List of Grants Awarded - Blue & You Foundation Arkansas

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	Year	Organization	Location	Project Description	Project Results	Grant Amount
1	2003	American Heart Assocation	Little Rock	Operation Heartbeat provides CPR training and placement of defibrillation devices in high traffic public areas.	Read	$78,800
2	2003	American Lung Association of Arkansas	Little Rock	Arkansas Asthma project focuses on teaching children how to gain control of their condition.	Read	$130,400
3	2003	Arkansas Center for Health Improvement	Little Rock	ACHI statewide study to examine policy, program, financial and other access-related determinants of the use of cost-effective alternatives to institutional long-term care.	Read	$150,000
4	2003	Arkansas Post Girl Scout Council	Pine Bluff	Fit for the Future project supports exercise and nutrition for Girl Scouts in the Pine Bluff area.	Read	$7,000
5	2003	BAPTIST HEALTH Foundation	Little Rock	Fund six nursing scholarships for graduates who wish to practice in the underserved areas of the Delta region of Arkansas.	Read	$30,000
6	2003	Boston Mountain Rural Health Center	Marshall	Healthy Lifestyles program serves Searcy, Van Buren, Stone and Madison counties.	Read	$42,000
7	2003	Family Network	Springdale	Health Education in Parenting program provides health education and access to affordable services in Springdale area.	Read	$98,000
8	2003	Guadalupe Prenatal Clinic	Little Rock	Clinic provides prenatal services to increasing numbers of immigrant Hispanic women in Central Arkansas who have limited resources for care.	Read	$50,000
9	2003	Safe Jonesboro Coalition	Jonesboro	Support the coalition’s mission to protect the young and the old by distributing child-safety seats and bike helmets and providing screenings and assessment to prevent falls among the elderly.	Read	$90,000
10	2003	UAMS Delta Area Health Education Center	Helena-West Helena	Your Body, Your Health program designed to increase health knowledge and modify behavior patterns regarding hypertension, stroke, teen pregnancy, breast self-exams and sickle cell anemia.	Read	$70,000
11	2003	UAMS Department of Pediatrics KIDS FIRST	Little Rock	Addressing the Arkansas Epidemic program addresses statewide childhood obesity.	Read	$140,900
12	2003	YWCA Bess Chisum Stephens	Little Rock	EncorePlus program is designed to reduce the Arkansas mortality rate of breast and cervical cancer.	Read	$75,000
13	2004	American Lung Association of Arkansas	Little Rock	Arkansas Asthma Open Airways for Schools project.	Read	$132,010
14	2004	Arkansas Center for Addictions, Research Education and Services	Little Rock	Building Bridges Health Care project serves families affected by mother's addiction.	Read	$90,000
15	2004	Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention	Little Rock	Folic Acid Education program increases the knowledge and intake of folic acid among Arkansas women of childbearing age.	Read	$90,000
16	2004	Crowley's Ridge Development Council, Inc.	Jonesboro	CHOICES prevents early onset of drug use.	Read	$7,775
17	2004	Delta Memorial Hospital	Dumas	Link to Life program addresses breast health, osteoporosis, prenatal and infant care in southeast Arkansas.	Read	$95,000
18	2004	Focus, Inc.	Jonesboro	Provides paraprofessional training through Northwest Arkansas Disability Health Education Conference.	Read	$10,160
19	2004	Guadalupe Prenatal Clinic	Little Rock	Prenatal services for Hispanic women in Central Arkansas.	Read	$50,000
20	2004	Interfaith Clinic	El Dorado	Clinic provides dental services for underserved people in south Arkansas.	Read	$25,000
21	2004	Kiwanis Activities, Inc.	Little Rock	Physically Fit for Life program provides wellness information for Little Rock School District.	Read	$75,000
22	2004	Northwest Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute	Springdale	Men's Healthcare Navigator (NARTI) provides educational support for men with cancer in northwest Arkansas.	Read	$70,750
23	2004	Safe Jonesboro Coalition	Jonesboro	SAFE KIDS of Northeast Arkansas program provides national child-passenger safety technical training for law enforcement officers, fall prevention medical check for the elderly and bicycle safety presentations and free helmet distribution to 2nd grade students.	Read	$78,824
24	2004	UAMS Department of Pediatrics KIDS FIRST	Little Rock	Childhood obesity curriculum development and distribution.	Read	$119,000
25	2004	University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension	Little Rock	Arkansas Body Walk program teaches K thru 4th grade students about healthy behaviors.	Read	$107,716
26	2004	YWCA Bess Chisum Stephens	Little Rock	EncorePlus program is designed to reduce the Arkansas mortality rate of breast and cervical cancer.	Read	$50,000
27	2005	Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention	Little Rock	Folic Acid Education program reduces the occurrence of foliate-preventable birth defects in Arkansas.	Read	$85,341
28	2005	Arkansas Children's Hospital Foundation	Little Rock	Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Little Rock program provides child safety restraints.	Read	$24,051
29	2005	Arkansas Educational Television Network Foundation	Conway	Fighting Fat monthly television program addresses health issues, healthy living tips and fitness ideas.	Read	$70,522
30	2005	Arkansas Human Development Corporation	Little Rock	Promotoras de Salud (Health Promoters) program assists the Hispanic and Latino community in Central Arkansas in learning healthy lifestyle skills.	Read	$73,304
31	2005	Arkansas Rice Depot	Little Rock	Food For Kids program provides schools with new backpacks of nutritious foods.	Read	$75,000
32	2005	BAPTIST HEALTH Foundation	Little Rock	Here's to Your Health: Childhood Obesity program serves an 11-county area with education and intervention.	Read	$66,401
33	2005	Community Clinic at St. Francis House	Springdale	Prenatal Access program serves low-income expectant mothers in Washington County.	Read	$94,673
34	2005	Crittenden Memorial Hospital	West Memphis	Children's Health Initiative addresses maternal health, child health and childhood obesity in Crittenden County.	Read	$30,890
35	2005	Crowley's Ridge Development Council, Inc.	Paragould	March into Fitness walking program serves Greene County.	Read	$44,438
36	2005	Daughters of Charity Services of Arkansas	Dumas	Pharmacy Assistance program helps patients obtain low-cost or free medications and are taught proper medication usage.	Read	$48,158
37	2005	Easter Seals Arkansas	Stuttgart	Serving the Delta region, the program initiates a car seat safety campaign, creates a parent resource library and provides training.	Read	$73,483
38	2005	Focus, Inc.	Jonesboro	2005 Northeast Arkansas Health Education Conference.	Read	$10,000
39	2005	Greater Texarkana Peoples' Clinic, Inc	Texarkana	Clinic provides free medical treatment to uninsured residents of Miller County, AR and Bowie County, TX.	Read	$50,000
40	2005	Kiwanis Activities, Inc.	Little Rock	Physically Fit for Life program provides wellness information for Little Rock School District.	Read	$75,000
41	2005	North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education	Harrison	North Arkansas Wellness Initiative program provides education about risky lifestyle behaviors and health related costs for the youth, residents and workforce in north Central Arkansas.	Read	$112,418
42	2005	Pine Bluff Chapter of the Links, Inc.	Pine Bluff	Healthy Outcomes Promoted Through Education (HOPE) program provides obesity clinics for children.	Read	$39,200
43	2005	Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative	Monticello	Wellness Academics, and You (WAY) program provides students with the knowledge and skills to make healthy lifestyle choices.	Read	$117,633
44	2005	St. Bernards Development Foundation	Jonesboro	Kids Camp program addresses childhood obesity.	Read	$68,739
45	2005	UAMS College of Public Health, UALR/W. Bowen School of Law	Little Rock	Symposium on legal and policy issues related to obesity.	Read	$30,000
46	2005	UAMS Delta Area Health Education Center	Helena-West Helena	A Healthy Beginning program designed to focus intervention on expectant mothers in Phillips County.	Read	$69,154
47	2005	UAMS Department of Pediatrics KIDS FIRST	Little Rock	Childhood obesity in preschool and early elementary age children.	Read	$99,048
48	2006	Arkansas Children's Hospital Foundation	Little Rock	Community Focused School-based Obesity Prevention program provides the Little Rock School District with an obesity prevention curriculum.	Read	$149,974
49	2006	Arkansas Delta Rural Development Network, Ozark Mountain Health	Clinton	2006 fall and spring Arkansas Institute on serving health and social needs of rural and impoverished Arkansans.	Read	$90,000
50	2006	Arkansas Educational Television Network Foundation	Conway	Enhance the monthly program, Fighting Fat, by adding Fitness Witness and Crazy, Busy, Fit!	Read	$107,510
51	2006	Arkansas Foodbank Network, Inc.	Little Rock	Kids Café Pine Bluff program provides nutritious snacks and meals to children participating in the Boys and Girls Clubs.	Read	$43,450
52	2006	Arkansas Human Development Corporation	Little Rock	Promotoras de Salud Community Focused School-based Obesity Prevention program addresses health concerns of Hispanics and Latinos.	Read	$84,957
53	2006	Christian Health Center	Camden	Community Cares Prescription Drug program helps poverty-level patients receive prescribed medications at no cost directly from the pharmaceutical companies.	Read	$34,640
54	2006	Coalition for Healthy Children	Jonesboro	Ready Set Go Camp provides a two-week summer camp for 4th and 5th grade students who are overweight.	Read	$61,409
55	2006	Committee for Healthier Children, Beebe Public Schools	Beebe	Beebe & Blue program provides a nine-month after-school program focusing on obesity among pre-K thru 9th grade students.	Read	$61,206
56	2006	Community Clinic at St. Francis House	Springdale	Prenatal Pathways program provides prenatal care for 1,500 Washington County women.	Read	$98,760
57	2006	Conway County Christian Clinic	Morrilton	Addresses medical needs for the uninsured residents of Conway and Perry counties.	Read	$44,000
58	2006	Crowley's Ridge Rural Health Coalition	Paragould	Medicine Assistance program helps patients receive medications they otherwise could not afford.	Read	$84,400
59	2006	Daughters of Charity Services of Arkansas	Dumas	Pharmacy Assistance program serves low-income clients from the Delta region.	Read	$43,212
60	2006	Easter Seals Arkansas	Stuttgart	Serves critical needs of obese children in the Mississippi River Delta region of Arkansas.	Read	$61,649
61	2006	Elkins Public Schools (Elementary)	Elkins	Integrated Change Activity and Nutrition (I CAN) program addresses obesity in 5th grade students in northwest Arkansas.	Read	$48,000
62	2006	Good Samaritan Clinic	Fort Smith	Coping with Hypertension and Diabetes program serves diabetic and hypertensive patients.	Read	$65,000
63	2006	Greater Texarkana Peoples' Clinic, Inc	Texarkana	Funding for GTPC medical staff.	Read	$150,000
64	2006	Ozark Health Medical Center	Clinton	Fit Families program provides a family obesity prevention program for the uninsured and underinsured.	Read	$68,292
65	2006	Parenting and Childbirth Education Services, Inc.	Jonesboro	PACES Coming Alongside program serves pregnant or parenting adolescent women.	Read	$44,200
66	2006	Safe Jonesboro Coalition	Jonesboro	Get Alarmed! program enables volunteers and firefighters to install smoke alarms or replace batteries at no cost to family.	Read	$25,974
67	2006	Southeast Arkansas Health Foundation	Monticello	Fit Kids, Healthy Kids program addresses childhood obesity in the Monticello School District.	Read	$16,789
68	2006	UAMS Helping Schools Help Themselves	Little Rock	Helping Schools Help Themselves - Resources for Schools program provides school guidelines for healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention required by state and federal legislation.	Read	$34,466
69	2006	University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension	Little Rock	Arkansas HOPE program provides nutrition and physical activity lessons for elementary schools in northwest and southwest Arkansas.	Read	$88,482
70	2006	White River Rural Health Center, Inc.	Augusta	Medication Assistance program provides case managers for uninsured and underinsured patients.	Read	$48,081
71	2007	American Lung Association of Arkansas	Little Rock	Train 35 facilitators for Breath Well, Live Well Adult Asthma project that serves adults from Pulaski, Washington, Benton, Garland, and Craighead counties providing self-management skills to reduce the burden of asthma in adults and improve the quality of life for lung-disease patients.	Read	$44,900
72	2007	Arkansas Association of Charitable Clinics	Hot Springs	Operation Systems project provides system software designed to increase patient record-keeping for 27 member clinics.	Read	$100,000
73	2007	Arkansas Rice Depot	Little Rock	Food For Thought program addresses childhood hunger by providing high-protein foods in backpacks.	Read	$100,000
74	2007	Arkansas River Education Service Cooperative	Pine Bluff	Coordinated School Health program serves students, 10-13 years old, in DeWitt, Dollarway, Pine Bluff, Sheridan, Stuttgart, Watson Chapel and White Hall by providing comprehensive health and physical education.	Read	$149,549
75	2007	Boston Mountain Educational Cooperative	West Fork	ICAN Study program serves 4th thru 6th grades at Elkins Public School District providing a partnership between student, family, and school to fight childhood obesity.	Read	$150,000
76	2007	Community Clinic at St. Francis House	Springdale	Expanded Access to Care program serves uninsured and low-income patients in Washington and Benton counties by increasing primary care.	Read	$84,002
77	2007	Franklin County Learning Center, Inc.	Ozark	Purchase orthopedic positioning seats for children and adults being transported to developmental therapy.	Read	$11,000
78	2007	Great Rivers Education Service Cooperative	Helena-West Helena	GRESC Wellness project serves 4th and 5th grade students in Crittenden, Lee, Monroe, Phillips, Prairie, and Saint Frances counties providing health and wellness education.	Read	$149,018
79	2007	Helen R. Walton Children's Enrichment Center	Bentonville	Fitness is Fun program serves preschool children in northwest Arkansas providing weekly physical education classes.	Read	$79,275
80	2007	North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education	Harrison	North Arkansas Wellness Initiative program serves the underserved population in northeast Arkansas providing affordable health education services.	Read	$119,385
81	2007	Parenting and Childbirth Education Services, Inc.	Jonesboro	Parenting and Childbirth Education Services provides case management services for young mothers and fathers in Craighead, Poinsett and Green counties.	Read	$52,728
82	2007	PE4life	Kansas City, MO	Building Healthy Student Bodies, One at a Time program serves middle-school students in Rogers. Also, training for 15 school cooperatives through the PE4life Academy Training site at Kirksey Middle School.	Read	$149,775
83	2007	Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas	DeWitt	CPR/First Aid/ADED program provides mannequins and training materials for the DeWitt Campus.	Read	$4,510
84	2007	Positive Atmosphere Reaches Kids (PARK Foundation, Inc.)	Little Rock	Get Healthy Initiative program educates students to take an active role in developing healthy lifestyle patterns.	Read	$52,500
85	2007	University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension	Little Rock	WE3 project provides mid-life and older women in Saline, Hot Spring, Garland and Montgomery counties with a fitness and nutrition education program.	Read	$21,766
86	2007	University of Arkansas Fort Smith Dental Hygiene Program	Fort Smith	Dental treatment supplies for the Healthy Kids - Healthy Smiles program provides a sealant program to area elementary schools. Mostly 2nd thru 6th grade students who lack financial resources.	Read	$5,701
87	2008	American Red Cross of Greater Arkansas	Little Rock	Prepare Central Arkansas program serves 13 Arkansas counties: Pulaski, Saline, Faulkner, Lonoke, Cleburne, Van Buren, Conway, Perry, Prairie, Monroe, Lee, St. Francis and Phillips counties. Program expands health and safety training courses in CPR/First Aid/AED, swimming and life guarding, babysitting and rapid response.	Read	$130,071
88	2008	AR Well Child Reads	Little Rock	Expansion of Reach Out and Read in Arkansas program serves infants age 6 months to children 5 years of age of low income and low literate families. Program provides free books from physicians during Well-Child check-ups and encourages parents to share books with their baby.	Read	$84,290
89	2008	Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families	Little Rock	A compilation and evaluation of current Arkansas programs that are effectively preventing childhood obesity. This $109,000 grant was co-funded with Arkansas Children's Hospital.	Read	$54,500
90	2008	Arkansas Association of Charitable Clinics	Hot Springs	Nursing Homes Medication project serves low-income Arkansans with no insurance, Medicaid or Medicare. Act 162 authorizes qualifying charitable clinics to receive surplus prescription medicines from approved nursing homes and distribute the medications to needy Arkansans.	Read	$90,000
91	2008	Arkansas County Partners In Health	Stuttgart	Color Me Healthy in Arkansas County program serves 350 students in 23 pre-school classrooms in Stuttgart, DeWitt and Humphrey. Program uses color, music, and exploration of the senses to teach children that healthful food and physical activity are fun.	Read	$17,427
92	2008	Christian Health Center	Camden	Building Better Health program serves Ouachita, Union, Calhoun and Dallas counties. Program provides medical, dental, vision and mental health treatment and prescription medications.	Read	$69,000
93	2008	Committee for Healthier Children/Beebe Public	Beebe	Beebe & Blue program serves 50 children who are overweight in grades pre-K through ninth grade. Program provides physical assessments, daily physical exercise and healthy snacks for children after school.	Read	$61,206
94	2008	Communication Arts Institute	Eureka Springs	Chewy Café program serves middle school youth, teachers and parents in Northwest Arkansas. After three years, the program will be expanded throughout the state then nationally. Program provides an innovative educational program focused on healthy cooking.	Read	$100,000
95	2008	Community Clinic at St. Francis House	Springdale	Community Clinic Pediatric program serves the uninsured, low-income children in Washington and Benton counties. Distinct pediatric program provides medical and dental services to low-income and uninsured children.	Read	$92,744
96	2008	Community Dental Clinic	Fort Smith	Dental Gap project serves Sebastian and Crawford counties. Project provides needed dental emergency services to the indigent, poor and elderly.	Read	$24,120
97	2008	Conway County Christian Clinic	Morrilton	Meeting the Medical Needs of the Uninsured program serves noninsured and underinsured residents of Conway and Perry counties. Clinic will dispense free medication to patients for a one-year period.	Read	$32,000
98	2008	Helen R. Walton Children's Enrichment Center	Bentonville	Fitness is Fun program serves 650 children 3-5 years of age from northwest Arkansas. Program provides a nutrition and fitness program.	Read	$59,296
99	2008	Holman Community Development Corporation	Stuttgart	Holman Fit-2-Live program serves 300 at-risk youth in Arkansas, Monroe and Jefferson counties. Program provides health-oriented comprehensive and preventative services to foster healthier starts to adulthood.	Read	$132,900
100	2008	March of Dimes Arkansas Chapter	Little Rock	Improving the Health of Arkansas' Babies project serves women of child-bearing age, especially women who are African-American or Hispanic in northwest Arkansas, central Arkansas and Delta counties. Project provides professional and patient education on premature births.	Read	$41,477
101	2008	Monticello School District	Monticello	Fit for Fun project serves students grades 3-8 in the Monticello School District and their parents. Project provides after-school physical and nutritional education programming for students.	Read	$80,000
102	2008	Museum of Discovery	Little Rock	Birds and the Bees: A Discussion on Sexual Health program adheres to the curriculum standards of the Arkansas Department of Education for 4-8 grades. Program provides education on growth and development changes that take place during adolescence, how these interface with the reproductive system, and overall sexual health.	Read	$28,810
103	2008	Positive Atmosphere Reaches Kids (PARK Foundation, Inc.)	Little Rock	P.A.R.K. Physical Fitness Area program serves "at-risk" less-active students, 12-19 years of age, from Little Rock and Pulaski counties. Grant provides funds to update the fitness area.	Read	$66,000
104	2008	Potluck, Inc.	North Little Rock	Potluck Nutrition Education Workshop project serves at-risk children and adults across Arkansas. Project increases participation for the 2008 Nutrition Education Workshop.	Read	$9,000
105	2008	Rogers Public Schools--Physical Education Department	Rogers	PE4Life Extension project serves the Hispanic families at elementary schools in Rogers. Extension of the PE4Life model site establishes a health-fitness and action-based learning lab.	Read	$105,000
106	2008	Southern Good Faith Fund	Pine Bluff	Career Pathways program serves Arkansans in the Delta region, Jefferson and Phillips counties. Program educates nurses in the Delta region of Arkansas.	Read	$50,000
107	2008	UAMS Arkansas Center for Health Improvement	Little Rock	To review current research on evidence-based prevention of childhood obesity. This $50,000 grant was co-funded with Arkansas Children's Hospital.	Read	$25,000
108	2008	University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension	Little Rock	Wellness Enhanced by Exercise & Eating (WE3) project serves mid-life and older women and senior couples in Saline, Garland, Hot Spring, and Montgomery counties. Project provides a long-term, research-based fitness and nutrition education program.	Read	$35,647
109	2009	American Diabetes Association	Little Rock	African-American Initiative program provides black churches and constituents with tools to address diabetes awareness, through lifestyle changes such as heart health, healthy eating, exercise and family involvement. The program serves 25,000 African-Americans and 400-500 families from central Arkansas, including 42 surrounding counties.	Read	$20,400
110	2009	Arkansas Mission of Mercy	Sherwood	Two-day Free Dental Clinic held in Springdale uses portable dental equipment to provide dental care for patients seeking care from volunteers. 1,500 to 2,000 patients are served by 700 volunteers.	Read	$25,000
111	2009	Beebe Public Schools	Beebe	Wii Bit of Fun at School program encourages students between the ages 4-14 to exercise in the Beebe Public Schools' Wii classroom. The program serves 1,485 children/youth.	Read	$14,014
112	2009	Boston Mountain Rural Health Center	Marshall	Blue Crew Nutrition and Exercise program provides nutritional after-school snacks, health education and physical activity training for children between the ages 9-18. The program serves 200 children in Searcy County.	Read	$36,000
113	2009	Boys and Girls Club of Central Arkansas	Little Rock	Triple Play: A Game Plan for Mind, Body and Soul program promotes health and wellness for members of eight Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Arkansas. The program serves 600 club members between the ages 6-18.	Read	$48,499
114	2009	Chicot Memorial Hospital Foundation	Lake Village	Kids for Health-Chicot County/Desha County Program (Wellness) provides interactive videos for disease prevention and health promotion. The program serves over 2,000 public school children in grades K-6 in Chicot and Desha County.	Read	$37,560
115	2009	Christian Community Care Clinic	Benton	Additional Medical Personnel for CCCC project provides improved patient care to patients between the ages 18-62 who are chronically ill with uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension. The project serves approximately 750 Saline County residents.	Read	$72,269
116	2009	Christian Health Center	Camden	Building Better Health program for 2009 increases clients' primary care service by 25 percent and prescription drug assistance by 10 percent. The program serves between 4,500 and 5,000 patients from Ouachita County.	Read	$34,000
117	2009	CityYouth Ministries	Jonesboro	CityYouth's Fitness Bootcamp Unlimited Energy program provides at-risk youth, ages 6-18, with a Kids Fitness Bootcamp and offers educational sessions on nutrition to both youth and families. The program serves 100 youth and their families on the north side of Jonesboro.	Read	$79,439
118	2009	Communication Arts Institute	Eureka Springs	Chewy Café Expansion program expands the number of Arkansas schools utilizing Chewy Café to prevent chronic diseases related to childhood nutrition and obesity for youth between the ages 12-15.	Read	$100,000
119	2009	Community Clinic Rogers Medical	Rogers	Pediatric Expansion in Benton County program provides pediatric medical services to an additional 1,300 low-income and unisured children in Benton County.	Read	$115,000
120	2009	Crittenden Regional Hospital	West Memphis	Perinatal Support program provides prenatal and postpartum home visits by doulas to assess needs and barriers to care for pregnant women. The program serves 316 pregnant women from Crittenden, St. Francis, Lee, and Poinsett counties.	Read	$31,385
121	2009	Helen R. Walton Children's Enrichment Center	Bentonville	Early Childhood Education CPR/First Aid Training Outreach program provides free CPR/First Aid training to early childhood education professionals in northwest Arkansas counties (Benton, Washington, Carroll and Madison). The program serves 240 early childhood education professionals in Arkansas.	Read	$14,049
122	2009	Kimmons Junior High	Fort Smith	PE4life program provides physical activity for students, parents and staff of Kimmons Junior High School in the northeast area of Fort Smith.	Read	$47,287
123	2009	Madison County Health Coalition	Huntsville	Work for Better Health Worksite Wellness program implements the American Cancer Society's curriculum, Active for Life, to increase physical activity. The program serves 1,500 residents of Madison County.	Read	$56,300
124	2009	Museum of Discovery	Little Rock	Birds and Bees Grow Wings project provides sexual health education courses in a traveling format to approximately 1,000 teachers and students in grades 4-8, to help reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.	Read	$28,594
125	2009	NEA Clinic Charitable Foundation	Jonesboro	Center for Healthy Children After-School Expansion program provides area schools outside Jonesboro with a 12-week nutritional and fitness program in grades 4-7. The program serves over 500 children.	Read	$23,959
126	2009	Northwest Arkansas Free Health Center	Fayetteville	The Increasing Access to Health and Dental Care for Uninsured and Low-Income program expands the clinic's hours of operation from part-time to full-time. The program serves 13,500 residents of northwest Arkansas.	Read	$50,000
127	2009	PE4life	Kansas City, MO	Going into communities, the PE4life in Arkansas project advocates for quality physical education programming and provide services needed to implement the PE4life approach. The area served is the south, east and central regions of Arkansas.	Read	$148,565
128	2009	River City Ministry of Pulaski County	North Little Rock	River City Ministry program doubles patient capacity by increasing facility space, expanding clinic hours, recruiting additional staff, increasing patient eligibility for prescription assistance and purchasing medical supplies.	Read	$24,000
129	2009	Southern Good Faith Fund	Pine Bluff	Career Pathways Expansion programs provides nursing training and education for a stronger health-care workforce in Jefferson County. The program serves 65 people.	Read	$50,000
130	2010	American Diabetes Association	Bentonville	Diabetes Cure, Care, Commitment for Northwest Arkansas educational efforts seek to help 20,300 children and adults with emphasis on high-risk communities of African Americans, Latinos, Marshallese, and Native Americans who are twice as likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites.	Read	$35,000
131	2010	Area Agency on Aging of Southeast Arkansas, Inc.	Pine Bluff	Diabetes and You! program offers diabetes education to seniors attending community health fairs (5,000 seniors) and 16 senior centers (400 seniors) from southeast Arkansas in Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Cleveland, Drew, Desha, Grant, Lincoln and Jefferson counties.	Read	$25,876
132	2010	Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance (AR Coalition for Obesity Prevention)	Little Rock	Growing Healthy Communities seeks to select five communities to receive resources to help make their community a healthier place to live and help combat obesity.	Read	$110,000
133	2010	Arkansas Mission of Mercy	Sherwood	2010 Two-Day Dental Clinic in Monticello offers free extractions, fillings, and oral hygiene instructions for 2,000 patients from southern Arkansas.	Read	$50,000
134	2010	Arkansas Quality Foundation, Inc.	Little Rock	Baby Steps program examines infant deaths to identify where there is disparity and why the disparity exists. A selected county will introduce a pilot-program for infant health counseling.	Read	$43,262
135	2010	Baptist Health Foundation	Little Rock	Bringing Human Milk to Babies Who Need It Most program supplies breast milk for NICU infants. The program serves 656 mothers who are given, for one month, a Medela Symphony Electric Breast pump, breastfeeding education, telephone triage, and support from a RN certified lactation consultant.	Read	$149,940
136	2010	Cedarville Schools	Cedarville	Healthy Bodies Healthy Brains program offers greater physical activity in both core subject and physical education classes to 1,500 students from Crawford County.	Read	$62,160
137	2010	Chicot Memorial Hospital Foundation	Lake Village	Kids for Health program presents curriculum that targets disease prevention and health promotion. Currently, the program reaches 4,000 K-6 grade students from Chicot and Desha counties but hopes to serve an additional 4,000 students from Arkansas and Ashley counties.	Read	$60,182
138	2010	Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council	Fort Smith	Tooth Fairy project delivers a dental-health presentation to 1,000 low-income families from Sebastian and Crawford counties and distributes "Tooth Fairy" bags containing an age-appropriate toothbrush, tooth paste, floss and educational brochures.	Read	$5,032
139	2010	Dallas County Alliance Supporting Health	Fordyce	Move, DASH, and Eat Healthy program offers a wellness-fitness program that includes a walking program and diabetes workshops.	Read	$8,805
140	2010	FoodShare and Opportunity Network	Prescott	Senior Share program maintains “Senior Corner” providing 1,500 low-income seniors with food and personal hygiene products to help supplement their monthly-allotments. Two-thirds of the seniors from southwest Arkansas in Clark, Hampstead, Nevada, Pike and Waldo counties are African-American and female.	Read	$11,250
141	2010	Friendship Community Care	Russellville	MiChild Enrichment and Therapy Center offers summer camps for developmentally-challenged children, age birth to 6 years. The camps benefit 300 family members from Arkansas River Valley allowing the parents a break from constant care.	Read	$41,528
142	2010	Group Living	Arkadelphia	Healthy Habits Healthy Life provides health education and physical activities for 55 developmentally-disabled clients from Clark County with the intent to help lower the average weight of both the client and the staff member.	Read	$4,107
143	2010	Harding University College of Pharmacy	Searcy	Evaluating Outcomes of Cognitive Status and Pillbox Education on Diabetes Management Pilot project serves 50-100 diabetic patients that receive primary healthcare and prescription medications from White River Rural Health Center in Brinkley.	Read	$50,447
144	2010	Harmony Health Clinic	Little Rock	Dental and Hispanic Services at Harmony Health Clinic will expand routine, non-emergency, medical, dental, physical therapy, and prescription drug services. Individuals must be between the ages of 13 and 64, without medical insurance, and live or work in Pulaski County at least three-months prior to seeking assistance.	Read	$50,000
145	2010	Helen R. Walton Children's Enrichment Center	Bentonville	Early Childhood Health and Safety Training Outreach offers free CPR/First Aid certification for 528 early childhood education professionals from south Arkansas in Ashley, Benton, Bradley, Chicot, Crawford, Desha, Drew, Madison, Sebastian and Washington counties.	Read	$58,255
146	2010	Hospice of Texarkana	Texarkana	The Good Grief Club helps children, ages 6-18, cope with a loss due to death, divorce, a move, or incarceration of a parent.	Read	$11,505
147	2010	Kimmons Junior High and Sutton Elementary	Fort Smith	An expansion of PE4life program promotes physical activity for 3,000 students, parents and staff of Kimmons Junior High School and Sutton Elementary in Sebastian County.	Read	$104,860
148	2010	Lawrence Memorial Health Foundation	Walnut Ridge	Lawrence County Get Fit! program makes available in the county schools a dietician, fitness expert and counselor for their 17,000 students, ages 5-18, with the intent to promote healthy lifestyle issues.	Read	$42,270
149	2010	Madison County Health Coalition	Huntsville	Work for Better Health Worksite Wellness, following the American Cancer Society's curriculum, Active for Life, will increase exercise for 750 worksite employees.	Read	$66,360
150	2010	NEA Clinic Charitable Foundation	Jonesboro	Center for Healthy Children After-School program encourages exercise and promotes healthy nutritional habits for 200-250 children, ages 8-12.	Read	$30,400
151	2010	North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education	Harrison	Chronic Disease/Healthy Living…It's Up to You program offers education, exercise and activities to promote chronic disease self-management for 25,000 patients from Boone and Newton counties.	Read	$117,371
152	2010	Northwest Arkansas Free Health Center	Fayetteville	NAFHC Expansion program increases clinic hours to be open five-days a week providing health and dental care to 13,500 uninsured and low-income individuals.	Read	$50,000
153	2010	Northwest Arkansas Women's Resources (Loving Choices Pregnancy Ctr)	Rogers	STD/STI Testing program adds two new tests (Genital Herpes and Trichomoniasis) to its existing free STD/STI testing and treatment programs for HIV, Syphilis, Chlamydia and Gonorrhea. The program serves 500 at-risk women, ages 13-24, from Bella Vista, Bentonville, Fayetteville, Lowell, Rogers and Springdale.	Read	$49,756
154	2010	Paragould Light Water & Cable Employees	Paragould	CPR for 6th Graders: Training Youth Instructors for the Home and the Community taught from the American Heart Association's CPR Anytime Kit will reach 2,200 residents.	Read	$17,000
155	2010	Parenting and Childbirth Education Services (PACES)	Jonesboro	Weekly Life Skill Classes held at CityYouth Ministries desires to help 150 pregnant and parenting teens from Craighead and Poinsett counties.	Read	$33,617
156	2010	Pulaski County Youth Services	Little Rock	Students and Parents Optimizing Recipes for Kids promotes nutritional education by teaching 180 sixth-grade students how to prepare nutritious meals and snacks.	Read	$16,050
157	2010	River City Ministry of Pulaski County	North Little Rock	Day Resource Center gives free medical, dental and ophthalmology services, with no-cost prescription drug coverage, to 150-200 uninsured, mostly homeless, patients from central Arkansas.	Read	$24,000
158	2010	Shepherd's Hope Neighborhood Health Centers	Little Rock	Shepherd's Hope Dental Clinic offers acute dental care for 500-800 uninsured midtown Little Rock residents.	Read	$25,000
159	2010	University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR)	Little Rock	Future Smiles Dental Clinic gives 2,400 students restorative and preventative treatments such as fluoride varnish and sealants. The in-school clinic, located in Wakefield Elementary, provides dental services during 35 weeks of the school year.	Read	$50,100
160	2010	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)	Little Rock	HELP Yourself program offers testing clinics and a media campaign for HIV/AIDS awareness serving 800 citizens from the Arkansas Delta region including Chicot, Crittenden, Desha, Lee, Monroe, Phillips and St. Francis counties.	Read	$34,397
161	2010	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)	Little Rock	Health Window (Ventanillas de Salud) provides health care resources to the 25,000 Latino/Hispanic individuals who visit the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock each year.	Read	$80,961
162	2010	Van Buren County Schools	Clinton	Van Buren County Schools Healthy Students offers substance-abuse prevention activities for 1,000 students, grades 6-12, to promote behavioral health.	Read	$55,200
163	2011	Arkansas Academy of Family Physicians Foundation	Little Rock	Patient-Centered Medical Home Project would provide approximately 600,000 Arkansans with comprehensive primary care.		$150,000
164	2011	Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation, Inc.	Little Rock	Sports Concussions: Baseline Neurocognitive Testing will train certified athletic trainers in 70 high schools to implement neurocognitive testing for sports concussions.		$112,109
165	2011	Arkansas Community Foundation	Little Rock	Minigrants Program provides fifty $1,000 minigrants available to Arkansas organizations to assist with health-improvement efforts in their communities. The application and selection process for the minigrants is administered by the Arkansas Community Foundation.		$55,000
166	2011	Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance (AR Coalition for Obesity Prevention)	Little Rock	Growing Healthy Communities will train 80 leaders from five communities to develop anti-obesity work plans, as well as hold regional, healthy-living summits.		$143,000
167	2011	Arkansas Quality Foundation, Inc.	Little Rock	Baby Steps: One Step Further will develop a statewide infant death review process with community-based analysis and intervention plans, to help reduce infant mortalities and disparities.		$124,537
168	2011	Brandon Burlsworth Foundation	Harrison	Eyes of a Champion provides free eye exams and glasses for approximately 1,500 children throughout Arkansas.		$75,000
169	2011	Conway Interfaith Clinic, Inc.	Conway	Medical Expansion Program seeks to expand clinic operations for low-income patients from three to four days per week, serving an additional 800 individuals per year.		$68,168
170	2011	Crittenden Regional Hospital	West Memphis	Perinatal Support Program provides prenatal and postpartum home visits by doulas to assess needs and barriers to care for pregnant women. The program serves 419 pregnant women from Crittenden, St. Francis, Phillips and Poinsett counties.		$47,962
171	2011	Dallas County Alliance Supporting Health	Fordyce	Move, DASH, and Eat Healthy II offers a wellness-fitness program for approximately 1,060 individuals in Dallas County.		$8,500
172	2011	FoodShare and Opportunity Network	Prescott	Kid Care and Senior Share provide food and hygiene items to approximately 750 low income individuals in Prescott.		$18,000
173	2011	Greater Delta Alliance for Health	DeWitt	Southeast Arkansas Diabetes Project will conduct four diabetes self-management courses, six diabetes education lunches and diabetes screenings for approximately 2,000 residents of Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Lincoln and Arkansas counties.		$60,547
174	2011	Harmony Health Clinic	Little Rock	Expansion of Dental and Hispanic Services provide free services to 960 dental patients and 3,000 medical patients in Pulaski County.		$45,000
175	2011	Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank, Inc.	Texarkana	Fresh for You will provide more timely distribution of perishable foods to food banks in southwest Arkansas, serving approximately 30,000 individuals.		$30,000
176	2011	Helen R. Walton Children's Enrichment Center	Bentonville	Quality Child Care Environments will seek to train 1,000 early childhood professionals in northwest Arkansas in child and playground safety and administer TB clinics and testing.		$71,832
177	2011	Monticello School District	Monticello	Fit 4 Fun will encourage physical activity and healthier eating in 2,125 students in the Monticello School district.		$79,285
178	2011	Northwest Arkansas Free Health Center	Fayetteville	Access to Prescription Medications seeks to increase its patients who enroll in prescription assistance programs from 912 to 1,176, serving an additional 264 patients.		$42,500
179	2011	Parenting and Childbirth Education Services (PACES)	Jonesboro	Healthy Babies seeks to educate approximately 17,000 individuals about the dangers of Shaken Baby Syndrome and substance abuse during pregnancy.		$41,336
180	2011	River Valley Christian Clinic	Dardanelle	Free Care to Uninsured provides free medical, dental, vision and medication assistance to approximately 1,000 patients in the Dardanelle area.		$56,700
181	2011	Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas	Little Rock	Care Mobile Dental Clinic provides dental care to approximately 2,000 underserved children by visiting elementary schools and summer programs in Pulaski, Saline, Perry, Faulkner, Lonoke, Jefferson and Grant counties.		$150,000
182	2011	South Arkansas Caring Pregnancy Center (dba Hannah Medical Center)	El Dorado	Sexual Integrity Project hopes to reach 5,000 students in Columbia, Union and Ouachita counties with sexual abstinence education.		$35,353
183	2011	Sutton Elementary PE4life	Fort Smith	PE4life will reach approximately 2,000 students and parents in Fort Smith with increased exercise opportunities and family wellness nights.		$108,095
184	2011	UALR	Little Rock	Future Smiles Dental Clinic provides 2,500 students with restorative and preventive treatments through an in-school clinic shared by seven elementary schools in Little Rock.		$57,400
185	2011	UAMS	Little Rock	Internal Medicine Resident Clinic will embark on a 12-month process to obtain NCQA accreditation as a Patient-centered Medical Home, serving approximately 5,976 patients in central Arkansas.		$149,019
186	2011	UAMS Arkansas Center for Health Improvement	Little Rock	To conduct a 12-month research study assessing and planning for primary and specialty care delivery in Arkansas.		$432,438
187	2011	University of the Ozarks	Clarksville	Critical Dosages of Physical Activity will involve 800 school children in a study to measure physical activity intensities in a normal school program versus a structured program (SPARK).		$49,000
188	2012	Arkansas Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics Foundation	Little Rock	Breathe Easy: Combating Asthma through Practice Quality Improvement will improve asthma control for 1500 children. Three pediatric clinics statewide will use practice quality improvement to implement asthma care guidelines for their patients.		$122,511
189	2012	Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation, Inc.	Little Rock	Seal the State Dental Sealant Program will reach out to more uninsured, at-risk and medically challenged children, screening approximately 1,200 additional children for dental sealants and expanding to seven additional counties (Lincoln, Chicot, Ashley, Bradley, Monroe, Lee and Cross).		$138,500
190	2012	Arkansas Children’s Trust Fund	Little Rock	Baby Safety Showers will provide home safety kits for 900 young, expectant mothers in 22 different sites across the state. The program will also provide car seats for 440 teen parents enrolled in the THRIVE home visiting program.		$73,600
191	2012	Arkansas Hospital Education and Research Trust	Little Rock	The Best on Board Trustee Education and Certification program will offer education, testing and certification for approximately 80 percent of the hospital trustees in the state of Arkansas. The education for hospital trustees that will be presented in two formats (live and online) on hospital fundamentals of governance and quality initiative		$50,000
192	2012	CareLink	North Little Rock	The CareLink HomeMeds program will identify, assess and resolve medication problems by implementing an evidence-based medication management improvement system for 500 ElderChoices home care clients in six counties in central Arkansas. Funding is for costs associated with training, software and support for case management and pharmacy consul		$54,090
193	2012	Community Clinic at St. Francis House	Springdale	The Community Clinic Pediatric Expansion program will offer primary health care and integrated behavioral health services to an additional 1,500 children in Washington County. Funding is for a medical provider and a behavioral health provider.		$150,000
194	2012	Community First Wellness	Nashville	Healthy Howard County will provide direct health education and awareness programs for at least 1,000 youth and adults, encouraging healthy nutrition, promoting physical activity and increasing health literacy.		$57,150
195	2012	Community Health Centers of Arkansas, Inc.	North Little Rock	Patient Centered Medical Home Collaborative will facilitate the achievement of patient centered medical home accreditation within all 73 Arkansas CHC sites to support improved quality and health-care delivery systems. The project will impact 150,669 patients in 54 counties.		$88,431
196	2012	Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas	DeQueen	The Cossatot Community Health Center will enhance access to primary medical care to 900 underserved adults in Sevier County. Funding will help offset costs of personnel and consumable supplies as the current community charity care clinic transitions to a satellite clinic of Healthy Connections, Inc.		$116,740
197	2012	Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council, Inc.	Fort Smith	Tooth Be Gone will help 250 patients in low-income areas in Sebastian and Crawford counties find education and pain relief from tooth decay. Funding will cover the cost of the part-time dentist, office supplies and dental supplies for 250 patients.		$30,000
198	2012	Girls Incorporated of Fort Smith	Fort Smith	The Friendly PEERsuasion® program will help 800 girls in the Sebastian County area to avoid smoking, drinking or using drugs.		$10,000
199	2012	Greater Delta Alliance for Health, Inc.	DeWitt	Southeast Arkansas Diabetes Project-Phase 2 will improve the health of over 4,000 residents living with diabetes through education, screening and services. This project will target residents in Ashley, Arkansas, Bradley, Chicot, Desha and Lincoln counties.		$65,800
200	2012	Jones Center for Families, Inc.	Springdale	Breaking Diabetes' Grip on the Marshallese will decrease the death rate from diabetes among Washington County's Marshallese population, which is estimated to be almost 6,000 people. Three hundred people will be selected to take part in the program. Funding is for diabetes education, nutrition, cooking and physical activity classes.		$14,795
201	2012	Monticello School District	Monticello	Healthier US Schools Monticello will meet the foodservice requirements for the Bronze level of the National Healthier US Schools Challenge and comply with 2011 USDA School Meal guidelines for 2,125 students and 695 employees of the Monticello School District in Drew County. Funding is for foodservice staff training and for a school gardner.		$80,000
202	2012	Northwest Arkansas Free Health Center	Fayetteville	The Prescription Assistance Program will provide access to prescription medications for 1,588 uninsured and low income individuals in Northwest Arkansas through program enrollment assistance. The funding is for the clinic's patient advocate and related expenses.		$50,000
203	2012	Our House, Inc.	Little Rock	Improving the Health of Homeless Families and Individuals in Central Arkansas will increase access to health services and promote health education, improving the health of the 850 homeless adults and children served each year.		$52,785
204	2012	Parenting and Childbirth Education Services	Jonesboro	The Healthy Babies Project will educate 22,000 students and individuals in Northeast Arkansas about the dangers of Shaken Baby Syndrome and prenatal drug and alcohol use by making presentations in schools, childcare facilities and at community events.		$40,341
205	2012	Pulaski Technical College Foundation	North Little Rock	Using Distance Education will improve health-care delivery in Arkansas by training future health-care professionals. Funds will support an Associate of Allied Health degree in anesthesia technology, delivered in traditional classroom format in central Arkansas and through advanced-level distance education at up to six sites around the state		$76,400
206	2012	Southern Arkansas University Tech	Camden	Caring for Our Elderly will recruit and pay the tuition and fees for 96 minority males or females who are unemployed or underemployed from Calhoun, Columbia, Dallas and Ouachita counties to receive Certified Nurse Assistant training in an effort to increase caregivers for the area’s elderly population.		$78,048
207	2012	UAMS Delta Area Health Education Center	El Dorado	South Arkansas Safety Baby Showers will lower risks of unintentional injuries to infants through educating parents and providing necessary safety items. This program will reach more than 240 people in Ouachita, Union and Calhoun counties. Funding is for safety items and program supplies such as a child passenger safety seat simulator.		$42,316
208	2012	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	Little Rock	Strategies for Establishing a UAMS College of Dentistry will serve the entire state of Arkansas by improving the number and distribution of dentists. Funding is for developing the intellectual and physical infrastructure capable of creating the strategies to achieve that goal.		$150,000