Inland Northwest Community Partnership Fund Recipients
Big Table
Program: Project New Smile, New Hope 2.0
Project New Smile, New Hope 2.0 will be the continuation of Big Table’s dental program which started in August of 2021. Big Table will continue to restore hope by providing emergency and preventative dental work to those working in the restaurant and hospitality industry. We believe that restoring someone’s smile is no small thing. People who work in the industry understand the value of a smile, as their work quite literally depends on it. A person’s smile can dramatically impact their confidence, their promotion ability, and their overall health (as documented below). The goal of the project is to serve 15-20 individuals and their families who are desperate for dental intervention, such as fillings, crowns, oral surgery, and/or dentures.
Community Health Association of Spokane
Program: Spokane County Patient Dental Voucher Program
All funding will directly benefit dental patients through dental vouchers at CHAS North County Clinic and Cheney Health Center. If a patient does not have dental insurance or out-of-pocket costs prohibit care, staff will offer dental vouchers and schedule care.
Communities in Schools of Spokane County
Program: Continuing Expansion of Behavioral Health Services to At-Risk Students in Spokane County
Communities In Schools of Spokane County (CISSC) installs a “site coordinator” in 21 different schools in Spokane County. They coordinate with the administration and teaching staff at each school to identify those students who are struggling with behavioral or mental health issues. Our mental health professionals work with our site coordinators so that they can effectively address the issues of mental health on a one-on-one basis with at-risk students. This personalized intervention helps the students regain their emotional equilibrium so that they can re-engage in their education. CISSC works closely with each school to identify those students and their immediate and long term needs providing wrap-around services to improve their mental health and overall living conditions. Relieving the stress of their particularly challenging situation, we are able to help them develop the much needed coping skills to face their individual challenges in obtaining equity in education, health and well-being. We affirm the dignity of each student and treat each student with care and compassion.
Eastern Washington University – Dental Hygiene Clinic
Program: EWU Dental Hygiene Clinic Operations
The Eastern Washington University Dental Hygiene Clinic is a 46-chair clinic with 80 students practicing under the supervision of licensed dental hygienists and dentists. The clinic primarily supports Medicaid (approximately 35% of patients) and low-income patients, and is a key component in providing dental health access for the community. Funds will be utilized for the purchase of a Epic Hygiene™ diode dental hygiene laser from Biolase, Inc.
FailSafe for Life
Program: Rural Suicide Intervention
Outreach Funds will be used to host two ASIST workshops in rural areas. These funds will provide necessary and supplementary materials for participants, cover any fees for space/technology needed, cover trainer fees and travel, allow marketing the event appropriately, and provide refreshments at the workshop for the participants.
Hispanic Business Professional Association of Spokane
Program: Esperanza (HOPE)
The purpose of our request to MultiCare is to fund a part-time case manager position within the Esperanza program. When they contact HBPA, our case managers complete a needs assessment to prioritize areas of assistance and determine eligibility for mainstream supports. We help participants complete applications for housing and utility assistance, food benefits, social security disability, unemployment, or other programs. Case managers also schedule and accompany participants to needed primary care, behavioral health, or specialty services.
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
Program: Community-Based Advocacy for Survivors of Intentional Injury: Sexual Assault and Traumatic Crime
The Victim Advocacy and Education Program provides survivors with 24/7 in-person sexual assault victim advocates and sexual assault nurse examiner services at Spokane County emergency departments, provides non-critical follow-up medical needs through primary care providers and clinics, and promotes healing and recovery through medical care and beyond. Funds will be used to support the Victim Advocacy and Education Program through medical and legal advocacy.
Northeast Youth Center
Program: Enhanced Behavioral Health Support for Children with Special and Behavioral Needs in Spokane
A MultiCare grant will be used to support the hiring of a licensed mental health counselor and a licensed art therapist, as well as supplies and training to support their work. Both of these positions will work individually and in small groups with high needs children and will also provide support to our other staff in order to increase the capabilities of our full team.
Partners with Families & Children
Program: From Hurt to Hope
This grant will be used to support child abuse medical exams and mental health services, both immediate crisis intervention, short term, and longer-term mental health treatment. Partners will use this funding to help meet the demand for increased services for abused children ages 0-18 and to provide unique services needed for child and adolescent sex-trafficking victims.
Salvation Army of Spokane
Program: The Salvation Army’s Foster Care Receiving Center, Sally’s House and Evangeline’s House
Funds will be used to provide each child at Sally’s House and Evangeline’s House with immediate safety from abuse, a structured schedule, clothing, toys, nutritious meals, access to mental health counseling, medical treatment, dental care, academic support and tutoring, arts and crafts, and recreational activities and field trips.
Second Harvest
Program: Inland Northwest Healthy Eating Initiative
Second Harvest works to fill nutritional gaps by providing food for the equivalent of almost 80,000 meals each day for children, families and seniors facing hunger in Eastern Washington and North Idaho. Currently, over half of the food distributed by Second Harvest is nutrient-rich fresh and perishable products. By providing nutritious food to people experiencing food insecurity, Second Harvest aims to move people from hunger to health and self-sufficiency.
Spokane Valley Partners
Program: Food for Thought
The Food for Thought program (FFT) provides weekend meals during the academic year for students K-12 who are experiencing homelessness or are members of extreme low-income households. In 2019, FFT also began providing food during summer months for about 100 unaccompanied homeless high school students, who would otherwise be at extreme high risk of hunger. According to the State of Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, the number of homeless students attending school within the four Greater Spokane Valley School Districts has been 780-840 over the past several years. Last academic year, Food for Thought supplied weekend food to 66% of those identified as homeless students, weekly. Just a few years ago, our Food for Thought program was providing weekend food to 109 homeless students. As of today, our Food for Thought numbers have jumped by 500 percent. The increase in the number of students we are feeding is extraordinary, but incredibly heartbreaking.
Vanessa Behan
Program: Emergency Respite Care- An Emotional Health Focused Program
Our Emergency Care program keeps children safe from child abuse and neglect when their parents are unable to do so in the moment. Our care is an emotional health focused program that addresses the impact of stress, trauma, child abuse and neglect on children’s emotional health.
Women’s Center dba Safe Passage
Program: Child Victims of Sexual or Physical Abuse
Safe Passage aims to hire a 30-hour per week clinical therapist who will provide diagnostic assessments and evidence-based, trauma informed treatment to child victims and non-offending caregivers.
YWCA
Program: Spokane Behavioral Health Care for Low-Income Families
YWCA provides services to survivors of intimate partner domestic violence (DV). Our services include a 24-hour crisis helpline and emergency shelter, housing assistance, a counseling center, state-licensed behavioral health services, early childhood education, civil legal assistance, legal advocacy, financial education, and free drop-in childcare. This proposal to MultiCare specifically addresses our behavioral health care services for DV survivors and their families, and requested funding would provide care to uninsured and underinsured clients.