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 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
4	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
5	2003	Boston Mountain Rural Health Center	Marshall	Healthy Lifestyles program serves Searcy, Van Buren, Stone and Madison counties.	Read	$42,000
6	2003	Family Network	Springdale	Health Education in Parenting program provides health education and access to affordable services in Springdale area.	Read	$98,000
7	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
8	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
9	2003	UAMS 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
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 Rural Health Coalition	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 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
46	2005	UAMS Department of Pediatrics KIDS FIRST	Little Rock	Childhood obesity in preschool and early elementary age children.	Read	$99,048
47	2005	University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc. (UAMS College of Public Health	Little Rock	Symposium on legal and policy issues related to obesity.	Read	$30,000
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 (PACES)	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	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
69	2006	University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc. (UAMS)	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
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 (PACES)	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	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
89	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
90	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
91	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
92	2008	Committee for Healthier Children, Beebe Public Schools	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
93	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
94	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
95	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
96	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
97	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
98	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
99	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
100	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
101	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
102	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
103	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
104	2008	Reach Out and Read Arkansas	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
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 Baptist 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 Baptist 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 Foundation, Inc. (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 Foundation, Inc. (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 Foundation, Inc. (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	A Divine Transitional Living, Inc.	North Little Rock	Purchase supplies and materials needed to develop a community garden.		$1,000
164	2011	Alpha House, Inc.	Mountain Home	Purchase a humidity system for the shelter.		$1,000
165	2011	AMA, Association de Mujeres de Arkansas	Little Rock	Support the health fair in southwest Little Rock on May 24, 2011.		$1,000
166	2011	Arkansas Academy of Family Physicians Foundation	Little Rock	Patient-Centered Medical Home Project would provide approximately 600,000 Arkansans with comprehensive primary care.	Read	$150,000
167	2011	Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation	Little Rock	Sports Concussions: Baseline Neurocognitive Testing will train certified athletic trainers in 70 high schools to implement neurocognitive testing for sports concussions.	Read	$112,109
168	2011	Arkansas Community Foundation	Little Rock	Mini-grants Program provides fifty $1,000 mini-grants available to Arkansas organizations to assist with health-improvement efforts in their communities. The application and selection process for the mini-grants is administered by the Arkansas Community Foundation.		$5,000
169	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.	Read	$143,000
170	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.	Read	$124,537
171	2011	Barton/Lexa School District	Barton	Fund a hygiene program for 5th & 6th graders.		$1,000
172	2011	Benton County Sunshine School	Rogers	Purchase a HeartStart FRx Defibrillator.		$1,000
173	2011	Brandon Burlsworth Foundation	Harrison	Eyes of a Champion provides free eye exams and glasses for approximately 1,500 children throughout Arkansas.	Read	$75,000
174	2011	Brothers United	Little Rock	Purchase oral hygiene and other personal care products, and healthy snacks for clients.		$1,000
175	2011	Cedar Ridge Junior High School	Newark	Establish a mini health fair at Cedar Ridge Junior High School.		$1,000
176	2011	Charitable Christian Medical Clinic	Hot Springs	Support the Drug Assistance Program in providing medicine to low income patients.		$1,000
177	2011	City of Cherokee Village	Cherokee Village	Establish a farmer's market to increase access to fresh, healthy food.		$1,000
178	2011	Clark County Charitable Health Service	Arkadelphia	Support the provision of vouchered healthcare to uninsured Clark County adults living at or below 185% of the poverty level.		$1,000
179	2011	Concepts of Truth	Wynne	Purchase supplies for the Concepts of Sexual Health: Health & You program taught in public high school health classes.		$1,000
180	2011	Conway Cradle Care	Conway	Improve the nutrition and health of children parented by teens.		$1,000
181	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.	Read	$68,168
182	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.	Read	$47,962
183	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.	Read	$8,500
184	2011	Fairview Community Development Assoc.	El Dorado	Hold a health fair.		$1,000
185	2011	Family Service Agency	North Little Rock	Support the adolescent substance abuse treatment program.		$1,000
186	2011	FoodShare and Opportunity Network	Prescott	Kid Care and Senior Share provide food and hygiene items to approximately 750 low income individuals in Prescott.	Read	$18,000
187	2011	Good Samaritan Clinic	Fort Smith	Purchase prescription drugs for low-income individuals who are unable to afford monthly medication for chronic illnesses.		$1,000
188	2011	Greater Delta Alliance for Health, Inc.	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.	Read	$60,547
189	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.	Read	$45,000
190	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.	Read	$30,000
191	2011	HealthWorks Fitness Center	El Dorado	Swimming classes for 16 Boys & Girls Club of El Dorado students.		$1,000
192	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.	Read	$71,832
193	2011	Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock	Little Rock	Provide fresh produce to clients.		$1,000
194	2011	Highland Public School District	Hardy	Purchase pedometers to measure walking success.		$1,000
195	2011	In God's Hands Transitional Living Home	Magnolia	Purchase personal care products for clients of the College Care Bag Program.		$1,000
196	2011	In His Image Youth Development Center	Little Rock	Provide nutritional and health education to parents and children enrolled in the center's early childhood program.		$1,000
197	2011	Jr. Master Gardeners	Bradford	Purchase equipment and supplies for youth to create a garden and learn about how to incorporate healthy foods into their diets.		$1,000
198	2011	Lamar Elementary School	Lamar	Support the Move Across America program which encourages students to exercise.		$1,000
199	2011	Lavaca School District	Lavaca	Purchase equipment for the audiologist's use at the Lavaca School-based Wellness Center.		$1,000
200	2011	Mission of Hope, Inc.	Hardy	Provide medication and transportation assistance to homeless clients.		$1,000
201	2011	Monroe TEA - Hometown Health Improvement Coalition	Brinkley	Provide a community garden to citizens of Monroe County.		$1,000
202	2011	Monticello School District	Monticello	Fit 4 Fun will encourage physical activity and healthier eating in 2,125 students in the Monticello School district.	Read	$79,285
203	2011	Movement Foundation	North Little Rock	Feel Good Wellness Program to teach educators how to live healthier lifestyles through health and fitness.		$1,000
204	2011	New Beta Sigma Chapter Foundation	Little Rock	Support the 'Linking the Community to Health Services' event.		$1,000
205	2011	Newark Elementary School	Newark	Host free aerobics classes on the school campus.		$1,000
206	2011	Northeast Arkansas Bicycle Coalition	Jonesboro	Support for "Women Can Ride".		$1,000
207	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.	Read	$42,500
208	2011	Opportunities, Inc.	Texarkana	Create an education program for employees and clients families to learn about nutrition and healthy eating habits.		$1,000
209	2011	Ozark Center of Hope	Mountain Home	Purchase personal care products for clients.		$1,000
210	2011	Ozark Foothills Literacy Project	Batesville	Support project 'Doc Talk' in increasing health literacy skills by supplying pocket-sized visual medical translators to Hispanic residents of Independence County, so they may communicate more effectively with medical professionals.		$1,000
211	2011	Pangburn Middle School	Pangburn	Purchase exercise equipment for staff use at Pangburn Middle School.		$1,000
212	2011	Pangburn Public School - Health Office	Pangburn	Purchase equipment for the weight loss program at the Pangburn Public School Health Office.		$1,000
213	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.	Read	$41,336
214	2011	Petit Jean Youth Foundation	Morrilton	Diagnose and treat mental illness, disability and emotional disturbance for youth regardless of ability to pay.		$1,000
215	2011	Pine Bluff Parks & Recreation - Saracen Landing Farmers Market	Pine Bluff	Create an outdoor kitchen for the "Let's Move" initiative.		$1,000
216	2011	Poinsett County 4-H Foundation	Harrisburg	Fund healthy living activities at summer day camps for county children.		$1,000
217	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.	Read	$56,700
218	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.	Read	$150,000
219	2011	Rose Bud Elementary School	Rose Bud	Support the Jump Rope for Heart program at Rose Bud Elementary School.		$1,000
220	2011	Salvation Army	Mountain Home	Purchase food for individuals with special health and dietary concerns such as diabetes.		$1,000
221	2011	Salvation Army Central AR Area Command	Little Rock	Pay for prescriptions for clients in the Homeless Press On program.		$1,000
222	2011	Save Our History	Harrisburg	Plant, grow and tend to an historic herb garden which will help educate school children and the general public about the healthy uses of herbs.		$1,000
223	2011	Serenity, Inc.	Mountain Home	Purchase athletic shoes for victims of domestic violence as part of the "Walk Tall, Run Free" project.		$1,000
224	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.	Read	$35,353
225	2011	South Arkansas Fights AIDS (SAFA)	El Dorado	Support the HIV Testing Program.		$1,000
226	2011	Spirit Ridge Equine Center	Paragould	Built a wheelchair accessible ramp at the new facility.		$1,000
227	2011	Springdale Public Schools Pre-K Program	Springdale	Support the Nutrition Fair.		$1,000
228	2011	St. Bernards Development Foundation	Jonesboro	Support "lunch and learn" sessions of the 'Taking it to Heart' educational series.		$1,000
229	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.	Read	$108,095
230	2011	TOPPS, Inc.	Pine Bluff	Purchase equipment for the fitness program.		$1,000
231	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.	Read	$432,438
232	2011	University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc. (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.	Read	$57,400
233	2011	University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc. (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.	Read	$149,019
234	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).	Read	$49,000
235	2011	Victory, Inc.	Malvern	Purchase oral hygiene supplies for the "Back-To-School Youth Explosion" event.		$1,000
236	2011	Women's Council on African American Affairs	Little Rock	Breast cancer awareness and screening initiative entitled, "Pampered Ladies Luncheon and Wellness Expo".		$1,000
237	2011	Yellville-Summit Elementary	Yellville	Support the Safe Kids program at Yellville-Summit Elementary School.		$1,000
238	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.	Read	$122,511
239	2012	Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation	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).	Read	$138,500
240	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.	Read	$73,600
241	2012	Arkansas Department of Emergency Management	North Little Rock	AHELP at ADEM seeks to create a worksite culture that supports the workforce to make healthy lifestyle choices for the 100 employees throughout Arkansas State. Funding is for incentive prizes in support of this goal.		$1,000
242	2012	Arkansas Hospice, Inc.	North Little Rock	The Virtual Dementia Tour (group edition) from Second Wind Dreams provides an innovative tool to train our professional staff and allow anyone who takes the tour to better understand what it is like to be a demented patient. Tours will be presented to all new staff and anyone wanting to learn what it's like to experience this illness.		$1,000
243	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 will be presented in two formats (live and online) on hospital fundamentals of governance and quality initiatives.	Read	$50,000
244	2012	Arkansas Voices for the Children Left Behind	Little Rock	Health Literacy for Grandparent and Relative Caregivers project seeks to print healthy lifestyle brochures for 350 families caring for children with incarcerated parents. The funding is to print the brochures.		$1,000
245	2012	Arthritis Foundation Southeast Region, Inc.	Little Rock	Arthritis Foundation Certified Instructor Training provides individuals with education and tools needed to conduct evidence-based exercise classes for up to 500 participants. Through aquatics, exercise, Tai Chi and Walk With Ease classes in East Arkansas, we will improve the physical and emotional health of adults living with arthritis.		$1,000
246	2012	Camp Aldersgate, Inc.	Little Rock	Seniors Day Out Program at Camp Aldersgate seeks to maintain the health and wellness of approximately 60 senior adults in central Arkansas. Funding will be used to support the health/fitness components of the program.		$1,000
247	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 training, software and support for case management and pharmacy consultation.	Read	$54,090
248	2012	CARTI Foundation	Little Rock	CARTI Transportation Assistance Program seeks to provide fuel vouchers to over 300 rural and low-income cancer patients who are receiving treatment at CARTI, statewide. The funding is for the purchase of fuel vouchers which will be distributed directly to qualifying patients.		$1,000
249	2012	Christian Health Ministry of White County	Searcy	The IT Upgrade Grant seeks to assist in upgrading the patient database system to allow Christian Health Ministry to effectively track over 1,500 medical visits each year by adults ages 20-62 in White County. This funding will be used to purchase software upgrade and computers as needed.		$1,000
250	2012	City of Cammack Village	Cammack Village	The City Cammack Village Swimming Pool Wheelchair Access Project seeks to install a wheelchair access lift to grant access to anyone that needs assistance getting into to our swimming pool in Pulaski County. The funding is for the purchase of the portable wheelchair access lift.		$1,000
251	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.	Read	$150,000
252	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.	Read	$57,150
253	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.	Read	$88,431
254	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.	Read	$116,740
255	2012	Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council	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.	Read	$30,000
256	2012	Delta Community Based Services	Little Rock	Daring 2 Strive Together, the Second Annual “At-Promise” Girls Empowerment Conference seeks to promote healthy lifestyles among teen girls ages 12-18 and connect them with resources that are relevant to their health, safety and overall well-being. We are targeting 300 girls statewide.		$1,000
257	2012	Delta Presents Outreach Foundation	Little Rock	Take Control of your Health: For Aspiring College-bound students is to inform students of the importance of making healthy decisions, which can lead to personal, social and academic success. Event is targeted to 20-30 black males, ages 17-18 in Pulaski county. Thus, this event is purposed to help combat the "Freshman 15".		$1,000
258	2012	Donald W. Reynolds Cancer Support House	Fort Smith	The SunSMART Program seeks to educate 3,000 school-aged children in Sebastian and Crawford counties about protective behaviors that reduce damaging and dangerous sun and UV exposure. Funding is for sunscreen packets.		$1,000
259	2012	Eagle Mountain Magnet Elementary	Batesville	Tasty Treats from the Garden seeks to provide the knowledge needed for every student to understand the importance of eating fresh fruits and vegetables on a daily basis. Over 500 students and their families in Independence County will be impacted by the experiences gained from these nutrition activities.		$1,000
260	2012	East Arkansas Area Agency on Aging	Jonesboro	Jam Festival 2012 seeks to provide a sustainable fitness and health awareness program in St. Francis and other surrounding counties in Arkansas. Funding will assist with providing food, snacks, door prizes, t-shirts, or paying education professionals.		$1,000
261	2012	Elizabeth Richardson Center, Inc.	Springdale	Multi-sensory Environment seeks to provide the maximum amount of independence for over 300 adults with disabilities ages 18-67 in Washington, Benton and Madison counties. Funding will provide the equipment needed to build a multi-sensory room in which our clients can receive their therapies.		$1,000
262	2012	Forrester-Davis Development Center, Inc.	Clarksville	Health and Wellness seeks to provide one Automated External Defibrillator in each of our four buildings in Johnson County to assist our clients in the event of an emergency needing an AED.		$1,000
263	2012	Friends of the Timberwolves, Inc.	Newark	Healthy Habits seeks to promote and encourage participation in the exercise and nutrition classes the county provides free of charge for all county residents. We hope to reach 3000 men and women, ages 18-75, all demographics in Independence County. Funding is for promotion and encouragement for participants.		$1,000
264	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.	Read	$10,000
265	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.	Read	$65,800
266	2012	Hearth, Inc.	Jonesboro	Making My Family Food Dollar Count seeks to educate 'at risk' families and individuals. We hope to reach at least 30 individuals or heads of household from the northern and western side of Craighead County. We will need to supply a gas stipend for volunteers and purchase food items that will be used for instructional purposes.		$1,000
267	2012	Hip Hop Tumblers, Inc.	Harrison	Dance, Tumbling and Cheerleading Classes for Underprivileged Children seeks to provide the opportunity for underprivileged children to participate in dance, tumbling and cheerleading classes. This grant would fund 10 children in the Boone County area.		$1,000
268	2012	Historic Harrison Business Association	Harrison	Spring HEALTH Fest seeks to raise the awareness of the value of establishing a physical exercise habit in the lives of 3,000 residents from Boone, Carroll, Marion and Newton counties. The funds will be used to market the events using billboards.		$1,000
269	2012	Hometown Health Coalition Network	Warren	The Sheridan Middle School Activity Awareness Campaign seeks to bring awareness and action to 1,567 Sheridan Middle School students, facility and families in Grant County, Arkansas. The requested funding is to bring awareness, education and action to help reduce the rising rates of obesity among Sheridan Middle School students.		$1,000
270	2012	Hope Cancer Resources (Northwest Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute)	Springdale	Education for Life seeks to educate at least 500 elementary and middle school students in Lincoln in Washington county about skin cancer and healthy lifestyle behaviors to lower the risk of skin cancer. Funding is for educational materials and sunscreen for the students.		$1,000
271	2012	Jones Center for Families (Implemented by Comm Clnc St Francis House)	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.	Read	$14,795
272	2012	LifeHouse Ministries, Inc.	Paragould	Concepts of Sexual Health seeks to continue teaching the medical facts regarding sexual health to our youth. Partnerships are with the Concepts of Truth, the Human Development Resource Council (HDRC), Department of Human Services, Paragould High School and Crowley's Ridge Academy.		$1,000
273	2012	Marion County Hometown Health, Inc.	Yellville	Marion County Community Baby Shower seeks to educate and empower young parents and families in Marion County. Funding is to provide products and resources to the new moms and families.		$1,000
274	2012	Mid-Delta Health Systems, Inc.	Clarendon	Tobacco is Trouble seeks to assist patients with quitting tobacco. The funding will buy one month of Nicotine Replacement Therapy for 18 patients, ages 20-70, in Monroe, Lee, Arkansas, Phillips and Prairie Counties.		$1,000
275	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.	Read	$80,000
276	2012	Newton County Resource Council	Jasper	The Summer Youth Program seeks to operate a five-week summer day camp to serve 200 youth aged 6 to 18 in Newton County, providing physical activities, fitness, parenting and leadership skills. Funding will help provide salaries and supplies for operating the program.		$1,000
277	2012	Northwest Arkansas Community College	Bentonville	One Size Doesn’t Fit All project will provide a variety of age-level CPR manikins along with first aid and CPR and AED training materials for 12 high school students per medical professions class annually in Washington and Benton counties.		$1,000
278	2012	Northwest Arkansas Free Health Center (NWAFHC)	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.	Read	$50,000
279	2012	Old High Middle School	Bentonville	Chair-Free Classrooms: Enhancing Student Learning and Focus through Active Sitting seeks to obtain a classroom set of stability balls to promote fitness, focus, and movement in the science classroom.		$1,000
280	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.	Read	$52,785
281	2012	Ozark Guidance, Inc.	Springdale	Join the Journey for Mental Wellness will seek to de-mystify mental health challenges by using social media to shift the conversation about mental health from shame to an open transformational dialogue. The goal is to promote understanding about mental health.		$1,000
282	2012	Ozarka College	Melbourne	The Australian Walkabout Fitness Challenge: A Journey to a Healthier Life seeks to engage at least 100 adults and 40 children from Fulton, Izard, Sharp, and Stone counties in a program that involves collectively walking 8,675 miles while learning to live and vacation in a healthy manner.		$1,000
283	2012	Paragould School District	Paragould	Paragould High School Wellness Center seeks to improve the overall well-being (mental and physical) for 50 male and female students in Greene County. Funding is for after-school fitness bootcamp.		$1,000
284	2012	Parenting and Childbirth Education Services (PACES)	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.	Read	$40,341
285	2012	Pediatrics Plus Community Connections	Conway	Plans are to offer TOP Soccer for children with disabilities at the I CAN! Arts and Resource Center in Saline County in the Fall of 2012 to approximately 20 children in Saline, Pulaski, Jefferson and Grant counties. The objective is to help improve the overall health of children with special needs in these areas.		$1,000
286	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 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.	Read	$76,400
287	2012	S.W. Chance	Maumelle	Exposing people with disabilities to low fat, low sugar, heart healthy snacks and low impact exercise seeks to positively influence 345 or more men and women with developmental disabilities, 18 years old and older, from all racial and ethnic backgrounds in Pulaski, Saline, and Lonoke Counties in Central Arkansas.		$1,000
288	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.	Read	$78,048
289	2012	UAMS Area Health Education Center South Arkansas	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.	Read	$42,316
290	2012	University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc. (UAMS)	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.	Read	$150,000
291	2012	University of Central Arkansas	Conway	Nutrition Magic: Preschoolers and the USDA MyPlate project seeks to provide instructional programming for pre-K children and their teachers and families.		$1,000
292	2012	Washington Regional Medical Foundation	Fayetteville	The Washington Regional Cancer Support Home seeks to minimize cancer-related mortality in Northwest Arkansas by providing cancer education to the public; screening clinics for low income persons; comfortable accommodations for patients seeking treatment; and support programs for patients.		$1,000
293	2012	Wildwood Park for the Arts	Little Rock	Lily and the Apple Seed seeks to encourage young audiences to make wise choices about their health and diets and seek out opportunities for artistic expression and education. The funding of $1,000 will help better prepare the touring company members for workshop instruction in the classroom.		$1,000
294	2013	Academy of Creative Arts at Shorter College	North Little Rock	Fresh Start Whole Food Nutrition Program, through a community garden, will provide affordable access to organic fruits and vegetables and nutrition information.		$1,000
295	2013	Amboy Community Food Pantry	North Little Rock	School's Out: Extra Cereal for the Kids project will provide breakfast cereal for 1,340 children during the summer months.		$1,000
296	2013	Arkadelphia Community Foundation DBA Clark County Strategic Plan	Arkadelphia	Clark County Adolescent Summer Fitness Challenge will provide the services of a Registered Dietitian and healthy snacks for 8 to 10 youths.		$1,000
297	2013	Arkansas Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics Foundation	Little Rock	Improving Patient Care Through Practice Transformation and Education will build a statewide infrastructure to transform pediatric practices through learning collaboratives and quality improvement. The project utilizes an existing Asthma Project, and national and local expertise to engage stakeholders and build Patient-Centered Medical Homes.		$149,029
298	2013	Arkansas Children's Hospital Foundation	Little Rock	The Dental Sealant Program will continue providing primary dental care and cavity protection to approximately 1,000 at-risk and medically challenged school-aged children in areas of need in south Arkansas and parts of the Delta.		$100,000
299	2013	Arkansas Department of Health	Little Rock	The Arkansas Stroke Registry will improve the quality of care for all stroke patients treated in Arkansas hospitals.		$140,485
300	2013	Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance (AR Coalition for Obesity Prevention)	Little Rock	Growing Healthy Communities: From the State Capital to the City Hall, Increasing Regional and Local Involvement will train and fund regional and local projects that will increase access to healthy and affordable foods, increase opportunity for physical activity, and encourage policy change and advocacy throughout the state.		$150,000
301	2013	Arkansas Insurance Department	Little Rock	AHELP-- Motivate, Move, Maximize will teach 200 employees how to make proper food selections, prepare food in a healthier manner and learn how to exercise while at work.		$1,000
302	2013	Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission	Little Rock	AHELP Initiative will purchase exercise equipment and incentive items to encourage healthy life choices by 110 employees.		$1,000
303	2013	Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church	Magnolia	Community-Wide Vacation Bible School will promote healthier eating and exercise by 120 children.		$1,000
304	2013	Boy Scouts of America, Chickasaw Council	Memphis, TN	Summer Camp Scholarships offer additional funding for youth, ages 6-21 located within Crittenden County, that would like to attend the annual summer camp program in Hardy.		$1,000
305	2013	Brandon Burlsworth Foundation	Harrison	The Eyes of a Champion Program will provide free eye exams and glasses to 880 preschool through 12th grade students in Arkansas. Funding will provide eye exams and glasses for underserved students, along with educational material to nurses, counselors and optometrists.		$50,000
306	2013	Bryant Parks and Recreation	Bryant	Bishop Parks Community Garden project seeks to build a community garden for over 6,000 residents in Bishop Park and the greater Saline County area, via a partnership with the Midtown Farmers' Market. Funding is for general supplies used in building 50 raised-bed, community garden plots.		$1,000
307	2013	Cabot Crisis Pregnancy Center	Cabot	Empowered! Sexual Risk Avoidance seeks to educate 4,600 teens in the Cabot School District about abstinence from all high-risk behavior (and especially from STDs and dating violence). Funding is for informational brochures about STDs, healthy relationships and dating violence.		$1,000
308	2013	Calhoun Heights Community Outreach, Inc.	Magnolia	Summer Enrichment Program will purchase stationary exercise bikes, fitness mats, and exercise videos for use by 25 to 50 children.		$1,000
309	2013	CALL, The, in Cleburne County	Heber Springs	CPR and Pediatric First Aid Materials will provide required training of its volunteers.		$1,000
310	2013	CAPCA, Inc.	Conway	Oral Health & Healthy Nutrition for At-Risk Children: Building Strong Bodies & Teeth will provide oral health education, resources, dental services, healthy nutrition and education for 1,610 at-risk children in Faulkner, Cleburne, White and Desha Counties.		$62,210
311	2013	CareLink	North Little Rock	HomeMeds Program will identify, assess and resolve medication problems by expanding an evidence-based medication management improvement system for 500 Medicaid home-care clients in six counties in Arkansas.		$45,090
312	2013	Center for Fathers & Families	Paragould	Healthy Lifestyles project uses a "love and logic" curriculum to teach parenting skills to approximately 75 adults, helping them to raise responsible and well-adjusted children.		$1,000
313	2013	Centers for Youth and Families	Little Rock	Mental Health First Aid Training will equip individuals of all ages, races and socioeconomic backgrounds in Arkansas with tools to address mental health needs and build stronger children, families and communities.		$5,950
314	2013	Christian Health Center	Camden	Service Expansion Program will provide access to primary care practitioners for the medically indigent by helping the clinic to maintain its prescription assistance program and electronic medical records.		$1,000
315	2013	City of Batesville	Batesville	The Eat Well, Play Hard, Make it Balance project will increase the number of city employees who participate in physical activity and wellness opportunities in the area.		$1,000
316	2013	City of Lockesburg	Lockesburg	Project Play will provide a safe community park for the 735 residents of Lockesburg in Sevier County. The funding is for improvements to the basketball court and adding playground equipment for the encouragement of physical activity.		$40,000
317	2013	Community First Wellness	Nashville	Healthier Howard County will provide direct health education and awareness programs to at least 1,000 youth and adults, encouraging healthy nutrition, promoting physical activity and increasing health literacy.		$99,500
318	2013	Community Health Centers of Arkansas, Inc.	North Little Rock	The Documentation/Data Entry Redesign Project will use data to validate and drive quality improvement in Diabetes/Cardiovascular Disease measures via improved/proper electronic medical record utilization and use of the data warehouse. This project will impact 154,577 patients across Arkansas.		$82,917
319	2013	Cushman United Methodist Church	Cushman	Helping Hands Food Pantry will feed the hungry, impacting the lives of 1,200-1,500 people in Independence County and surrounding areas. Funding will be used to purchase food and household products.		$2,000
320	2013	Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas, Inc.	Jonesboro	The Senior Pack Program will provide increased nutritional value in the 26 food boxes provided annually to the recipients in Craighead, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence and Poinsett Counties.		$5,000
321	2013	Forest Park Elementary PTA	Little Rock	Centennial Athletic Pavilion and Track will increase physical activity on campus through the purchase of two adjustable basketball goals.		$1,000
322	2013	Franklin County EMS	Ozark	Cardiac Monitor Upgrade will update four current cardiac monitors by purchasing new monitors to replace them. This funding will be beneficial to all citizens of Franklin County who might need medical assistance.		$135,878
323	2013	Gaines House, Inc.	Little Rock	Uplifting the Health of Indigent Women will provide funding for basic physical and mental health-care costs for women residing at Gaines House who have no other sources to pay for these services.		$35,000
324	2013	Greater Delta Alliance for Health, Inc.	DeWitt	The Provider Education Program will provide health literacy education to health-care providers throughout Southeast Arkansas and improve the communication gap between local providers and their patients. The project will also promote the utilization of local health-care resources through a comprehensive resource directory of services.		$71,576
325	2013	H. L. Lubker Elementary	Bald Knob	This program will purchase cardio rebounder trampolines to provide a fun and exciting cardiorespiratory activity for 600 K-5 students.		$1,000
326	2013	Hartford School District	Hartford	Funds will be used to support a community health fair.		$1,000
327	2013	In Your Hands Ministries, Inc.	North Little Rock	Nutritional Outreach for Kids provides a foundation of hope for families and children through love and everyday nutritional needs in the McAlmont area of Pulaski county in the eastern part of North Little Rock.		$1,000
328	2013	Independence County Hometown Wellness Coalition	Batesville	Physical Activity Fun seeks to promote a county-wide exercise program and increase participation of community members by at least 40 new participants in Independence County. Funding will be used to advertise the program in the local paper, distribute fliers with program information and encourage participation with small health incentives.		$1,000
329	2013	Jack Stephens Youth Golf Academy, Inc.	Little Rock	The First Tee's Summer Outreach Program will provide healthy lifestyle programs for more than 1,000 young people, primarily from impoverished families.		$1,000
330	2013	Jes LeRe Hama Corp.	Memphis, TN	The Drug Abuse Awareness and Healthy Lifestyle Choices program will educate 500 to 1,000 students located in the Delta region of Arkansas about drug abuse risks.		$1,000
331	2013	Kirby School District	Kirby	Sugar Sugar Everywhere will inform the 360 students in Kirby Public School in Pike County of the dangers of too much sugar intake.		$1,000
332	2013	Lee County Cooperative Clinic	Marianna	Regional Health Education Fair seeks to hold a Health Fair on June 21st on the football field at the Lee County School District where 500 participants and more than 20 vendors will attend.		$1,000
333	2013	Leukemia & Lymphoma Society	Little Rock	Light the Night Walk seeks to raise money to support research, patient services and support groups in Arkansas. Funding helps provide financial aid, co-pay assistance and education to blood cancer patients.		$1,000
334	2013	Lupus Foundation of America, Inc., Arkansas Chapter	Hot Springs	The Public Awareness of Lupus in Arkansas Project will increase awareness in Arkansas of the cruel mystery disease lupus.		$1,000
335	2013	Magnolia Hospital Foundation	Magnolia	The Magnolia Regional Medical Center Wellness Park will promote fitness and healthy lifestyles by providing an area specifically targeting those needs for all ages. Funding will be used to underwrite the cost of renovating the existing city park into a wellness park.		$17,828
336	2013	Mission Outreach of NEA, Inc.	Paragould	Charitable Medical Clinic seeks to provide access to life-sustaining or life-saving surgical procedures to impoverished individuals in Northeast Arkansas who, without assistance, would face adverse outcomes in their personal health.		$1,000
337	2013	Mississippi County, Arkansas Economic Opportunity Commission, Inc.	Blytheville	Healthy Futures will provide 40 early childhood classroom teachers with training and curriculum materials for a comprehensive early childhood PE program and support for child nutrition. Six hundred parents will receive the “We Can” parenting training to address childhood obesity.		$41,660
338	2013	Monticello School District	Monticello	Healthier US Schools-Monticello will use the 2012 USDA School Meal Requirements to educate students (grades K-8), their families, employees and Drew County residents about healthy eating and physical activity. Funding is for Registered Dietitians to provide guidance and a healthy environment to the District and for a part-time gardener.		$80,000
339	2013	North Park Baptist Church	Van Buren	AEDs for NPKidz will purchase two AEDs to help protect the 150 babies, children, and youth that attend North Park Baptist Church in Van Buren.		$1,000
340	2013	Oil Trough School	Oil Trough	Step Up to Good Health program seeks to increase the physical activity of a minimum of 30 community members by three hours a week in the Oil Trough Community of Independence County. Funding will be used for aerobic steps, hand and arm weights, pedometers and health incentives for participation and successes.		$1,000
341	2013	Our House, Inc.	Little Rock	Improving the Health of Homeless and Formerly Homeless Families in Central Arkansas builds the partnerships, resources and evaluation systems that will significantly improve the health status and health-care access of the 1,000 homeless and formerly homeless clients served each year.		$50,000
342	2013	Our Lady of Good Hope Catholic Church	Hope	Food Pantry seeks to provide food assistance to 2,450 individuals during the grant request period. Food will be purchased from local food banks and will be distributed on a monthly basis. Clients will come primarily from the Hope/Hempstead County area.		$1,000
343	2013	Ozark School District	Ozark	Play Equipment seeks to purchase additional equipment for 75-100 4th and 5th grade students in Ozark (Franklin County). The money would be used to purchase hula hoops, jump ropes and tetherballs/poles.		$1,000
344	2013	Peace at Home Family Shelter	Fayetteville	Building Bridges will improve the health services provided in emergency rooms by training 150 Washington County emergency room personnel on victim-centered domestic violence intervention.		$1,000
345	2013	Perryville School District	Perryville	The PHS School and Community Garden will teach students about growing and eating different type of fruits and vegetables.		$1,000
346	2013	Pulaski Technical College Foundation	North Little Rock	Creating State-of-the-Art Replicable Distance Education to Train Tomorrow’s Health-Care Professionals will implement a state-of-the-art model for distance education in anesthesia technology with enrollment of 10 students in the first year of instruction in Benton, Washington, Craighead, Jefferson, Saline, Pulaski and White Counties.		$56,000
347	2013	Quality of Life Outreach, Inc.	Mena	Outreach Resource Guide seeks to develop a community resource guide for the low-income residents of Polk County. Funding will be used for publication of the guide.		$1,000
348	2013	Samaritan House Community Center	Rogers	Samaritan Health Clinic will expand its dental program to offer a full range of dental services (extractions, restorative, preventive) for 250 uninsured adults in Benton and Washington Counties.		$15,000
349	2013	Save the Children Federation, Inc.	Maumelle	After-School Healthy Choices aims to improve the health of 500 youth ages 5-12 in Crittenden, Lee, Mississippi, Ouachita, Phillips, St. Francis and Woodruff Counties through after-school physical activity, healthy snacks and health education programming.		$40,000
350	2013	Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Pulaski County	Little Rock	Healthy Eating on a Shoestring Budget will provide education to low-income, single-parent students on the role of nutrition, and the benefits of a healthy lifestyle by making affordable, positive choices. Seventy single-parent Pulaski County families (240 individuals) will benefit.		$13,260
351	2013	Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative Foundation	Monticello	Effectively Conducting Physical Fitness Assessments on School Age Children will train 60 Southeast Arkansas educators and community volunteers to more accurately measure student physical fitness levels.		$1,000
352	2013	St. Bernards Development Foundation	Jonesboro	Fit 4 Life: Mission Possible on the Mile will give skills and knowledge to 710 underserved children ages 3-12 in Craighead County to improve their nutrition and fitness for lifelong health.		$112,860
353	2013	St. Vincent Foundation	Little Rock	Patient Care Simulation Laboratory will establish a simulation lab with video recording technology. Training focuses on individual skills plus teamwork in routine, complex medical situations and low-incidence, high-crisis situations.		$125,051
354	2013	Texarkana Arkansas Police Department	Texarkana	P.R.I.D.E. Academy program seeks to provide a positive outlet for 871 developing young adults in the Texarkana area of Miller County, so that they may choose a better life for themselves and those around them. Funding is for support of guest speakers, supplies, promotional items and food for the event.		$1,000
355	2013	United Way of Garland County	Hot Springs	Baby Safety Showers will reach 160 maternity patients who are in their last trimester to educate them and their family members on infant and child safety. Funding will furnish these maternity patients with safety items for their infants and other children in the home, to create a safer environment.		$12,716
356	2013	University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville	Batesville	Get ACTIVE seeks to increase the physical activity by at least three hours a week of at least 40 faculty, staff and students who work or attend the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville in Independence County.		$1,000
357	2013	University of Arkansas Community College at Hope Foundation	Hope	Project New Life Education will purchase a Noelle S575 with birthing suite to be used by 300 Health Professions students representing Hempstead, Columbia, Clark, Union, Little River, Miller, Lafayette, Nevada, Pike, Sevier and Howard Counties.		$33,000
358	2013	University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc. (UAMS Northwest)	Fayetteville	The Northwest Arkansas Graduate Medical Education Consortium will expand medical residency training in Internal Medicine with a total of 24 residents every three years (eight per year). Training will take place in Washington, Benton and Sebastian Counties.		$98,000
359	2013	University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc. (UAMS)	Little Rock	Education and Promotion of Physician Assistants in Arkansas will serve Arkansas by increasing the number of PAs, particularly in medically underserved areas. Funding will create awareness among physicians and communities about the benefits of PAs and assist in recruiting clinical preceptors and applicants for the UAMS PA Program.		$117,000
360	2013	Village Commons	Little Rock	Healthy Foods Community Dinner program seeks to increase access to healthy foods and build community for 270 community residents in the 12th Street community of Central Little Rock. Funding is for supplementary food items, cookware and materials to ensure food safety.		$1,000
361	2013	Waldron School District	Waldron	The Waldron School District will provide a Licensed Mental Health Therapist for students ages 5-18 in Scott County.		$58,000
362	2013	Westside Consolidated School District #5	Jonesboro	Stabilizing Learners' Lives will improve the mental, physical, educational and social health of 60 special education students, through the use of 25 stabilizing balls.		$1,000
363	2013	White County Single Parent Scholarship Fund, Inc.	Searcy	This program will provide scholarships to single parents who wish to pursue a medical career.		$1,000
364	2013	Wynne Public Schools	Wynne	The Exercise Station Project will construct a series of exercise stations along walking/fitness trails to promote healthy lifestyles and decrease obesity among students.		$42,900
365	2013	Youth Bridge, Inc.	Fayetteville	The Electronic Medical Record System allows Youth Bridge to continue providing mental health, medical-related, and substance abuse services to 250 low-income youth on Medicaid from eight counties.		$150,000