Six San Mateo County Organizations Win Grants to Benefit Children’s Health

PALO ALTO – Six San Mateo County nonprofit organizations have won grants from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, announced Stephen Peeps, foundation president and CEO.

The grants were six of 11 awarded by the foundation in its first of two funding cycles this year. The grantees and their awards are: Coastside Collaborative for Children, Youth, and Families; Family Support Center of the Mid-Peninsula; Peninsula Family YMCA; Redwood City Healthy Start Network; San Carlos Healthy Cities Project; and the San Francisco 49ers Academy in East Palo Alto.

The Coastside Collaborative will receive $20,000 to expand its annual Youth Summit program to include middle school students. The Summit is one part of a comprehensive community plan to provide activities for youth to discourage their participation in high-risk behaviors.

The Family Support Center of the Mid-Peninsula will receive of $88,000, over two years, for its Brighter Futures program. The program provides education and assistance to parents at risk of child abuse and neglect, and child abuse detection training for Ravenswood School District personnel.

The “Y” will receive a two-year, $75,000 grant to expand an after-school program at the Moonridge public housing development.

Redwood City Healthy Start Network will receive a two-year, $150,000 grant for its child abuse prevention program.

San Carlos Healthy Cities Project will receive $25,000 for its youth mentoring program that currently serves 163 students in five San Carlos schools, kindergarten through eighth grade.

Ang San Francisco 49ers Academy ay makakatanggap ng $75,000 para sa isang youth development program na magbibigay ng mentoring, anger management at male role-modeling na aktibidad sa mga kabataang nasa panganib ng panlipunan, emosyonal o akademikong mga problema.

Ang Lucile Packard Foundation ay gumagawa ng mga gawad sa dalawang lugar: pagprotekta sa mga bata, edad 0 hanggang 5, mula sa pinsala, na may diin sa pagpigil sa pang-aabuso at pagpapabaya sa bata; at pagtataguyod ng kalusugan ng pag-uugali, mental at emosyonal sa mga pre-teens.

The foundation also awarded grants to the following Santa Clara County organizations: Catholic Charities of San Jose, $250,000 over two years; Children’s Discovery Museum, $150,000 over two years; Mexican American Community Services Agency, $125,000 over two years; and Social Advocates for Youth, $175,000 over two years. Today’s Youth Matter, an organization that works to build the self-esteem of troubled youth from both counties, will receive $121,405, over three years, to add year-round mentoring to its current summer camp program.

Ang Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health ay itinatag bilang isang pampublikong kawanggawa noong 1996, nang ang dating independiyenteng Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital ay naging bahagi ng Stanford University Medical Center. Ang misyon ng foundation ay "itaguyod, protektahan, at suportahan ang pisikal, mental, emosyonal, at kalusugan ng mga bata."

Ang pagpopondo para sa community grantmaking program ay mula sa endowment ng foundation. Ang mga gawad ay ibinibigay dalawang beses sa isang taon, sa Hunyo at Disyembre.

Ang foundation din ay ang fundraiser para sa Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at ang mga pediatric program sa Stanford Medical School. Ang isang programa ng pampublikong impormasyon at edukasyon tungkol sa mga isyu sa kalusugan ng mga bata ay nasa ilalim ng pagbuo sa foundation.

Para sa karagdagang impormasyon tungkol sa community grantmaking program ng foundation, tumawag sa (650) 736-0676, o bisitahin ang Web site, www.lpfch.org.