Safe and Sound Campaign for Children and Youth
$250,000 / 2005 / Health and Human Services
For the implementation of the Family Recovery Program, an initiative designed to reduce the length of time children spend in the Baltimore City foster care system. The program will provide case management support and substance abuse treatment for 250 parents whose children are entering foster care. It is expected that the time children of participating parents spend in foster care will be reduced by 50 to 70 percent.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Maryland, Inc.
$100,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
In support of Amachi, a mentoring program for children whose parent (or parents) are incarcerated. The program will place 335 children with adult mentors. It is expected that the selective placements will lead to improvement in the children’s school performance and help in combating substance abuse, increase children’s and parents’ self-confidence, and stabilize relationships among peers and teachers.
The Justice Policy Institute
$50,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
To provide research and guidance to the Campaign for Treatment Not Incarceration, designed to reduce Maryland’s prison population and expand drug treatment and alternatives to incarceration.
St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore, Inc.
$80,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
For the establishment of the Learn to Earn Program, a job training readiness program at the St. Ambrose Outreach Center. The program helps participants improve language arts, math, and computer skills; prepare and obtain GEDs; and seek, secure and retain jobs.
Bon Secours of Maryland Foundation
$30,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
Third-year support of the Bon Secours Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Program (YEEP), designed to break the cycle of low graduation rates and poor employment histories. YEEP has been developed to help 90 high school youth living or going to school in Southwest Baltimore obtain after-school and summer employment, and plan careers. The program offers 12 training sessions in job readiness, leadership, and job placement; six weeks of bi-weekly financial literacy classes; and career/post-high school education classes.