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Funded Programs FY10-11 PHYSICAL HEALTH Increasing Access to Pediatric Dental Care: ($242,896) A project of CommuniCare Health Centers in collaboration with Winters Healthcare Foundation. Funding will expand access to dental care for low income, culturally diverse, underserved children ages 0-5 and pregnant women residing throughout Yolo County. Health Insurance Outreach, Enrollment, Utilization and Retention: ($125,000) A Yolo County Children’s Alliance project. Funded for health insurance outreach, enrollment, utilization and retention services for uninsured children 0-5 years old. Healthy Kids Insurance Premiums: ($50,000) Funding provided to Partnership HealthPlan of California to administer First 5 Yolo’s Healthy Kids Insurance Program and provide medical, dental, vision and behavioral health coverage to children ages 0-5. West Sacramento Food Distribution: ($15,000) A Yolo County Children’s Alliance project. Funded to provide the weekly distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables to families in West Sacramento. Healthy Lifestyle Choices: ($4,919)* Funding will provide children and families of the Knights Landing Community with access to nutrition and physical activity, education, and experience. Providing training and resources for establishing healthy habits that will continue to nourish and empower the community into the future. Child Injury Prevention Program: ($3,207)* The Yolo County Department of Public Health will provide a child passenger safety program to families at high-risk for child passenger injury with a specific focus on outreach for foster families. Activities will include child passenger safety classes for high-risk and foster families, staff trainings, child safety seat inspections, and distribution of child safety seats. READY TO LEARN Universal Early Learning: ($156,066) A project of RISE, Inc. Funding provides for an array of capacity building and support services for childcare and early education services in the Esparto/Capay Valley Region. Family Literacy: ($34,512) A project of the Yolo County Library funded to implement a countywide family literacy program to include such activities as bilingual story time and bilingual family literacy workshops. Jardin de Ninos Preschool: ($11,874)* Project of the City of Winters funded to implement a pre-kindergarten development program for children ages 2 – 5½ not currently in a program. Program will develop social, behavioral and literacy readiness skills that will enable children to enter kindergarten familiar with a classroom setting and prepared to learn. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH Step by Step Home Visitation: ($364,796) A project of the Yolo County Children’s Alliance and Yolo County Health Department. Funding provided for the implementation of Healthy Families of America Home Visitation program and Team Decision-Making and the set up of the supporting inter-agency organizational infrastructure. Foster Family Support Programs: ($130,491) A project of the Yolo County Children’s Alliance funded to strengthen supports and resources for foster families and children in such areas as respite care, mental health services, mentoring, and funding for essential needs to promote the retention of foster families and keeping children in Yolo County. Safety Net Resource & Referral Case Manager: ($25,000) A project of RISE, Inc. Funding granted to hire staff to provide resource and referral services to families with young children residing in Esparto, Capay Valley and Winters needing assistance navigating public resources. TANF Emergency Contingency Fund Match for Homelessness Prevention: ($200,000) A project of YC DESS to provide short term, nonrecurring benefits such as emergency food assistance, rental assistance, utility assistance and other services for those eligible families with children ages 0-5. Perinatal Substance Abuse Day Treatment Expansion: ($60,000) A project of CommuniCare Health funded to increase program capacity to serve pregnant women and women with children requiring substance abuse treatment including counseling services, childcare and transportation, and family reunification support. CHILD CARE Childcare Quality and Affordability: ($208,118) A project of city of Davis Childcare Services providing on-site education, support and resources to targeted private child care center and family day care providers in Yolo County to increase quality child care slots throughout the county including rural areas and for special needs children. Project also includes child development education classes for parents and child development professionals. Outdoor Classroom Provider Trainings: ($23,099) A collaborative program of CommuniCare Health Centers funded to train childcare staff to develop and implement outdoor programming and environments as integrated elements of a quality early education program. Universal Preschool for West Sacramento (UP4WS): ($100,000) UP4WS is a partnership among the City of West Sacramento, Washington Unified School District, First 5 Yolo, and Yolo County Office of Education. The primary objective is to offer free, high quality and voluntary preschool to all four year old children in West Sacramento. SYSTEMS CHANGE COMPASS Universal Application System: ($25,000) A project of Vistalogic, Inc. to develop and implement a countywide universal application system to screen families for a variety of public services including health insurance programs. Additional funding provided to build a publicly accessible version of the system. Mental Health Provider Capacity Building: ($83,760) A WestEd Center for Prevention and Early Intervention project funded to provide outreach, training and case consultation to mental health providers to increase access and capacity to serve children. (*) Rollover contract from FY09-10 |
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