2012 Grant Recipients

Agency Program Population
California Parenting Institute (CPI) Child Abuse Treatment Project. Ages 3-18. Comprehensive mental health services to abused and traumatized children so that they may heal from their experience and break the cycle of abuse. Many of these children have been victimized by physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse, as well as subjected to the trauma of domestic violence, mental illness and chemical dependency. Children
Drug Abuse Alternatives Center (DAAC) Integrated Perinatal Treatment Program. Intensive program to empower pregnant and/or parenting women in making the transition from active substance use, abuse and/or addiction, to a healthy, intact productive, drugfree lifestyle. For every $1 spent, $7-$12 are saved in future medical, legal and societal costs. SCMAAF funds will provide additional individual therapy sessions addressing co-occurring mental health needs, healing from trauma, and relationship functioning for healthy families. Perinatal
Family Services Agency/West County Community Services Senior Counseling Services. Ages 55+.To provide counseling services to at risk seniors through the Senior Peer Counseling Program before they experience crisis, helping them to remain self-sufficient, independent, and out of the institutional care system; as well as traditional individual psychotherapy for seniors based upon their specific needs and risk factors, as identified through FSA or referring partners. Seniors
Hope Counseling SCMA Alliance Fund For Hope. Children and Seniors. To underwrite therapy services for needy children and elderly residents of Sonoma County. Between 2007-10, counseling hours at Hope increased by more than 35 percent, and pro-bono work increased by 60 percent. Donor funds are utilized to offset client visits for those unable to pay and increase the number of counseling hours available. Children & Seniors
LifeWorks School Based Art Therapy Program for developmentally and emotionally challenged students to receive mental health services through art therapy for the 2012-13 school year. The art therapy program provides a safe outlet for students’ self expression in a unique way, giving fresh insight for the therapist to assist the student. This will help the students to remain in the special education classroom and avoid a higher level of care, thereby reducing financial strain on the school system and community at large. Children
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Senior Mental Health Outreach. Outreach program to Sonoma County adults 60+ who do not receive sufficient social support and services regarding mental health needs. Program serves older adults who suffer from depression, other mental illness, and/or substance abuse or who may be struggling with serious mental illness of their family members. Seniors
Santa Rosa Community Health Centers "Moms Helping Moms" Peer Support for Post Partum Depression. Program designed to reduce the incidence and impact of postpartum depression in women from low- or very low-income households. These are women who suffer postpartum depression at twice the rate of mothers who live above the poverty level, and they face multiple barriers to access care that prevents or treats depression. "Moms Helping Moms" will complement SRCHC's existing system of perinatal services. Perinatal
YWCA Sonoma County A Safe Place Preschool Mental Health Program Supplies. Expansion of services at ASP therapeutic preschool, which serves children from 2 yrs, 9 months to age 5. A Special Place Preschool offers children a respite from neglect of violence of their living situation in a therapeutic setting. ASP is one of just three such preschools throughout all of California. Children