Liberty Learning Center/ Holy Lamb Ministries, Inc.
$30,000 / 2006 / Health and Human Services
Start-up costs for a learning center serving children from low-income families in East Baltimore. The center is licensed to serve 30 children from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., five days a week. The after-school program provides computer tutorials, academic and faith-based instruction, as well as hot meals provided by the Maryland Food Bank.
Maryland Food Bank
$50,000 / 2006 / Health and Human Services
For support of the School Pantry Program in 45 to 50 Baltimore City public schools. In exchange for volunteering in the schools, parents are eligible to attend classes on nutrition, budgeting, and meal planning, and to receive free food once a month.
Maryland Society for Sight
$19,900 / 2006 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of the Mobile Eye Care for the Homeless Expansion Program. The program’s van visits seven locations each month. In an effort to prevent loss of vision and blindness through early detection and education, the staff provides eye examinations and glasses to more than 500 homeless and indigent people in Baltimore City each year.
Mental Health Policy Institute for Leadership and Training, Inc.
$43,000 / 2006 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of the Poverty and Depression Initiative, which provides screening and treatment to low-income Baltimore City residents at three community-based service agencies. The project will conduct a minimum of 125 medical evaluations for psychiatric care, provide group or individual therapy to at least 200 clients, and provide ongoing education about depression.
Advocates for Children and Youth
$60,000 / 2006 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of the Baltimore City Child Welfare Reform Program. Advocates will monitor the Department of Human Resources’ efforts to reduce caseloads for child welfare workers and to develop a database to track child-welfare outcomes mandated by the Child Welfare Accountability Act. The program will also encourage aggressive foster-family recruitment and increased foster care reimbursement rates.