Recovery Grants Summer 2021

Organization: Council on Aging Services for Seniors

To provide for six more months of hybrid programming to address the social isolation among older adults living with dementia in Sonoma Valley as reopening evolves. Amount: $17,500, 8/20/21

Organization: Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation

To help purchase and install a new patient/visitor screening kiosk in the main visitor entrance and to provide 22 weeks of drive-through testing. Amount: $20,000, 8/20/21

Organization: The Botanical Bus

To help expand bilingual wellness programming in the Springs by providing six Farm Worker Clinics and eight in-person Wellness Workshops at La Luz Center this fall. Amount: $20,000, 8/20/21

Organization: Becoming Independent

To fund the transitional staffing necessary to create a new hybrid model of service that will meet the needs and desires of their intellectually and developmentally challenged Sonoma Valley clients in the continuing pandemic. Amount: $20,000, 8/20/21

Organization: Vintage House

To implement a tracking database to enable staff to reopen services safely, providing a seamless customer welcoming experience despite COVID protocols and fund a two-day, team-building staff retreat. Amount: $20,000, 8/20/21

Vaccination Outreach

Organization: Sonoma Valley Community Health Center

To support vaccination outreach as part of a back-to-school health fair.

Amount: $10,000, 8/6/21

Health Justice

Orgainzation: The Hanna Institute

This initial summer program aims to engage in a collective generation of knowledge of what self and community care are, and to practice and disseminate healing strategies to the youth of Sonoma Valley, specifically high school students. Students will learn: (a) to create risk assessment, safety planning charts, and follow up plans, (b) options for wellness, healing, and support, (c) strategies to access joy and healing centered engagement, (d) support in dissemination of the strategies among peers and within community.

https://www.hannainstitute.org/sonoma-valley-for-healing-justice/

Amount: $50,000, 5/8/21

Amount: $25,000 12/15/21

Vaccination Navigation Support for Seniors

Organization: Vintage House Sonoma

This initiative provides Sonoma Valley seniors with assistance to register for and make vaccine appointments through the hiring of a part-time, bilingual vaccine navigator at Vintage House. Vintage House is on the front lines of tracking the various vaccination venues and helping seniors overcome technological and language challenges, so they can make appointments and get vaccinated. Meanwhile, Vintage House's vaccinated volunteer drivers are ready to help drive seniors to their appointments if needed.

Amount: $15,000 3/12/21

Sonoma Valley Mass Vaccination Support

Organization: Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation 

This initiative enables Sonoma Valley Hospital (SVH) to begin planning and executing public mass vaccination drive-thru clinics, in association with Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority (SVFRA) and the Sonoma Valley Community Health Center (SVCHC), and the City of Sonoma.  The funds granted to the Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation will enable SVH to hire a Vaccine Clinic Coordinator, who will be responsible for overseeing the scheduling platform for the public, clinic volunteer schedules, the paperwork for registration, consent, and reporting, as well the communication between community partners. 

Amount: $50,000 01/25/21

Update: Vaccination Clinics at the Sonoma Valley High School was a historic success. Over the 6 weekends of clinics they fully vaccinated about 3,500 people with 2 doses through the support of their partnerships and 45 dedicated volunteers.Partners include: Sonoma Valley Community Health Center, City of Sonoma, Sonoma Valley Hospital, Gurnick Academy, Marin Health, Sonoma Valley Fire District, Schell-Vista Fire Protection District, Sonoma Valley Rotary, Sonoma Valley Unified School District, Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund, and the many Community Volunteers! At the end of March the hospital will take a step back and decide whether or not to continue leading these clinics or support other local vaccination efforts.

Vaccine Clinic at the Sonoma Valley High School, Feb 6-7. Photos by William Murray.

Improving Vaccination Acceptance

Organization: Sonoma Valley Community Health Center

This initiative supports the Sonoma Valley Community Health Center's Vaccine Education and Outreach program by enabling 1) the hiring of a Marketing Project manager; 2) the sponsorship of Charla Communitaria and other Spanish outreach efforts; and 3) the creation and placement of effective advertisements for the targeted audiences to address vaccination concerns. The educational outreach program is an essential part of promoting the vaccination of 27,000 or +80% of our valley population for herd immunity.

Amount: $50,000 01/22/21

Update: Two Charla Comunitarias (community conversations) on vaccinations have been sponsored. The position was filled in early March and is now organizing the semi-monthly vaccination outreach coordination meetings.