Office of Children's Services

Fiscal Year 2008 Grantees


Juneau Family Birth Center
Juneau
This project will provide the Strength in Families Program that supports families, infants and children in the earliest, most crucial stages of development and beyond through supporting parent-infant bonding.  This is the third year of a four year award.
Award: $12,500

Child Care Connection, Inc.
Southcentral Alaska
This project will provide three different models of parenting education including one in Spanish for the Anchorage area. Models include the Zero To Three; Parent to Parent by the Casey Family Programs and the Incredible Years. This is the third year of a four year award.
Award: $9,375

SeaView Community Services
Southcentral Alaska
This project will provide primary prevention through positive influence with parents and children through weekly playgroups where parents have the chance to meet and discuss concerns and issues that relate to raising young children, birth to age 5. This is the third year of a four year award.
Award: $11,365

Resource Center for Parents and Children
Fairbanks
This project will target new parents or at-risk parents of newborns through a parent and family education program called, Cuddle Cure. This is the third year of a four year award.
Award: $12,500

Southcentral Foundation
Anchorage
This project will assist in providing effective training on child abuse prevention at the Arrigah House in Anchorage. This is the third year of a four year award.
Award: $12,500

Safe and Fear Free Environment
Dillingham, Bristol Bay
The proposed project will develop and implement prevention initiatives within established inter-agency and community groups; design age and culturally appropriate prevention activities and develop capacity and skill building training for caregivers, human service providers and others. This is the third year of a four year award.
Award: $12,500

Standing Together Against Rape
Anchorage
This project will focus on educational presentations on sexual abuse with students, the professional and general public adult populations in Anchorage. This is the third year of a four year award.
Award: $12,500

Akeela, Inc.
Anchorage
This capacity building grant will allow agency to expand their Strengthening Families program to the newly merged Stepping Stones residential drug treatment program for women with children. Program focuses on strengthening families, skill building, and enhancing relationships within families. This is year one of a four year award.
Award: $50,000

 Best Beginnings
Statewide
Program will develop and disseminate multi-language, parent friendly, early learning guidelines, dovetailing on the Strengthening Families Initiative principles. This is year one of a four year award.
Award: $50,000

Alaska Injury Prevention Center
Anchorage
Program will expand Positive Parenting program, a six week workshop designed to strengthen families. Targets young and new parents within low income neighborhoods in the Anchorage area.  This is year one of a three year award.
Award $25,000

Bristol Bay Native Association
Bristol Bay Region
Program will promote four out of the five protective factors identified in the “Promoting Healthy Families in your Community 2007 Resource Packet” through outreach to existing networks in rural and remote communities. This is a one year award.
Award: $50,000

Catholic Community Services
Southeast
This award will increase capacity of the agency’s Casey Powerful Family program through the use of the Nurturing Parent and Wellness Skills for families program. Their target audience is pregnant teens, special needs families and grandparents.   This is year one of a four year award.
Award $50,000

Chugachmiut, Inc.

Chugach Mountain Region
This Safe and Sound demonstration project will empower young parents with the skills and knowledge to make informed decisions about child health and safety care.  Includes knowledge and skills building, social networking, and personal development components. The project will focus on the communities of Nanwalek, Port Graham and Seldovia. This is year one of a four year award.
Award $49,983

Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.
Cook Inlet Region
This capacity building project will provide outreach to make the community aware of and utilize existing prevention services offered by CITC. The program will focus on Alaska Natives within the Cook Inlet region and will utilize community elders in outreach efforts.  This is year one of a four year award.
Award: $49,612

Fairbanks Resource Agency
Fairbanks
The Supported Parenting Program focuses on promoting protective factors in the substance abuse and disability community, strengthening families, providing knowledge for brain development. This expansion grant will allow agency to expand services from 10 to 25 families. This is year one of a four year award.
Award: $50,000

Open Arms Child Development Center
Fairbanks
This capacity building grant will allow for expansion of Strengthening Families Initiative pilot program to more families in service area, with particular attention to parents with substance abuse issues. This is year one of a four year award.
Award: $41,378

Resource Center for Parents and Children
Statewide
This one year capacity building grant proposes to expand agency’s existing Cuddle Cure program into rural areas of Alaska.
Award: $37,500

AWARE
Juneau
This one year planning grant will allow development of prevention curriculum that is appropriate for their target audience identified as high risk rural families in southeast Alaska.
Award: $5,000

Alaska Association of the Education of Young Children
Statewide
In conjunction with SFI leadership team, agency will develop model curriculum for implementation of Strengthening Families Initiatives within Alaskan child care centers.
Award: $5,000

Native Village of Shishmaref
Shishmaref
This one year planning grant will assist community in identifying programs and services to target high risk, young & single parents.
Award: $5,000