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Bucks County Women’s Fund raises money to fund and support programs and policies that impact, empower and improve the lives of women and girls. Grants are awarded to area social service organizations working to find creative solutions
to issues affecting Bucks County women and girls, including the needs
for housing, health care, child care, life skills, and
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2007 Grants - Focus on Healthcare
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Aldie Counseling Center, $4,000. The grant funds New Moms in Recovery, an innovative program to help new mothers and pregnant women in recovery who have been or are addicted to opiates. New Moms in Recovery will focus on education, prenatal care and will be aimed at women between the ages of 19-22, most of whom are single and without the support of a partner.
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Child,
Home & Community, $1,775. The organization will implement a 12 week teen pregnancy program through Doylestown Hospital targeting girls and young women between the ages of 12 and 22.
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Family Service Association of Bucks County, $4,000. Grant
will help fund a program focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention and early access to health care for girls and women who are HIV positive, providing testing, education and referrals.
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Planned Parenthood Association of Bucks County, $5,000. The grant funds a new PPABC program to make over-the-counter emergency contraception and testing available to more women. The program aims to extend Plan B coverage to 250 lower income women. |
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2006 Grants - Focus on Bucks Girls
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Central
Bucks Healthier Community Team, $1,620. Grant covers
a portion of the speaker cost for a nationally renowned
anti-bullying program to be presented to all seventh
grade girls throughout the Central Bucks School District.
The grant also pays for the purchase of more than 60
books to be placed in libraries and guidance offices
of all Central Bucks schools.
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Child,
Home & Community, $2,000. Twelve on-site classes
to be presented on pregnancy prevention at the Bucks
County Juvenile Detention Center, where many of the
girls are considered at risk. The program, Teen Parent
Awareness—Fact and Fiction, aims to reach 120 girls.
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Council
Rock Coalition for Healthy Youth, $4,000. Grant
initiates a program to help reduce cutting and self-injury
among girls. Following a training program, 58 mentors
each will work with three girls to reduce self-injury
and cutting. The immediate goal is to reach 178 girls,
although the program aims to be ongoing and be offered
county-wide.
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Network
of Victim Assistance (NOVA), $3,000. An anti-bullying
prevention program will be developed in the schools
and in the community for girls in fourth through eighth
grade. The program will target relational aggression
and work to build awareness, self-esteem and strategies
for dealing with bullying.
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Planned
Parenthood Association of Bucks County, $4,000.
Grant will continue funding for Girlfriends, an outreach
program for girls age 11 through 15 who live in Venice-Ashby,
Bristol Township. This successful program focuses on
issues such as sexuality, contraception, HIV and self-esteem.
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Coalition
for Women’s Economic Justice (WEJ). $5,000.
Awarded by the Carolyn Marks Fund for Social Justice,
an advised fund of the Bucks County Women’s Fund
established in memory of Bucks County feminist and activist
Carolyn Marks. WEJ will use the grant to: develop and
distribute a brochure outlining its work; support the
organizing of a second forum for community leaders to
raise awareness and facilitate action to improve economic
justice for women in Bucks County; and provide funding
for a consultant who will assist the leadership in those
efforts and oversee distribution of several white papers
addressing issues of economic justice for Bucks County
women. |
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2005 Grants - Focus on Domestic Violence
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Indian
Valley Housing, $1,500. Expaousing in nd counseling
program which, in cooperation with A Woman’s Place
and other agencies, helps women find permanent hpreparation
for, or after, leaving an abuser.
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NOVA, $3,000.
Program in collaboration with
Bucks County colleges to conduct sexual assault risk
reduction outreach including education programs and
training for women attending Bucks County Community
College, Delaware Valley College and the Philadelphia
College of Bible.
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2004 Grants - Focus on Self-Sufficiency
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Bucks
County Community College Women’s Center, $5,000.
Mentoring program to encourage and support women ages
15 to 50 majoring in science, math and technology.
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Child,
Home & Community, $2,525.
Transition program providing one-on-one career guidance
sessions for soon-to-graduate high school students/moms.
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Collaboration
of Three Healthy Beginnings Clinics, $3,600. Provision
of comprehensive prenatal guide in Spanish and English
for 480 low-income pregnant women attending prenatal
clinics at Grand View Hospital, Doylestown Hospital
and St. Mary Medical Center’s Mother Bachmann Maternity
Center.
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Family
Service Association Caring Families Program, $5,000.
Weekly support group sessions with child care focuses
on new mothers and mothers struggling economically;
purpose is to reduce child abuse by increasing support
system and improving self-esteem.
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NOVA/Libertae
Collaboration, $3,000. Provides counseling on violence
and victimization to Libertae clients by trained staff
of the Network of Victim Assistance.
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VITA, $2,625.
The Women’s History Project, part of VITA’s
family literacy program, will address self-determination,
reading and writing skills utilizing inspirational
accounts of American women.
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