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Hospital Authority hears 16 grant applicants
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The Hospital Authority of Rockdale County heard pitches from 16 local organizations and agencies applying for its Small Community Projects grants on Tuesday. There were no organizations that applied for the larger Primary Care grants.

The Hospital Authority board heard 5 minute presentations from the groups applying for the Small Community Project Grants, which are $5,000 or less. The organizations that applied and the amounts they requested are:

A Special Boutique ($5,500) - two 4-week certified nursing assistant classes
Care and Counseling Center of Georgia ($5,775) - mental health and education services on grief and loss, conflict resolution, caregiving, bullying, women's growth
Exceptional Care Health Service ($5,000) - in home care programs
Family Promise of NewRock ($2,500) - roll-away beds for homeless families
I Sign For You Inc. ($12,000) - nursing services for the adult day program
Kimberley Chance Atkins Foundation ($5,000) - publications for breast cancer patients and caregivers
Prevent Child Abuse Rockdale ($6,500) - serve 20 families in the Positive Parenting Program
Project ReNeWal ($5,000) - for a licensed counselor for group and individual counseling
Rockdale Cares ($5,000) - to keep the respite house open year round
Rockdale County Coopertive Extension ($2,000) - Plant a Row for the Hungry project
Rockdale County DUI Court ($5,000) - reduce DUI recidivism by treating co-occuring mental and physical disorders
Rockdale County Fire and Rescue ($9,000) - "county wide effective emergency response" for cardiac arrest
Rockdale County Senior Services ($5,400) - Liquid Supplement program for homebound seniors
Rockdale Houses for Men and Women ($19,110) - 6 month scholarship for two Rockdale residents for program
Servants of the Lord Meals on Wheels ($3,000) -  - food and containers for 8,000 hot meals
View Point Health ($5,000) - transportation access to mental health and addictive disease treatment

A total of $100,785 was requested. Four of those groups - RCFR, Cooperative Extension, Exceptional Care health Service, and Family Promise - are first time applicants. The rest have recieved grants from HARC before.

The board will conduct site visits and interviews and announce the selected applicants in June.

About $250,000 in grants for healthcare projects and programs has been awarded so far since the grants program began in May 2010, according to a released statement.

There are two cycles of grants per year, with applicaiton deadlines in February and August.

For more information, contact HARC grants program director Julie Mills at (770) 922-1441 or jmills@rockdaleha.org.