| Agency Logo | Program Description | Target Beneficiaries | Grant Award |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Medical Care for Children Partnership Foundation Project Pearly Whites – Lorton Children see a dentist every six months, providing any support necessary. Distribution of oral health materials in five languages will continue. This material goes to MCCP families as well as our community partners. | Children who reside in 22079, without access to affordable private or public health insurance, live in families with incomes up to 250% FPL, and are birth to age 19 are eligible. | $42,007 |
 | Nueva Vida Reducing Fragmentation and improving continuity of care across the breast cancer continuum To mitigate the impact of breast cancer through direct cancer screenings, diagnosis, treatment, and case management. In partnership with partner organizations (Sentara, Virginia Department of Health, Prince William Hospital, El Salvador Consulate, and free clinics), a culturally competent bilingual navigator will provide education and services on breast health/cancer to 300 Latinos and their families. | NV’s clients are low-income, medically underserved, ages between 18 and 83. About 78% are uninsured, 70% do not speak any English, and most are zerogeneration immigrants. Approximately, 87% live below the 100% poverty line, and the majority of the rest fall between 100 and 200%. We aim to serve 300 Latinas in the target areas: Woodbridge 22191, Dumfries 22026, Triangle 22172, Quantico 22134, Dumfries 22025, Manassas 20112, Dale City 22193, Lake Ridge 22192. | $91,076 |
 | Prince William County Schools Human Trafficking Prevention, Identification, and Referral The project focuses on prevention of the physical/emotional trauma of human trafficking to mitigate serious health issues. Through the comprehensive education/ prevention initiative, identified youth will receive coordinated care for health, counseling, and psychiatric consultation from supportive community organizations. | Approximately 4,000 staff (support personnel, administrators, teachers) and approximately 2,800 ninth graders at six high schools in the PHF zip codes will participate in trafficking awareness and identification sessions that include strategies for prevention. The general population will be exposed to awareness materials posted throughout the affected zip code areas. | $78,713 |
  | Prince William Health District BEAT Cancer Breast Education Awareness & Treatment BEAT_CA will focus on breast cancer mortality prevention. The approach will be two pronged: develop a community breast cancer coalition to determine gaps in care, and institute a patient navigator program both pre and post breast cancer diagnosis. Funds will be used to develop culturally sensitive programs to increase breast cancer detection and survival among women in the Potomac Health Foundation service area within the Prince William Health District. | The coalition will have a broad focus on the issue of breast cancer in the community. However, because African American women have a higher breast cancer mortality rate and a more advanced stage of cancer at diagnosis, the initial patient navigator program pilot will focus on 5,117 African American women 18 years of age and older living in the Dumfries and Triangle areas. | $60,779 |
 | Rappahannock Area Agency on Aging The RAAA Aquia Garrisonville Healthcare Project This project will provide prevention information in group training sessions and will increase access to needed medical care and health benefits through one-on-one counseling. These services will be made accessible to individuals by being held within collaborative organizations, or transportation could be provided to our office. Specially trained Counselors (staff and volunteer) will provide the services. | Individuals who are educationally disadvantaged/medically underserved/members of racial or ethnic minorities/individuals with disabilities, with a concentration on those who are age 60 and above. There will be a specialized focus on individuals who are Hispanic or Latino. | $30,000 |
 | Streetlight Community Outreach Ministries Permanent Supported Housing & Respite Care for Medically Fragile Homeless Adults StreetLight plans to reduce preventable illness and disease among medically vulnerable homeless persons, thus decreasing hospital re-admissions and reducing health care costs. StreetLight will accomplish this goal by offering permanent housing to homeless adults with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease. We will also provide housing, care transition and coordination for homeless discharged patients who do not meet hospital impatient criteria, but are too ill to be on the streets. | StreetLight will serve up to four homeless adults who are medically vulnerable due to chronic health conditions. Transitional respite care will be provided to up to 20 homeless adults annually who are discharged from hospitals yet still too ill to live on the streets. We will serve homeless clients living in areas of Prince William County. | $49,990 |
 | Change in Action Behavioral Management for Healthy Relationships Individual neurofeedback therapy and group anger management counseling so that families become aware of and incrementally identify anger both emotionally and physiologically and learn the skills necessary to handle their anger and stress appropriately. Behavioral management training for family members to increase life/social skills that will increase protective factors and decrease risk factors within the home environment and will enhance healthy child physical and emotional development. | Change in Action is targeting adults, teens and youth ages 5-12 who have an issue with anger/violence. | $181,813 |
 | Greater Prince William Community Health Center Expanding Access to Dental Services in Prince William County Affordable access for the uninsured to dental services is very limited in the Foundation’s service area. This funding will allow low income, uninsured families access to low cost root canal and crown services. Nearly 10% of our patients (250) in 2011 did not have access to these services given the Center did not have the equipment, supplies, laboratory support, provider training, or patient fee subsidy in place to perform this work on-site. The Center's integrated and coordinated care service delivery model will facilitate our dental patient's access to primary, behavioral, and dental services as well, i.e., all services are under one roof. Our Medicaid eligibility/ renewal staff will foster the sustainability of this access as we convert self-pay patients to Medicaid patients. | The target patient population includes approximately 130 medically underserved patients that reside in the service area during the grant period. | $70,510 |
 | Medical Care for Children Partnership Foundation Medical Care for Children’s Partnership Foundation This program is designed to provide access to health care for children in low-income families who do not qualify for any public or private insurance. Outreach is a major part of the project. Information will be disseminated throughout zip code 22079 through schools, child care centers, Head Start, other non-profits, businesses in the area such as food markets, hair salons, etc. Media outreach will be a component of the program. | Children who reside in 22079, who do not have access to affordable private or public health insurance, live in families with incomes up to 250% FPL, and are birth to age 19 are eligible. | $47,158 |
 | Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission Transportation Voucher Program to Facilitate access to health care needs The program is designed to ease/eliminate mobility/transportation challenges confronting older Americans, people with disabilities and low income households residing in the Potomac Health Foundation’s designated zip codes within Prince William County by providing transportation for medical-related trips though a transportation voucher program. | The targeted population is residents within the Potomac Health Foundation's specified zip codes within Prince William County qualifying for age, disability, or income reasons. The “age” criterion is 80+ years, the “disability” criterion is as defined by the American Disabilities Act (ADA) and the “income” cap is 1.9 times the federally defined “poverty” income levels. | $401,701 |
 | Prince William County Department of Social Services Case Coordinator for Health and Supporting Services: Access for the most vulnerable homeless adults Case Coordinator position at the Drop-In Center (a partnership between DSS and the Cooperative Council of Ministries (CCOM)) to provide access to healthcare services and reduce the incidence of preventable illnesses. This position will support homeless individuals in accessing healthcare and other supportive services. | The target population is homeless adult individuals living in campsites or other transient settings in Eastern Greater Prince William that visit the Drop-In Center year round. | $29,990 |
| Prince William County Schools Prince William County School of Practical Nursing A world-class human patient simulation laboratory enables graduating nursing students to increase their skills' proficiency and limit the amount of orientation hours needed to train new nurses. Having competent graduating students in the workforce will help decrease the nursing shortage. Decreasing the nursing shortage will allow for increased competent nurses taking care of patients in the Potomac Health Foundation catchment area. | Student population is variable from year to year. The majority of students live throughout the county and the surrounding areas. Demographics are consistent with the Potomac Health Foundation service area. | $31,500 |
 | Project Mend-A-House Preventing Falls for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities Project Mend-A-House's program will prevent falls from occurring and/or reoccurring by providing safety and fall risk education; offering fall risk assessment screenings to seniors; providing medical alert devices to seniors, and other at-risk clients; installing daily assistive living safety equipment; and completing in-home safety assessments, home repairs and modifications so that residents are safer and can live more independently in their own homes. Repairs will be completed free of charge for low-income clients. | Project Mend-A-House (PMAH) will target eastern Prince William area residents that are at risk for falls and people who want to remain healthy and prevent falls. This includes people who are aging, physically disabled, experience vision problems or on medication that decreases stability. PMAH will provide free home repair for persons earning 50% or less of the area median income. Families above this threshold may receive safety modifications at reduced costs. | $85,000 |
 | Sentara Healthcare Family Health Connection Outreach Worker Uninsured low income patients without a medical home are frequently discharged from the hospital and emergency room to follow-up with providers for whom they are unable to pay. Many times, follow-up is not done and patients return to the hospital's emergency room for readmission for the same problem or for another problem. The outreach coordinator will help assist these patients to find a medical home. | The target population are the uninsured, low income patients who are seen in Sentara NVMC's emergency room and those admitted to the hospital. They must reside in eastern Prince William and Stafford counties. | $25,367 |
| Sentara Healthcare Sentara Potomac Women’s Health Mammovan The program will work to improve screening mammography rates, decrease breast cancer mortality rates & improve breast cancer local staging rates in Prince William County | We intend to provide screening mammograms to women in our primary service area, as well as provide follow up breast care to a minimum of 25 women (3.5% of screening population) as identified by the Prince William Area Free Clinic. | $360,461 |
 | The House, Inc Student Leadership Center The House, Inc.’s Empowerment Center It is widely accepted that the financial cost of crisis intervention and treatments services are enormous, yet the cost to families is even greater. The most significant opportunity we have to impact these costs are family support programs that emphasize prevention through the EmpowerMEnt Center. We are likely to have 'payback curves' that extend over a long period of time with the much savings occurring in the student reaches a non-violent adulthood. | The EmpowerMEnt Center will provide services to families within the Potomac Health Foundation’s Prince William County service area. The EmpowerMEnt Center targets approximately 485 individuals, in grades 4-12, to provide intensive services with an additional 1,940 beneficiaries. | $159,000 |
 | Youth for Tomorrow YFT Diagnostic and Assessment Center Our primary objective is to provide children, youth and families in Eastern Prince William County, Virginia access to diagnostic and assessment services, including early recognition for mental health disorders, risk assessments, chronic illness supports, medication management, and treatment planning, which ensures a higher quality of life and overall well-being of clients receiving services. | The YFT Diagnostic and Assessment Services will provide services to children ages 3 - 21 whose intellectual, emotional, social, behavioral, and/or personality functioning are in question. The targeted population to receive these services fall within the PHF catchment area, regardless of insurance status. | $213,123.50 |
 | Gang Response Intervention Team Gang Prevention and Intervention Health Support Services | The target population are youth and young adults who are gang members or human trafficking victims, or who are at risk of such activities. | |
 | Actions in Community Through Service ACTS Supportive After Care Wellness Program The program will provide access to primary health care for medically underserved residents in the emergency shelters that are operated by ACTS. ACTS will actively engage clients to educate them about the medical opportunities that exist and are affordable to its clients. ACTS staff will encourage clients to consult medical professionals for exams and preventative care recommendations. | The target population will be 400 individuals that access our housing services that were homeless in the PHF service area. |
Summary 14C Continuation Grants – 2014
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