Wheatland Electric Cooperative Inc. announced that its Sharing Success Fund, managed by the Scott Community Foundation, has awarded a $1,000 grant to the Kansas Children’s Service League (KCSL) - Healthy Families.
Sharing Success grant funds will be used to support families and strengthen family self-sufficiency, increasing positive parenting skills and improving child health and well-being. Funds will help provide items such as air purifiers and filters, car seats, baby gates, portable cribs, and baby monitors. These safety supplies provide direct impact to a child’s health and well-being by providing a child appropriate home environment. Evidence-based home visiting models such as Healthy Families have shown positive long-term impacts on children such as, increased school readiness, reduced child maltreatment, and reduced lifetime arrest and convictions.
KCSL - Healthy Families is a voluntary, child-abuse prevention program that works to keep families together by teaching and modeling positive parenting and child development; as well as focusing on the health care needs of families. KCSL is the State Chapter for Healthy Families America (HFA). HFA is a nationally recognized evidenced-based home visiting program model designed to work with overburdened families who are at risk for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES). Healthy Families services begin prenatally or right after birth of a baby and are offered voluntarily, intensively and over the long-term (3 to 5 years after the birth of the baby). They currently serve 53 individual cases.
The Scott Community Foundation began formally accepting applications for grants from the Wheatland Electric Sharing Success Fund from community-based organizations on Dec. 1, 2012. Wheatland Electric and CoBank have each contributed $10,000 this again year to the fund. The program will continue to run until the funds are exhausted. Since 2012, the Sharing Success Fund has made $125,000 available to community-based organizations and projects across Wheatland’s service territory.
Community-based organizations interested in receiving funding from the Wheatland Electric Sharing Success Fund can apply online at https://www.weci.net/sharing-success-program. Questions should be referred to Alli Conine, Director of Member Services & Corporate Communications, at 620-874-4563 or aconine@weci.net.
