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Program: Babysitter’s Training for Low Income Students
Agency: American Red Cross Inland NW Chapter
Provides skills and knowledge in basic caregiving and emergency first aid to babysitters and older siblings.
Program: Mentoring Daughters of Prisoners
Agency: Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Spokane
Offers one-to-one match-ups between trained mentors and daughters of prisoners to reduce the risk of academic and social failure through support and shared activities.
Program: Project Learn
Agency: Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County
Comprehensive project providing homework help and tutoring, high yield learning and leisure activities, parental involvement, collaboration with schools and incentives.
Program: Camp Dart-Lo’s Subsidized Pricing for Low Income Children
Agency: Camp Fire USA Inland NW Council
Provides a safe, fun, educational environment for children ages three through the eighth grade without the family financial capacity to provide quality learning experiences during the summer.
Program: Childbirth and Parenting Alone (CAPA)
Agency: Catholic Charities of Spokane
Provides a path to self-sufficiency, self-respect and capable parenting for low-income, single pregnant women and single parents with children ages newborn through three years.
Program: St. Anne’s Children and Family Center
Agency: Catholic Charities of Spokane
Provides daily child care of the highest quality to low-income, working families in the community.
Program: Women’s Educational Assistance Program
Agency: Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation – Institute for Extended Learning
Scholarship assistance to low-income female students to remove barriers to accessing basic education and training due to high costs of transportation and child care.
Program: Achieving for Tomorrow
Agency: Daybreak Youth Services
This program provides an important new substance abuse treatment regime designed specifically for children ages 10-13.
Program: Effective Black Parenting Class
Agency: East Central Community Organization
A class providing parents with alternative means of discipline. Parents will be encourages and shown how involvement in their children’s education can produce better students.
Program: Out-of-School-Time Programs
Agency: Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center
Summer program designed for youth 3-12 years providing interactive learning to build self-esteem, promote diversity and cultural awareness. Also promotes literacy, offers recreational activities and community service projects.
Program: Demonstration Project on Child Neglect and Abuse
Program: Partners with Families and Children
A demonstration project focused on a collaborative community response to child abuse and neglect. In an effort to keep families together, the WHWF grant will provide emergency assistance to families for housing, food and utilities.
Program: Lactation Support Services
Agency: Providence Holy Family Foundation
Provides dedicated, clinically trained and certified Lactation Specialists through the Family Maternity Center to assist mothers with successfully breastfeeding their infants. This is one of the most effective interventions for improving child survival and health.
Program: Reach for the Future!
Agency: Reach for the Future!
Supports an entire class at Lidgerwood Elementary School to be guaranteed a college education or vocation training upon graduation from high school. Daily after school tutoring and enrichment activities provide the foundation to ensure college preparedness.
Program: The Link
Agency: The Salvation Army Spokane Corps
After school development program for children ages 5-12. It provides a safe environment, modeling of self-discipline, nutritious snacks, mentoring, socialization, physical activity and exposure to arts and culture.
Program: Sally’s House
Agency: The Salvation Army Spokane Corps
A 24/7 emergency foster care placement safe house setting for children victimized by abuse, neglect, parental drug use and other criminal activities.
Program: Healthy Food for Students and their Families
Agency: Second Harvest Inland Northwest
Prioritizing child hunger, the program provides healthy food at no charge to thousands of disadvantaged children by mobile food bank visits to schools and local community centers.
Program: Female Head of Household Emergency Assistance
Agency: Spokane Valley Partners
Consistent with their agency mission of keeping families in their homes with paid utilities, this program assists low income single women heads of household with rental and energy assistance.
Program: Transitional Living Center (TLC)
Agency: Transitional Programs for Women
The TLC serves homeless women with children under the age of five who are motivated to break the cycle of crisis and poverty in their lives by providing housing and supportive services.
Program: Emergency Respite Care Program
Agency: Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery
Provides free, 24-hour shelter and care for children in situations that put them at increased risk of child abuse or neglect.
Program: Women’s Basics at Hope House Emergency Shelter
Agency: Volunteers of America
Ensures that all women who enter the shelter have the items and supports they need to be as comfortable as possible and to begin to leave homelessness.
Program: Tuesday and Wednesday Dinners
Agency: Women and Children’s Free Restaurant
Reduces food insecurity for women and their children by providing delicious, healthy, free of charge meals and nutrition education in a safe and caring environment.
Program: Youth Development and Recreation Services
Agency: West Central Community Center
Provides meaningful, character-building activities that reduce problem behaviors and provide opportunities for youth skills development and recognition, including homework support, leadership opportunities and recreation.
Program: Nature Explore Classroom
Agency: YMCA of the Inland Northwest
Outdoor classroom with 10 distinct play areas provides psychological and physical development in children from infancy to age five. Math, art, science, literacy, social and visual/spatial skills are developed.
Program: Ready, Willing & Able Communities
Agency: Youth Suicide Prevention Program
A broad outreach program focused on engaging the general community in becoming aware of youth suicide and self-harm warnings and risks signs, and learning effective intervention skills.
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