehensive wellness program for mature adults to be implemented through seven community and resource centers.

        Family Violence Project
$5,000  To support A Call to Men, an event hosted by the Attorney General aimed at getting men involved in stopping domestic violence and sexual assault.

$2,500  Support for keynote speaker at Physicians in Rural Practice conference.

        Kenneth Schwartz Center
$5,000  To support one year of rounds at Maine Medical Center to promote compassionate health care.

$500  Support for bringing Dr. Felitti to Maine to speak at the Assessing and Increasing Patient Self Confidence:  A Key to Managing Chronic Disease conference.

$5,000  To support a grassroots organizer to educate the media and the public about the proposed changes to Maine's assault law that would make battering a separate crime.

        Maine Hospice Council
$5,000  The goal of the project is to understand the challenges responsible for the low utilization of hospice services.

        Maine Humanities Council
$1,500  Support for speakers at its Caring for the Caregivers: Perspectives on Literature and Medicine  conference.

        Maine Parent Federation
$2,000  Support for families to attend the training seminar so that they can become more active in bringing reforms to hospital settings, particularly in understanding how to involve families in a partnership role to improve the experience of care and clinical outcomes of patients.

        Medical Care Development
        $5,000  Support for an oral health public opinion survey

$1,000 - For building a data base of Maine leaders, institutions and grassroots projects; strategic stakeholder development; and, capacity building

$5,000  To facilitate the development of a model framework and detailed plan for implementing an academic detailing training and service provision system in Maine and Northern New England.

$2,000   To support activities after the Improving Patient Safety Through Informed Medication Prescribing and Disposal Practices conference.

        United Somali Women
$5,000   To develop the organization’s capacity in two vital areas: financial sustainability and developing leadership and management skills among the organization’s staff and Board of Directors.
                                                        
FY ‘06

        AbilityMaine
$4,922 - Raising awareness of eligibility for Medicare Part D Drug Program for people with disabilities.

        Bureau of Health
$5,000 – Support for Dirigo’s work to build a “virtual public health system” using community coalitions.

$1,000 Support for a conference to introduce Allies in Action: Building Healthy Relationships Between Girls and From Adversaries to Allies:  A Curriculum for Change to elementary and middle school teachers and guidance counselors.
                                                        
$3,000 - For building a data base of Maine leaders, institutions and grassroots projects; strategic stakeholder development; and, capacity building.

Somali Culture and Development Association
$4925 - Development, printing and distribution of a community newsletter with health information for Somali immigrants in Maine.



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