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12 2021 Community Report NEW GRANTS Greater Green Bay Office for Collective Impact: $10,000 This creates a hub for Achieve Brown County, Wello and the POINT Poverty Initiative. These collective impact backbone organizations will align, develop and pursue comprehensive strategies, share resources, strengthen individual and collective efficacy, and ultimately amplify outcomes and impact in the community. Collaborators: Achieve Brown County, Wello, POINT Population Health Collaborative: $80,000 (Year 1 of 3, $230,000 total) This grant works to surround individuals with a Community Care Team to improve health outcomes. Through coordination and collaboration among organizations, and aligned infrastructure and analytics, providers can more effectively communicate with one another and facilitate services and care. Collaborators: Bellin Health, Advocate Aurora, HSHS/Prevea, ASPIRO, Curative Connections, ADRC of Brown County, Achieve Brown County and more Investing in Staffing and Database Capacity: $108,000 (Year 1 of 3, $308,000 total) Funding for this grant invests in COMSA's staffing and organizational capacity so the organization can accomplish its mission of supporting refugees and immigrants on their path towards self-sufficiency and stability. Services include educational and mentoring programs and connections to resources and services in the community. Recipient: COMSA Spanish-Speaking Health Navigator: $109,005 (Year 1 of 3, $296,611 total) Collaborators will implement a Spanish-speaking Health Navigator program to connect residents to appropriate medical services, insurance systems and coaching in self-care in order to improve health outcomes. Collaborators: Casa ALBA Melanie, Hispanic Community Resource Center, ADRC of Brown County, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Program Specialist: $32,500 A Program Support Specialist will assist the Adult Tutoring Program by tracking literacy advancements of learners, maintaining the Tutor Lending Library, recruiting and training tutors, and acting as lead staff in researching, evaluating, acquiring and implementing a new Learner Management System. Recipient: Literacy Green Bay L(earning) Power: $99,333 (Year 1 of 3, $300,000 total) This program provides personal supports and aims to reduce financial barriers for low-income Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color in NWTC's Trades & Engineering Technologies and College of Business programs, helping them reach their postsecondary education goals. Recipient: Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Forward Service Corporation FSET Probation and Parole 50/50: $59,008 (Year 1 of 3, $143,147 total) This grant provides a case manager who coordinates with the Department of Corrections and is dedicated to supporting individuals on probation, parole or extended supervision so they can successfully reintegrate into the community. Collaborators: Forward Services, Wisconsin Department of Corrections Implementing an Electronic Health Records System: $5,000 This initiative will advance mental health services by implementing an Electronic Health Record System for outpatient behavioral and mental health services. Recipient: Innovative Services Hungry to Learn: $78,809 (Year 1 of 3, $209,440 total) This collaboration reduces food insecurities among the college's neediest students and increases the number of clients from the pantry pursuing a post-secondary credential through the improved coordination. Collaborators: Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Paul's Pantry Achieve Brown County General Operations: $100,000 (Year 1 of 3, $300,000 total) This grant supports the continuation of overall operations by realizing the potential of data, advancing collaborative action and broadening and deepening community-led collective action. Recipient: Achieve Brown County Certified Peer Specialist: $76,152 (Year 1 of 3, $221,336 total) Funding for this grant connects Certified Peer Specialists to people with mental health and substance use issues. Certified Peer Specialists are trained, certified professionals who use their personal lived experience to provide peer support to others and demonstrate that recovery is possible. Collaborators: NEWCAP, Options for Independent Living Connections for Mental Wellness: $125,000 (Year 1 of 2, $250,000 total) Funding for this program grows the coordination of school site-based mental health therapy options, promotes mental health treatment models, and brings continuing education courses to Brown County. It continues the development of the "no wrong door" concept of access to mental health care. Recipient: Connections for Mental Wellness Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin: $113,420 (Year 1 of 3, $300,000 total) This collaboration provides educational services integrated with on-site mental health services with goal of helping students in grades 8-10 have academic success. This program is designed to help students continue to participate in academics while also benefiting from additional mental health services. Collaborators: Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin, Howard-Suamico School District, West De Pere School District, Pulaski School District Hotel Vouchers: $15,000 Funding for this grant provides access to hotel vouchers for families on the waitlist for NEWCAP shelter during COVID-19. Recipient: NEWCAP Safe Parking: $10,000 The Safe Parking Program provides people living in their cars a safe place to park, connection to resources, advocacy, and supplies while working towards long-term housing options in the community. Recipient: Wise Women Gathering Place MULTI-YEAR GRANTS Accessible Mental Wellness Initiative: Resident Therapist for Long-Term Care of Clients in Need: $96,252 (Year 2 of 3, $201,210 total) This project shifts from inviting therapists into homeless shelters and other social service organizations to inviting the clients of those homeless shelters to receive a full array of long-term mental health, addiction therapy, and psycho-education at the main clinic. A resident therapist is dedicated to addressing these unique well-being challenges. Additional capacity means more ability to help more people address mental illness and addiction, get out of homelessness, and stay stable. Collaborators: Foundations Health & Wholeness Inc., Freedom House, House of Hope, Micah Center, N.E.W. Community Clinic, New Community Shelter Turbo Go Centers: $108,941 (Year 2 of 3, $299,691 total) This grant creates a space for academic, college and career planning in an age- and culturally appropriate manner at targeted Green Bay middle schools with the highest concentration of free and reduced-price lunch. Turbo Go Centers are established in four middle schools to provide integrated career and academic planning to students, engage parents and serve as a designated area for community programming focused on helping underrepresented and marginalized students succeed academically and plan for their future. Collaborators: Green Bay Area Public Schools, UW-Green Bay; Boys & Girls Club of Greater Green Bay; Northeast Wisconsin Technical College House of Hope Youth Shelter: $125,000 (Year 2 of 3, $300,000 total) House of Hope opened a licensed facility in Brown County to provide shelter and supportive services for pregnant and parenting youth, including minors and their children. These services are provided on a voluntary basis and fill the gap for youth not receiving services from the foster care or the juvenile justice systems. These youth are faced with nearly insurmountable barriers, including limited education, lack of access to prenatal care and safe, stable shelter and significant experience with abuse and neglect. Collaborators: House of Hope Green Bay, Foundations Health & Wholeness; N.E.W. Community Clinic; Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin Offender Education and Workforce Training Program: $82,500 (Year 2 of 3, $245,000 total) This program builds on workforce development programming within the Oconto County Law Enforcement Center by supporting the whole person and addressing psychological barriers as well as educational challenges. It provides inmates with education, soft-skills training, cognitive intervention, budgeting skills and connections to county resources and establish relationships that will continue post- release. Collaborators: New Beginnings Store/ New View/Oconto County Partnership, Oconto County Department of Health & Human Services, Sheriff's Department, Law Enforcement Center and Department of Child Protection Blacktivity: Engaging Black Youth in Health and Wellness: $100,000 (Year 2 of 3, $300,000 total) We All Rise: African American Resource Center and Blacktivity will build on current programming and take the youth from the classroom to the community. The center established equity in its classroom work, and with the knowledge and skills that youth have gained they have identified the next step in addressing social determinants of health: Strategically engaging with community partners to increase youth activism. Blacktivity is getting youth engaged in community art shows, farmers markets, swimming lessons, yoga classes, and ensuring that they have been paired with a mentor to support/monitor their progression. Collaborators: We All Rise: African American Resource Center, YWCA Greater Green Bay Safe to Study-Homeless Student Housing Partnership: $100,000 (Year 3 of 3, $300,000 total) The project is an effort to help students at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College who are financially struggling to secure housing that allows them to live independently and work towards their post-secondary education. The goal is: 1) find and assess students who are homeless or have unstable housing; 2) assist students in gaining access to the Brown County Coordinated Entry System for the Homeless; and 3) help students secure safe and stable housing, including financial assistance when needed. Collaborators: NWTC, Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin $2,806,201 NEW GRANT COMMITMENTS GRANTS DISTRIBUTED $2,348,359

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