Center for Community Support
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University 4476 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4476
Phone: (979) 458-3239 E-Mail: ccs@ppri.tamu.edu
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Examples of Projects Funded through CCS Assistance
Shackelford County Outreach for Healthy
Families(SCOUT)
Shackelford County Community
Oriented Primary Care(COPC)
Minority Science Improvement
Program(MSIP)
Building Essential Life
Options through New Goals(BELONG)
Mobile Precinct
Unified and Involved
Community Action Network \(U&I CAN)
Resident Council
Technical Assistance Projec
Mesquite Gang
Prevention Project
Parenting Education for
High Risk Youth in the Rio Grande Valley
Parent Outreach
in Rural Schools
Comprehensive
School Health Education in Rural Texas
Brazos
County Community Oriented Primary Care\(COPC)
INTERNET Connectivity
-- Rural Districts
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Shackelford County Outreach for Healthy
Families (SCOUT)
The Shackelford County Community Resource Center
was awarded $498,000 over three years for a Rural Health Outreach Demonstration
Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Primary
Health Care. The Center is dedicated to enabling all families of Shackelford
County to receive services which promote optimal care for psycho-social, physical,
mental and life needs. SCOUT will combat teen pregnancy, poor birth outcomes
and child abuse neglect. SCOUT will hire two outreach-case managers to deliver
in-home and center-based services making health care accessible and consistent.
SCOUT will train outreach workers in disease prevention and health promotion
and give families a voice in the development of family-centered care. The SCOUT
project is expected to move health care in Shackelford County toward an integrated
network of community-based services with a primary care home for each family.
The project will test a prevention-outreach model designed to leverage expensive
emergency room acute care by co-locating public resources and coordinating community
contributions.
Shackelford County Community Oriented Primary
Care (COPC)
The Shackelford County Community Resource Center received $65,000 from the
Texas Department of Health's (TDH) Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Division
to provide pediatric and family health care to low income children and to improve
comprehensive health care access for entire families. The goals of the program
are to provide first time local access to prevention and treatment services and
improve whole family access to human services through case management. As a result
of this grant, 542 low-income and uninsured residents will have access to comprehensive
health care services for the first time to undertake EPSDT, well-child visits,
immunization, STD, nutrition, WIC, and a variety of other prevention services
which will be available at one central location. The implementation of this comprehensive,
holistic approach is expected to be the catalyst for numerous new provider cooperatives
and projects designed to integrate service delivery into a one stop hub for health
and human services.
Minority Science Improvement Program (MSIP)
The Minority Science Improvement Program (MSIP) is a $163,000,
three-year program designed to improve the quality of science instruction and
enhance faculty effectiveness in an interdisciplinary B.S. degree program funded
by the U.S. Department of Education. This degree, in Environmental Science,
will be offered through the College of Science and Technology at Texas A&M
International University. Hispanics and women are targeted at the freshman and
sophomore level for this curriculum improvement program. The program is designed
to enhance the retention, graduation and graduate school entrance rates of college
students from the TAMU regional service area. The program will help to ensure
a sufficient supply of science and math graduates for the region's future needs
for research scientists and technicians as well as change the image of science
among students and their families.
Building Essential Life Options through
New Goals (BELONG)
Project BELONG is a $1.6 million, three-year drug-free schools
demonstration project funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The primary
objective is to teach middle and junior high school students an array of personal,
social, and analytical skills which will help them resist alcohol and drug (AOD)
use. Targeted at risk youth in Grades 5 through 8 will be identified by parents,
school administrators, teachers, or counselors based on academic, disciplinary,
or emotional criteria. They will be paired with Texas A&M University student
mentors trained by faculty and graduate students. The intervention model, base
on social development, social learning and labeling theories, involves 10 to
12 hours of intensive contact per week for six months. Youth will be randomly
assigned to treatment or control groups, providing a true experimental design
evaluation of intervention impacts.
Mobile Precinct
This mobile sub-station (similar to a large recreational vehicle) will be the
centerpiece of an innovative community-based policing program for the City of
Big Spring, Texas. The sub-station unit will be the base of operations for a Community
Liason Officer who will conduct outreach efforts in three targeted neighborhoods.
The officer will help citizens resolve a variety of problems, concentrating on
crime eradication and prevention. New services for juveniles will also be addressed,
including a safehouse network, counseling programs and service opportunities for
delinquents. This $51,508 grant is one of six awarded nationionwide from the U.S.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
Unified and Involved Community Action
Network (U&I CAN)
The Brazos Valley Unified and Involved Community Action Network (U&I CAN)
is administering this $1.4 million, five-year project that formed a coalition
of more than 60 agencies with an interest in fighting drug and substance abuse
in Brazos County. Funding is from the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources. Coalition agencies include
the local school district, law enforcement agencies, county and municipal authorities,
health and human service organizations, hospitals, mental health centers, Texas
A&M University, and a range of grassroots community groups. By coordinating
the efforts of the coalition members, U&I CAN aims to maximize the impact
of the agencies in eradicating alcohol and substance abuse. Coalition activities
include mounting prevention campaigns, training employers to develop employee
assistance programs, expanding Blockwatch efforts in high-crime neighborhoods,
developing after-school and summer programs for youth, establishing a local detoxification
facility for the uninsured, establishing a halfway house, and sponsoring regular
workshops and training opportunities. This proposal was ranked among the top ten
of several hundred proposals submitted.
Resident Council Technical Assistance
Project
This Provides $39,900 over two years to train residents of the Bryan Public Housing
Authority, Bryan, Texas, to organize and incorporate the Bryan Resident Council
as a non-profit corporation. Funds are from the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD). The purpose of the Resident Council will be to empower
residents to assume management responsibilities within their own community by
promoting involvement in activities such as Neighborhood Watch and representation
on the Bryan Housing Authority Board, as well as supervision of routine activities
such as grounds and housing unit maintenance, resident screening, and rent collection.
The council also provides the mechanism to apply for additional funding for a
range of programs including drug, crime, and gang prevention; child care; youth
programs; and enhanced security. This development grant is viewed as a first step
in a series of efforts designed to improve the living conditions of many community
residents.
Mesquite Gang Prevention Project
The city of Mesquite's Parks and Recreation Department will coordinate this program,
with local agencies joining the effort to create a healthy and safe environment
for at-risk school children. The goal is to "gangproof" at-risk children
between the ages of 9 and 15, reintegrating them into conventional community activities.
Youth support forums, parental education groups, mentorships, camps and community
service form the core of the positive alternatives, and to date efforts have resulted
in a reduction in the number of gangs reported from ten to two since project implementation.
Parents and community volunteers are recruited and trained to present anti-gang,
anti-alcohol, and anti-drug use materialto the children. This $24,300 grant is
one of six awarded nationwide by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention (OJJDP).
Parenting Education for High Risk Youth
in the Rio Grande Valley
Youth Horizons Services Center provides innovative teen pregnancy prevention and
counseling services to the people of the Rio Grande Valley. Funded for $154,385,
this one year Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (TCADA) grant will support
a Nurturing Program for children and their families designed to strengthen the
family, reduce child abuse, substance abuse, and dependence on welfare by teaching
child development skills and promoting positive self-esteem. By embracing the
idea of involving the parenting teenager's parents, the program's goal is to achieve
a multi-generational approach to family emotional and physical well-being. Multi-agency
coordination is an important component of this successful example of local cooperation
in fighting the problems associated with teenage pregnancy.
Parent Outreach in Rural Schools
This project tests three models of parental outreach strategies in rural school
districts. It is widely known that increasing parental involvement in education
is associated with substatial gains in student academic achievment. However, rural
schools face unique barriers which must be taken into account when developing
working relations with parents. Funded by the Texas Educational Agency/Educational
Economic Policy Center for $126,855, the program will examine the full continuum
of parental outreach strategies from a campus-based approach to community and
home-based interventions. The findings of the project could have significant practical
implications, particularly if those programs with lower cost per student are as
effective as high priced parenting interventions.
Comprehensive School Health Education
in Rural Texas
Entitled "Building Better Linkages", this program's goal is to encourage
the implementation of comprehensive school health education programs in small,
rural schools in East-Central Texas. Funded for $451,809 for three years by the
U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement and Reforms of Schools
and Teaching, and the Comprehensive School Health Education Program, the program
will provide staff training for the planning and implementation of health instruction
programs for Grades K-5. Parental and community involvement will be stressed and
encouraged in the program: parents and community members are invited to participate
in each school's health education team.
Brazos County Community Oriented Primary
Care (COPC)
The Health Services Division of the Brazos Valley Community Action Agency (BVCAA)
recently received $226,000 from the Texas Department of Health's (TDH) Community
Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Division to provide primary health care for low income
children, and to improve access to existing health and human services for entire
families. The target population was determined by data gathered from Census Tracts,
a Texas A&M University graduate seminar, surveys and interviews of COPC potential
clients, and current service providers. The target community will consist of persons
at or below 200% of poverty level and represents 50% of the county's population.
The goals of the program are to reduce the inappropriate use of Emergency Room
treatment and improve access to existing services by hiring two case managers.
Further, new commitments of cooperation between the three major service providers
in the area will provide a direct cost saving result of this program.
INTERNET Connectivity -- Rural Districts
The Caldwell Independent School District (ISD), in cooperation
with Dime Box ISD, Giddings State School, and Lexington ISD, was awarded an
INTERNET connectivity grant from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to enhance
the technological infrastructure of these rural districts. Connectivity will
alleviate the limited connection time which previously restricted use of technological
curricular resources. With the added hardware, students will have access to
research databases of major universities and government and research agencies.
It is anticipated that over 1,900 at-risk youth in these districts will be positively
affected, making learning a relevant, hands-on experience.
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