Kaiser grants $1.1M to local organizations
Forty Sacramento-area organizations have been selected by Kaiser Permanente to share $1.1 million in grants focusing on community violence prevention and promoting access to health care services.
The two largest grants went to The Effort, which got $97,200 to provide health care services to 200 patients with mental illness, and $96,000 to the Sacramento Native American Health Center’s Full Circle Chronic Disease Program.
The Effort is helping to fill the gaps in mental health resources left by county budget cuts. “This grant will help to fill a critical gap in caring for people who need immediate treatment,” The Effort executive director Robert Caulk said in a news release.
The largest violence-prevention grant went to the city of Sacramento’s Office of Youth Development to continue its Street Outreach Project to connect homeless teens with education and jobs.
Kaiser also granted $20,000 to the NeighborWorks Home Ownership Center to launch a farmer’s market in Oak Park at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Broadway, where there is limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
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