Baltimore City Healthy Start, Inc.
$673,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Third-year funding of Recovery In Community, a substance abuse prevention and recovery initiative. The purpose of the citywide program is to expand the number of treatment slots and increase the resources and supports available to recovering addicts and their families. By assessing the effectiveness of a comprehensive continuum of community-based supports, the program aims to reduce relapses and drug-related crime.
Dayspring Programs, Inc.
$5,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For expenses related to the ongoing renovations of the Dayspring Children’s Place, a residential facility for foster children and children of substance-abusing parents.
Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.
$274,235 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For expansion of the project to address the needs of noncustodial parents whose child support obligations far exceed their ability to pay. By providing individual representation, Legal Aid has been able to identify recurrent issues that adversely affect noncustodial parents, such as driver’s license suspensions, reports to credit agencies and denial of access to child support records.
The Shepherd’s Clinic-William H.M. Finney Foundation, Inc.
$45,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Continued funding to provide primary medical and dental care to persons in Baltimore City who lack medical and/or dental insurance.
Baltimore City Public School System/Universal Classroom Breakfast Program
$30,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Two grants to provide gap funding for non-reimbursable breakfasts for the Universal Breakfast Program in classrooms in seven schools during the 2001-2002 school year. The program is part of an ongoing study to determine the long-term effects of students’ participation in breakfast in the classroom (as opposed to the cafeteria) on attendance, tardiness, incidence of disciplinary action, academic achievement and the Maryland State Performance and Assessment Program.