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11 2021 Community Report Valley Packaging Industries: Mental Health and Substance Use Community Center for Youth and Young adults: $151,090 (Year 1 of 3, $254,940 total) To implement a Mental Health and Substance Use Community Center for Youth and Young Adults (ages 14-24). The Youth and Young Adult Program meets the needs of youth and young adults through side by side coaching to develop individual life skills and promote overall wellness in group and one to one settings. Recipient: Valley Packaging Industries WisconSibs: $21,500 A planning grant to support succession planning efforts for this vital organization which provides advocacy and engagement in an interactive web of key relationships within a community for siblings of people with disabilities and their family members. Recipient: WisconSibs Wisconsin Veterans Village Association, Inc.: $125,000 (Year 1 of 3, $375,000 total) To support the addition of a full-time Executive Director role to ensure the growth and viability of the Veterans Village. The Wisconsin Veterans Village Association (WisVVA) provides stable, affordable housing for area veterans, single or with families; and seeks to improve the quality of life with a continuum of care that is veteran-centric in a community for veterans throughout their lifespan. Recipient: Wisconsin Veterans Village Association School District of Waupaca: $20,000 (Year 1 of 3, $48,000 total) To support expanded access to school-based mental health services for students in the School District of Waupaca. Recipient: School District of Waupaca MULTI-YEAR GRANTS First Five Fox Valley: Welcome Baby Project: $120,000 (Year 2 of 5, $500,000 total) To improve the process by which our community supports new families to ensure better outcomes for all and support those with the greatest needs. The Welcome Baby Initiative seeks to focus on the process by which we reach, assess, and connect new families with community resources through three primary activities. (1) Expansion of Welcome Baby Pre/ Post Natal and Welcome Baby Home visits to increase initial reach and evaluation by over 80%; (2) development of Welcome Baby Community events that utilize the Building for Kids Children's Museum as a safe, accessible, and universal venue and tool to build trusting relationships and decrease stigma; and (3) support a multi-agency database to improve efficiency and effectiveness of referral network. Collaborators: First Five Fox Valley, The Building for Kids, Early Intervention of Outagamie and Winnebago Counties, Family Services Parent Connection Rebuilding Together: Building a Healthy Neighborhood: $99,780 (Year 2 of 3, $298,725) Repair homes of low-income residents to foster safe and healthy housing, develop a set of neighborhood volunteers to sustain repair efforts when Rebuilding Together leaves the neighborhood in 3 years, and build social connectedness among neighborhood residents and the organizational capacity of the neighborhood to sustain itself into the future. Collaborators: Rebuilding Together Fox Valley, Goodwill NCW/Neighborhood Partners, West Appleton Neighborhood LEAVEN: Client Resource Coordinator: $45,000 (Year 2 of 3, $135,000 total) To hire a full-time Client Resource Coordinator. By strengthening our internal operations, we can improve the overall delivery of our services and those of our LEAVEN Community Resource Center partners, resulting in an enhanced client experience and improved client outcomes. Recipient: LEAVEN Us2 Behavioral Health: Creating Capacity to Accelerate Health Equity, Systematically: $120,000 (Year 2 of 3, $300,000 total) To create additional internal capacity to move from the current therapy-focused model to one that is consulting- driven. With the proper funds to maintain ongoing operating costs, our leadership team will have additional capacity to allocate towards building and implementing Equity, Diversity & Inclusion programs to help drive capability in existing providers so we can close this disparity gap as ONE community. Collaborators: Us2 Behavioral Health, B.A.B.E.S. African Heritage Inc.: $150,000 (Year 2 of 3, $450,000 total) Capacity Building; To hire a full- time Community Service and Outreach Director and a part-time administrative assistant. Recipient: African Heritage, Inc. Fox Valley Veterans Council: $54,563 (Year 2 of 3, $136,409 total) Capacity Building; To increase organizational effectiveness as well as grow our service area and strengthen our financial position. Recipient: Fox Valley Veterans Council Early Childhood Mental Health Therapy & Consultation: $104,952 (Year 2 of 3, $300,000 total) To create a consultative approach to provide clinical mental health services to Appleton families and kids from birth through age five. Collaborators: Catalpa Health, Community Early Learning Center, Bridges Child Enrichment Center, Appleton Even Start Family Literacy, Appleton Area School District Birth to Five, Early Intervention Birth to 3 Program, UW- Oshkosh Head Start, Child Care Resource & Referral Strengthening Menasha from the Inside Out: $71,682 (Year 2 of 3, $162,472) To strengthen, from the inside out, core Menasha neighborhoods by mobilizing neighbors to address their own neighborhood priorities. Through Neighborhood Partners' Asset Based Community Development practice, neighbors share their knowledge, skills, interests and concerns with one another in interest groups, neighborly supports, teaching-learning connections, neighborhood organizations, and by working together on community improvement projects. Collaborators: Neighborhood Partners, Menasha Senior Center, Boys & Girls Club of Menasha Outagamie County SAFE Project: $42,000 (Year 2 of 3, $135,000 total) To fund a new police officer, so an officer experienced with specialized training can become the Outagamie County Sheriff's Behavioral Health Officer in charge of the SAFE Project. Collaborators: N.E.W. Mental Health Connection, Outagamie County Sheriff's Department, Grand Chute Police Department, Kaukauna Police Department Ready to Read Menasha: $19,200 (Year 2 of 3, $57,600 total) To fund a Spanish-speaking Outreach Specialist to focus on encouraging use of the Elisha D. Smith Public Library by its Latinx community members, while also encouraging use of the library by all families with children in school. Collaborators: Elisha D. Smith Public Library, City of Menasha, Menasha Joint School District, Appleton Public Library Senior to Senior Connections: $100,000 (Year 2 of 3, $300,000 total) To take capacity building steps that will lead to long-term viability of the Center while increasing our ability to reach and better serve more at-risk adults who find it difficult to get to the center without supportive services. Hire an executive director who will add new leadership and expertise to help meet future budgetary and program needs of the Center through strategic engagement with community, business and government stakeholders. Collaborators: Thompson Center on Lourdes, St. Paul Elder Services, Hope Clinic Great Futures 2020: $100,000 (Year 2 of 3, $300,000 total) To support the addition of two new school-based Club sites that combined will serve an average of 200 low-income students each day and a combined total of 400 students each year for five school years beginning at Little Chute Middle/ Intermediate School and Madison Middle School. Collaborators: Boys & Girls Club of the Fox Valley, Appleton Area School district, Little Chute Area School District Strengthening Families: An Investment in Social Capital: $100,000 (Year 2 of 3, $300,000 total) To establish a presence in the Fox Cities in order to promote systems of natural support for families in crisis, diversion from homeless shelters and deflection from child welfare systems and foster care. Collaborators: Safe Families for Children Wisconsin, Pillars, Inc., Outagamie County Department of Health & Human Services, Harbor House Domestic Abuse Programs, Appleton Alliance Church Community Resource Center: $35,696 (Year 4 of 4, $248,608 total) Ensure effectiveness for the newly-created multi-agency LEAVEN Community Resource Center by adding needed staff and data management tools. Collaborators: LEAVEN, FISC, St. Vincent de Paul, Fox Valley Technical College, Energy Services, Inc. Shawano Area Early Childhood Partnership: $56,040 (Year 3 of 3, $178,523 total) Develop an early childhood coalition that will, among other things, work with vulnerable parents within their natural home environment using the Parents as Teachers model. Collaborators: Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin, ThedaCare, Family and Childcare Resources of Northeast Wisconsin, Shawano County Department of Human Services Single Room Occupancy Program: $40,000 (Year 3 of 3, $150,000 total) Create a single room occupancy program for individuals currently living in shelter, who can pay rent but have barriers that keep them from renting in the housing marketplace. Recipient: Pillars, Inc. Spanish Resource Advocate: $33,000 (Year 3 of 3, $118,995 total) Hire a Spanish Resource Advocate who will build trust between basic needs agencies and the Hispanic community, educate service providers about best practices and provide culturally responsive services that increase access and lead to greater self-sufficiency. Collaborators: St. Vincent de Paul, LEAVEN, Partnership Community Health Center Wisconsin Veterans Village Navigator: $67,140 (Year 3 of 3, $201,420 total) To staff the emerging Wisconsin Veterans Village with a "navigator" who will help connect Veterans to internal and external services appropriate to their needs. Collaborators: Wisconsin Veterans Village Association, Goodwill Industries, ThedaCare, Outagamie County Housing Authority, Fox Valley Technical College Individual Placement Support Services Program (IPS): $53,026 (Year 3 of 3, $212,343 total) To implement a new evidence-based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Services program that helps those with severe and persistent mental health illness find, keep and thrive in jobs. Collaborators: Valley Packaging Industries, Aspire Vocational Services, Outagamie County Mental Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, NAMI Fox Valley - Iris Place Eliminating barriers to long-term employability: $74,690 (Year 3 of 3, $279,510 total) To provide supported employment services to Riverview Gardens clients who face significant barriers to long-term employment. Collaborators: Riverview Gardens, Valley Packaging Industries

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