2015 Grant Award Recipients
Prevention, Intervention and Education Grant Awards
Organization
Name
Amount
Awarded
Project Description
$5,000
Supporting the Kansas City Medicine Cabinet voucher program, providing emergency medical
assistance for clients.
$10,000
Supporting continuation of youth and senior program aimed at preventing and reducing the
risk of obesity, diabetes and other disease.
Black Health Care
Coalition
$18,500
Expansion of services in Wyandotte County reducing the prevalence of cardiovascular disease
and diabetes.
Cancer Action, Inc.
$15,000
Providing prescription assistance, case management and other needs of clients to reduce
distress.
Catholic Charities
of Northeast
Kansas
$50,000
Supporting staffing of a Community Health Nurse that will help coordinate health care plans
and self-management for clients.
Cultivate Kansas
City
$50,000
Providing support for the Juniper Gardens Training Farm and the Beans & Greens program;
increasing access to healthy and locally grown food.
El Centro, Inc.
$15,000
Expansion of the Promotores program, educating the Latino community on healthy
lifestyles. Supporting professional development for the Promotores.
The Family
Conservancy
$15,000
Providing support for the expansion of the Dame La Mano nutrition program which provides
free nutrition education classes in Spanish.
Harvesters
$25,000
Continuation of Harvesters' Healthy Eating Initiative, teaching families to make healthier food
choices and increasing access to healthy foods.
Kansas City
Community
Gardens, Inc.
$26,500
Continuation of the Healthy Gardeners Wyandotte Program focusing on engaging Hispanic
families through bilingual garden outreach and education. Supporting addition of bilingual
staff providing free garden skills workshops.
Kansas University
Endowment
Association
$25,000
Supporting the work of KU School of Architecture, Design & Planning with community
partners to create prototypes that will address specific, needed policy and environmental
changes in the public spaces of the city and community.
Mattie Rhodes
Center
$25,000
Supporting a bilingual care coordinator to provide on-site therapy and referrals at St. John
the Evangelist church and Argentine Middle School.
Nutra-Ed
Incorporated
$5,600
Providing nutrition education and hands on cooking lessons for youth at the Wyandotte
County Boys and Girls Club of Greater KC.
Paces, Inc.
$44,555
Expanding the school-based therapy intervention program into middle schools in Wyandotte
County.
Baptist-Trinity
Lutheran Legacy
Foundation
Bethel
Neighborhood
Center
2015 Grant Award Recipients
Riverview Health
Services, Inc.
$90,000
Continuation of self-management education, support and access to medications and medical
supplies for diabetic clients, including expanded services into safety net clinics providing onsite diabetes education and support for clients.
Student Athlete
Foundation of
Kansas
$15,000
Providing free/reduced sports physicals and injury clinics, streamlining access to local
providers & clinics by having an on-site athletic trainer at each high school who will also
provide education to students on overall health wellness.
Young Mens
Christian
Association of
Greater Kansas
City (YMCA)
$15,000
Supporting the YMCA's healthy living initiative, preventing and managing chronic disease
including targeting people at risk for developing diabetes.
Young Women on
the Move
$30,000
Continuation of programming that will improve health and active living among young girls in
Wyandotte County through health education, wellness program, cultivation of a community
garden disease self-management classes and peer health mentoring.
2015 PIE Grants Awarded
$480,155
2015 Grant Award Recipients
Primary Care Grant Awards
Organization
Name
Amount
Awarded
Project Description
Caritas Clinics
(Duchesne Clinic)
$215,000 Duchesne Clinic provides primary healthcare for the uninsured poor in Wyandotte County.
Children's Mercy
West Cordell D.
Meeks, Jr. Clinic
$150,000
Children's Mercy West is a pediatric clinic which provides primary care including social
services to an underserved population in Wyandotte County
Kansas City Free
Health Clinic
$35,000
The Kansas City Care clinic provides patient-centered medical care to low-income and
uninsured adults for acute and chronic diseases.
Silver City Health
Center
$150,000
Silver City Health Center provides culturally appropriate care including preventive care and
chronic disease management.
JayDoc Free Clinic
$15,000
JayDoc Free Clinic is a student-run free clinic which provides preventive and urgent care to
the uninsured/underinsured in the community; JayDoc provides specialty clinics
including Diabetes Night, Women's Health and Dental Night.
Medical Socitey of
Johnson &
Wyandotte
Counties
Foundation, Inc.
$42,200
WyJoCare improves access to specialty health care for low-income, uninsured residents of
Wyandotte County.
Samuel U. Rodgers
Health Center, Inc.
$40,000
Samuel U Rodgers Health Center provides health care services for Wyandotte County
residents at any access point including access to medical, dental and behavioral health care
to both children and adults.
Southwest
Boulevard Family
Health Care
Family Health Care provides primary care medical services including specialty care of
infectious diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis and other chronic diseases such as MS and
$250,000
cancer. Family Health Care also provides wellness and preventive services for pregnant
women, infants, children and adults.
Swope Health
Services
$200,000
Turner House
Children's Clinic,
Inc.
Turner House Children's Clinic provides primary health care and dental services to
underserved children in Wyandotte County; services include preventive care, well-child
$236,250
exams, immunizations, and dental services among others. In addition, Turner House
Children's Clinic will provide a school based oral health program.
Unified
Government
Public Health
Department
The UG Public Health Department increases access to radiology services to the un-and
$200,000 underinsured residents of Wyandotte County by partnering with the area safety net clinics to
provide vouchers for patients to receive appropriate radiology services.
2015 Primary Care Grants
Swope Health Services is a Federally Qualified Health Center which provides quality,
comprehensive primary care and dental services to all age groups in Wyandotte County.
$1,533,450