Farmington Bank Community Foundation awarded $122,000 in grants to support access to healthcare and abuse prevention as well as $30,000 in bonus grants to FBCF grantees working to provide access to food and emergency shelter.
Grantees included:
Center for Children’s Advocacy —For the Medical Legal Partnership Project which provides legal services to children to help resolve medical problems and address health-harming social and environmental conditions.
Community Foundation of Greater New Britain – For capacity building workshops and small grants for New Britain area nonprofit organizations and their boards.
Connecticut Community Care – For the Live Home Support/Independent Living Project that provides “last resort funding” for low-income older individuals and people with disabilities at risk of nursing home placement. Funds will be used to help clients maintain independent living arrangements.
Connecticut Oral Health Initiative – For Every Senior Deserves a Healthy Smile—a community-based initiative designed to improve the oral and overall health of older adults. The program will focus on outreach in Bristol, Farmington, and New Britain through partnerships with senior centers, senior housing communities, and local organizations.
Hartford Hospital – For the Neighborhood Health Program, a regularly-occurring mobile health clinic that partners with community-based organizations to provide primary health care and other resources at community based locations.
Hartford Interval House, Inc. – For its preventive education and outreach program, aimed at reaching area youth, first responders, and community members with information aimed at breaking the cycle of abuse.
Hospital of Central CT – For the Breast Cancer Early Detection Program which provides mammograms, ultrasounds, and biopsies to medically underserved populations, including uninsured and/or underinsured women, women with high deductible health insurance and women impacted by unemployment, ethnic, racial, socio-economic and language barriers.
Klingberg Family Centers – For the Children’s Advocacy Center, the hub of a multidisciplinary partnership between professionals that investigates allegations of child abuse and exploitation in a child-friendly, developmentally and clinically appropriate, and culturally sensitive manner
Malta House of Care – To provide access to healthcare for uninsured adults through its mobile and stationary clinics which provide free exams, diagnoses, vaccinations, medications, diagnostic lab tests, and radiology.
New Horizons Inc. – For updates to its emergency call-for-aid system as well as to support digital storytelling and awareness building for Sunshine Wheels.
Prudence Crandall Center – For the Children’s Intervention and Prevention Services which addresses the emotional, social, and educational needs of children/youth served through the organization’s emergency shelter, supportive housing programs, and community-based programs.
Senior Transportation Services Inc. – To provide rides to doctor and health treatment appointments for seniors and those dealing with long term illness.
The Underground NE, Inc. – For the Mentor Program, which is staffed by trained adult survivors with lived experience and community allies, who together provide coaching, advocacy, case management, financial assistance, and support to survivors through one-on-one mentoring.
The University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc. – To improve access to Self-Measured Blood Pressure (SMBP) and education for at-risk pregnant women through real-time dissemination of preeclampsia cuff kits.
Additional year end grants were awarded to the following organizations in recognition of the critical services they provide in access to food and shelter:
Friendship Service Center
St Vincent de Paul Mission of Bristol
Gifts of Love
HRA of New Britain
Plainville Community Food Pantry
Grace Baptist Church
Southington Bread for Life
ACTS Ministries International
Tabernacle Christian Church