Grant Abstracts 2008   Civic and Community Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County Temecula, CA $300,000 2008 Since 2000, Southwest Riverside County's population has more than doubled to over 360,000. Because this rapid growth has outpaced available youth resources, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County is constructing a 15,000 square foot clubhouse to provide safe, neighborhood-based youth development programs for children and teens from low income families in the French Valley area. The facility will include a teen center, educational center, arts and crafts room, library, recreational and games room, computer lab, and multipurpose room, as well as office space and a conference room. The eight acre site also contains sports fields, a swimming pool facility and playgrounds.   Civic and Community Downtown Women's Center Los Angeles, CA $500,000 2008 Women are the fastest growing segment of the local homeless population. With more than 16,000 women nightly without a home in Los Angeles, there is an urgent need for additional long-term housing and supportive services for this group. Downtown Women's Center is responding to this need by renovating a six-story building that will increase permanent supportive housing; expand drop-in services; provide the first women's medical and mental health clinic on skid row, and create a social enterprise/job training program.   Civic and Community Shelter Partnership Los Angeles, CA $350,000 2008 The project involves the rehabilitation of a 108,000 square foot warehouse in the City of Bell, where the S. Mark Taper Foundation Shelter Resource Bank operates. The Resource Bank distributes donated new goods to over 200 agencies/unique projects annually, providing them with essential items for both their operations and the clients they serve. For 19 years, the Federal government provided free rent for the warehouse. In July 2007, under the McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act, ownership of the warehouse and accompanying six acres of property was transferred to Shelter Partnership at no cost. The warehouse complex was built in the early 1940s and has never been significantly rehabilitated or upgraded. Although safe, it does not meet today’s building codes. This project will upgrade the major systems of the warehouse and also increase the Resource Bank’s storage capacity by more than one-third, ensuring sufficient potential for future growth.   Civic and Community Union Rescue Mission Los Angeles, CA $750,000 2008 There is a startling lack of programs that are effectively freeing families from homelessness, and there are few transitional housing options for families in Los Angeles. Hope Gardens Family Center responds to this need. It is designed to provide a safe, healthy and positive living environment away from skid row for up to 225 women and children. Through rehabilitative, educational, and life skills-building services, the program aims to transition families out of homelessness in a sustainable way and break the cycle of homelessness within these families.   Early Learning Information and Referral Federation of Los Angeles County San Gabriel, CA $300,000 2008 211 LA County (211) operates the First 5 LA Parent Help-Line with trained specialists that provide information and referral services and support to parents and/or caregivers of children birth to five years of age. The Parent Help-Line serves an average of 3,000 to 4,000 low-income families monthly. In this three-year pilot project, 211 project staff will be trained to use the high-quality Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status Screening tool (PEDS) with parents who already contact 211 for other information and express a concern about their child’s development. When a problem is flagged, the child will be referred for a more comprehensive assessment and, when needed, to services through a partnership with the Early Identification and Intervention Collaborative (EIIC), a network of more than 250 organizations serving children and families throughout the County.   Health Care Children's Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA $1,000,000 2008 Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has provided state-of-the-art medical care to children in a family-centered environment throughout its 107 year history. When the hospital's current inpatient facility was dedicated in 1968, it supported the best possible care available at that time. However, medical technology and practice significantly evolved over the last 40 years. Further, the current inpatient building does not meet the new state-mandated seismic requirements (SB 1953) that were passed after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. To continue offering the highest standards of medical excellence and quality care for children, it became imperative that the existing inpatient building be replaced. The seven-story, 460,000 square foot, 317 bed new hospital building will enable CHLA to expand key acute care services; incorporate advances in medical technology; enhance family-centered care; and exceed new seismic safety standards.   Health Care Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center Los Angeles, CA $150,000 2008 The goal of the expansion/capital project is to increase high quality, affordable and culturally competent healthcare for low-income women of all ages. Existing space will be renovated to create a dedicated home for the Women’s Health Center (WHC), which offers a wide range of comprehensive perinatal and gynecological services, including preconception, perinatal and post-partum clinical care; health management and education classes; childbirth services (on site at California Hospital Medical Center); high-risk pregnancy care; and family planning and reproductive health education. When operating at capacity, the WHC will be able to provide women-focused medical care to over 3,000 unduplicated clients every year, while improving patient flow in the adult and pediatric clinics and freeing exam rooms for anticipated growth in the demand for primary care.   Precollegiate Education Green Dot Public Schools Los Angeles, CA $400,000 2008 The mission of Green Dot Public Schools is to transform public education in Los Angeles. The strategy is to restructure large, failing high schools into clusters of small, successful schools. Green Dot’s first School Transformation was launched around Jefferson Senior High School in South Los Angeles. In fall 2006, five new charter high schools were established around the campus. Animo Pat Brown was one of those new schools, opening in temporary quarters with its first class of 150 ninth graders. By fall 2009, it will be at full capacity with 560 students in grades nine through twelve. This project will construct a permanent facility in South Los Angeles that will help Animo Pat Brown solidify and increase its students’ academic gains.   Precollegiate Education Unite-LA Los Angeles, CA $750,000 2008 UNITE-LA promotes secondary school success and options for students in the Los Angeles Unified School District through the College & Career Success (C&CS) Network and C&CS Schools. This project engages a broad team of administrators, specialists, educators and corporate leaders to work collaboratively to directly support the small schools and small learning communities (SS/SLCs) being launched as part of reform efforts at four new and seven traditional high schools. UNITE-LA provides leadership development, staff training and communication strategies. UNITE-LA also leverages resources from key partners to cultivate sustainable business-school partnerships to improve student achievement at more than 350 SS/SLCs.