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2011 Fall Recipients
The Partnership for Ontario County
Project: Medication Drop Offs
The Partnership for Ontario County will use grant funding for their initiative designed to reduce the supply of unused and/or unsecured prescription and over-the-counter medications within our community. In collaboration with the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office, many community agencies and volunteers, The Partnership for Ontario County will purchase and provide items such as scales, tents, displays, tables and brochures for Medication Drop Off events.
The American Red Cross
Project: Pediatric CPR Training
The West Ontario Office of the American Red Cross will use grant funding for a new Pediatric CPR training program targeted at young families, lower income families and those living in areas that are not close to emergency rooms or urgent care centers. The Pediatric-specific training will include learning how to recognize an emergency, protection against transmittable diseases, emergency action steps, choking procedures and how to care for a child not breathing.
The Partnership for Ontario County
Project: Ontario County Youth Court
The Partnership for Ontario County will use the grant funding to continue facilitating the Ontario County Youth Court program. This program is a peer justice system operated by youth for youth, where student volunteers are trained to take on court room roles of prosecution, defense, judge and juror. The program provides youth in Ontario County with legal education and lessons in ethics, respect, public speaking, and conflict resolution, and develops critical thinking skills.
Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion
Project: Children’s Education Garden Project
Through the development of a community garden, in collaboration with local schools and several community affiliations, Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion will use the grant funding to create a vegetable and herb garden created and maintained by children. The project is designed to provide nutritional education and to provide physical activity during harvest season. The Garden Project also promotes involvement in positive activities that will give back to the community.
The Parkinson Support Group of the Finger Lakes
Project: Parkinson Support Group Meetings
The Parkinson Support Group of the Finger Lakes will use the grant funding to assist with the cost of guest speakers, a caregivers’ subgroup and creating an online community to provide outreach to those in our area. Currently the only Parkinson Disease support group in the immediate area, this grassroots organization meets monthly to provide support services that are available at no charge.
The Greater Rochester Canandaigua Family YMCA
Project: Youth Health Zone
The Greater Rochester Canandaigua Family YMCA will use the grant funding to develop an indoor Health Zone for children to use during the winter months. With the goal of educating youth on building healthy lifestyles through a variety of activities, the playground will have youth fitness equipment, a Wii, XBOX Kinetics, and an indoor playground.
Ontario ARC
Project: Aging Symposium
In partnership with the Ontario Office of the Aging, Ontario ARC will use the grant funding for a one-day Aging Symposium serving Ontario County and surrounding rural communities. The Symposium is not only the first of its kind, but it is expected to attract approximately 90 professional service providers from the fields of elder care and intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Pioneer Library System
Project: Caregiver Kits
The Pioneer Library System’s Outreach Department will use the grant funding to continue offering Theme Kits to caregivers working with seniors who are dealing with old age and/or memory loss. These kits are used to support, encourage and stimulate seniors to share stories about their lives and what they remember in the past, and are available to be borrowed by any caregiver who is working with seniors at no charge.
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2011 Spring Recipients
The Partnership for Ontario County
Project: Pikes Peak Project
The Partnership for Ontario County will use funds to provide a program for at-risk middle school and high school students in Ontario County. The program combines online, interactive, and printed programs to educate students and assist them in the areas self-discovery, lifestyle choices, workforce skills, personal finances, and the importance of community service.
Marcus Whitman Central School District
Project: Back Pack Program
Marcus Whitman Central School District will use funds for the purchase of food as well as transportation bins for 30 students for the remainder of the academic year that are enrolled in their Back Pack Program. The back Pack Program provides food to children over the weekend when their nutritional needs may not be met.
The Salvation Army
Project: Senior Exercise/ Nutrition Program
The Salvation Army, in partnership with the County Office for the Aging, ARC, and the City of Canandaigua, will use funds to continue their exercise and nutrition program for seniors in our Community. The weekly program includes exercise, lectures and discussions on nutrition, and concludes with a meal featuring the foods discussed.
American Red Cross
Project: Super Saturday CPR Training
The West Ontario office of the American Red Cross will use funds for a new Citizen CPR training class that they can offer at no charge to their participants. This new Health and Safety class will teach, in less than one hour, Ontario County youth and adults how to effectively respond to life-threatening situations in the absence of trained medical professionals and emergency equipment.
Finger Lakes Visiting Nurse Service
Project: 13th Annual Caregiver Conference
The Finger Lakes Visiting Nurse Service, in partnership with the Ontario County Office for the Aging, will use funds to support their annual one day program called “The Caring for the Caregiver Conference”. This program is designed to provide educational tools and access to support networks for caregivers. Their 2011 conference will focus on The Mind/Body connection.
With Youth, For Youth
Project: Youth Development Initiative
With Youth, For Youth, in conjunction with support from Thompson Health, Ontario County Mental Health and the Spring Hill Fund, will use funds to promote greater awareness of the state of our youth, a shared sense of accountability within our communities, and encourage community wide commitment among local organizations in order to support and generate opportunities to allow our youth to thrive. Funding will support 6 youth/adult gatherings in three communities. These gatherings will not only provide our youth with a voice and leadership development, but also provide participants with a greater understanding of our youths’ challenges and values. The gatherings will also serve as a means to shape the performance of the county wide initiative.
City of Canandaigua Fire Rescue
Project: Thermal Imaging Training
The Canandaigua Fire Department will use funds for a thermal imaging training program for their firefighters. The two day program will instruct firefighters on how to use the thermal imaging camera in order to decrease the time spent locating trapped victims and hidden fires.
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2010 Fall Recipients
Bridges for Brain Injury
Project: Creative Connections Art therapy Program
Bridges for Brain Injury will use funds to hire a Master Level Art Therapist for its 12-week Art Therapy program for adult survivors of brain injury to discover creative forms of self-expression.
Canandaigua Police Department
Project: Automatic External Defibrillator Program
The Canandaigua Police Department will use funds to purchase an AED for the 5th of their five patrol cars.
Bloomfield Central School District
Project: Adventure Experience at Camp Bristol Hills
The Bloomfield Central School District, in partnership with the Cornell Cooperative Extension, will use funds to provide a unique learning opportunity for students and teachers, to make lifelong healthy choices and find success in school and life.
Literacy Volunteers of Ontario-Yates, Inc.
Project: Educational Materials
Literacy Volunteers of Ontario-Yates, Inc. will use the funds to purchase educational materials for tutors and adult learners. Materials include reading and writing lessons related to themes such as Health, Work, Family, Civics and government and reference materials for tutoring strategies and techniques.
Wood Library
Project: Geocaching for Body, Mind and Spirit
Geocaching is a high-tech form of orienteering that offers physical and mental benefits for people of all ages. Wood Library will use funds to purchase global positioning devices to loan to the public and offer educational materials on how to geocache.
Naples Little Bunch, Inc.
Project: Renovations
Naples Little Bunch, a parent cooperative pre-school in Naples will use the funds to construct a safe storage system and to renovate the pre-school’s restroom.
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2010 Spring Recipients
Gleaners Community Kitchen
Project: Dining room counters with storage
The Gleaners Community Kitchen provides nutritious meals daily to those in need—without question and at no cost. Gleaners will use funds to purchase washable plastic folding tables with cabinets underneath to facilitate storage.
Ontario County Sheriff Department
Project: Seniors and Law Enforcement Together (SALT) Council
The Ontario County Sheriff Department will use funds to produce a 28-page safety guide for seniors that will include information on crime prevention, home improvement, con-games and fraud, identity theft and caregiver safety tips.
Partnerships for Ontario County, Inc.
Project: Family Support Center
Family Counseling Services, a program of Partnerships for Ontario County, Inc., will use funds for families in the Thompson service area in need of “wrap around services” such as transportation, clothing, housing and supplies for youth participation in work or school as well as basic health and medical needs including co-payments for outside mental health or drug and alcohol treatment. Funds will also be used for staff development for the counselors to keep them current with continuing education requirements.
Partnership for Ontario County, Inc.
Project: Smoke detectors for the hearing impaired
The partnership will use funds to deliver and install specially designed smoke detectors to 22 low- or restricted-income families with hearing impaired children/seniors.
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2009 Fall Recipients
American Red Cross
Project: Family Caregiving
The Red Cross will use funds to hold a series of classes centered around the topic of caring for family members with Alzheimers and dementia-related illness in the Canandaigua area.
Canandaigua Lake Watershed Council
Project: Canandaigua YMCA Raingarden
The Watershed Council and the Canandaigua YMCA, in collaboration with the Ontario County Highway Department and other municipal agencies, will use funds to develop a raingarden that will substantially clean runoff from the Y’s parking lot of sediment and pollutants before they enter Canandaigua Lake.
Happiness House
Project: Hand Drumming Project
The program will enroll 40 participants and teach them techniques of hand drumming, which has proven therapeutic in a number of settings. Funds will be used to pay an instructor for 24 one hour sessions, plus the cost of both purchase and rental of drums.
Ontario County Sheriff’s Office
Project: Seniors and Law Enforcement Together Council (SALT)
This informal group of interested law enforcement professionals and volunteers run three programs to benefit seniors – 911 Cell Phone Distribution, Tel-A-Tend (a phone dispatched computer alarm system), and Project Lifesaver, a bracelet used to help track wandering Alzheimer’s patients. Funds will help with publicity.
Seeking Common Ground
Project: Finger Lakes Farm-Cafeteria
This program will run a pilot program at the Bloomfield School District that can serve as a model for how local institutions can effectively preserve locally grown produce for use out-of-season. Funds will purchase dehydration equipment, supplies and produce.
Society of St. Vincent DePaul
Project: Santa’s Helpers
The Society of St. Vincent DePaul, connected with Canandaigua’s St. Mary’s Church, will use funds to expand their Christmas charity program to needy families.
Sonnenberg Gardens
Project: Therapeutic Horticulture Program
This collaborative program between Thompson Health’s Brighter Day medical adult day program, Ontario County ARC, Flint BOCES, Canandaigua Academy and Sonnenberg will develop and maintain a vegetable garden. Funding will be used to help build handicapped ramps for participant access to the greenhouse.
2009 Spring Recipients
American Red Cross
Project:Daycare Provider First Aid/CPR Training
The Red Cross will use funds to organize CPR and First Aid training sessions for 120 daycare providers in the Thompson Health service area.
Gleaners Community Kitchen
Project: Web site
The Gleaner’s Kitchen will use funds to develop a Web site to assist them in their marketing, public relations and education awareness efforts
Parkinson Support Group of the Finger Lakes
Project: General Support
This grassroots organization continues to show year-growth, thus demonstrating the need for this service. The funding will go toward honoraria and travel expenses.
Wood Library
Project:Wood Walkers and Talkers
Wood Library currently organizes a small weekly group of seniors for a one-hour walk and socialization activity. Funding will be used to build upon this and involve the local chapter of AARP to recruit volunteer coordinators and more participants. The grant will cover honoraria for the volunteer coordinators, t-shirts and marketing materials.
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2008 Fall Recipients
Bridges for Brain Injury
Project: Wildlife Defenders
Bridges for Brain Injury is a Canandaigua-based not-for-profit agency that provides in-home and community based services for survivors of brain injuries. “Bridges” will use the funds to bring exotic animals to the Thompson Continuing Care Center to help to engage individuals with brain injuries.
Downtown Canandaigua Business Management Assoc., Inc.
Project: Canandaigua Farmer’s Market Pavilion
The Canandaigua BID has obtained substantial matching funds to construct the pavilion that houses the city’s Farmer’s Market. The Market offers healthy, locally grown food products and is gaining rapidly in popularity. Funding will be used to finish construction of the pavilion.
Child Advocacy Center of the Finger Lakes
Project: Capital Equipment and Computer Software
The Child Advocacy Center provides a centralized location to take evidence from and provide care to victims and the families of child abuse. This grant will provide a laptop computer and associated software to the multi-disciplinary team that conducts the exams at the Center. The Center, located in Phelps, serves Ontario and surrounding counties.
Happiness House
Project: Tai Chi Designed for Me!
Happiness House will use grant funds to enroll 10 individuals with disabilities in Tai Chi classes one day per week for six months. The classes will be offered to Happiness House clients with traumatic brain injuries and to teenagers enrolled in ARC. Both organizations are “lending” staff and transportation to participants in this program.
Ontario County Youth Court
Project: Family Counseling
The Youth Court will use funds to provide counseling to five defendants and their families.
2008 Spring Recipients
American Red Cross
Project: CPR Saturdays
The Red Cross will use the funds to train approximately 100 more area residents in CPR and AED use through a one-day program held concurrently in the towns of Canandaigua, Naples, Victor/Farmington, Honeoye and Shortsville/Manchester during June, 2008.
Lifespan
Project: Emergency Respite for Elder Abuse
Lifespan received funds to pilot a program in Yates, Ontario and Wayne counties that will provide for emergency services for up to ten elderly individuals deemed “at risk” of abuse. The grant provides for services such as in-home nursing, emergency shelter, transportation, etc. for clients who are unable to private pay.
Ontario ARC
Project: ARC Community Health and Wellness
The ARC is partnering with the Canandaigua YMCA to offer YMCA memberships to 24 ARC clients. The clients can then access health and fitness programs, and gain physical and emotional wellness. Funding will help with transportation to the YMCA.
Ontario-Yates Hospice
Project: Annual Caregiver Conference
Ontario-Yates Hospice holds an annual conference aimed at educating and bringing together those who care for loved ones in their homes. Support networks are very important for these caregivers. Thompson Health has sponsored the event in the past, as well as sent presenters. This funding will help ensure its continuation.
Seeking Common Ground
Project: Farm – Cafeteria Days
Seeking Common Ground looks to bring local farmers together with food service managers so that people at school and in the workplace can have access to fresh, tasty, locally grown food. The F.F. Thompson Foundation has sponsored an initiative from this organization in the past, and Seeking Common Ground is now looking to expand their outreach efforts and build on their success from last year. They have secured lead grants from regional and national foundations. This grant will fund two proposed Farm-Cafeteria “harvest days” to happen at seven institutional cafeterias. The participating cafeterias will highlight and serve the same dishes, prepared with fresh local food. In this way the organization hopes to spur institutional demand for locally grown food.
Society of St. Vincent DePaul
Project: Operational Support
The Society of St. Vincent DePaul operates as a clothing bank and food-voucher clearinghouse out of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Canandaigua. The need for such services is growing, and the Society receives annual support from the local United Way. The F.F. Thompson Foundation has supported the Society in the past when financial requests were targeted for prescription help. This funding is specifically to offset the costs associated with prescription drugs.
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2007 Fall Recipients:
Wood Library
Project: Teen Theater
Each summer Wood Library runs a Teen Theater program led by two teachers from the Canandaigua City School District. The program runs daily for one month. The teens develop, write, and then perform a play. Teen Theater has operated since 2001 and serves approximately 25 students each year. Past productions have centered on teen issues including mental health, and family dynamics. In addition to the Mary Clark Thompson funding, Wood Library has also obtained a $1000 grant from Wal-Mart for this year’s initiative.
Partnership for Ontario County/Youth Court
Project: Teen Volunteer Recruitment Video
Ontario County Youth Court is a voluntary alternative to the traditional justice system for young people who have committed certain violations or misdemeanors. The young person who has admitted guilt appears before a court of his/her peers. All court positions, including Jury, Defense Counsel, Prosecution and Clerk/Baliff are filled by student Youth Court volunteers who have completed an eight-week training curriculum and passed a "Bar Exam". The Court is presented with evidence relevant to sentencing, the jury deliberates and passes sentence that may include community service, essays, drug and alcohol evaluation, education, jail tour, apology letter or anger management. Youth Court itself is a partnership of law enforcement, school districts, and non-government agencies such as the YMCA, and the Boys and Girls Club. Funding has been awarded to professionally produce a teen volunteer recruitment video for the court positions. About 50 defendants per year appear before the Youth Court, and approximately 45-65 youth participate as courtroom volunteers.
Partnership for Ontario County/Family Support Center
Project: Wraparound Funds
The Partnership for Ontario County has received New York State funding to establish family counseling services through the Ontario County Family Support Center. The Partnership estimates the Family Support Center will serve approximately 140 families a year. Mary Clark Thompson funding has been awarded, contingent upon matching support, to help provide “last resort” subsidies for transportation, co-pays, and other emergency needs for 90 families who use the Family Support Center during the 2007-2008 academic year. The average amount of “wraparound money” provided by the Family Support Center is $25 per family.
2007 Spring Recipients:
American Red Cross of Greater Rochester
Project: Community Outreach Training Program
Funding was awarded to the Western Ontario Red Cross to train and certify instructors in First Aid and CPR. These instructors will then train other volunteer youth leaders for such programs as the 4-H, Boy and Girl Scouts, etc. The course is a 22-hour comprehensive first responder course. The benefits to the community are that through this “train the trainer” approach, the groups themselves can train their staff without paying the full Red Cross instructional fee or having to arrange a time that is convenient for both their volunteers and the Red Cross. The program proposes to reach approximately 100 volunteer leaders over the course of a year.
Ontario Public Health
Project: Bright Starts
Ontario County Public Health operates a pre-natal program for at-risk mothers. Funding was awarded for Bright Starts pre-natal educational program on the importance of good oral health. Clinical studies have shown a correlation between good oral health and positive fetal outcomes. Patients whose dental problems are identified during the course of the study will be referred to the Rushville Health Center or Finger Lakes Migrant Health Center for follow-up treatment. The initiative proposes to serve approximately 100-125 women over a 12-month period.
Partnership for Ontario County
Project: Never Alone Club
The Never Alone Club is an after-school program involving volunteer mentors, physical activity and a safe gathering place for teens who do not participate in sponsored school activities. It is based in the Canandaigua YMCA. The Club has been in place since 2005 and seems to have garnered support from the parents whose children participate. Funding was awarded for a state-of-the-art video game that will essentially serve as another draw to bring children to the program.
Rape & Abuse Crisis of the Finger Lakes, Inc.
Project: Best Practices
Ontario County has just received state funding to open a Child Abuse Investigative Center in Phelps. This request is to cover the cost of training 15-child protective services professionals and 15-law enforcement officials in forensic interviewing. The training takes place over a three-day period, and the presenter would be a state-designated Best Practices trainer. The Ontario County Sheriff’s Office has committed to a grant of $2,500 to make up the difference in funding the program.
Seeking Common Ground
Project: Farm-Cafeteria farm tour and luncheon
This small not-for-profit exists to promote sustainable local agriculture whose products are purchased for use in local school and hospital cafeterias. The group proposes a “get-acquainted” event to bring together farmers, food service directors and produce distributors to demonstrate the feasibility of using locally grown, seasonal produce. Thompson Health’s own Nutritional Services Director supports this initiative.
Thompson Health
Project: BEDS Website
The Thompson Health Social Work and Information Services Departments have developed and implemented a community-wide website that tracks nursing home bed availability. This website allows social workers from any participating facility to rapidly check for available beds, thus allowing for more efficient placement of post-acute, rehab and long-term care patients. The award funds the website for a year as Thompson Health explores making the service subscription-based and offering sponsorship opportunities for advertising on the website. Participating facilities maintain their own bed census.
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2006 Recipients:
American Red Cross
Project: Community Training Outreach Program
The Red Cross received funding for free training courses in Canandaigua and Naples for CPR, AED (automatic external defibrillator) usage, and babysitting skills. The Red Cross has partnered with the Salvation Army for additional funding and help with the identification of potential trainees. The Red Cross plans to train 24 youths and 16 seniors during June 1 – September 30, 2006.
County of Ontario Sheriff's Office
Project: Project Lifesaver
Project Lifesaver distributes wrist-worn tracking devices so that disabled individuals can be quickly found if they should wander. F.F. Thompson Foundation helped to establish the original program through the Sheriff’s Office which focused on adults with Alzheimer's disease or dementia. The Sheriff's Office has received funding to expand the program to 8 children with autism, Down Syndrome or brain injuries. >
Finger Lakes Visiting Nurse Service
Project: Annual Caregiver's Conference
This annual conference is directed towards the non-professional caregiver at home. Funding will cover the cost of a speaker who will focus on care for patients with Alzheimer's and dementia related illness. Thompson Health is a corporate member of Finger Lakes Visiting Nurse Service.
Gleaners Community Kitchen
Project: Cabinet/Countertop Replacement
Gleaners Kitchen has been awarded funding to upgrade its counters and cabinets. Design and oversight of the project is being donated by a local professional and Gleaners has secured materials at cost from Lowes.
Ontario ARC
Project: Health and Wellness for the Aging
Funding has been awarded for a pilot program that would involve both seniors and developmentally disabled adults in exercise and nutritional educational sessions two days a week for ten weeks at the Canandaigua Salvation Army. The pilot program would serve twenty individuals per session, with ten slots reserved for ARC participants.
Partnership for Ontario County
Project: Adults in Crisis (AIC)
Funding has been awarded to help subsidize an existing program that offers emotional and substantive support to the parents of troubled youth. AIC functions as a weekly support group, with services donated by the Salvation Army, the Canandaigua School District and others. The program currently serves approximately 30 families per year.
Wayne Finger Lakes BOCES
Project: Nursing Education Video Library
Funding has been awarded for the creation of a LPN video library. Nursing classes will be videotaped and copies made for use in the three BOCES locations. Students will then have access to the tapes for make-up classes, and study assistance.
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