Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations
$5,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Toward the development of a policy paper on child support enforcement reform.
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.
Koinonia Baptist Church
$30,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Toward the purchase of a 15-passenger van to transport youth to and from the Neighborhood Evening Reporting program. An alternative to detaining youth in juvenile detention facilities, the program is designed to reduce recidivism by offering home-monitored youth computer skills training, conflict resolution and anger management training, tutoring, GED preparation and job readiness training.
Kennedy Krieger Institute
$125,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For general support of programs serving children with neurological disabilities.
Johns Hopkins University/Urban Health Institute
$50,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For an analysis of school health services currently being provided in the Baltimore City public schools and current billing practices for these services. The report will also make recommendations for ways to increase revenues to support and enhance school health services.