Inland Northwest Community Partnership Fund Recipients
Big Table
Program: Project New Smile, New Hope
Project New Smile, New Hope will restore hope by providing emergency and preventative dental work to those working in the restaurant and hospitality industry. The goal of this project is to serve 15-30 individuals and their families who are struggling with dental needs such as fillings, crowns, oral surgery, and dentures.
Category: Dental Health Care
Communities In Schools of Spokane County
Program: Expanding Behavioral Health Services to At-Risk Youth in Spokane County
The purpose of this grant proposal is for CISSC to hire an employee with a Masters in Social Work (MSW) for 3 years to supervise MSW student interns, act as liaison to existing behavioral health providers to create equitable access to mental health services for students, and staff training to support students socially and emotionally in facilitated groups.
Category: Children, Behavioral Health
Community Health Assoc of Spokane (CHAS Health)
Program: Patient Dental Voucher Program
CHAS Health proposes to partner with MultiCare to expand our Patient Dental Voucher Program, available in CHAS Health clinics in the City of Spokane. Dental vouchers address disparities in oral health outcomes because they reduce out-of-pocket expenses for low-income, uninsured patients with unmet dental needs. Funds will directly benefit patients.
Category: Health Care – Dental
Community-Minded Enterprises
Program: Recovering Families
MultiCare’s funds will be used to continue to expand the reach of the Recovering Families program maintaining access for families who are involved with Washington State’s Child Protective Services (CPS) and also toward the expenses of the program manager and facilitator.
Category: Health Care, Substance Abuse Recovery
FailSafe for Life
Program: ASIST Workshop Outreach
ASIST is an evidence-based suicide intervention program that teaches participants how to recognize invitations for help, reach out and offer support, review the risk of suicide, apply a suicide intervention model, and link people with community resources. This grant will be used to provide ASIST workshops, trainer fees, lodging, meals at per diem rates for the trainers, marketing for these workshops, refreshments for participants, and training space.
Category: Health Care – Suicide, Prevention
Family Promise of Spokane
Program: Family Respite and Family Infant Shelters
Funding is requested to implement two new specialized family emergency shelters in Spokane County, Family Respite Shelter operations and Family Infant Shelter operations.
Category: Children, Homelessness/Housing, Health Care
Lutheran Community Services NW
Program: Community-Based Advocacy for Survivors of Intentional
LCSNW requests $25,000 in general operating and program support for the LCSNW Victim Advocacy and Education Program, which provides free ongoing medical and legal advocacy services for survivors of traumatic crime and injury.
Category: Health Care
NAMI Spokane
Program: Injury: Sexual Assault & Traumatic Crime
NAMI Spokane aims to increase healing, recovery, and well-being in people with mental health concerns, and to decrease stigma so more people seek access to mental health care and support. Funds will support the program coordinator position.
Category: Behavioral Health
New Hope and Kids Hope
Program: Kids Hope Resiliency Kits
Kids Hope provides a variety of services to children and families who have been victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other crimes. Upon the child’s initial intake and interview facilitated by Kids Hope staff, children and their families are asked how they best cope with stress, trauma, anxiety, or fear, etc. Resiliency kits are then created for the child that contain items specific to their individual preference and needs for coping with their unique situation. Funds will be used to purchase items for these kits.
Category: Children, Health Care
Operation Healthy Family (OHF)
Program: Good News Dental Clinic Expansion
The Good News Dental (GND) Clinic is a community-led solution with the purpose of removing multiple acute barriers to oral health care for people who are experiencing poverty. Dental care and twice-yearly dental cleanings are brought to an estimated 200 Spokane residents who have Medicaid insurance or are eligible for Medicaid. Funds will be utilized to hire new providers and expand the GND team, which will double the hours of operation from 1 to 2 days per week and from 200 to 400 patients.
Category: Health Care – Dental
Partners with Families & Children
Program: Children’s Advocacy Center Services to Victims
Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) are trauma-informed, child-focused facilities where children and their non-offending family members feel safe enough to get the help they need to stop abuse and begin the process of healing. Funding will help to support the CAC’s Mental Health Therapist and medical team.
Category: Children
Peer Washington dba Peer Spokane
Program: Enhanced Peer Coaching for Adults in Recovery
This grant will support enhanced peer coaching for adults in Spokane who are early in their recovery journey or on the edge of crisis. Funds will be used for peer coach stipends and coaching program expenses, allowing Peer Washington to provide additional coaching sessions.
Category: Behavioral Health
Pioneer Human Services
Program: Spokane Regional Crisis Stabilization Facility
This program is designed to divert individuals from jail, reduce recidivism, and facilitate coordination with the criminal justice system. Funds will ensure that all aspects of the program design are fully implemented. The additional costs and services include peer supports, follow-up care and patient tracking, and enhanced communication with law-enforcement, courts, other services providers, such as hospitals and probation.
Category: Behavioral Health
Salvation Army of Spokane
Program: The Salvation Army’s Emergency Foster Care Receiving Center
The Salvation Army is requesting support for its two emergency foster care homes, Evangeline’s House and Sally’s House. Funds would be used to provide each child at Sally’s House and Evangeline’s House with 24/7care from trained staff, shelter, a structured schedule, clothing, toys, nutritious meals, medical and dental, academic support and tutoring, transportation, arts and crafts, recreational activities and field trips.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity, Health Care, Housing/Homelessness
Spectrum – GAPP (Gender Affirming Products Program)
Program: GAPP – Gender Affirming Products Program
Spectrum’s GAPP program will significantly decrease suicidal ideation and self-harm in this population by easing the burden of acquiring gender affirming products during the transition process: binders, bras, inserts, packers, gender affirming clothing, etc. It will also ease the stress of the name change process by eliminating the cost and creating a system to accompany TGNC people for name changes. Funds will be used for these purposes, as well as staffing.
Category: Mental Health
Spectrum – Spectrum
Program: Spectrum
The purpose of this project is to support LGBTQIA2S+ people in Eastern Washington. This grant will be used to pay for staff committed to health equity work, keep the current CHW on staff and potentially hire a second CHW to support their work.
Category: Health Equity
Spokane Regional Domestic Violence Coalition
Program: End the Violence, Youth Violence Prevention- Coordinated Community Domestic Violence Prevention
Grant funds would be used to support the development of a formal partnership with Spokane Public Schools and to prepare for and implement Green Dot. Anticipated expenses include supporting school system partner participants’ travel to attend Green Dot training and associated implementation and evaluation costs.
Category: Domestic Violence
Spokane Valley Partners
Program: Food for Thought
The Food for Thought program provides weekend meals during the academic year for students K-12 who are experiencing homelessness or are members of extreme low-income households. Funds will support the Food for Thought program for the 2021-2022 academic school year, which includes summer food distribution. These funds will be assigned to the restricted program budget which includes facility, staffing, equipment, transportation, and food inventory.
Category: Children, Food Insecurity
Transitions
Program: Women’s Hearth Day Shelter Program
Transitions’ Women’s Hearth is Spokane’s only daytime shelter space for women experiencing homelessness and poverty. $8,000 of the $10,000 request will be used to help fund salary and benefits for key outreach and stabilizing service positions. $2,000 will help fund the Housing Data Specialist position.
Category: Women, Housing/Homelessness
Women & Children’s Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen
Program: Emergency Food Response to Support Wellbeing
WCFR’s Emergency Food Response program addresses the trauma and toxic stress of hunger, while also nourishing people’s physical, mental, and oral health with good nutrition. Funds will be used to meet increased demand for nutritional support of Spokane’s women and children who are negatively impacted by COVID-19.
Category: Food Insecurity