Health Professions Development
FY '09
One year - $20,000
To refine Major Medical Break Through script, acting, and supporting materials to learn whether MMBT can be used effectively with nursing students, social workers, med students in their starting years and/or residents still in training.
One year - $20,000
To support the start-up costs of the Evergreen Child Development Center to address 1) overall increase in numbers of children with pervasive developmental and learning disorders, 2) lack of timely access to evaluation and diagnosis for children with suspected disabilities, and 3) need for timely, comprehensive, coordinated services based on evaluation results.
One year - $25,000
To support the development of staff capacity to introduce new programs and assure financial sustainability through a combination of earned income, interest from endowment and expanded grant income.
Tufts Medical School
$100,000
To provide one 4 year scholarship for students from Maine who are enrolled in the medical program of partners TUSM and Maine Medical Center.
FY ‘08
One year - $24,100
To support its first step toward comprehensive identification, assessment, and intervention in the pre-illness (prodrome) phase of psychosis.
Two years - $65,762 total: $34,881 year one; $30,881 year two
To launch and evaluate the “Telephonic Mover” program. The pilot program seeks to alleviate the historic difficulty of recruiting and sustaining volunteer “Movers” from within rural communities. Move More is a community collaborative located in Kennebec and Somerset counties to support improvements in physical activity and nutrition.
Two years - $98,750 total: $40,000 year one; $58,750 year two
For the creation of a new virtual center for preventive medicine that would be based at Maine Medical Center. The center would focus on medical education, research, and community outreach. New linkages would be developed with the medical care and public health sectors statewide, toward the goal of improving health for all Mainers.
Two years - $36,858 total: $20,929 year one; $15, 929 year two
To evaluate the Domestic Violence Response Initiative also funded by Bingham. The purpose of the Initiative is to support the promotion of physicians training physicians to respond appropriately to patients experiencing domestic violence.
FY '07
One year - $16,900
Adaptation of You the Man, a one man play dealing with violence to be used in training health care workers to recognize and respond to domestic violence and sexual assault.
Two years – $31,584 total: $19,376 year one; $12,208 year two
To promote systemic change in the way women are treated in the healthcare system when seeking abortions. The goal of the education to be provided to healthcare professionals is to normalize abortion care in the wider health care setting.
Two years - $89,237 total: $50,239 year one; $38,998 year two
To develop a collaboration between MDFPR and the Bread Of Life Ministries for services to include comprehensive social services and primary care services to BOLM transitioning families and homeless clients. MDPFR will also develop a “transitioning/homeless” curriculum for its residents and medical students.
Community Health
FY ‘09
Two years - $25,000 each year
To assist in the transition of Biddeford Free Clinic patients from reliance on emergency dental care, to the establishment of a Dental Home.
One year - $28,100
To support a collaborative planning process of Community Health & Counseling Services, Eastern Maine HomeCare & Hospice, and St. Joseph HomeCare and Hospice to identify actionable strategies to improve access to end of life care for the regional population of central, northern, and eastern Maine.
One year - $25,000
To create a new substance abuse coalition and begin to leverage treatment services for Deer Isle residents
Three years - $32,378 yr. one; $29,843 yr two; $26,364 year three
Muskie Staff in collaboration with state domestic violence programs, attorneys, guardians ad litem (GALs), courts and key decision makers will develop and provide advanced education to GALs and key decision makers in cases where domestic violence is present. Training will include an in-person conference in the first year with follow-up teleconferences for guardians ad litem who have completed the beginning course on domestic violence and child custody required by the state, and other key decision makers. Year two will include 2 regional in-person events for new person or persons who could not attend the year 1 conference, and follow-up teleconferences for both groups will occur in year 3. Adding an on-line component will be an option for year 3.
One year - $30,000
To support our efforts working with the Maine business community to raise their awareness of Domestic Violence and Early Childhood Development issues. The objective is to provide them with the necessary information that will encourage them to invest in prevention efforts.
Three years - $22,250 yr. one; $24,909 yr. two; $22,659 yr. three
To reduce aggressive behavior in early childhood programs statewide by training early childhood educators in conflict resolution practices based on children's books. The project includes a comprehensive evaluation with comparison groups and post-program information.
Two years - $25,000 each year
Support to strengthen longstanding relationships with collaborators and community partners including Down East Community Hospital, schools, medical providers, Kids Oral Health Partnership, From the First Tooth, Parents are Teachers Too, and the Community Caring Collaborative to ensure oral health strategies and activities are included in all aspects of their efforts.
FY ‘08
One year - $7,500
A demonstration grant designed to prove the need to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services for two people to staff the Maine Warm Line during the late night/early morning hours.
One year - $20,364
To fund the independent evaluation of Boys to Men's Reducing Sexism and Violence Program
Capital Kids
One year - $25,000
Core operating support for the Augusta Boys and Girls Club for Teens
Three years - $76,310 total; $25,230 year one; $28,090 year two; $22,990 year three
To expand programming to Maine's underserved rim counties over the next three years bringing together community groups, health providers, and schools to form a coalition to support girls' healthy development and to implement HGHW programming in each community.
One year - $10,000
To support the stakeholder process, which will bring together representatives from up to 20 organizations for six half-day sessions, to establish the Maine Health Quality Improvement Fund. The purpose of the new fund will be to provide an ongoing revenue source to offset a portion of HealthInfoNet’s annual operating costs.
Two years $39,158; $19,579 for each year
To provide support and community action to bring together key stakeholders to implement locally defined strategies to improve food security for older adults, low-income families, and remote island residents to implement lasting improvements in the local food system.
Three years - $103,100 total: $34,500 in years one and two; $34,100 year three
incorporate a public health approach to prevent abuse and avoid the consequences to the child, family and community of Shaken Baby Syndrome.
FY ‘07
One year - $10,000
Core support for The Bike Shop, a preventive health program involving bike repair and biking for kids at the Kennedy Park Housing Project
One year - $25,000
Core support for development of the organization
Greater Waterville Area Communities for Children and Youth
One year - $25,000
Three years - $74,277 total: $24,925 year one; $24,419 year two; $24,933 year three
Collaborative project developed by Healthy Community Coalition (HCC) and UMF to address current and increasing shortages in the community health workforce and leadership.
One year - $30,690
For a 12 month planning process to develop strategic and operational plans to meet the prevention and health services needs of 9 remote islands. The process builds on a previous needs assessment and an existing inter-island health coalition
One year- $42,370
For research and pilot project development to engage women as advocates for increased domestic violence screening and referral from health care providers as one way of engaging the public in recognizing the nature of the problem of domestic violence and helping solve it.
One year - $25,000
Support for Phase II: Proof of Concept. The xDream Challenge is an online educational program enabling youth between 8 and 12 to learn about exercise and nutrition in a fun, educational manner. The project has teamed with the 17 Maine YMCAs to conduct the research for the proof of concept.
Passamaquoddy Medicine Project
One year - $26,369
To record, in English and Passamaquoddy, the medicine of the Passamaquoddy tribe and its traditions in a way that is respectful and inclusive, to make it available in media that can be shared with other tribal members, young and old, and with educational and health-care institutions, especially in Maine.
One year - $16,918
To expand the use of Touchpoints among child and family providers in Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties. “Touchpoints,” developed by pediatrician Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and his colleagues, is a model of practice that teaches providers to use anticipatory guidance and establish collaborative, rather than prescriptive, relationships with parents based on their shared interest in the development of the child.
One year - $23,000
Funding to formalize the Lots to Garden’s nutrition curriculum to deliver programs more efficiently to populations they serve including the elderly, parents and Somalis.
One year - $25,000
To expand to Aroostook County the Association's program of HIV outreach and education using respected native leaders as the messengers.
Public Health Policy Development
FY ‘09
Three years – $33,334 yr. one; $33,333 yr. two; $33,333 yr. three
The Environmental Health Strategy Center, together with the Natural Resources Council of Maine, will undertake a three-year project to ensure the effectiveness of Maine's new landmark policy to protect the developing fetus and young children from unnecessary toxic chemicals in consumer products and plastic materials. The project will marshal science, policy analysis, and public education to guide the State to fully implement the Kids Safe Products Act passed by the Maine legislature in 2008.
FY ‘08
One year - $30,000
To support a collaborative effort of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine to educate current and future policymakers in Maine about the threat to public health posed by industrial chemicals commonly added to consumer products and everyday materials. The Project aims for long term system change through the adoption of a comprehensive safer chemicals policy that gives primacy to environmental public health protection.
FY ‘07
Two years - $14,998 year one; $11,930 year two
To conduct research on the experience of survivors of domestic violence who received mental health counseling and to assess social workers' and counseling students' understanding and knowledge regarding dv and to use the research to create standards for Maine's counseling and social work programs.
Maine Public Health Association
Two years -- $10,000: $5,000 for year two contingent on successful completion of year one activities. To develop and provide a single resource for legislators to turn to that provides Maine-specific public health information to assist them in their role as partners in protecting the public's health.
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