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I 5,311 domestic assaults were reported to police in 2008.
- Children's Mental Health Report 2010
 
Discretionary Grants
Grants of $5,000 or less

FY ‘10

$5,000 to support performances on Major Medical Breakthrough at medical venues in Maine

$5,000 Community outreach with strategic partners to low income and senior groups

$1,000 to support the reactivization of the community task force created to stop abuse

Community Dental Center
$5,000 to support handicap access

$1,000 conference support for speakers

$5,000 for a grant writer to leverage $500,000 for the work of the Maine Children’s Growth Council

$5,000 for a planning grant designed to give mental health counselors on-line training opportunities in power and control and domestic violence

$5,000 to support its work on Family Medical Leave

Restaurant Health Education and Outreach Project
$5,000 to support an employer education program on occupational safety and health to improve health outcomes for low-wage restaurant workers

$1,000 conference support

FY ‘09

BC/BS of Massachusetts Foundation
$1000 - Health Coverage Fellowship for a Maine journalist.

$2,750 For strategic planning

$5,000 to fund an endovaginal transducer to train students in the Kennebec Sonography program

Long-term Care Ombudsman
$5,000 to establish a strong Maine Senior Action Network

$5,000 to support four business roundtables on the economic impact of early childhood investment

$3,500 to train prisoners to become hospice volunteers

$1,000 to cosponsor a leadership forum to develop and approve a plan to help reverse Maine’s slide toward higher childhood obesity rates

$2,400 to support community trauma response training

$1,000 2008 International Symposium on Pharmaceuticals in the Home and Environment: Catalysts for Change

Violence Intervention Partnership Faith Initiative
$1,040 for training materials

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.

$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.

$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.

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


 
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