WILLIAMSBURG — The Williamsburg Health Foundation (WHF) has announced 22 grants worth around four million dollars of investment for June 2022.
The Board of Trustees of WHF met and approved the grants on Monday, June 6.
“This is the second year of implementation of our most recent strategic plan,” said WHF President and CEO Carol L. Sale. “We are pleased to be investing strategically in so many good causes and programs impacting the health of our community.”
According to a news release from WHF, with the strategic goal to ‘Target behavioral and social risk factors that influence the health of individuals throughout the life span,’ the largest funded program is SHIP, the School Health Initiative Program. Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools partner with WHF, teachers, students, parents, and other community partners to build life-long, healthy school habits.
The following is a list of all the grants/projects that were approved along with the WHF Funding area for the strategic plan.
| Agency Name | Project Title | Project Description | Grant Amount | WHF Funding Area |
| Colonial Behavorial Health | Chronic Care Collaborative | The Chronic Care Collaborative enables CBH to provide psychiatric, care coordination and case management services to un- and underinsured individuals who receive services at Lackey Clinic and Olde Towne Medical and Dental Center. |
$170,000.00 | Advanced Primary Care |
| Gloucester Mathews Care Clinic |
Chronic Care Collaborative |
The CCC enables our Clinic to provide excellent, compassionate care and medications for our patients facing chronic health conditions, engaging them as partners with us to manage their conditions and improve their quality of life. |
$300,000.00 | Advanced Primary Care |
| Lackey Clinic | Chronic Care Collaborative |
This program will track quality metrics for our control of hypertension and diabetes in our patients. It will track the screening for depression in our patients. It will also track the outcomes of our Lackey Medication Assistance Program. |
$490,000.00 | Advanced Primary Care |
| Olde Towne Medical & Dental Center |
Chronic Care Collaborative |
The CCC allows our organization to share insights, best practices, breakthroughs and challenges in managing chronic diseases in our uninsured and underinsured patients. The program also provides funding for our MAP program. |
$355,000.00 | Advanced Primary Care |
| Center for Child and Family Services, Inc. |
Multicultural Counseling and Outreach Program (MCOP) |
Multicultural Counseling and Outreach Program (MCOP) will address the emotional and physical well-being of the uninsured or underinsured with emphasis on the multicultural population of Greater Williamsburg by providing counseling and neurofeedback. |
$70,000.00 | Behavioral Health Services |
| Colonial Behavioral Health |
Greater Williamsburg Child Assessment Center (GWCAC) |
GWCAC provides services to children and their families including assessments, crisis services, brief interventions, education, care coordination and linkages to community resources. The Center provides same day access and accepts walkins. |
$271,000.00 | Behavioral Health Services |
| FREE Foundation For Rehabilitation Equipment & Endowment |
F.R.E.E. of Williamsburg | F.R.E.E. of Williamsburg collects mobility-related rehabilitation equipment and bathroom aides, gifting them to those in need but without personal resources to acquire them. F.R.E.E. collects, sanitizes, repairs, and gifts these devices to qualified adults. |
$26,000.00 | Healthy Aging |
| Honoring Choices Virginia |
Educating Advocates for Advance Care Planning (ACP) |
HCV will build on efforts to reestablish community-based advance care planning in Southeast Virginia through community coalition-building, training and resource support, and implementation of information sharing and referral systems. |
$11,300.00 | Healthy Aging |
| Peninsula Agency on Aging |
Greater Williamsburg Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) |
The PAA Greater Williamsburg Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) provides unbiased information and referrals and free/low cost comprehensive services and supports to enable area older adults to age as healthfully as possible. |
$84,000.00 | Healthy Aging |
| Williamsburg Area Faith in Action |
Medical Transportation | WFIA volunteers provide door-throughdoor transportation to local doctor appointments, pharmacies, and out of town specialists for seniors 60 and older who reside in the Greater Williamsburg area, free of charge. |
$19,000.00 | Healthy Aging |
| Colonial Court Appointed Special Advocate Program |
Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) for Colonial CASA |
The youth mentoring program at Colonial CASA will support healthy eating and active living (HEAL) of participants through group programming facilitated by content experts and funded memberships to the James City County Recreation Center. |
$21,000.00 | Healthy Eating Active Living |
| Grove Christian Outreach Center |
Fresh Food Distribution | The Outreach Center seeks to provide reasonable access to fresh produce to Grove households through the free food pantry. This is achievable by continuing to purchase seasonally available produce from local farms and gardens. |
$10,000.00 | Healthy Eating Active Living |
| Williamsburg-James City County Public School Division |
School Health Initiative Program (SHIP) |
The School Health Initiative Program (SHIP) promotes healthy eating, physical activity and wellness through wellness integration in the classrooms, nutrition education, after-school challenge clubs, parent outreach, and a partnership with Child Nutrition Services (CNS). |
$670,000.00 | Healthy Eating Active Living |
| Rx Partnership | Basic Operating Support | In addition to partnering with Williamsburg Health Foundation in the WHF Chronic Care Collaborative, RxP has partnered with WHF to coordinate the delivery of medication to LC, GMCC, and OTMDC. |
$63,000.00 | Medication Access |
| Virginia Health Care Foundation |
Greater Williamsburg Medication Assistance Program |
Provide support and technical assistance to help WHF-funded MACs utilize and maximize the benefits and efficiencies of TPC (free/discounted prescriptions and Medicaid coverage) on behalf of WHF’s area health safety net clinics. |
$47,000.00 | Medication Access |
| Hope Family Village | Williamsburg Fairweather Lodge (WFL) |
The Williamsburg Fairweather Lodge provides autonomous living for up to four unrelated adults with serious mental illness based on the cornerstones of housing, employment, and social connections, with the support of a part-time Lodge Coordinator. |
$14,000.00 | Organizational Capacity Building |
| Child Development Resources |
Basic Operating Support | CDR’s Children’s Services supports our community’s most vulnerable children through home visiting programs (Early Head Start, Parents as Teachers and Infant Parent Program), child care centers, comprehensive motherhood services and our Central Point of Entry. |
$225,000.00 | Two Generation Family Services |
| City of Williamsburg | Child Health Initiative | The Care Team is a multidisciplinary program providing an intensive level of integrated, familycentered services intended to improve the health and wellbeing of children and their families living in the City of Williamsburg |
$275,000.00 | Two Generation Family Services |
| James City County | Child Health Initiative | When children or adults in the family experience challenges in multiple areas of their life it can be difficult to stay healthy. The Child Health Initiative brings professional and natural support teams together to partner with families who are experiencing these challenges. The goal is for caregivers and children to begin actively choosing habits that lead to healthy living, economic stability and building their own future stories. |
$275,000.00 | Two Generation Family Services |
| Colonial Behavioral Health |
Greater Williamsburg Network of Care (NOC) |
The NOC is an online resource where individuals, families and providers in the Greater Williamsburg area can find comprehensive information about regional health and human services, insurance needs, legislative, support and advocacy resources. |
$22,500.00 | Other |
| Colonial Behavioral Health |
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) |
The Williamsburg IOP serves adults with severe substance use disorders to assist substance use recovery. The IOP is a more intensive level of service than traditional outpatient service but is less intensive than inpatient treatment. |
$37,500.00 | Other |
| Literacy for Life at the Rita Welsh Adult Learning Center |
HEAL Program | The HEAL Program helps community members with low health literacy increase their knowledge and confidence when approaching health care issues and medical professionals. They gain the skills to take control of their health. |
$30,000.00 | Other |
According to the news release, in recent years, WHF has looked at how to effectively fund the provision of prescription medications within the community. WHF believes the most effective manner for making sure safety-net patients receive prescription medication is to embed those services entirely within the individual clinics, as the grants to clinics demonstrate.
“The approach of giving the clinics management of their own patient assistance programs is proving to be the most cost-effective and direct for our community,” said Sale.
For more information on WHF, please visit the foundation’s official website.
