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2009 - 2010 Beneficiaries
NETWORK of
Community Ministries, Inc.
Funding will provide upgrades to the
examination rooms, improve supplies, provide better on-site patient medical
education and advance clinic operations within the
Adolescent and Children’s Clinic.
This clinic provides acute medical care to uninsured or uninsurable
children and their siblings in the Richardson Independent
School District
area. The staff is totally voluntary
with 11 physicians, 17 nurses, and 72 volunteers donating time in the evening to
provide clinic services for the children.
Over six hundred students were served last year.
It operates under the goal to increase student school attendance by
rapidly returning treated students to the classroom.
www.thenetwork.org
Community
Partners of Dallas
Funding will make available the
NWC
Safe Sleep, Safe Rides Program.
This program provides toddler beds and car seats to those children that CPS
is placing in foster care or in care of another family member.
This program is part of the bigger Rainbow Room Program which is an
emergency resource center providing critically needed items to the abused and
neglected children served by CPS.
www.cpdtx.org
Interfaith
Housing Coalition
Funding provides for Family Services
for the Home and Hope Residential Program.
This program provides individualized, holistic programs to families.
This includes transitional housing, assessment and case management,
budget and financial literacy training, employment counseling and job search,
life skills and parenting classes, counseling and pastoral care, children’s
educational enrichment after school, during parents’ evening classes and all day
during the summer as well as a teen program with activities, counseling and
mentoring.
www.interfaithhousingcoalition.org
Our Friends Place
Funding provides additional living
space for young women ages 18 – 24 years who are no longer eligible to reside in
foster homes. A new transitional
home will be constructed with the name of “Pauline’s Place
Transitional
Living Center”.
Our Friends Place
is dedicated to providing a foundation for young women to build from adversity
by learning a self-reliant approach to their development.
These young women are required to attend school as well as work.
This program provides financial education with regards to budgeting,
saving and making good choices. www.ourfriendsplace.org
UTD Scholarships
To supplement the funds generated by
our endowed scholarship fund, this funding allows a full scholarship to two
qualified women attending the University of Texas
at Dallas.
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www.utdallas.edu
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