The Intermountain Health Care Foundation, established in 1982 to fund charitable health-care services and programs, has awarded $376,000 in 20 grants to community health and education programs.
"We're pleased to be able to help our communities in this manner," said Robert Garff, foundation chairman. Grants went to:- Utah Poison Control Center, Salt Lake City, $70,000 for one-time funding to operate the center.
- Primary Children's Child Protection Team, Salt Lake City, $40,000 to help in preventing and treating child abuse.
- San Juan Health Service, Monticello, $30,000 to operate a van and provide mammograms to low-income women.
- Guadalupe Schools, Salt Lake City, $30,000 to support a learning center for at-risk children and $20,000 for ongoing programs.
- The Sharing Place, Salt Lake City, $25,000 to assist support groups that help people through the grieving process.
- American Heart Association, Salt Lake City, $25,000 to assist in providing educational programs in public schools.
- Center for Humanitarian Outreach and Inter-Cultural Exchange, Salt Lake City, $20,000 to help provide health-care services in developing countries.
- Intermountain Sexual Abuse Treatment Center, Salt Lake City, $20,000 to help provide therapy to adults who were molested as children and $10,000 for therapy for children who molest children.
- The Family Summit Foundation, Ogden, $17,400 to assist with a program that helps children and their families through the grieving process.
- Sidelines of Utah, Orem, $15,000 support for women with high-risk pregnancies and their families.
- The Children's Center, Salt Lake City, $10,564 support for teen mother and toddler parenting program.
- Utah Special Olympics, Salt Lake City, $10,000 for support of athletes with disabilities.
- CCS St. Martha's Baby Project, Ogden, $10,000 to help provide infant items to mothers of babies born in poverty.
- Children's Service Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, $5,000 to help provide prenatal and parenting classes to young women.
- Literacy Action Center, Salt Lake City, $5,000 to assist low-income adults in learning to read.
- The Good Shepherd Association of Utah, Riverton, $5,000 in support for animal-assisted therapy in health care facilities.
- The Counseling Institute, Park City, $5,000 for expansion of psychotherapeutic services to low-income people.
- Assistance League of Salt Lake City, $4,000 to help provide needy children with school clothing.