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2010-2011 Grant Recipients

Planned Parenthood – Medical Training Program

Impacting the lives of 3,120 women in year one.
Through this grant, Planned Parenthood will continue to expand the Medical Training Program. This is the only abortion procedures and medical care training in the state of Arizona.

The program is designed to create compassionate and well-trained health care professionals who are capable of providing the full spectrum of reproductive health care services and to safeguard against accreditation of less-than-fully-trained providers. Residents, students and clinicians are unable to receive complete training from the state’s only medical school.

International Rescue Committee Tucson – The Refugee Well-Being Project

Impacting the lives of 162 women and their families in year one.The Refugee Well-Being Project serves all refugee women in the community, and seeks to 1) raise awareness regarding women’s issues and community resources, 2) build skills that are critical to becoming a thriving American and 3) empower refugee women and their daughters to advocate for themselves. The Refugee Well-Being Project utilizes the promotora model in which successfully resettled refugee women (Well-Being Promoters) work with newly arrived women from their own culture to teach them about the well being issues that may affect them and their family during the resettlement process, as well as share information about local community resources.

Hand of a Friend (Manos Amigas) Inc. – Poverty to Payroll (Green Valley)

Impacting the lives of 64 women in year one.Poverty to Payroll works directly with women who have escaped from domestic violence and/or sexual assault and are seeking to empower themselves to become entrepreneurs of their financial futures. Hands of a Friend shelter has converted a large room in the shelter to bays containing computer/education/training/media resources where classes are held. Classes will be offered to both residents and non-residents to maximize classroom and collaborating business and professionals.

They have collaborated with twenty-four businesses and/or professionals throughout the community to provide shelter residents with direct opportunities to find employment, create businesses and build skills allowing them to expand their earning capacity.

Literacy for Life Coalition – Women’s Literacy Network

Impacting the lives of 30 women and their families in year one. The Women’s Literacy Network is a network of women tutors and tutees in the Sunnyside Neighborhood of Southern Tucson, which is 90% minority. Tutors are recruited from the neighborhood and trained in teaching literacy and leadership. The tutors teach other women from the neighborhood and both the tutors and tutees have the opportunity to complete a GED and enter Pima Community College with a scholarship.

Arizona Direct Care Worker Association – New Member Outreach Project

Impacting the lives of 95 women in year one.The New Member Outreach Project is the coordinating link between Direct Care Workers, the general public, and long-term care employers. This project will build a statewide membership which will expand ADCWA’s Leadership Circle of Direct Care Workers, and provide opportunity for continuing education, leadership and advocacy training. ADCWA will educate the general community about the issues affecting the predominantly female industry as well as the need for reform which will secure quality long-term care and economic justice for women in the field.

Women’s Transition Project, Inc. – GIVE BACK (Bisbee)

Impacting the lives of more than six women in year one.GIVE BACK is a paid internship program in which graduates of the Women’s Transition Project (WTP) residential substance abuse treatment program work in the field of substance abuse treatment while training for positions as Recovery Support Specialists (RSS). The program will provide immediate income, job skills training and work experience for future employment in the field of social work or substance abuse treatment. Upon completion, interns will be equipped to begin or continue college or work in any behavior health agency as an RSS.

Sahuaro Girl Scout Council Inc. * – Adelante Jovencitas ($10,000)

Impacting the lives of 45 young women in year one.Adelante Jovensitas (AJ) meets a vital need in the community to serve girls whose lives have been impacted by the Juvenile Court System and girls who may be at risk for incarceration without intervention. The program engages girls at this critical point in their lives and provides them with strategies to make long term changes and become self-advocates in order to reduce recidivism and prevent incarceration.