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CareSource Foundation Awards Additional Grants
DAYTON, Ohio, August 3, 2007 -- The CareSource Foundation, launched last June, recently announced its fourth round of health care grant awards. The Foundation focuses funding on four key areas including issues of the uninsured, critical health trends, community health issues and broad collaboration with other organizations and funders. Awards totaling $125,000 have been granted to the following 15 organizations:
- Adventures for Wish Kids: $5,000 grant to provide educational outreach and recreational activities for children with life-threatening illnesses in the Dayton region.
- Cherry Street Mission Ministries: $3,000 grant to increase social service collaboration and medical assessment for the homeless.
- Children’s Defense Fund: $12,000 grant to support the Women’s Advocacy Action Network to advocate on behalf of children’s healthcare needs.
- Community Blood Center: $10,000 grant to expand education programs to include a mobile classroom and enhance community outreach efforts.
- Every Child Succeeds: $12,000 grant to enhance levels of prenatal care to young, first-time moms through education, health management and diagnostic services.
- Family Violence Prevention Center of Greene County: $5,500 grant to reduce family violence and its impact in Greene County.
- Help Me Grow/Brighter Futures: $25,000 grant to support the Nurse-Family partnership to improve pregnancy outcomes and provide early intervention for low-income mothers and children.
- Life Resource Centre: $5,000 to support the Doula Project offering labor specialists to support 50 low-income, single mothers aged 21 and younger.
- Mercy Neighborhood Ministries: $5,000 grant to provide obesity awareness, dietetic services and weight-reduction programs for at-risk children in Cincinnati.
- Premier Community Health: $10,000 grant to support Mayo Clinic Tobacco Treatment specialists providing smoking cessation outreach throughout the Dayton region.
- Safe Harbor Runaway & Homeless Youth Shelter: $2,500 grant to provide meals for all residents of the Lima-based homeless shelter.
- American Diabetes Association of Southwest Ohio: $5,000 grant to provide opportunities for diabetic children in Dayton and Cincinnati to attend Camp Korelitz.
- United Rehabilitation Services: $10,000 grant to expand training for clinical professionals working work with adults with severe disabilities.
- United Way of Wayne And Holmes Counties: $5,000 grant to implement the Wayne County Prescription Network for emergency medical needs.
- YWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $10,000 grant to fund mammography and cancer screenings for low-income and uninsured women.
- ThinkTV Greater Dayton Public Television: $10,000 grant to support the “Speaking of Women’s Health” conference in Dayton, September 15, 2007.
- Wellness Connection of Dayton: $4,000 grant to support the client advocacy program assisting low-income and uninsured individuals to obtain health, wellness, and prescription services.
- Youth Challenge: $10,000 grant to provide adaptive sports and recreational therapy for children with physical disabilities.
- Wright-Dunbar Business Village: $11,000 grant to help attract and retain healthcare providers in the Wright-Dunbar community health cluster.
- YMCA of Greater Dayton: $20,000 grant for the “Healthy Youth” program designed to education young people on childhood health trends including juvenile diabetes, asthma and obesity.
The CareSource Foundation was developed to provide strategic healthcare solutions for the underserved through grants, outreach, medical expertise, community partnerships and volunteerism.
About CareSource Management Group
CareSource Management Group offers a full spectrum of services for the administration of public-sector health care programs. Among these services are general administration, including claims processing, case and medical management, provider relations, decision support informatics, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance; member services, including a member call center and 24-hour nurse advice line; and financial consultation and turnaround.
CareSource Management Group also provides services to nonprofit managed care plans that serve more than 540,000 Medicaid consumers in Ohio. The company also administers Community Choice Michigan, a nonprofit managed care plan serving more than 49,000 Medicaid consumers in Michigan. For more information about CareSource Management Group, visit www.csmg-online.com.
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