Selected Grants — Awarded June 1999
INITIATIVE GRANTS
Children and Youth Community Health
IMOYASE GROUP, INC.
$1,149,000 over two years
Los Angeles, CA
To evaluate the Children and Youth Community Health Initiative.
Work and Health
INSTITUTE OF REGIONAL AND URBAN STUDIES
$280,000 over two years
Palo Alto, CA
For program coordination and consultation to the grantees of the Work and Health
Initiative’s Future of Work and Health program.
GENERAL GRANTS
Community Health
CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR
$120,000 over two years
El Monte, CA
For core operating support to provide primary health care and preventive services to
low-income residents of El Monte.
CLINICA MSR. OSCAR A. ROMERO
$100,000 over two years
Los Angeles, CA
For core operating support to provide health education and disease prevention programs to
the uninsured, working poor and indigent population of theWestlake/Pico Union communities
of Los Angeles.
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN RIVERSIDE
$100,000 over two years
Riverside, CA
For core operating support to provide preventive health services in the western Riverside
communities of Jurupa, Sun City and Mead Valley.
ORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
$100,000 over two years
Garden Grove, CA
To provide outreach and health education to low-income Asian and Pacific Islander males in
central Orange County.
Population Health Improvement
  TULARE
COUNTY YOUTH COALITION
$90,000 over two years
Tulare, CA
To develop a countywide peer health education program in Tulare County.
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention
COALITION FOR CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND PARENTS
$100,000 over two years
Orange, CA
For core operating support for teen pregnancy prevention programs in Orange County.
POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL
$100,000 over two years
Washington, D.C.
To implement a project to promote emergency contraceptive pills as a backup contraceptive
option for young women in Sacramento County.
Violence Prevention
THE FILIPINO YOUTH COALITION COMMUNITY SERVICES & DEVELOPMENT OF SANTA CLARA
COUNTY, INC.
$112,500 over two years
San Jose, CA
For core operating support for violence prevention services to youth in Santa Clara
County.
MENDOCINO DISPUTE RESOLUTION SERVICES
$75,000 over two years
Ukiah, CA
To support a violence prevention mediation project for underserved youth and residents in
rural Mendocino County.
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
$100,000 over two years
San Francisco, CA
To support a violence prevention project for incarcerated youth in Northern, Central and
Southern California.
SAN DIEGO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
$100,000 over two years
San Diego, CA
For core operating support of violence prevention programs within the Safe Schools Unit.
GENERAL GRANTS
VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY OF ORANGE COUNTY, INC.
$112,500 over two years
Santa Ana, CA
To implement a youth violence prevention program serving Vietnamese youth in schools and
juvenile detention centers in Orange County.
WOMANHAVEN
$100,000 over two years
El Centro, CA
To expand youth outreach and develop a peer mentoring component for the Youth Violence
Prevention Project in Imperial County.
Work and Health
LOS ANGELES ACORN
$100,000 over two years
Los Angeles, CA
To promote the health, safety and wellness of participants in Los Angeles County’s
work programs for welfare recipients who are making the transition from welfare to work.
SANTA CLARA CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
$110,000 over two years
San Jose, CA
To provide workplace health education and resources to low-wage workers in the Silicon
Valley.
VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
$100,000 over two years
Los Angeles, CA
For health education counseling to help emotionally disturbed youth make a successful
transition from foster care to employment and independent living.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
 CALIFORNIA
BLACK WOMEN’S
HEALTH PROJECT
$125,000 over two years
Los Angeles, CA
For core operating support to strengthen organizational capacity and expand health
promotion and disease prevention programs for black women.
CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION
$130,000 over one year
Sacramento, CA
To support the development of materials and education of providers, advocates and
policymakers on Medi-Cal’s expanded eligibility criteria.
CALIFORNIANS FOR PESTICIDE REFORM
$200,000 over two years
San Francisco, CA
To conduct a public education campaign on the health effects of pesticides.
CITY OF LONG BEACH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
$160,000 over two years
Long Beach, CA
To establish a program to strengthen relationships between African-American fathers and
their families as a health promotion strategy.
HUMAN SERVICES NETWORK
$100,000 over two years
Los Angeles, CA
To inform community-based health care providers about health services available for
CalWORKs recipients and to ensure recipients receive the health care services for which
they are eligible.
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM, INC.
$300,000 over two years
Los Angeles, CA
To improve access to health care among low-income Californians, with an emphasis on the
uninsured and medically underserved.
THE ORANGE COUNTY FUTURE SEARCH NETWORK
$62,000 over one year
Orange, CA
To support four health-related community planning conferences.
REDWOOD COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION
$200,000 over two years
Santa Rosa, CA
For core operating support to help clinics in Sonoma County develop a preventive health
component for patients with managed health care.
UNITED WAY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
$100,000 over one year
Los Angeles, CA
To build the capacity of 12 community health planning groups to identify unmet health
needs, advocate for health care changes, and develop a comprehensive health and wellness
survey of Latinos in Los Angeles.
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