Recipients Honored at Celebratory Breakfast on March 2
St. John’s Awards Nearly $146,000 in Grants to
Community Organizations through the CHW Community Grants Program
Recipients Honored At Celebratory Breakfast On March 2
Oxnard, Calif. (March 2, 2010) – St. John’s Regional Medical Center and St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital are proud to announce the selection of eleven Ventura County non-profit organizations as grant recipients in the 2009 Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) Community Grants Program. St. John’s honored these organizations at an awards breakfast at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard on March 2, 2010.
The ceremony recognized each organization’s contributions to the community in various areas, including health services access and affordability, culturally sensitive health and social services, homeless services, and family violence prevention, education, and treatment. A total of eleven grants were awarded, totaling nearly $146,000.
Following is a list of 2009 grant recipients:
Assistance League of Ventura County: For Operation School Bell, a basic needs program that promotes self-esteem and enhances the social development of underserved, impoverished school-aged children by providing appropriate and properly fitted school and hygiene products.
Boys & Girls Club of Camarillo: For Get Fit, a fitness component of the Get Healthy program, which focuses on childhood obesity and other health related issues among at-risk children and teenagers.
Camarillo Hospice Corporation: For a mental health bereavement services program that offers volunteer hospice and bereavement support services and educational outreach to community members in need, including Latino and/or low income, uninsured and underinsured women and children in the Oxnard area.
CAREGIVERS Volunteers Assisting the Elderly: For a program to assist the elderly with obtaining access to needed care.
FOOD Share: To support serving the hunger needs of low-income children in Ventura County through the Snack Attack program and through nutrition education to improve lifestyle choices of at-risk children and their families.
Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association: To support the organization’s Subsidized Care Program, which aims at helping to meet the needs of indigent, uninsured and underinsured Ventura County residents, and accommodating their unmet health needs.
Mercy Housing California: For the Healthy At Home program, serving people with low incomes whose healthcare needs are underserved or unmet.
Rescue Mission Alliance: For the Lighthouse Emergency Shelter, which provides meals, clothing, and safe sleeping accommodations to homeless women and children.
The Salvation Army Oxnard/Port Hueneme Community Center: To fund a free licensed medical and dental clinic program for underserved and indigent Ventura County residents.
Servants of Mary, Ministers to the Sick: To fund an ongoing program to help low income families who cannot pay for nurses or do not qualify for home health nursing care for sick or dying loved ones.
Ventura County Medical Resource Foundation: For the Children’s Resource Program, which meets the medical and dental needs of underserved children and teenagers.
