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Transition from Jail to Community - Palm Beach
West Palm Beach, FL

Using an individualized approach to frequent re-offenders who cycle in and out of the county jail, re-entry coaches will work with clients during their incarceration to develop detailed assessment and discharge plans. Upon release, clients will be directly connected to housing and needed services such as job training and employment, primary and behavioral health services, substance abuse treatment, and education. More than 25 community agencies actively participated in a local funder-led planning process to link separate services into a supportive wraparound system to reduce recidivism.

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Girl Matters: It's Elementary!
Jacksonville, FL

Girl Matters: It's Elementary! offers a gender-responsive intervention program to effectively address the underlying issues contributing to young girls' (grades K-5) disruptive behaviors in two Duval County, FL schools. The main goal is to reduce elementary school suspensions and expulsions and prevent the arrests and incarcerations that send girls into the juvenile justice system. The comprehensive approach includes training for school staff and three tiers of service: short-term in-school interventions; work with a mentor and community referral networks; and intensive care management, family counseling and in-home support.

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Seniors on a Mission
Jacksonville, FL

Seniors on a Mission engages live-alone senior citizens in meaningful, team-oriented volunteerism at local nonprofit organizations. The project reduces the social isolation that can lead to depression and medical problems in older persons by providing safe, convenient transportation to accessible, comfortable places to work; a nutritious meal; and coordination with the needs of area nonprofits. The seniors' pro bono services have been enthusiastically received for projects such as bar-coding new elementary textbooks, labeling thousands of fundraising letters, and repairing items donated to a clothing bank.

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Kinship Cares
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Kinship care is the fastest growing form of home placement for children whose parents cannot care for them due to illness, incarceration or family social factors. Informal custodial arrangements between family members keep children connected to their kin and community, but they often do so without the financial, legal and health benefits available within the foster care system. This partnership between a community social service agency, legal aid and a county health system employs nurses as health navigators to assure that the health care needs of both children and their adult caregivers are addressed.

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Caregiving Youth Project
Boca Raton, FL

Caregiving youth bear significant responsibility for parents, grandparents or siblings who are ill or disabled. These youth are often isolated, unable to participate in age-appropriate activities and do poorly in school. The Caregiving Youth Project will identify middle-school students most in need of support and provide in-school counseling, respite care, outside activities and links to existing services such as transportation, medical care and equipment, food services and tutoring. Local funders are highly engaged in the development of the program, which is modeled on best practices in the United Kingdom and Australia.

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Parramore Kidz Zone
Orlando, FL

To improve school performance and reduce teen pregnancy, juvenile crime and child abuse in Orlando's most distressed, impoverished neighborhood-the Parramore district-a coalition of residents, clergy, government, law enforcement, business leaders, health professionals and educators will link children with health services, youth development and enrichment programs, and community mentors. The Parramore Kidz Zone will primarily expand and coordinate existing programs rather than creating new ones.

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EXTREME Health Challenge
Orlando, FL

Building on 20 years of experience creating live puppet performances in schools, the ''EXTREME Health Challenge'' uses an interactive game show format to promote healthy nutrition and exercise for children grades K-5 in Florida schools. The script follows the mandated Sunshine State Curriculum and teachers receive grade-appropriate classroom lesson plans that can be used before and after performances. The auditorium-based show will reach more than 200,000 children over the life of the grant. As it travels to approximately 360 schools throughout the state, it will reinforce other childhood obesity prevention activities including those already funded through the LIFP program.

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Schools of Wellness
Hollywood, FL

Targeting all fourth and fifth graders at 50 South Florida elementary schools, this bi-county physical activity program seeks to combat childhood obesity and promote lifelong wellness emphasizing fitness and good nutrition. Local funders convened this regional collaboration of schools, hospitals, community organizations, and county health, parks and recreation departments. The Schools of Wellness project will engage children in three complementary and well-tested program components that encourage walking and active lifestyles. Simultaneously a social marketing campaign will raise community-wide awareness to foster an environment where children and families engage in physical activities.

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Abriendo Puertas
Boca Raton, FL

Hospice By The Sea's Cultural Diversity Initiative 2002 will put forth strategies to reach out to the Hispanic population to improve their understanding of and access to quality end -of-life care. The objectives of our project are to minimize the cultural barriers that challenge access to hospice care for this population,increase the number of Hispanic patients and families dealing with a progressive,life limiting illness who benefit from quality end-of-life palliative care and improve the cultural competency of staff involved in the care of the dying.

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Shepherd's Hope 2000
Orlando, FL

Shepherd's Hope is a faith-based, nonprofit organization that operates eight free walk-in clinics staffed by over 1200 volunteers. Each of the eight health centers is the result of a unique partnership between a school, which offers free clinic space, a church which is the primary resource for volunteers and a hospital that provides in-kind diagnostic testing services. The centers are open in the evenings to serve the working poor.

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The Howard Phillips Center for Children & Families - Children's Advocacy Center
Orlando, FL

The Children's Advocacy Center provides a multi-disciplinary response to child victims of severe physical and sexual abuse. In addition, the Children's Advocacy Center serves the professionals involved in the investigation, treatment, and prosecution of such cases.

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Palm Beach County Home Visiting Program
West Palm Beach, FL

The Home Visiting Program represents a systemic expansion of the Healthy Start program, and brings together public health agencies and private care providers to improve access to basic health care for pregnant women and their newborns.

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Healthcare for the Homeless
Jacksonville, FL

A collaborative effort by the Emergency Services and Homeless Coalition, Duval County Medical Society, area hospitals public health and human service providers resulting in the establishment of a health care clinic specifically to serve the homeless with primary care, vision care, dental services, and mental health treatment.

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Health Care Center for the Homeless
Orlando, FL

To expand the Health Care Center for the Homeless to include evening clinic services, comprehensive dental and eye care, and post-operative respite care to the many homeless in the Orlando area.

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