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Following is a list of currently funded projects supported
by the Foundation. Please be advised that while these
projects were approved for funding, they may no longer
represent programmatic priorities. The Board favors
projects that support healing for underserved individuals
and their communities. We recommend that you review
the Featured
Grants section to see projects most favored
by the Board. In addition, click
here to see programmatic approaches the
Foundation will consider for funding.
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Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
Front-Line Caregivers’ Training Institute
To create the Front-Line Caregivers’ Training Institute of northern New England. The Institute will identify “front-line” caregivers—home health aides and nursing home aides—in communities across northern New England. The Institute will provide training and a network of support to these caregivers, and in turn educate northern New England families in order to prepare for the depth and severity of the coming “Care Gap” in order to serve and support our elderly. |
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| $300,459 over 36 months
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Medicare Rights Center
Medicare Interactive for Caregivers: Health Care Information for Society’s Hidden Helpers
The project intends to create a one-stop online location where caregivers become empowered to navigate the health care system on behalf of the friends and loved ones for whom they are providing critical assistance. By providing much-needed information and assistance to the men and women comprising the U.S. caregiving community, the proposed project will pioneer a way for caregivers to access the health care facts and advice they need to help the older and disabled individuals in their charge. |
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| $252,221 over 36 months
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UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Family Caregiver-Physician Education Project
This project is designed to provide support for family caregivers by 1) training physicians to interact more sensitively and effectively with their patients family caregivers and 2) provide supportive resources directly to caregivers through a caregiver mentor program. |
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| $265,687 over 36 months
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Johns Hopkins University
A Randomized Trial of Training and Support for Voluntary Caregivers
Johns Hopkins University is testing a multi-component, community-based intervention that incorporates group education, individual counseling, and 24-hour-a-day telephone access to a trained professional. |
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| $160,000 over 24 months
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Family Caregiver Alliance
Helping Caregivers Find What They Need: A State by State Resource Directory
Navigating Care Options seeks to overcome information overload by tailoring a more individualized response to caregiver inquiries from across the country made to Family Caregiver Alliance. The project would modify the information in the 50-State database to be more consumer-friendly as well as create simple questions to guide a better search of resource and consumer information throughout the FCA website. In addition, the project would increase the number of "scripts" developed in response to trends in inquiries to provide a more personalized and tailored approach for caregivers. |
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| $34,745 over 12 months
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The ALS Association
Circle of Care Program Expanded Pilot Effort
The Circle of Care Program helps primary caregivers of ALS patients to establish formalized volunteer care networks to assist in care giving by assuming some of the caregiver’s usual tasks, such as household chores, meal preparation and patient care. The primary goals of the Circle of Care Program Expanded Pilot Effort are to take what was learned from the Los Angeles pilot, refine the program slightly, and begin testing it with a small group of four to five chapters across the nation before rolling out this program nationally. |
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| $156,615 over 12 months
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National Alliance for Caregiving
Building Sustainable Caregiving Coalitions and a National Network Through Outreach and Technical Assistance
The National Alliance for Caregiving proposes to initiate a community-based caregiving coalition-building project that builds on caregiving research findings and the important work to date on coalition building. The Alliance will partner with a strong community caregiving coalition and work with other coalitions nationwide. |
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| $208,548 over 18 months
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United Hospital Fund
Guiding Family Caregivers through Home Care: New Tools for Providers and Families
This project builds on the findings of the Langeloth-funded "This Case Is Closed" study. The project will develop, field-test, and evaluate, with the collaboration of Certified Home Health Agencies in New York and family caregivers, new procedures, information, and training materials that better prepare family caregivers for managing the transition when formal, usually very short-term, services end. This project will be a central component of the Fund's overall "Inventing the Wheel" initiative. |
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