Grants Approved - Dec 2018

December 2018- Grants Approved Total $11,917

 

  1. REPS (Reaching Everyone Preventing Suicide – Funded $2,000 – To support youth advocacy programming. Specifically, funds will be used for expanding programming into the High School and other youth based groups to assist these youth in understanding mental health, depression, pressure, stress and suicide. The funds will help cover the costs for age appropriate documentaries, DVD’s and prevention and education materials as well as REPS hard good to give away to their older youth demographic.
  2. Routt County Council On Aging – Funded $1,000 - To help RCCOA provide no-cost lunches for seniors that can’t pay. Easily ROCCA has 5-10 seniors each day that cannot afford to pay for lunch.
  3. Yampa Valley Sustainability Council – Funded $1,000 – To help fund YVSC’s Energy Jump Start program, specifically for assisting fixed-income senior residents to improve their homes’ energy efficiency and lower their utility bills.
  4. Steamboat Tennis Association – Funded $1,467 – to help fund their Steamboat SERVES program for 2019. The program is three six-week sessions that serve under-resourced children in Routt County ages 5-14. The program not only introduces the healthy life-time sport of tennis, but every class provides healthy snacks and includes 45 minutes of ‘life skills’ (team work, controlling tempers, integrity and community service) training.
  5. Yampa Valley Autism Program – Funded $1,000 – To provide support which will allow high needs children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or similar special needs to participate with their peers in after school programs, Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, summer camp programs, and other community activities available to all other local children. The Special Activities Support program provides children with consistent and trained behavior support for community activities.
  6. Northwest Colorado Health – Funded $850 – to help pay for the re-certification of 8 Arthritis Foundation Exercise and 3 Tai Chi for Arthritis instructors for their Aging Well program in 2019. Aging Well is a community-based program that aims to maintain and improve the functional and social health of aging residents so that they may remain safe, independent, and in the community. The program provides fitness classes, wellness programming and senior wellness clinics to older adults with chronic conditions or disabilities and under-served adults.
  7. Partners in Routt County – Funded $600 – to help support Partner’s Community Based Mentoring program specially Nexus (Latin for next in line) activities. Nexus Junior Partners may be a on a waitlist for several months or even a year before they are paired with a Senior Partner. The funds will help the Nexus program to amp up during school breaks, including summers, to ensure that these youth have opportunities to be active and have fun as well as keep youth and family connected to the program during the “waiting” period.
  8. STARS – Funded $1,000 – to help with transportation expenses related to STARS’ Adaptive PE (APE) programs and general expenses for their new School Demo Days. APE is designed to enable these students to expand their educational experience by helping them to reach physical, social, and cognitive goals. APE curriculum includes activity blocks for swimming, rock climbing, gym activities, skiing/snowboarding, snow-shoeing, cross-country skiing, sled hockey and pickleball. The new STARS School Demo Days foster an inclusive community by educating local youth about people of all abilities and different ways to recreate.
  9. Strings Music Festival – Funded $1,000 – Funding will support Strings School Days musician Project Trio and their March 2019 engagement with Steamboat Springs Middle School and Emerald Mountain School musicians, their free public performance at Strings Pavilion for 450 local 7th and 8th grade students, as well as multiple youth and family outreach programs in Routt County.
  10. North Routt Preschool – Funded $1,000 – to help with the cost to purchase and install cordless (child-safe), double-cell (energy-saving) black-out (useful for rest time) blinds for the school. North Routt Preschool for children ages one to five in North Routt serves over 35 families.
  11. BookTrails – Funded $1,000 – to help support twenty local elementary school students to receive summertime literacy education at BookTrails’ Reading Ranch. These students are from low-income families and show deficiencies in their reading skills. Funds will help these students receive partial scholarships to camp and offer them an unforgettable experience in the outdoors while improving their reading skills and attitudes towards reading.