Glenwood Life Counseling Center
$75,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
Challenge grant to construct a 6,000 square-foot, two-story addition to the existing facility. The expansion will eliminate serious overcrowding which occurred when the program took on an additional 200 clients several years ago. Glenwood Life is currently providing drug treatment services to more than 600 clients.
NAMI-Metropolitan Baltimore, Inc.
$20,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
For the expansion of educational services designed to reach low-income families in Baltimore City who have children suffering from mental illness. Customized information packets, comprehensive resource notebooks, one-on-one assistance through NAMI’s help line, and a series of workshops addressing child and adolescent mental health issues are made available.
Washington Village/Pigtown Neighborhood Planning Council, Inc.
$75,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
For staffing at the Family Support and Career Center to plan and implement the Managed Work Services model. Managed Work Services contracts with businesses to staff high turnover, entry-level positions. Residents gain valuable work experience in these temporary, transitional jobs, and are then placed into permanent jobs.
Baltimore ACORN/American Institute for Social Justice
$74,450 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
Toward staffing of the Environmental Justice Initiative, a lead paint abatement initiative. The program combines grassroots outreach, education, lead testing, and legal advocacy, in targeted, high-risk neighborhoods in the Park Heights area. By designing a self-assessment checklist and action plan for parents and day care providers, ACORN inspectors (with the consent of tenants) will test the properties for lead poisoning and file court orders to have landlords clean up properties not in compliance.
Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake, Inc.
$180,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
Fourth-year funding for the SEETTS Program (Supporting Ex-Offenders in Employment, Training, and Transitional Services), a workforce development initiative for persons leaving Maryland prisons and returning to Baltimore City. The job readiness program provides 14 weeks of transitional services for up to 120 former inmates at a time and assists participants in securing gainful employment.