Grant Recipients

Below is a partial list of recent grant awards for projects that we believe help us to meet our funding objectives.

• 2006 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards
• 2005 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards
• 2004 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards
• Action, Inc.
  TALKS: Teaching Adolescents Learning, Knowledge and Skills
• Alcoholism Council in Niagara County, Inc.
  Strengthening Families
• CAB Health & Recovery Services, Inc.
  Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx)
• Charter School for Applied Technologies
  Kindergarten Readiness Program
• City Honors Foundation
  Expanding the International Baccalaureate Program to the Middle School
• Community Action, Inc.
  Reading Success Project
• Erie County Council for the Prevention of Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Inc. (ECCPASA)
  Focus on Consequences for Adolescents (FOCA)
• Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Lifeline Foundation
  Rapid Pediatric Psychiatric Consultation
• Global Concepts Charter School
  Summer Start
• Good Schools for All
  Buffalo Preschool CARE (Community Action for Reading Excellence)
• Health & Education Services, Inc.
  The Bridge Program
• Health & Education Services, Inc.
  Continuation of Bridge Program
• Kaleida Health
  Project LEAP
• King Urban Life Center, Inc.
  The Parent-Child Home Program
• Lake Shore Behavioral Health, Inc.
  Children's and Parenting Services at the Lighthouse Residence
• Lynn Economic Opportunity, Inc.
  Language and Literacy Development
• Lynn Public Schools
  Improving Literacy Instruction in Grades K-3
• Martha's Vineyard Public Schools
  Treasure Our Island After-School Program
• NAMI (Washington, DC)
  School-Based Mental Health Action Program
• Niagara Falls City School District
  Families First
• Niagara Falls City School District
  The Primary Mental Health Project
• Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
  The Child Advocacy Center of Niagara: Clinical Training
• Options in Education (on behalf of Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School)
  Extended Learning Program
• Peabody Public Schools
  Transforming Literacy Instruction in Peabody's Elementary Schools
• People Inc.
  Expansion of the Intensive Behavioral Training and Counseling Program
• Public Policy and Education Fund of New York (PPEF)
  Buffalo After-School Provider Network
• Starpoint Central School
  READ 180 Intervention Program
• St. Mary's School for the Deaf
  Curriculum Development and Criterion Referenced Testing Program
• United Way of Buffalo & Erie County
  Success by 6 Quality Improvement Project
• YWCA of Western New York
  Lancaster Branch YMCA Tutoring Center

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2006 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards

Three-year grants were awarded to the following organizations:

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2005 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards

Three-year grants were awarded to the following organizations:

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2004 Evidence-Based Practice RFP Awards

Three-year grants were awarded to the following organizations:

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Organization: Action, Inc.
Project Title: TALKS: Teaching Adolescents Learning, Knowledge and Skills
Amount: $50,196 over three years
Year Awarded: 2005
Support to incorporate the TALKS curriculum, a psycho-educational and experiential learning program into to the COMPASS Youth Program.

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Organization: Alcoholism Council in Niagara County, Inc.
Project Title: Strengthening Families
Amount: $47,475 over two years
Year Awarded: 2002
Expansion of the Strengthening Families program. The goal is to strengthen families of adolescents that have been identified as experiencing problems related to substance abuse or whose parents are substance abusers. The program goal is to prevent, delay, and/or reduce drug involvement and attendant problem behaviors of the adolescents and families enrolled in the program.

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Organization: CAB Health & Recovery Services, Inc.
Project Title: Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx)
Amount: $25,000
Year Awarded: 2004
Support for the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx), a research study process that is designed to facilitate patient access and improve the process of substance abuse treatment. NIATx has four goals: 1) to reduce the time from the first request for service to the first post-assessment treatment session; 2) to reduce the number of clients who do not show up for appointments or to be admitted; 3) to increase the number of admissions; and 4) to increase the percent-age of clients continuing treatment from the first request to assessment onto subsequent treatment sessions.

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Organization: Charter School for Applied Technologies
Project Title: Kindergarten Readiness Program
Amount: $67,231 over three years
Year Awarded: 2004
Support to implement a four-week Kindergarten Readiness Program in the summers of 2004, 2005, and 2006. The program targets the lowest-performing children on the kindergarten screener. The goals of the project are to improve the academic and social skills of the target group, acclimate the students to the school environment, and create a positive home-school-community connection.

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Organization: City Honors Foundation
Project Title: Expanding the International Baccalaureate Program to the Middle School
Amount: $40,500 over two years
Year Awarded: 2003
Implementation of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program in grades 6-10. The long-term goal is to increase student participation in the IB Diploma Program.

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Organization: Community Action, Inc
Project Title: Reading Success Project
Amount: $72,732 over three years
Year Awarded: 2006
Implementation of a Reading Success Program (RSP) using the Motheread and Storysharing curricula to improve family literacy among low-income/high-risk residents in the Seacoast Area.

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Organization: Erie County Council for the Prevention of Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Inc. (ECCPASA)
Project Title: Focus on Consequences for Adolescents (FOCA)
Amount: $97,155 over three years
Year Awarded: 2004
FOCA is designed to help students make better alcohol-use decisions, to reduce alcohol consumption and its adverse consequences, to promote healthier choices among young adults, and to provide information and coping skills for risk reduction. The project goal is to change the alcohol and other drug (AOD) use patterns of youth who have committed illegal or noncompliant acts where AOD played a role so that these behaviors are not repeated and the individuals are not recidivists with the courts or school authorities.

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Organization: Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Lifeline Foundation
Project Title: Rapid Pediatric Psychiatric Consultation
Amount: $100,000 over two years
Year Awarded: 2005
Funds to institute the Rapid Pediatric Psychiatric Consultation (RPPC) service at ECMC.

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Organization: Global Concepts Charter School
Project Title: Summer Start
Amount: $158,271 over three years
Year Awarded: 2003
A five-week summer school program for the students of Global Concepts. The goals are to increase student achievement in reading, writing and mathematics, and to prepare preschoolers for kindergarten. The summer school sessions will operate July-August in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

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Organization: Good Schools for All
Project Title: Buffalo Preschool CARE (Community Action for Reading Excellence)
Amount: $396,467 over three years
Year Awarded: 2007
The Buffalo Preschool CARE (Community Action for Reading Excellence) is a partnership of Good Schools for All, the Child Care Resource Network (CCRN), Every Person Influences Children (EPIC), United Way-Success by 6, WNED-TV and Literacy Volunteers of Buffalo and Erie County

The CARE project’s goals are to:

• Increase the number of home-based childcare providers in the 14215 "literacy zone" with high quality language and literacy resources and strategies.
• Increase the number of at-risk children who are school ready in language and literacy.
• Increase the involvement of parents in specific language and literacy development activities with their children in a family literacy model.
• Create a replicable model of excellence for home childcare providers that supports the development of literacy milestones and precursors of literacy readiness for children entering Buffalo's public schools.

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Organization: Health & Education Services, Inc.
Project Title: The Bridge Program
Amount: $33,743
Year Awarded: 2004
Support for the establishment of The Bridge Program, a prevention/early intervention initiative targeting children in Gloucester who are at risk for psychological disorders as a result of trauma. The primary objectives of the project are: 1) to increase the competency of frontline youth workers to identify, assess, and refer traumatized children; and 2) to provide direct therapeutic services to children identified by the new assessment and referral process.

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Organization: Health & Education Services, Inc.
Project Title: Bridge Program (continuation)
Amount: $45,658
Year Awarded: 2005
Support for a second year of the Bridge Program, a prevention/early intervention pilot project targeting children who are "at risk" as a result of trauma. The goals of the program are: 1) to increase the competency of frontline youth workers in the early identification and reporting of childhood trauma; and 2) to provide direct therapeutic services to those children and families referred for counseling.

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Organization: Kaleida Health (The Women's and Children's Hospital of Buffalo-The Early Childhood Program)
Project Title: Project LEAP
Amount: $221,870 over three years
Year Awarded: 2003
The development of a system to identify children at six local Head Start sites who are at risk for speech/language delays and to provide the appropriate intervention. In addition to on-site support, a screening tool to help identify at-risk children for use by Head Start teachers will also be developed. Project LEAP's goal is to improve the pre-academic and early literacy outcomes of these children to prepare them for school.

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Organization: King Urban Life Center, Inc.
Project Title: The Parent-Child Home Program
Amount: $90,000 over three years
Year Awarded: 2002
Replication of the Parent-Child Home Program, an internationally-recognized school-readiness program targeting parents of children ages 16 months to four years.

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Organization: Lake Shore Behavioral Health, Inc.
Project Title: Children's and Parenting Services at The Lighthouse Residence
Amount: $88,925 over three years
Year Awarded: 2003
Support to continue and enhance the children's and parenting services within The Lighthouse, a residential drug-treatment facility for women and their children. The goals of the project are to improve the overall functioning of the children in the program, increase the factors that protect children from future substance abuse, increase family reunification, and prevent foster care placement.

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Organization: Lynn Economic Opportunity, Inc.
Project Title: Language and Literacy Development
Amount: $70,444 over two years
Year Awarded: 2006
Support for the Language and Literacy Development project. The primary goal of the project is to improve the language and literacy skills of children attending the Lynn Economic Opportunity Head Start.

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Organization: Lynn Public Schools
Project Title: Improving Literacy Instruction in Grades K-3
Amount: $59,291
Year Awarded: 2007
Support to implement a professional development program for teachers, grades K through 3, to provide individualized instruction to students based on results from the DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic English Literacy Skills) assessment.

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Organization: Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools
Project Title: Treasure Our Island After-School Program
Amount: $200,000 over four years
Year Awarded: 2005
Funds were provided to support expansion of Treasure Our Island to the Edgartown Elementary School. Treasure Our Island is a comprehensive after-school and out-of-time school program for students in grades K-8.

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Organization: NAMI (Washington, DC)
Project Title: School-Based Mental Health Action Program
Amount: $176,800 over four years
Year Awarded: 2004
Support to expand Parents and Teachers as Allies, NAMI's school-based early recognition program that provides teachers, parents and other professionals with a broad understanding of childhood mental illness.

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Organization: Niagara Falls City School District
Project Title: Families First
Amount: $155,753 over three years
Year Awarded: 2005/2006
Support for the Families First component of Focus on Families, a comprehensive set of family-support services available to District families whose children are struggling in school due in part to family dysfunction.

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Organization: Niagara Falls City School District
Project Title: The Primary Mental Health Project
Amount: $140,551 over three years
Year Awarded: 2006
Implementation of the Primary Mental Health Project (PMHP), a school-based early detection and intervention program designed to identify and reduce social, emotional, and behavioral problems in young children that are likely to negatively affect their adjustment to school, into three elementary schools.

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Organization: Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
Project Title: The Child Advocacy Center of Niagara: Clinical Training
Amount: $43,955 over three years
Year Awarded: 2006
Support to implement a training program for clinicians who work with children exposed to violence. The training objectives of the child care/teacher component of this project are to train child care workers and teachers to identify children exposed to violence; provide safe classroom environments that offer some protection against developing trauma-related mental illness and promote resiliency; and provide resources for referring children to clinical care if needed.

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Organization: Options in Education
Project Title: Extended Learning Program-Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School
Amount: $43,200 over three years
Year Awarded: 2005
Support for the Extended Learning Program at the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School. The program provides after-school and summer tutoring services for students who are academically at-risk.

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Organization: Peabody Public Schools
Project Title: Transforming Literacy Instruction in Peabody's Elementary Schools
Amount: $445,100 over four years
Year Awarded: 2006
Support to transform literary instruction in its eight elementary schools by adopting the balanced literacy approach to the teaching of language and literacy.

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Organization: People Inc.
Project Title: Expansion of the Intensive Behavioral Training and Counseling Program
Amount: $60,000 over two years
Year Awarded: 2003
Expansion of the Intensive Behavioral Training and Counseling program. The program goal is to help families better manage severe behavior problems. The anticipated outcomes are increased family stability and prevention of unplanned residential placement or day-program discharge.

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Organization: Public Policy and Education Fund of New York (PPEF)
Project Title: Buffalo After-School Provider Network
Amount: $298,880 over four years
Year Awarded: 2004
To help build the capacity of after-school providers in the City of Buffalo through staff training, technical assistance, and if necessary, re-design of curriculum.

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Organization: Starpoint Central School District
Project Title: READ 180 Intervention Program
Amount: $40,450
Year Awarded: 2006
Funding for the implementation of READ 180 in the middle school.

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Organization: St. Mary's School for the Deaf
Project Title: Curriculum Development and Criterion Referenced Testing Program
Amount: $41,141 over two years
Year Awarded: 2005
Support for curriculum revision and implementation of a data-driven assessment program.

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Organization: United Way of Buffalo & Erie County
Project Title: Success by 6 Quality Improvement Project
Amount: $131,642 over three years
Year Awarded: 2004
Support for the final three years of the Success by 6 Quality Improvement Project. The overarching project goals are to: improve the quality of childcare services; improve implementation of developmentally appropriate practices; and increase higher education training opportunities for early childhood professionals.

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Organization: YMCA of Greater Buffalo
Project Title: Lancaster Branch YMCA Tutoring Center
Amount: $52,396 over two years
Year Awarded: 2005
To establish after-school tutoring services within the existing School Age Child Care program at six Lancaster Family Branch sites. An anticipated outcome includes an increase in academic performance by participating students.

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